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Volume XIX, Number 99 14th Waning of Waso 1373 ME Friday, 29 July, 2011

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

* Strengthening of national solidarity* Building and strengthening of discipline-flourish-

ing democracy system* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the Constitution

Four political objectives* Building of modern industrialized nation through the agricultural devel-

opment, and all-round development of other sectors of the economy* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of technical

know-how and investment from sources inside the country and abroad* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the hands of

the State and the national peoples

Four economic objectives* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preservation

and safeguarding of cultural heritage and national char-acter

* Flourishing of Union Spirit, the true patriotism* Uplift of health, fitness and education standards of the

entire nation

Four social objectives

Preserve potency of traditionalmedicines to win greater public trustmedicines to win greater public trustmedicines to win greater public trustVice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham visits University of

Nursing (Mandalay), University of Traditional MedicineNAY PYI TAW, 28 July—Vice-President of

the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Dr SaiMauk Kham, accompanied by the UnionMinisters, the Chief Minister of MandalayRegion, deputy ministers and departmentalheads, visited University of Nursing (Mandalay)in Chanmyathazi Township of Mandalay at7.30 am yesterday.

The Vice-President viewed learning ofstudents at the library, the Internet room, thebasic health nursing department and skill laband lecture hall. Rector Dr Daw Marlar Winconducted him around the university.

At the hall of the university, the rectorreported on conducting the training courses atthe university, strength of staff, number ofstudents, lecture halls and staff quarters.Principal Daw San Win of Nursing TrainingSchool (Mandalay) reported on facts about thetraining school. Deputy Minister for Health DrWin Myint gave a supplementary report.

After hearing the reports, the Vice-Presidentattended to the needs and looked into staffquarters and buildings in the compound of the

university.At University of Traditional Medicine in

Aungmyethazan Township of Mandalay, theVice-President cordially greeted the facultymembers and students.

At the hall, Rector Dr Than Maung reported onlocation and area of the university, opening ofthe institution on 19 December 2001, implementationof aims and objectives of the university,strength of staff, number of students, curriculum,

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Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham looksaround University of Nursing (Mandalay) in

Chanmyathazi Township of Mandalay.MNA

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham visitsUniversity of Traditional Medicine in

Aungmyethazan Township of Mandalay.MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 29 July, 2011

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

People’s DesireFriday, 29 July, 2011

For better healthFulfillment of health care infrastructures

for children is effective effort in nurturing thenew generation children to be physical andmental healthy and fit outstanding citizens onwhom the State can rely in the future nation.

A ceremony to inaugurate the 550-bedChildren’s Hospital (Mandalay) was held inChanayethazan Township of Mandalay inMandalay Region on 25 July. Vice-Presidentof the Republic of the Union of Myanmar DrSai Mauk Kham attended the gala ceremonyand formally unveiled the plaque of the facility.

Children from Upper Myanmar andsurrounding townships of Mandalay have noweasy access to better health care services atChildren’s Hospital (550-bed) upgraded fromformer 300-bed Children’s Hospital ofMandalay. The already-opened facility wasrenovated by Eden Group of Companies.

As over 60 per cent of the people inMyanmar are mothers and children, it isnecessary to emphasize maternal and childhealth care services across the Union indrawing health plan.

So far, Mandalay Region has beenfacilitated with 14 specialist hospitals, threeteaching specialist hospitals, two 300-bedhospitals, three 200-bed hospitals, six 100-bedhospitals, 14 50-bed hospitals, 14 25-bedhospitals and 48 16-bed hospitals, totalling104. As part of efforts to fulfill the requirementsof health sector in border areas with openingof hospitals and rural health centres andappointments of health staff, the Ministry ofHealth has inaugurated 100 border hospitalsand 83 sub-township hospitals, totalling 938 upto 2011.

Health and fitness of all citizens anddevelopment of human resources play animportant role in building a modern anddeveloped nation. As such, the government isproviding health care services to the peopleacross the Union.

Health staff members are to give healthcare to the people with goodwill at alreadyopened 550-bed Children’s Hospital(Mandalay) and other hospitals on which thepeople can rely. Likewise, the people on theirpart are to participate in sanitation anddurability tasks of the facilities.

Myanmar PermanentRepresentative to UN presents

Credentials to UN D-GNAY PYI TAW, 29 July—U Maung Wai,

Permanent Representative of the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar to the United Nations, Geneva,presented his Credentials to the Director-General ofthe United Nations, His Excellency Mr. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, on 11 July 2011 in Geneva.

MNA

Myanmar Ambassadorpresents Credentials to South

African PresidentNAY PYI TAW, 29 July—U Myint Naung,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ofthe Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Republicof South Africa, presented his Credentials to HisExcellency Mr. Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, Presidentof the Republic of South Africa, on 12 July 2011, inPretoria.—MNA

Union H&T Minister receives Brazilian AmbassadorNAY PYI TAW, 28

July—Union Minister forHotels and Tourism U TintHsan received BrazilianAmbassador to MyanmarMr Jose Carlos daFonseca Junior at theministry, here, thismorning.

Also present at thecall were Deputy MinisterU Htay Aung, anddepartmental heads ofDirectorate of Hotels andTourism and MyanmaHotels and TourismServices.

MNANAY PYI TAW, 28 July

— Deputy Minister forConstruction U KyawLwin met DeputyMinister forConstruction and WaterResources Policy Mr.Chung Nae Sam of theRepublic of Korea andparty at his office thismorning.

They held discus-sions on road/bridgeconstruction works.

It was also attendedby Managing DirectorU Kyaw Lin of PublicWorks, Director-General U Aung Win ofDepartment of Human

Deputy Construction Minister meets ROK guests

Settlement and House-hold Development, theHead of Office andofficials.—MNA

Deputy Minister for Construction U Kyaw Lwinmeets Deputy Minister for Construction and

Water Resources Policy Mr. Chung Nae Samof the Republic of Korea.—MNA

Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Tint Hsan receivesBrazilian Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Jose Carlos da Fonseca

Junior.—MNA

YANGON, 28 July—A ceremony to present cashdonations to the Myanmar Writers and JournalistsAssociation was held at the association in SarpayBeikman Building on Merchant Street here thisafternoon.

On behalf of late General Soe Win-Daw ThanThan Nwe (Malay-Monywa) family, U Ohn Maung(Myinmu Maung Naing Moe) presented K 1 million;Managing Director of Aung Sezein Jewellery Co UAung Gyi (Kyayzu Kyee Hla Mi Hnit Pha Team)-Daw Nan Toe Toe Shwe and family, K 500,000;and U Myint Maung family (Fuji Paint Shop), K100,000 and 83 magazines to Chairman U TinHlaing (Ledwintha Saw Chit) and officials.—MNA

Cash donated to MWJA

Myanmar selected Judo athletes to partake in InternationalJudo Friendly Tournament in Bangkok

YANGON, 28 July— AMyanmar selected Judoteam this morning left herefor Thailand to partake inthe International JudoFriendly Tournament to beheld in Bangkok commen-cing 30 to 31 July.

They were seen off atYangon International

Airport by officialsconcerned of Sports andPhysical EducationDepartment as well asMyanmar Judo Fede-ration.

The team led by ViceChairman of MyanmarJudo Federation U AyeKyi, U Aung Naing Swe

includes eight athletes—Ma Salwheel(Sethmu-1)(under 45 Kilo),Ma Khin Khin Su(Sethmu-1) (under 48Kilo), Ma Thanda Soe(Rail Transportation)(under 52 Kilo), Ma ZinMi Mi Than (RailTransportation) (under 57

Kilo), Ma Ei Phyu Zin(Sethmu-1)(under 63Kilo), Ma Thanda Win(Sethmu-1)( under 70Kilo), Ma Aye Aye Aung(Sethmu-1) (under 78Kilo) and Ma Khin MyoThu (Rail Transportation)(upper 78 Kilo), includingSergeant Zaw Lwin as acoach and WarrantOfficer ClassI Nyan Soeas a referee.—MNA

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SEOUL, 28 July—AnAsiana Airline cargoplane with two crew onboard crashed Thursdayinto the sea off SouthKorea’s Jeju island.

The Jeju Coast Guardsaid its patrol boat founddebris of the Boeing-747aircraft operated bySouth Korea’s second-largest flagship carrier inthe sea about 170kilometres west of Jejucity.

The plane took offfrom Incheon Interna-tional Airport at 3:05 am(local time) and washeading for Shanghai’sPudong airport.

An official from the

S Korean cargo plane crashes Members ofKorea Coast

Guard retrievea piece of an

Asiana Airlinescargo plane thatcrashed into the

sea off JejuIsland, SouthKorea, on 28July, 2011.

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Ministry of Land,Transport and MaritimeAffairs said in a Pressbriefing that the plane wasbelieved to have caughtfire in flight, but the exactcause of the crash couldnot be confirmed untilthe recovery of its flightdata recorder.

He said the pilot toldair traffic controllers inShanghai that fire hadbroken out in the holdand that the plane wastrying to make its way toJeju airport.

The plane was carry-ing 58 tons of cargo,including semicondu-ctors, machine parts and0.4 ton of inflammable

materials.Five coast guard

patrol boats and onehelicopter are searchingthe area for the two crewincluding the captain, 52,and first officer, 44.

Asiana Airlines is thecountry’s second-largestflagship carrier afterKorean Air.—Xinhua

A car is swept along by floodwaters next to tiltedelectric posts on a damaged road, after typhoon

Nock-Ten hit Daraga, Albay in centralPhilippines on 27 July, 2011.—INTERNET

MANILA, 28 July—Tropical storm Nock-ten (localname: Juaning) damaged 17.17 million pesos (about407,664 US dollars) worth of Philippine crops,according to initial report filed Thursday by theagriculture department.

Nock-ten, which triggered flash floods,destroyed 2,977 hectares of farmland planted withrice, damaging 10.83 million pesos (257,183 USdollars) worth of unmilled rice.

A total of 612 metric tons of fruits and vegetablesand 11 tons of corn were also destroyed.

Agriculture Undersecretary Joel Rudinas saidthe effect of the losses is negligible, but he expectsthe losses to climb after the regional officialscomplete their survey of areas battered by thestorm.—Xinhua

Storm Nock-ten claims over400,000 USD worth of

Philippine crops

Air Canada plane forcedto return to Australia

An Air Canada Boeing 777 sits at a gate afterit was forced to return to Sydney Airport in

Sydney, on 28 July, 2011, after crewmembers saw smoke coming from an oven in

the galley. No one on Flight AC34 wasinjured in the incident, which forced the pilot

to dump fuel before safely landing.INTERNET

SYDNEY, 28 July—An Air Canada flight wasforced to return to Sydney airport on Thursday aftercrew members saw smoke coming from an oven inthe galley, an airline official said.

No one on Flight AC34 was injured in theincident, which forced the pilot to dump fuel beforesafely landing the plane in Sydney, said Jeannie

Foster, Air Canada’s general manager for Australiaand New Zealand.

“There was smoke seen by a crew member inan oven so the captain made the right decision anddecided to come back to Sydney to check it out asa safety precaution,” Foster told The AssociatedPress. “They had to dump fuel because it’s a veryheavy airplane with 15 hours worth of fuel to get toCanada.”

Foster denied earlier reports of a fire breakingout on board.

“There was no fire at all,” she said.There was no damage to the Boeing 777 and no

smoke entered the cabin, Foster said. Engineerswere on board trying to determine the cause of thesmoke.

The flight, which was bound for Vancouverand Toronto, was carrying 264 passengers. Fostersaid the airline was hoping the plane would be ableto resume its journey later Thursday after engineerscompleted their checks.

Australian air safety investigators said theywere awaiting a report from Air Canada beforecommenting on the incident.—Internet

Suicide bombing kills 12 outside bank in Iraq Iraqi women shop forhandmade grass fansat a market in the old

city area of Basra, 340miles (550 kilometres)southeast of Baghdad,Iraq, on 27 July, 2011.

INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 28 July—A suicide bomber onThursday struck an Iraqibank in Saddam Husse-in’s hometown wherepolicemen were pickingup their paychecks,killing 12 and wounding30 people, officials said.

The midmorningblast was the fourthmajor attack this year onIraqi security forces inthe northern City ofTikrit, a former hotbedfor Sunni insurgents benton targeting the gover-nment and exposing thecountry’s instability.

Salahuddin Provin-cial spokesman Moham-med al-Asi said the explo-sion went off outside thestate-run Rafidain bank

where policemen werepicking up their monthlypay. It wasn’t knownhow many policemenwere among the deadand wounded.

Television footageof the blast showed ahuge white mushroomcloud over the two-storybank, followed by thickblack smoke. A carparked nearby was onfire, and firefightersstruggled to douse theflames. Iraqi securityforces sealed off the area.

Another provincialspokesman, Ali Abdul-Rahman, said at least 12people were killed and30 wounded.

Tikrit, located 80miles (130 kilometres)

north of Baghdad, hasbeen at the epicenter ofdeadly strikes on Iraq’sgovernment in thecountry’s north so far

this year.In June, a suicide

bomber attacked amosque filled with Iraqipoliticians and police-men while another blew

himself up inside thehospital where thewounded were taken,killing a total of 21people.

Internet

KANDAHAR, 28 July—Seven explosions rockedTrinkot City the capital of Uruzgan Province onThursday, casualties feared, spokesman for UruzganProvincial administration Ahmad Milad Mudasirsaid.

One of the blasts targeted Provincial GovernorOffice, the second blast targeted the compound oflocal television and the third blast targeted highwaypolice department, Mudasir said, adding gunbattleis going on.

Meantime, head of Health Department in TrinkotCity Khan Agha Niakhil in talks with Xinhuaconfirmed that so far 20 bodies and three injuredmen have been taken to hospital.

Gunbattle is still ongoing, according to thespokesman.

Xinhua

Seven blasts rockTrinkot city in

S Afghanistan, 20 killed

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‘Follow-the-leader’ asteroid discovered

This artist’s concept illustrates thefirst known Earth Trojan asteroid,

discovered by NASA’s WISEmission. The asteroid is shown in

gray and its extreme orbit is shownin green.—INTERNET

PASADENA, 28 July—Astronomersstudying data from an orbiting NASAobservatory say they’ve discovered thefirst known “Trojan” asteroid orbitingthe sun in the Earth’s orbit. Trojans areasteroids that share an orbit with aplanet near stable points in front of orbehind the planet, but can never collidewith it as they maintain their leading orfollowing position, a NASA release said.

Neptune, Mars and Jupiter and twoof Saturn’s moons share their orbits inour solar system with Trojans. Scientistshad long predicted Earth should have

Trojans, but they have proven difficult tofind because they are relatively smalland would appear near the sun fromEarth’s point of view.

“These asteroids dwell mostly in thedaylight, making them very hard to see,”said Martin Connors of AthabascaUniversity in Canada, lead author of anew paper on the discovery using datafrom NASA’s Wide-field InfraredSurvey Explorer. “But we finally foundone, because the object has an unusualorbit that takes it farther away from thesun than what is typical for Trojans.WISE was a game-changer, giving us apoint of view difficult to have at Earth’ssurface.” The researchers’ hunt throughthe WISE data resulted in two Trojancandidates, and one known as 2010 TK7was confirmed as an Earth Trojan afterfollow-up observations with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on MaunaKea in Hawaii. The asteroid is about1,000 feet in diameter and is about 50million miles from Earth.

“It’s as though Earth is playing followthe leader,” said Amy Mainzer ofNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory inPasadena, Calif. “Earth always is chasingthis asteroid around.”—Internet

A handout photo released on 26July, by Nature magazine, showsthe fossil of Xiaotingia Zhengi, aPreviously unknown species of

bird-like dinosaur from the LateJurassic of China. Xing Xu and

colleagues describe the fossilizedremains of a small, feathered,Archaeopteryx-like dinosaur,

weighing about 0.8 kg.INTERNET

Space station to plunge into oceanat end in 2020

MOSCOW, 28 July—A Russian spaceofficial said Wednesday that once themammoth International Space Stationis no longer needed it will be sent intothe Pacific Ocean.

It’s a plan that’s long been in theworks and is a step to avoid the stationbecoming dangerous space junk. It wassupposed to plunge into the ocean asearly as 2015.

The US recently extended its lifeuntil at least 2020, and there’s been talkof keeping it going even longer.

Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of theRussian space agency, said the orbitingoutpost will be destroyed in a controlled

descent to Earth “so that there is nospace junk left behind.”

Russia sank its Mir space station inthe Pacific in 2001 after 15 years inoperation. Skylab, America’s first spacestation, fell from orbit in 1979 after sixyears in space.

The International Space Station isthe biggest orbiting outpost ever built andcan sometimes be seen from the Earthwith the naked eye. It’s now big enoughfor six residents.

It now consists of more than a dozenmodules built by the US, Russia, Canada,Japan and the European Space Agency.

Internet

College Humor among first 3-D videoofferings on Nintendo 3DS

NEW YORK, 28July—Late last week,Nintendo Video serviceofficially launched on theNintendo 3DS, allowingusers to startdownloading andwatching exclusivevideos on the handheldgaming device.

Now, just a few dayslater, the first crop of 3-D video has becomeavailable through theservice, and it includessome choice segmentsfrom one of the Internet’smost popular comedysites.

The animated short“Dinosaur Office” fromCollegeHumor.com wasone of several 3-D videosthat became availablerecently, which also sawthe arrival of more 2-Dvideo via the NintendoVideo service and therecently launched Netflixon 3DS.

According to CNN,College Humor has

Shoppers try outNintendo 3DS at an

electronics retail store,in Tokyo, Japan, on

28 July, 2011.Nintendo Co says it

stayed deep in the redin the latest quarter,

prompting theJapanese video game

giant to cut its full-yearforecasts and slash

prices on its new 3DShandheld device.

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created four moreanimated, 3-D shortsexclusively for the 3DS,and plans to make a

regular series out of atleast one of them.

Nintendo alsoindicated that 3-D videosfrom rock groups OK Goand Foster the People arealso expected to arrive onthe 3DS soon.

We reported on thearrival of Netflix on the3DS just a few weeksago, a move that offersyet another way to usethe streaming videoservice. Nintendo andNetflix promised to makea library of 3-D videoavailable via Netflix inthe future, too.

While sales of theNintendo’s 3-D gamingdevice haven’t exactlymet with the company’sexpectations, thecompany appears to bebetting that developmentof more games and otherservices that takeadvantage of thesystem’s unique capabili-ties will pay off in the longrun.—Internet

Boys are seen sluggingit out in an Xbox 360

wrestling game at an ITShow in Singapore. US

technology giantMicrosoft on Thursdaysaid its annual profit

soared on recordrevenue thanks in partto hot demand for itsXbox 360 videogame

console gear and onlinenetwork.—INTERNET

Sony announces super-thin DSC-TX55digital camera with OLED touch screen

WASHINGTON, 28 July—Sony just announced the newest model in its Cyber-shot DSC-T series of digital cameras. The Cyber-Shot DSC-TX55 is a high-end,16-megapixel snapshot camera with several notable features.

The DSC-TX55 can capture both 16-megapixel still photos and 1080i/60 video.More interestingly, the camera can cake 12-megapixel photos while taking 1080i/60 video, a seldom-seen feature.

It packs a 5x optical zoom lens into its 12.2mm-thick frame, less than half aninch thick not counting the sliding lens cover. Because it’s so small, the DSC-TX55can only accept the “micro” varieties of flash memory: Memory Stick Micro ormicroSD/SDHC cards. The back of the DSX-TX500 features a 3.3-inch OLEDtouch screen, Through which the camera’s multiple scene modes can be selected.

The DSC-TX55 comes with several unique modes, including a 3D Still Imagemode that captures a simulated 3D picture by taking multiple photos, and anIntelligent Sweep Panorama with High Resolution mode that can record a 42.9-megapixel panorama shot by automatically stitching multiple photos together.

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX55 will retail for $350 when it ships inSeptember, and will be available in silver, black, red, and violet versions.

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Mexican papayas sicken 99 in USAUSTIN, 28 July—Mexican

papayas tainted with salmonella havesickened 99 people in the UnitedStates, the Centres for Disease Controland Prevention said on Tuesday.

No deaths have been reported butthe outbreak spans 23 states and healthauthorities warned people not to eatfresh, whole papayas imported fromMexico by Agromed Produce ofMcAllen, Texas.

“Consumers should not eatrecalled papayas, and restaurant andfood service operators should notserve them,” said the CDC.

The company issued a voluntaryrecall on Saturday of all Blondie,Yaya, Mananita, and Tastylicious

Mexican papayas tainted withsalmonella have sickened 99

people in the United States, theCentres for Disease Control and

Prevention said.INTERNET

Brand papayas sold prior to 23 Julybecause they could be contaminated.

The first cases in the salmonellaagona outbreak arose in January andhave continued to be reported throughmid-July, the CDC said.

Twenty-five of the 99 illnesseshave been in Texas, the worst hit USstate. In Mexico, the AgricultureMinistry said Tuesday that it was toosoon to know if the Mexican papayasin question were the source of theillness.

US and Mexican authorities “arecarrying out an investigation in bothcountries to determine the source ofthe outbreak of salmonella” so it is nottime for any conclusive comment oncause, said Enrique Sanchez, whoheads up Mexico’s food safety agency.

“For now, Mexican papayascannot be named as the source of theillness,” Sanchez said. Salmonellapoisoning usually causes diarrhea,fever, and stomach pains within 12 to72 hours of eating, and symptoms canlast up to a week.

Most people recover withouttreatment, but people with weakimmune systems, the elderly and thevery young could be at risk if theinfection spreads to the bloodstream.

Internet

Human brains wired to empathize, study finds

A new study reveals

that richer countries

suffer more from

depression than lower-

income countries.

INTERNET

NEW YORK, 28 July—A person’sbrain works hard to empathize orunderstand what it’s like to walk inother people’s shoes, no matter howdifferent they may be, a new studyindicates. Researchers from theUniversity of Southern California foundpeople automatically attempt toempathize — even with those who arephysically very different. To do that,however, people must use two separateregions of their brain.

In a paper, published online byCerebral Cortex, USC researchers foundthat empathy between two people whocan relate to each other more directlyrelies primarily on the intuitive, sensory-motor parts of the brain. A person whoempathizes with someone who is verydifferent or with whom they cannotdirectly relate, however, depends moreon the rationalizing part of the brain.

In conducting the study, USCresearchers showed videos of hands,

feet and a mouth doing “tasks” to awoman who was born without arms orlegs, as well as 13 typically developedwomen. The participants were alsoshown videos of injections being givenon certain parts of the body. As theywatched the videos, the women’s brainswere scanned. Researchers comparedthose scans to pinpoint sources ofempathy.

The researchers found that whenthe woman without limbs watchedvideos of tasks being performed usingbody parts that she did not have, thesensory-motor areas of her brain werestill strongly engaged. The researchersnoted, however, even without limbs,the woman was able to perform some ofthese tasks herself by improvising withthe body parts she did have. If theaction was impossible for her however,another set of brain regions involved indeductive reasoning were also activated,the study pointed out.—Internet

Daewoo Shipbuilding’s Q2 earnings down3.6 percent

SEOUL, 28 July—South Korea’sDaewoo Shipbuilding and MarineEngineering said Thursday its second-quarter net profit fell 3.6 percent dueto foreign-currency losses as a resultof the strong won.

File photo shows a DaewooShipyard in Jangsungpo. TheSouth Korean firm has said its

second-quarter net profit fell 3.6percent due to foreign-currencylosses as a result of the strong

won.—INTERNET

The world’s number threeshipbuilder by sales said in a statementthat its net profit for the three monthsended 30 June declined to 170.1billion won ($162 million) from 176.5billion won a year earlier.

Sales rose 13 percent to 3.178trillion won from 2.823 trillion won.

Operating profit more than tripledto 339.9 billion won in the April-Junequarter from 106.9 billion won a yearearlier.

Orders for high-end ships such ascontainer carriers and liquefied naturalgas carriers helped boost the operatingprofit, said company spokesmanYoon Yo-Han.

Daewoo Shipbuilding achieved65 percent of its annual order target of$11 billion in the first six months.

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Israel offers Intel $295 million to expandTEL AVIV, 28 July—Israel has

approved a one billion shekel ($295million, 204 million euro) grant toIntel to help underwrite an expansionin its local operations, the financeand trade ministers said onWednesday.

The ministers “decided to approvein principle giving a grant to Intel ofabout one billion shekels toward theinvestment in two of the company’splants in Israel,” a joint statementsaid.

The grant would cover around 20percent of the total price tag for theplan to double the size of Intel’sexisting chip plant in the southerntown of Kiryat Gat and open a newfactory in the north of the country.

The company would also enjoytax breaks. Receipt of the full grantwould be conditional on Intel hiringan additional 1,500 workers in KiryatGat and 600-1,000 employees in thenorthern facility.

Funding will be spread over a 10-year period from 2014, and the exactamount will be contingent on thenumber of new workers hired.

Intel opened its doors in Israel in1974. Its Web site describes it as thecountry’s largest private-sectoremployer, with 6,600 workers.

Internet

LA Times announces small number of layoffsLOS ANGELES, 28 July—The Los Angeles Times laid off another round of

employees Wednesday as its parent company, Tribune Co, wades throughbankruptcy protection.

Newspaper spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said there were a small numberof layoffs because of the economic downturn. She declined to elaborate on thenumber of people who lost their jobs or how many worked in the newsroom.

“As we continue to evolve our business and react to the difficult economicenvironment, we are downsizing in some areas and adding resources inothers,” Sullivan said in a statement. The newspaper has undergone a seriesof cuts in recent years, including the elimination of 250 positions in mid-2008.Despite the staffing reductions, the Times is among the four largest newsroomsin the US, Sullivan said. There were about 940 news staffers in April 2007,according to the newspaper. The number has dwindled to more than 600,according to an online staff directory.—Internet

The Intel logo is displayed outsideof an Intel office in California

2010.—INTERNET

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California wildfire burns through heavy brushLOS COYOTES INDIAN

RESERVATION, 28 July—Higher temperatures andlower humidity chall-enged firefighters batt-ling a 21-square-mileCalifornia wildfire thatchurned through steep,rugged terrain innortheast San DiegoCounty.

The six-day-old fireburned to the east andnorthwest, with the mostactive flames on thenorthwestern portion ofthe blaze, an area thickwith vegetation and noknown history of fire,said Mike Smith, of the

In this on 20 July,2010 file photo showing aDC-10 jumbo jet tanker drops fire retardant on

top of the crest of Hauser Peak to protectmicrowave towers in Palmdale, Calif.—INTERNET

‘Evil’ Australian hacker faces49 charges

Illustration. A manwho used the online

nickname “Evil” hasbeen charged with

hacking attacks thatpolice Wednesdayalleged could have

caused considerabledamage to Australia’s

nationalinfrastructure.

INTERNET

SYDNEY, 28 July—A man who used the onlinenickname “Evil” has been charged with hackingattacks that police Wednesday alleged could havecaused considerable damage to Australia’s nationalinfrastructure. The 25-year-old unemployed truckdriver, who had been unable to find a job ininformation technology, faces 49 charges after asix-month investigation into his online activities.They include hacking into the systems of PlatformNetworks, one of the 13 service providers for theNational Broadband Network (NBN), the largestinfrastructure project in Australia’s history.

Potentially, customers could have lost their services,depending on the security back-up they had in place.“While Platform Networks had strong cyber securitymeasures in place, even the best security systems areonly as strong as the weakest link,” said Neil Gaughan,the federal police’s High Tech Crime Operationsmanager.—Internet

California Department ofForestry and FireProtection.

Firefighters havesurrounded 45 percentof the 13,700-acre firethat started Thursday onthe Los Coyotes Indianreservation. There is noestimate on fullcontainment, Smith said.The blaze was notexpected to threaten anystructures or populatedareas. But firefightersfaced temperatureshovering around 100degrees and low humidityand changing winds thatcould send smoke into

the community of BorregoSprings, Smith said. Thefire has been cracklingthrough grass, brush, oakand pine trees in steep,rugged terrain on the

CARACAS, 28 July—Venezuela’s foreign minister is criticizing USconservatives for what he calls “extremist” stances against President HugoChavez’s government.

Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro condemned what he called actions bythe “far right” in Washington.

He says conservatives have swept up Congress and the US governmentin an “absurd, extremist policy against Latin America and against ourhomeland.”

Maduro did not elaborate in his remarks on Tuesday night.The House Foreign Affairs Committee last week backed an amendment

to slash the $48.5 million that the US provides for the Organization ofAmerican States. Florida Republican Connie Mack said the measure wasaimed at an organization that he feels backs Chavez.—Internet

Venezuela says US takes ‘extremist’stance

Rescue workers try toremove a bus that fell

40 feet (12 metres)from an elevated

expressway inParanaque City, the

Philippines, on 26 July,2011. Three personswere killed and fourothers injured in theaccident.—XINHUA

reservation and the AnzaBorrego Desert State Park.Smith said no knownendangered species werebeing threatened.

Internet

Threats to civilians increasingin east DR Congo

KINSHASA, 28 July—Civilians inthe eastern Democratic Republic ofCongo are bearing the brunt of a surgein activity by the marauding formerUgandan rebels, Oxfam said in areport.

Communities in the remote regionare already among the most isolated

Fighters of a local self-defenceforce, seen here on a road, armed

with riffles in Bangadi, northeastern Congo, in 2009.—INTERNET

and vulnerable on the continent buttheir plight has worsened further overthe past year, the report said.

The UK-based charity has beenconducting annual assessments on theprotection of civilians in the regionsince 2007 but was only able to carryout a comprehensive study in Lord’sResistance Army (LRA)-affected areasfor the first time this year.

“Small groups of hungry fightersconstantly on the move continue toviciously target the most isolated andforgotten populations,” report said onThursday, entitled “We are entirelyexploitable”.

“Some 30,000 civilians fled theLRA in the first three months of 2011,bringing the total number of internallydisplaced persons (IDPs) in the area to330,000,” Oxfam said.—Internet

LOS ANGELES, 28 July—A Union Pacific freighttrain hauling about 14 chemical cars derailed onWednesday in a desert town north of Los Angeles,prompting the evacuation of at least 100 homes,but the railroad said the overturned tankers were allempty.

There was no fire, and no injuries or damage tosurrounding buildings were reported from thewreck, which occurred along a stretch of track inthe rural community of Littlerock, about 35 milesnortheast of Los Angeles.

With no obvious sign of a collision or obstructionon the track, authorities said they had no immediateexplanation for the accident.

The 68-car train was headed east to a railroadyard near the city of Colton, 55 miles east of LosAngeles, when 21 cars suddenly left the track,many of them overturning, Union Pacificspokesman Aaron Hunt said.

Reuters

Freight train with chemicalcars derails in California

Philippines storm death toll rises to 35

Residents wade through a flooded street afterheavy rains caused by tropical storm Nock-ten

in San Juan city, east of Manila.—INTERNET

week.“In the northern

regions, it is still rainingbecause of the gale effectof Nock-ten, so it is stilldangerous,” NationalDisaster Risk Reductionand Management Coun-cil chief Benito Ramossaid.

Nock-ten, whichslammed into the east ofthe country on Tuesday,had claimed 35 lives,with another 25 peopleunaccounted for, accor-ding to Ramos.

The latest recordedfatalities, two policemenand two governmentworkers, were buried bya landslide in the northon Wednesday, Ramostold AFP.

Internet

MANILA, 28 July—Tropical storm Nock-tendumped heavy rains a-cross mountainous re-gions of the northernPhilippines on Thursday,raising fears of morefatalities as the death tollrose to 35, with 25missing.

Although Nock-tenpassed into the SouthChina Sea on Thursdaymorning, it continued tocause major problems inthe remote north aftercausing a series ofdeadly landslides andfloods across the mainisland of Luzon this

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Elephants played in Tsavo national park ofKenya, on 20 July, 2011. According to theKenya Wild life service, the elephant of the

whole African continent has faced extinction. In1979, there were estimated to be 1.3 million

elephants in Africa but by 1989 only 600,000remained. This catastrophic loss was almost

entirely due to the killing of elephants for theirivory. Currently, there are approximately400,000 remain in Africa today.—XINHUA

Workers clear thewreckage of a trailer

and a bus destroyed bya collision at 69.5 km

of Guadalajara-Colima highway in

Sayula, Mexican stateof Jalisco, on 24 July,

2011.—XINHUA

Mosquitoes with West Nile Virus foundin US capital

WASHINGTON, 28 July—The District of Colum-bia Department of Health(DOH) in the US announ-ced Tuesday that it haspositively identified theWest Nile Virus inmosquito samples in theDistrict. This is the firsttime this summer the WestNile Virus has beenidentified in the UScapital. “Residents shouldtake caution as mosqui-toes have the potential totransmit West Nile Virusto humans, and it isimportant for residents totake the necessary stepsto avoid contracting thevirus,” DOH said in astatement.

West Nile Virus ismainly an infection ofbirds, but on occasionsan infected mosquito mayspread it to humans.

The virus is nottransmitted directly frombirds to humans and therisk of infection is low.

In human infections,the virus generally causesno symptoms, or maycause mild flu-likesymptoms.

Xinhua

BOGOTA, 28 July—Authorities fromColombia, the United States, Hondurasand Panama have seized at least 7.9 tonsof cocaine off the Caribbean coast,Columbian National Navy said Tuesday.

In an operation, a US-flagged vesselwas intercepted in San Blas Islands ofPanama. A total of 3.454 kg of cocainewas seized when the ship was sailingfrom Cartagena in Colombia to Colon inPanama, said a navy source.

Two people, one Spaniard and oneColombian, were on board, added thesource. In another operation, a semi-submersible with about 4.5 tons ofcocaine aboard was intercepted ininternational waters.

The ship was spotted by a USmaritime patrol aircraft. The fourColombians and a Honduran on boardtried to go underwater to escape whenthey saw law enforcement authorities,the navy said. The navy attributed thesuccess of the operations to exchangesof information among relevant countriesin line with maritime agreements.

Xinhua

7.9 tons of cocaineseized off

Caribbean coast

Man arrested on bomb suspicions in AustraliaMELBOURNE, 28

July—Heavily-armedpolice on Tuesdayarrested a man north ofMelbourne on suspicionof possessing items usedto make bombs. Arsonand explosives squaddetectives, together withthe Special OperationsGroup, arrested the 32-year-old in Castlemaineafter executing a searchwarrant at a home in thetown.

“The investigationrelates to the allegedpossession of substances

and items to assist in themanufacture of ex-plosives,” police said ina statement. “Immediateneighbours of the homebeing searched havebeen asked to leave theirhomes while the BombResponse Unit andinvestigators process thescene.” No further detailswere immediately avai-lable.—Internet

Personal data of some 35 M hacked inS Korea

SEOUL, 28 July— Personal information on some 35 million usersof Nate and Cyworld, a portal site and a web community site operatedby SK Communications in South Korea, was hacked by outsidesources, local media reported Thursday. SK Communications, a unitof the country’s conglomerate SK Group, said on Thursday that itsuffered a leakage of users’ personal information on 26 July.

Nate is the country’s third-largest portal behind Naver andDaum. Cyworld is the country’s biggest social network servicewith its users up to 33 million. The exact scale of the hacking, whichSK Communications said seems to be related to a malicious virusattack from China, is yet to be figured, but information such asnames, mobile phone numbers, email addresses and identificationnumbers is confirmed to have been leaked.—Xinhua

Storms hit WesternAustralia’s southwest

SYDNEY, 28 July— Wind gusts have torn roofingfrom houses, uprooted trees, and brought downpower-lines as storms hit the southwest region ofWestern Australia (WA) overnight, local mediareported on Thursday.

The southwest town of Waroona in WA hasbeen the worst hit with at least two houses losinglarge parts of their roofs and downed power-linescausing power cuts, the Australian Associated Press(AAP) reported. Storms also hit the Perthmetropolitan area overnight and State EmergencyService (SES) workers responded to more than 60calls for help in the city and the south.

WA’s Fire and Emergency Services Association(FESA) said SES volunteers were making temporaryrepairs to homes, fixing roof damage, removingfallen trees from fences and sandbagging areas indanger of flooding.—Xinhua

Crocodile caught in Siberian lakeABAKAN, 28 July—A rescue team

in the Russian republic of Khakassiasaid they caught a 6 1/2-foot crocodilespotted floating in a lake.

Yury Stolbun, head of the rescuegroup, said Wednesday a tour groupin a catamaran spotted the crocodilefloating in the water and initiallythought it was a log, RIA Novostireported Wednesday.

“Suddenly the log started blinkingand paddling with its legs,” Stolbunsaid.

Stolbun said the croc belongs to aman who offers tourists the chance tobe photographed with the reptile.

“Something distracted the ownerand the crocodile escaped into thelake,” Stolbun said.

The crocodile, courtesy of theKhakassia Ministry of Emergency

Situations.—INTERNET

The rescuer said the crocodile wascaptured uninjured.—Internet

Photo illustration showsAustralian police manning a

checkpoint.—INTERNET

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(from page 1)degrees and courseduration. MedicalSuperintendent U MyintAung of TeachingHospital (Mandalay)submitted the report onpublic health care andtraining for students,opening of the hospital(25-bed) in 1976 andupgrading it to the 50-bed facility in 1998,overage number ofpatients to receivemedical treatment, andincreasing number ofpatients day by day. Pro-Rector (Admin) U WaTun of University ofTraditional Medicinegave an account ofturning out traditionalmedicine practitionersfrom the university.

After attending to theneeds, the Vice-President delivered anaddress, saying that theuniversity has so farturned out nearly 800traditional medicinegraduates and they aredischarging duties atDepartment ofTraditional Medicine,hospitals and clinics. Ingiving health careservices to the people,

Issuing of household registrationcertificates, citizenship scrutiny cards at

fixed price and within due period stressed

NAY PYI TAW, 28 July —Union Minister forImmigration and Population U Khin Yi,accompanied by Deputy Minister U Kyaw KyawWin and officials of the Ministry of Home Affairsand Ministry of Health, inspected the issuing ofhousehold registration certificates and citizenshipscrutiny cards to local people by staff of theImmigration and National Registration Departmentand members of scrutinizing and supervisorycommittee for issuing citizenship scrutiny card atthe Shwekyarpin ward administrator’s office in

Fifth Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry Football

Tournament-2011 goes on

HH

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham inspecting herbal garden of University of Traditional Medicine.—MNA

Union Minister

U Khin Yi meets

rural people at

Shwekyarpin ward

administrator’s office

in Nay Pyi Taw

Zabuthiri Township.

MNA

the traditional medicinepractitioners are to makesmooth relations with thepatients with goodwilland loving-kindness inline with the ethics.

The traditionalmedicine has beenflourishing in Myanmarfor a long time. Likewise,both China and India aregiving priority toflourishing of theirtraditional medicines ona wider scale. Inblending the medicine,traditional medicinepractitioners are to takecare of medicines’

potent not to be lost withfirm evidences to be ableto win the trust of people.

As part of efforts toundertake ruraldevelopment, heal thcare services are beingprovided to 70 per centof rural people with thewestern medicine butthe ratio of populationto the doctors andnurses are unbalance.Therefore, effect ivetreatment can be givento the grassroots levelin rural areas with theuse of t radit ionalmedicines. Thus, it is

necessary to distributesufficient traditionalmedicines in boxes tothe rural areas. And itis necessary to conductshort-term courses oftraditional medicines tothe enthusiasts of ruralpeople and assignedthem to be traditionalmedicine practitioners.

In conclusion, theVice-President stressedthe need for theuniversity to realize thecontinuous teachingsystem for givingeffective treatments tothe people.

Next, the Vice-President visited thetraditional medicinemuseum, library and e-library at the mainlecture hall of theuniversity.

After inspectingcultivation of herbalplants to be used forrespective diseases atthe model herbal gardenand growing ofmedicinal plants for sixmajor diseases at the

lecture hall, the Vice-President urged thosepresent to providemedical treatment to thepatients with the use oftraditional medicine incomparison with westernmedicines so as to winthe greater trusts of thepeople.

The Vice-Presidentand party left Mandalayby air and arrived backhere in the afternoon.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw Zabuthiri Township yesterday.The Union minister called for issuing household

registration certificates and citizenship scrutinycards at the fixed price and within the due period assoon as possible, making direct contacts with staffconcerned in carrying out the process and greatercollaboration between the department and localpeople for the success of the process.

Then, he answered the questions raised bylocal people and attended to the needs.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28 July— The fifth Nay Pyi TawInter-Ministry Football Tournament-2011 continuedits first round matches at designated places today.

In today’s events, at No. 1 Nay Pyi Taw SportsGround, Ministry of Health beat Ministry ofImmigration and Population 6-2, at No. 2 Nay PyiTaw Sports Ground, Ministry of Defence trouncedMinistry of Electric Power-1 2-0, at Nay Pyi TawLewe Sports Ground, Ministry of Social Welfare,Relief and Resettlement disgraced Foreign AffairsMinistry 12-0.

As tomorrow events, Ministry of Communications,Posts and Telegraphs plays against Ministry ofInformation at No.1 Nay Pyi Taw Sports Ground,Ministry of Culture against Ministry of Forestry at NayPyi Taw Lewe Sports Ground.—MNA

Myanmar-Thai entrepreneursto meet on 1 Aug

NAY PYI TAW, 28 July—Joint General Secretaryof the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federationof Chambers of Commerce and Industry U AyeLwin met Minister-Counsellor (Commercial) Mr.Prjuab Supinee of Thai Embassy to Myanmar at thefederation here yesterday.

The meeting reached an agreement to hold ameeting between entrepreneurs of the two countriesat the federation on 1 August afternoon.

Those entrepreneurs wishing to attend the meetingmay dial 214344 to 49 (Ex: 121, 122).—MNA

Preserve potencyof traditional…

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NAY PYI TAW, 28 July— A stake-drivingceremony of AyethayaIndustrial Zone GSMTower was held at thecompound of Auto-Exchange in the zone inTaunggyi of Shan Stateyesterday, attended byShan State Chief MinisterU Sao Aung Myat, theChief Justice of High Courtof the State, the Auditor-General of the State, state/district/township level

Stake-driving ceremony of AyethayaIndustrial Zone GSM Tower held

departmental heads andstaff.

Manager of ShanState Myanma Posts andTelecommunications USoe Thein explained worksto be done in the first phaseof five-year plan forinstallation of 30 millionGSM mobile lines. As aresult, the whole ShanState will make up 2.43 %of telephone density.

Next, ManagingDirector U Sai Khin

Maung Aye of Elite TechGroup gave an account ofworks to be carried out.

Then the ChiefMinister, State Minister forRoad Transport U SaiNaw Kham and themanaging director drovestakes at the designatedplaces.

After the ceremony,the Chief Minister andparty viewed round theAuto-Exchange.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28 July—DeputyMinister for Education U Ba Shwereceived Consular Mr Gao Hua of theCultural Counsellor’s Office of thePeople’s Republic of China toMyanmar at the deputy minister’soffice, here, this morning.

Myanmar, China to cooperate ineducation sector

They discussed cooperation ineducation sector between the twocountries.

Also present at the call wereDirector-General U Bo Win of Departmentof Education Planning and Training.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28July—Union Minister forCooperatives U OhnMyint inspected GECHospital of MandalayRegion GovernmentEmployees CooperativesLtd on 73rd Street(Mingalar Street) between26th and 27th Streets inMandalay this morning.

Doctor in charge DrKhin Aye Mu reported onfunctions and free homecare to local people. TheUnion minister visited theoutpatient ward, operationtheratre, labour room,Ultrasound room, X-rayroom, ECG room and

Union Minister inspects cooperativesservices in Mandalay Region

wards.The company

contributes 20% ofmembers’ expenses onmedical treatment andhealth care to local people.The minister called forhealth care to retiredservice personnel andorganizing the youth forwidening services.

Mandalay RegionGovernment EmployeesCooperatives Ltdpresented K 10 million;and Central CooperativesLtd and CooperativeBanks Ltd, two oxygenmachines to the hospital.

On his inspection tour

of Padamya NgamaukHotel of Mogok TownshipCooperatives Syndicateon 82nd Street between21st and 22nd Streets inA u n g m y e t h a z a nTownship, he met themembers.

He inspected theShopping Centre ofMandalay RegionCooperatives Syndicateon 26th Street between84th and 85th Streets andhad a meeting with gemsmerchants association.

He also inspectedBank Branch (2) of theCooperatives BanksLtd.—MNA

Deputy Education Minister U Ba Shwe receives ConsularMr Gao Hua of Chinese Cultural Counsellor’s Office.—MNA

Shan StateChief

MinisterU Sao

Aung Myatdrives

stake tobuild GSM

tower inAyethayaIndustrialZone in

Taunggyi.MNA

Hlinephone Model Village…

The communication centre of HlinephoneModel Village.

A thriving nipa palm farm in HlinephoneModel Village.

(from page 16)lower part ofM a w l a m y i n e g y u nTownship, LabuttaDistrict, had 6734 acresof farmlands, 300 acresof nipa palm farms and1170 acres of coconutpalms, areca palm andother gardens; that thevillage’s major productswere rice, nipa palm,crab, fish and prawn; thatHlinephone Village had158 houses, LeikchaungModel Village, 160houses, and KansuModel Village, 152houses; that a 16-bedstation hospital wasunder construction to givehealth care tosurrounding villages inaddition to the 12 villages

of Hlinephone Village-tract; and that acommunication centre wasbuilt after the cyclone“Nargis”.

Project Engineer UThein Naing said that theyhad laid the foundation forbuilding the hospital, andwere working hard forcompletion of the projectahead of schedule. We

also noticed the ruralhealth centre, HlinephonePolice Station, and anotherbridge project. Now, it hasmany buildings and houses,some of which arefurnished with satellite disc

antennas and telephones,as though it had not facedthe catastrophe.

Apart from that, thevillage has self-help powergenerators and is lush andgreen with various species

of trees, large and small.On the other bank of theHlinephone Creek is alarge rice mill.

U Wai Lwin said thatthey never expected toenjoy such rapiddevelopment of theirvillage even in their wildestdream; that the village hada basic education primaryschool and a daycarenursery, and the newvillage, a monasticeducation primary school,a bridge underconstruction, a main road,a broken-brick road, newhousing estates, tube-wells, and water purifiers;and that their village hadenjoyed far better livingconditions than that in thepre-Nargis period.

A village elder U TheinSoe said that previously,

their region had a largearea of mangrove swamps,and enjoyed temperateclimate patterns; that butlocal people cut downmangrove treesindiscriminately firewoodand to make charcoal, tothe detriment of the climatepatterns; that learninglessons from those events,local people had grown a

large number of treesalong the coast for threeyears, and the region hadbecome lush and greenagain. According to ourfirsthand knowledge, thevillage is making a quickrecovery from thecyclone.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

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$12 M ransom sought for Frenchkidnapped in Yemen

PARIS, 28 July—Three French aid workerswho were kidnapped insoutheastern Yemen areheld by Al-Qaedamembers who areseeking a $12 millionransom for their release,tribal sources said onWednesday.

“The kidnappers areAl-Qaeda members andare demanding a ransomof $12 million,” one ofthe tribal sources said.

The account couldnot be independentlyverified. Al-Qaeda hasnot claimed respon-sibility for thekidnappings.

A mini bus driving ona main road past

Rabat Ba Ashan (L)in the southern

Yemeni Province ofHadramawt, in May

2011.—INTERNET

Security officials inHadramawt province,where the three aidworkers werekidnapped, said that theyhad succeeded inidentifying thekidnappers and that theybelonged to “an extremistgroup,” without namingthe organization.

And securityofficials in Sanaa saidthey had no knowledgeof ransom demands, butthat they had informationthat the three Frenchnationals are “in goodhealth.”

“We do not have thisinformation,” French

foreign ministryspokesman BernardValero said when asked

about the tribesmen’sclaims.

“We have beenengaged from thebeginning in attemptingto free our compatriots,

and, in their interest, wemust exercise the utmostdiscretion to preservethe effectiveness of ouraction,” he said.

Internet

Seattle man accused in 1957murder back in Illinois

CHICAGO, 28 July—A Seattle man accusedof killing a youngChicago-area girl fivedecades ago was backin Illinois on Wednesdayas investigatorsexhumed the child’sremains in search offorensic evidence to helpconvict him.

Jack McCullough,71, a former policeofficer in Washingtonstate, last week waivedhis right to challengeextradition. He was incustody in Illinois byWednesday afternoon,said Monique Bond, thechief spokesman for

Young trainees receive military trainingduring the military summer camp at ChinesePeople’s Liberation Army (PLA) Garrison in

the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(HKSAR) in Hong Kong, south China, 25

July, 2011. A total of 215 local students arereceiving military training here during the 15-

day summer camp.XINHUA

Illinois State Police.M c C u l l o u g h ’ s

return came asinvestigators wereunearthing the remainsof 7-year-old MariaRidulph in Sycamore,Illinois, not far fromwhere she disappearedin 1957. Ridulph’sremains were found thefollowing year more than100 miles away.

Investigators hopemodern-day forensicscientists may be able touncover DNA evidencefrom the young girl’sremains that could notbe detected or analyzedback in 1958.—Reuters

Torrential rain kills at least 41 in S KoreaSEOUL, 28 July—

Flash floods andlandslides triggered bytorrential rain have left41 people dead and 12missing in South Koreaas of Thursday morning,the National EmergencyManagement Agencysaid. At least 15 peoplewere killed after a waveof mudslide engulfedresidential areas at thefoot of Mount Umyeonin southern Seoul onWednesday.

The death toll from alandslide in Chuncheon,about 110 kilometersnortheast of Seoul, stoodat 13. Most of the victimswere college studentswho visited the area forvolunteer work.

A plant collapsed in

Residents look out at the flood water after atorrential rain storm hit the capital city on 27July, 2011 in Seoul, South Korea.—INTERNET

10 children rescued fromHaitian human smugglers

SANTO DOMINGO, 28 July— Authorities in theDominican Republic have rescued 10 childrensmuggled from Haiti, the Special Terrestrial BorderSecurity Unit (Cesfront) said Wednesday.

Cesfront officials said a Haitian citizen who hadtransported the children aged between 4 and 9 hadmanaged to escape after noticing the presence ofsoldiers in the Province of Dajabon bordering Haiti.

According to the children’s testimony, theycame from Haitian capital Port-au-Prince as well asthe City of Cabo Haiti where their parents entrustedthem to a man and a woman who smuggled them toDominican Republic.

The special border unit said the children’s finaldestination was supposed to be Santiago City wherethey are going to earn a living for their traffickers aschild beggars on the street along with other Haitianchildren.—Xinhua

Arson determined to because of San Diego Co fire

LOS COYOTES INDIAN RESERVATION, 28 July—Investigators determined that arson caused a wildfirethat has burned more than 21 square miles of grass,brush and timber in northeastern San Diego County,the California Department of Forestry and FireProtection said Wednesday.

No further details on the cause would be releaseduntil the investigation into the week-old blaze wascompleted, the agency said in a statement.

The fire slowed its advance Wednesday intothe backcountry, but hot weather and low humiditystill posed a challenge for firefighters trying tosurround it.

The fire was 65 percent contained after burning14,100 acres on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservationand Anza Borrego Desert State Park. No homeswere threatened.

Internet

Paju, Gyeonggi Pro-vince, leaving threeworkers dead and twoothers seriously injured.Another eight peopledied and hundredsevacuated as GonjiamStream in Gwangju,Gyeonggi Province,flooded.

Some bridges overthe main Han River,which runs through thecenter of Seoul, wereclosed. Heavy rain hasalso caused rivers to bursttheir banks, disruptedtravel and triggeredpower outages.

Xinhua

Japan widens ban on radioactive beefTOKYO, 28 July—Japan widened a

ban on beef shipments to a secondtsunami-hit region on Thursday, citingelevated radiation levels in the meatof animals because of the ongoingFukushima nuclear crisis.

Almost 3,000 cattle fearedcontaminated with caesium have beenshipped nationwide and slaughteredafter the animals were fed rice strawexposed to fallout from the more thanfour-month-old nuclear crisis.

After banning sales of cattle fromFukushima Prefecture last week, thegovernment extended the order toneighbouring Miyagi Prefecture,where at least six contaminatedanimals have been identified.

The new order was announced byChief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.

“We will continue gatheringinformation and conducting surveysas thoroughly as ever from a safetystandpoint,” the top governmentspokesman said about the possibility

Beef rancher Yoshiyuki Genei feedshay to his livestock in Nihonmatsu

city, 50km west of the strikenFukushima nuclear power plant.

INTERNET

of the ban being further expanded toother areas.

Contaminated animals have beensold since late March, weeks after thequake-tsunami sparked the nuclearaccident, and much of the meat hasbeen eaten in restaurants and schoolcanteens and at family dinner tablesnationwide.—Internet

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Lion with paralyzed legs dies in BrazilSAO PAULO, 28 July—

Ariel, a paralyzed male lionwhose fight to walk againbecame the focus of anInternet fundraisingcampaign and capturedwide media attention inBrazil, died Wednesday,his owner said. On the lion’sFacebook page, ownerRaquel Borges said: “Our

File photo shows veterinarian Livia Pereirakisses paralyzed lion Ariel that she is caring for

in her home in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ariel, themale lion that was the focus of an Internet

campaign to raise money to treat its paralyzedlegs, died on 27 July, 2011, owner Raquel

Borges said.—INTERNET

beloved Ariel is gone. Thisis the saddest day of mylife.” Further details werenot immediately available.

The Facebook pagecreated by Borges was“liked” by more than 62,500people. The lion’s deathmade headlines on Brazil’sbiggest news portals andwas a top worldwide

trending item on Twitter.Borges said earlier thismonth that the $11,500needed every month to payfor Ariel’s treatment wascoming from donationsfrom the people who clickedthe “like” button on theFacebook page and anotherwebsite dedicated to him.

Veterinarian LiviaPereira who cared for Arielrecently had said that forunknown reasons, the lion’swhite blood cells attackedhealthy cells due to adegenerative diseaseaffecting the medulla, aportion of the brain steminvolved in motor functions.The 3-year-old, 310-pound(140-kilograme) lion startedlimping one day last yearafter spending hours leapingand chasing balloons.Shortly afterward, Ariel’stwo hind legs stoppedworking.—Internet

A Luoyang museum staff member examines amural in a Temple of Guan Yu built in the Qing

Dynasty (1644-1911) in Yiyang County,Luoyang City, central China’s Henan Province,on 22 July, 2011. Archaeologists recently foundbeautiful mural paintings in an abandoned Qing

Dynasty Temple of Guan Yu, a warrior of theEastern Han Dynasty widely respected in China.The murals, all about Guan Yu, cover an areaof 15 square meters and remain intact except

for some slight spalling.—XINHUA

LONDON, 28 July—Britain’sadvertising standards council bannedtwo makeup advertisements featuringactress Julia Roberts and model ChristyTurlington on Wednesday, ruling theads — which used digitally alteredphotographs — were misleading.

The Advertising StandardsAuthority found that the airbrushedimages used by L’Oreal in magazine adcampaigns exaggerated the resultswomen could expect from using thebeauty products.

The watchdog said the ads could nolonger be used.

The decision was seen as a stepforward in an ongoing campaign to limitthe retouching of photos in beauty-

BEIJING, 28 July—Japanese women remained to bethe world’s longest-living last year, though their averagelife expectancy fell slightly to 86.39 years, according tomedia reports Thursday. The fall of 0.05 years was thefirst decline in five years, falling from a record 86.44registered in 2009.

“Last year’s heat wave probably led to an increasein deaths resulting from heat stroke and heart trouble,”said a Japanese government official. Among countriesand regions in the world, Japan ranked first for women’slongevity, followed by Hong Kong at 85.9 years andFrance at 84.8 years.

The average life expectancy of Japanese men hita new high for the fifth straight year in 2010, rising 0.05to 79.64 years. Japan ranked fourth in men’s longevityafter Hong Kong at 80.0 years, Switzerland at 79.8years and Israel at 79.7 years.—Xinhua

Britain bans two misleading makeup adsrelated ads in Britain.

“We really welcome this,” saidSusan Ringwood, chief executive ofBeat, which campaigns to combat eatingdisorders. “It highlights one of the mainissues, that these hyper-perfect versionsof beauty are undermining people’sconfidence because they are beyondwhat’s achievable. It’s unrealistic in away that’s really damaging to vulnerableyoung people and effects all of us.”

The advertising standards council,which is now allowed to consider thesocial impact of the ads as a criteria onwhether they are acceptable, acted aftera complaint from a lawmaker, Jo Swinson,who praised the decision to ban theimages.—Internet

Japanese women haveworld’s longest life

expectancy

Hyundai Motor 2Q profit rises 37 percent

SEOUL, 28 July—Hyundai Motor’s net profit rose 37 percent in the secondquarter amid higher revenue and global vehicle sales.

Hyundai, South Korea’s largest automaker, earned 2.31 trillion won ($2.2billion) in the three months ended 30 June, according to a regulatory filing Thursday.It earned 1.68 trillion won the same period last year.

Sales revenue during the period rose 19 percent to 20.1 trillion won from 16.9trillion won a year earlier. Hyundai Motor Co said separately that vehicle sales inthe first six months of the year increased 11 percent to 1.96 million. It did notProvide a breakdown for the second quarter. But subtracting first-quarter salesfrom that figure shows that sales for the period totaled 1.04 million.

The second-quarter profit was the latest in a string of strong results forHyundai, which has benefited from its overseas factories and sales operations.

Hyundai has pursued an aggressive overseas expansion and has plants inChina, India, the United States, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Russia. It isbuilding one in Brazil. The Hyundai Motor Group, which includes South Korea’sKia Motors Corp, is the world’s fifth-largest automotive group.—Internet

BEIJING, 28 July—China’s flood control authorityon Thursday launched an emergency response fortropical storm Nock-ten, which is expected to landat the country’s southern coastal regions on Fridaynight or Saturday morning.

Nock-ten, which killed at least 31 people in thePhilippines, is the eighth storm and the most powerfulone to hit China so far this year. It will make landfallover the coastal regions of western Guangdong andeastern Hainan Province, the State Flood Control andDrought Relief Headquarters (SFDH) said.

As of 10 am Thursday, the centre of the stormwas 600 kilometers southeast off Hainan’sWenchang City, packing winds up to 82.8 km perhour. The storm will continue to movenorthwestward at a speed of 20 km per hour, it said.

The storm may bring heavy downpours to Hainanand other regions in south China over the next threedays, it forecast.—Xinhua

Tropical storm Nock-ten tohit south China on Friday

Dancers hang from ropes as they

perform “Elements”, by Spanish

company Bocasdanza, during the

Burgos-New York International

Choreography Competition in

Burgos, northern Spain early

on 28 July, 2011.

XINHUA

26,000 fishing boats return to port as southchina brances for tropical storm

BEIJING, 28 July—More than 26,000fishing boats in southern-most china’sHainan province have returned to portas the island braces for tropocal stormNock-Ten.

The Hainan provincial governmentsaid in a statement that it has ordered allfishing boats to return to port. Thegocernment has also ordered authoritiesto ensure the safety of all reservoirs and toevacuate people living in low-lying regionsand downstream of dangerous reservoirs.

Authorities in Guangdong provincehave also ordered fishing ships off itssouthwestern coasts to return to portand emergency rescue workers toprepare to conduct disaster rdlief efforts.

Nock-Ten, ehich has stenghened toa severe tropical strom and maystrenghen further into a typhoon, isexpected to make landfall over the coastalregions from sanya in Hainan to zhanjiangin Guangdong, according to the nationalMeteorological Centre.

Nock-Ten, which has killed at least31 people in the philippines, is the eighthstorm and the most powerful one to hit,china so far this year.

As of 5 pm Thursday, the storms’Centre was 440 km southeast offHainan’s wenchang city, packing windsup to 90 km per hour, the NationalMeteorological Centre said.

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV HOANG ANH VOY NO (08)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV HOANG ANHVOY NO (08) are hereby notified that the vessel will bearriving on 29.7.2011 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of S.P.W-6 where it will lie at the con-signee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: R K SHIPPING & TRADINGPTE LTD, S’PORE

Phone No: 256924/256914

Anderson Japanese Gardensaim for tranquility

This undatedphoto courtesy

of JeffreyAnderson

showsAndersonJapanese

Gardens inRockford, Ill.

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Visitors appreciate painting works during a farmerpainting exhibition held in east China’s Shanghai,

on 23 July, 2011. About 100 painting works cre-ated by farmers were displayed at the exhibition,

attracting many visitors.— XINHUA

Pork prices drop last week forfirst time in three months

A salesman hangs uppork at a supermarketin Fuzhon, capital of

southest Chinas’sJujian Province, on 15July, 2011.—XINHUA

Girl gets charity wish metafter death in crash

BEIJING, 28 July—Chi-na’s pork prices dropped0.2 percent for the weekending 24 July from theprevious week, the Min-istry of Commerce(MOC) said on Tuesday.

The previous week-on-

week drop occurred in theweek ending April 10 witha 0.1-percent decline, ac-cording to reports listedon the MOC website.

High pork prices havebecome a big concern forthe nation as the consumerprice index, the maingauge of inflation, shotup to a three-year high of6.4 percent last month,driven by surging foodprices.

Data from the NationalBureau of Statisticsshowed pork prices inJune surged 57.1 percentyear-on-year.

Xinhua

Amazon ranks ad-supported Kindle 3G top-selling

Many believe Kindle is the mostpopular dedicated e-book device on

the market today.— XINHUA

BEIJING, 28 July—Amazon.com’s e-book reader Kindle 3G with special of-fers is now the company’s top-selling e-book device, according to media reportson Wednesday.

Amazon revealed in its quarterly earn-ings report that the ad-supported versioncosts 139 US dollars, 50 dollars cheaper

than the comparable Kindle 3G, and coststhe same as a Kindle with Wi-Fi connec-tivity.

The advertisements will appear onlyin screensavers (which appear when thereader is in an idle state) and at thebottom of the home screen, so they don’tinterrupt readers.

“Since AT&T agreed to sponsorscreensavers, Kindle 3G with SpecialOffers is now our bestselling Kindledevice,” Amazon’s Press release said.

Xinhua

SEATTLE, 28 July—Inhonor of her 9th birthday,Rachel Beckwith askedfriends and family to do-nate money to bring cleanwater to an African vil-lage. Rachel was close tomeeting her goal ofraising $300 when shedied last week after a caraccident.

In her memory, stran-gers have now made herdream come true manytimes over.

By Wednesday after-noon, some 10,000 peo-ple had donated more than$400,000 to “charity: wa-ter” in Rachel’s honor,many in gifts of $9 each.On a website set up byRachel and her mother

before her birthday, sheexplained the inspirationfor her project.

“I found out that mil-lions of people don’t liveto see their 5th birthday.And why? Because theydidn’t have access toclean, safe water so I’mcelebrating my birthdaylike never before,” shewrote. “I’m asking fromeveryone I know to do-nate to my campaign in-stead of gifts for my birth-day.—Internet

Depression rates higher inwealthy countries, study finds

ROCKFORD, 28 July—Japanese gardens areabout inspiring and sooth-ing the soul. And you don’thave to be a gardeningexpert or Zen Buddhist toappreciate all they have tooffer — the beauty, thetranquility, even the Zen.

Anderson JapaneseGardens, a 12-acre won-derland of landscapingand design, is regarded asone of the top Japanesegardens in North America,along with ones in Port-land, Ore, and DelrayBeach, Fla.

Most every day, di-verse groups of visitorscan be seen strollingthrough the site: hospice

patients, cancer survivors,people practicing yogaand tai chi, brush paintingclasses, Red Hat women,grief counselors, churchcongregations holdingservices and just plaintourists.

Reflecting a design thatoriginated in 12th-centuryJapan, the gardens con-tain a large pond, a five-story waterfall, a granitepagoda, curving bridgesover boulder-strewnstreams, and well-mani-cured plants and trees lean-ing toward the water. Theyattract about 40,000 visi-tors a year in this city 80miles northwest of Chi-cago.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 28 July—A new study published25 July reveals that majordepression is on the risearound the world and ismore likely to hit thoseliving in high-incomecountries than poorerones.

The new study trackeddepression rates across 18countries, noting that theaverage lifetime occur-rence of depression in 10

affluent countries was14.6 percent, with muchhigher depression rates inFrance (21 percent) andthe US (19.2 percent). Forthose living in higher-in-come countries, the aver-age age that depression islikely to strike is between25 and 26 years old, ac-cording to the research-ers. Based on the study,here are the percentagesof people who either haveexperienced or will expe-rience depression duringtheir lifetimes:

As part of a WorldHealth Organizationstudy, major depressiveepisodes were evaluatedby trained surveyors giv-ing in-person interviewswith more than 89,037people in 18 countries,making this the first studyto assess depression withstandardized surveys, saidthe researchers. —Internet

Australia investigates firstorgan trafficking case

SYDNEY, 28 July—The Australian Federal Police(AFP) are investigating their first case of allegedorgan trafficking in the country as donor shortagesfuel the illegal trade in body parts, local mediareported on Thursday.

An elderly Sydney woman with kidneyproblems is allegedly suspected to have traffickeda younger woman from the Philippines with theintention of harvesting an organ, The Sydney MorningHerald reported on Thursday.

Xinhua

Mexican police find 18 bodiesin clandestine grave

MONTERREY, 28 July—Police found 18 bodies ina clandestine grave in anorthern Mexican townwhere several hiddenburial pits have beendiscovered in the pastyear, authorities saidWednesday.

Shepherds cameacross two decomposingbodies near a dirt roadlate Tuesday in the townof Juarez and alertedpolice, said a Nuevo Leon

state police investigatorwho spoke on conditionof anonymity because heis not authorized to talkabout the case.

Another 16 bodieswere buried underneath,the officer said. He saidthe bodies were badlydecomposed and hadbeen buried for at least amonth. Last month,police found two separatepits containing humanremains in Juarez, a townnear the industrial City ofMonterrey. Last year,soldiers found 51 bodiesburied at an isolatedranch in the same town.

Internet

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Russian police said they arrested a man whomade expensive purchases by passing outdatedBrazilian currency off as euros.

Kursk police said the man, whose name wasnot released, used cruzados, Brazilian currency incirculation from 1986 to 1989, to buy fur coats,household appliances and other goods from peoplewho posted ads in newspapers, RIA Novosti reportedWednesday.

Investigators said the man claimed the cruzadoswere euros.

“Ten Kursk residents notified the police. Thetotal damage is worth 200,000 rubles [about$7,300].

But police believe more people could havesuffered from the swindler’s actions,” police saidin a statement.

Police said the man could face up to five yearsin prison for his actions.

A Royal AustralianAir Force member isbeing treated for severeburns after a portabletoilet exploded while hewas lighting a cigarette.

A spokeswoman forthe Department of Com-munity Safety said theairman was participatingin the Australia-UnitedStates joint militaryexercise Talisman Sabre2011 when the toiletexploded at about 9:30am Monday, the SydneyMorning Herald report-ed.

‘’It’s believed he waslighting a cigarette at thetime,” the spokeswomansaid. The man, whosename was not released,was taken to Rockhamp-ton Hospital to receivetreatment for third-degreeburns to his head, face,arms, chest and airways.

Authorities said theincident is being in-vestigated.

Police in Californiasaid a 63-year-old man isrecovering after hisapparently tried to use abutter knife to remove ahernia from his ownstomach. Glendale policesaid they responded to acall from the man’s wifeand arrived at his homeMonday to find him nakedon an outside lounge chair

VIENNA, 28 July——AustrianPresident Heinz Fischer opened the91st annual Salzburg Summer FestivalWednesday, an unmissable event forlovers of opera, classical music andtheatre.

The first performances will includeClaus Guth’s production of Mozart’s“The Marriage of Figaro” Wednesdayevening.

Among the top names performingat the festival will be French conductorPierre Boulez and Chinese pianist LangLang.

The festival will also include atribute to Italian conduct RiccardoMuti, a regular performer at thefestival.

He will conduct the ViennaPhilharmonic 40 years after he first

A Palestinian performer poses as a statueduring a live statues street-show of the annual

cultural festival in the West Bank city ofRamallah, 25 July, 2011.

Airmaninjured whentoilet explodes

Toronto offers height-loving daredevils new

thrillsDaredevils in red jumpsuits can

teeter around the outside edge ofCanada’s tallest structure next monthas the CN Tower opens a new attractionfor thrill-seekers and those wanting toovercome fear.

Modelled on similar attractions inAuckland, New Zealand, and Macau,China, the C$3.5 million (2.2 millionpounds) EdgeWalk is an adrenalinefilled excursion around an open-meshmetal walkway almost a quarter of amile above the ground.

There’s no guard rail and no handholds, just an uninterrupted view of theToronto skyline and a through-the-mesh view of the ground, 1,168 feet(356 metres) beneath your feet.

Tourists are tethered to an overheadguide rail, but encouraged to tiptoe to

A reporter leans over the edge ofthe catwalk during the media

preview for the “EdgeWalk” on theCN Tower in Toronto.

the very edge of the platform, balanceover its rim or peer through the mesh atthe pinhead people below. On a clearday the view is stunning.

“We want to get every adventurousthrill-seeker, and then we want to geteverybody who wants to overcomefears and dig down real deep and dosomething that they never thought intheir wildest dreams that they wouldever want to do,” said Jack Robinson,the tower’s chief operating officer.

Man attempted own hernia surgery

Russian swindler used oldBrazilian cash

with the handle of a 6-inchbutter knife protrudingfrom his stomach, theGlendale News Pressreported Tuesday.

Sgt Tom Lorenz saidthe man, whose name wasnot released, pulled theknife out while waiting forparamedics and shoved alit cigarette into the wound.

The man’s wife toldpolice he had becomefrustrated by his protrudinghernia and attempted tocut it out of his ownstomach.

Austrian presidentopens Salzburg festival

Austrian President Heinz Fischeropened the 91st annual SalzburgSummer Festival Wednesday, an

unmissable event for lovers of opera,classical music and theatre.

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performed at the festival with the sameorchestra.

Theatre productions will includea daunting production of Goethe’s“Faust” by Germany’s NicolasStemann: it will run to seven hours,without intermissions.—Internet

Justin Bieber arrivesat the ESPY awards in

Los Angeles.INTERNET

HOUSTON, 28 July—Celebrities includingJustin Bieber, Ellen DeGeneres and BritneySpears are spreading the word about acampaign to help three Houston childrenseriously injured and orphaned by a deadlycar accident earlier this month.

Bieber and other celebrities encouragedtheir fans via Twitter and Facebook onWednesday to donate to the “Show YourHearts” campaign. The money raised fromthe campaign, which began Wednesday,

Bieber helping Texas kids orphaned in crash

ANCHORAGE, 28 July—The hunt forAlaska’s most infamous serial murdereris about to get the Hollywood treatment.

Academy Award-winning actorNicolas Cage will star in “FrozenGround,” a movie detailing the policeinvestigation of serial killer RobertHansen, Variety reported Wednesday.He will play an Alaska State Trooperwho investigated the murders.

Filming is scheduled to start inAnchorage on 10 Oct, a second majorproduction filmed in Alaska in the lastyear. Filming wrapped up last fall onDrew Barrymore’s “Everybody LovesWhales.” Emmett Furla Films is financingthe $27 million Cage project andproducing with Amber Entertainment,Variety reported. Messages left for bothby The Associated Press weren’timmediately returned Wednesday.

Hansen, who got the nickname “theButcher Baker,” was convicted in 1984after confessing to killing 17 womenand raping another 30 in a 12-year span.

He received a 461 year sentence andis incarcerated at a state prison in Seward.

Hansen owned a bakery in adowntown mini-mall in the 1970s and’80s. He lived across town with his wife

Cage to star in filmabout Alaska serial

killer

will go to a trust fund set up to care for thechildren.

The 2 July accident in West Texas killedthe children’s parents and paralyzed 8-year-old Aaron and 9-year-old Peter, who arenow being treated in Chicago. Their 6-year-old sister was also injured.

The Houston Rockets on Wednesdayalso announced a campaign to raise moneyfor the children.

Internet

File photoshows actor

Nicolas Cagearrives at thepremiere ofthe featurefilm “Drive

Angry” in LosAngeles.INTERNET

and children, and they knew nothing ofhis other life. The construction of thetrans-Alaska pipeline in the 1970sbrought prostitutes, pimps, drug dealersand con artists to Alaska’s largest city,all hoping to pry away some of the bigmoney construction workers werepulling in. Those who sought a quickbuck left as abruptly as they arrived inAnchorage, making suddendisappearances commonplace.

Internet

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Rooney sets up 2 as Manchester United beats MLS

David Beckham, smilesbefore a soccer game be-tween the MLS All-Starsand Manchester Unitedon 27 July.—INTERNET

Wayne Rooney, left, moves the ball upfield againstthe MLS All-Stars during the first half of soccer's MLS All-Star Game on Wednesday.—INTERNET

HARRISON, 28 July—Wayne Rooney set up twogoals with magnificentpasses and Ji-Sung Parkdanced around a defenderfor another and Manches-ter United put on anothershow during its tour of theUnited States with a 4-0

victory over the MLS AllStars on Wednesday night.

Anderson, DimitarBerbatov and DannyWelbeck also scored forthe reigning English Pre-mier League champions,who have outscored theiropponents 18-2 in winningthe opening four gameson their US tour.

Sir Alex Ferguson'spowerhouse will wrap upits preseason tour in Wash-ington on Saturday againstFC Barcelona in a rematchof the Champions Leaguefinal which the Spanishteam won 3-1. Then it'sback to England for theCommunity Shield gameand then start of anotherseason the followingweek.

The final score mighthave been a little mislead-ing because David

Beckham and his MLSbuddies had a couple ofgood shots at goal, butmake no mistake — Man-chester United was farsuperior in the game atRed Bull Arena that drewa sellout crowd of 26,760.

The MLS even lookedgood for about 18 min-utes with Beckham, whostarred for the Reds in hisprime, having a great

chance in the seventhminute, only to see his25-yard drive slide wideof the goal.

Rooney though gavethe Manchester Unitedfaithful in the mixedcrowd — half for Man,half for the MLS squad —something to cheer aboutin the 20th minute on agreat tic-tac-toe play.

Internet

Blatter: ‘Give us time’to clean up FIFAHadji Diouf suspended for

five years by Senegal

Brazil football W Cup datesannounced

RIO DE JANEIRO 28 July— The 2014 World Cup inBrazil will take place between 12 June and 13 July,FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke announced inRio de Janeiro on Wednesday.

"The World Cup in 2014 will start on 12 June andfinish on 13 July. I know everyone wants to know thecity that will host the opening game of the tournament,but that will be decided in October," he said.—Internet

Walcott injury scarefor Arsenal

Tseng ready to get creative at Carnoustie

The Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro is beingredesigned to host the FIFA 2014 World Cup

football.—INTERNET

Benfica pile on misery for Turksin Champions League qualifiers

Arsenal wingerTheo Walcott

LONDON, 28 July—Arsenal winger TheoWalcott has flown homefrom the club's trainingcamp in Germany after therecurrence of a nigglingankle injury, the club con-firmed on Wednesday.

Walcott, 22, returnedto London for further "in-vestigation" of the injurymanager Arsene Wengersaid as the Gunners pre-pare for their season-open-ing Premier League gameagainst Newcastle nextmonth.

"Theo went home earlyand was due to have anMRI," Wenger said on

Arsenal's official website."It is an ankle injury

that comes and goes. Weneed some more investi-gation because sometimeshe's completely free of itand sometimes it affectshim. But we had to sendhim back because hecouldn't practiceanymore."— Internet

FIFA President SeppBlatter speaks during anews conference aheadof the Preliminary Drawof the 2014 FIFA World

Cup Brazil in Rio deJaneiro, on 27 July.

INTERNET

RIO DE JANEIRO 28 July— FIFA President SeppBlatter has asked for timeto clear up corruption al-legations involving soc-cer's scandal-ridden gov-erning body.

Blatter on Wednesday

tried to sidestep questionsabout a life ban issued toformer FIFA presidentialcandidate Mohamed binHammam and tried to fo-cus on the announcementof the dates for the 2014World Cup.

The qualifying drawfor the 2014 tournamentin Brazil will be made inRio de Janeiro on Satur-day, one week after sus-pended Asian FootballConfederation presidentbin Hammam was ban-ished from soccer overallegations he tried tobribe Caribbean soccer'sleaders.—Internet

Blackburn Roversstriker El-Hadji Diouf

LONDON, 28 July—Blackburn Rovers strikerEl-Hadji Diouf washanded a five-year inter-national ban by the Sen-egalese Football Federa-tion (FSF) on Wednesday,following remarks hemade in the media aboutcorruption in African foot-ball.

In a statement, the FSFsaid that it was banningHadji Diouf "from per-forming any football-re-lated activity for a periodof five years with effectfrom the date of notifica-tion of this decision".

The federation said,

however, that the bancould be lifted if the formerLiverpool striker turned upto face a disciplinary in-quiry into the remarks hemade in an interview withRadio France Interna-tional.

He was summoned to ahearing on 20 July butfailed to turn up.

Internet

Benfica's Nicolas Gaitan (3rd L)celebrates with team mates after

scoring against Trabzonsporton 27 July.—INTERNET

LISBON, 28 July—Benfica claimed a2-0 win over Trabzonspor in the Cham-pions League third qualifying round firstleg, piling on more misery for the Turk-ish game which is embroiled in a corrup-

tion scandal.The Portuguese side, twice winners

of the tournament, on Wednesday domi-nated the tie but had to wait until the 71stminute to open their account whendebutant Nolito, recently signed fromBarcelona, found the target.

Nicolas Gaitan added the second twominutes from time to give the Portu-guese a two-goal cushion to defend innext Wednesday's second leg.

Tranzonspor, who finished runners-up in the Turkish league last season,went into the game having been impli-cated in the massive match-fixing scan-dal that has rocked the country and whichhas also taken in champions Besiktasand another of the country's biggest clubs,Fenerbahce.— Internet

Tour de Francechampion Cadel Evans

CARNOUSTIE, 28 July— Defending championYani Tseng believesshe'll have to be at hercreative best to masterthe links course atCarnoustie and claim afifth major title at theWomen's British Open.

The top-ranked Tsengtops the LPGA money listand is full of confidenceheading into the year'sfourth and final major af-ter her victory at theLPGA Championshiplast month.

"There are so many

Tour de Francechamp Evanskeen to ride at

OlympicsLONDON, 28 July—

Tour de France championCadel Evans would loveto ride for Australia at theLondon Olympics, butonly if the course is toughenough.

The 34-year-old ful-filled his lifelong quest bysecuring the Tour deFrance title on Sunday ina victory celebrated as oneof Australia's finest sport-ing achievements. Al-ready a triple Olympian,the 34-year-old would bea major drawcard at Lon-don 2012 if he makes theteam.—Internet

ways you can play thiscourse, you can be ag-gressive, you can be safe,you can hit driver, youcan hit iron," the 22-year-old Taiwanese playersaid. "You've just got touse your imagination andhit creative shots."

Internet

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R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information.

Local Transmission* Opening* News* A Visit to the Gems Museum (Nay Pyi Taw)* Mularsheedi we Love!* News

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MST

Overseas Transmission - (29-7-11 09:30 am ~ 30-7-11 09:30 am) MST

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(29-7-2011) (Friday)

* Record Album* Healthy Dragon Fruit for Beneficial Investment* News* “Youth & Education” Technology Boost Nation’s

Prestige (University of Computer Studies,Yangon)

* News* A Day Tour on a cart* National Herbal Park (Part-II)Overseas Transmission* Opening* News* A Visit to the Gems Museum (Nay Pyi Taw)* Mularsheedi we Love!* News* Record Album* Healthy Dragon Fruit for Beneficial Investment* News

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

* “Youth & Education” Technology Boost Nation’sPrestige (University of Computer Studies,Yangon)

* News* A Day Tour on a cart* National Herbal Park (Part-II)* News* Economic Seminar “Indonesia-Myanmar” (Part-I)* News* Economic Seminar “Indonesia-Myanmar” (Part-

II)* Myanmar Orchestra “Duet Dance”* News* Secret Places for Yummy Food “Taste Around the

City”* Beauty of Ngwe Saung & Lovers' Island* News* Music Gallery* The 19th China Import & Export Fair, Kunming* Myanmar Movies “Guilt Over Love”

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rable MingunSayadaw

7:25 am 2. Healthy Exercise7:30 am 3. Morning News

7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja Song7:50 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song8:00 am 6. Health Programme8:10 am 7. The Mirror Image

of The MusicalOldies

8:25 am 8. Myanmar

TraditionalCulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions

8:40 am 9. International News8:45 am10. Musical Programme4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10 pm 2. Musical Programme

4:20 pm 3. Dhamma Sekka

Thutta RecitingCompetition (3rd

Prize Winner)(Hmaw Bi B.E.H.S(1))

4:40 pm 4. Song Of National

Races4:45 pm 5. Songs of Yester

Years4:55 pm 6. University of

Distance Education(TV Lectures)- Second Year(Chemistry)

5:10 pm 7. Songs for

UpholdingNational Spirit

5:15 pm 8. Myanmar

Language5:30 pm 9. Yoetha Phyu Sin

Kalaydoeathwin6:00 pm10. Evening News6:15 pm11. Weather Report6:20 pm12. Internet Garden7:10 pm13. TV Drama Series8:00 pm14. News15. International News16. Weather Report17. Just For Laughs

(Gags Asia)18. TV Drama Series

Weather forecast for 29th July, 2011

Tiger Airways says Australian domesticflights could resume on 5 Aug

SINGAPORE, 28 July—The domestic flights ofTiger Airways Australia could resume from Aug.5, its parent company Tiger Airways Holdings saidin a statement on Thursday.

The airline said that it has been workingconstructively with the Civil Aviation SafetyAuthority of Australia (CASA) to address theconcerns it had raised, and that it is confident it cancomply with the conditions set by the authority.

The company said it expects to resume servicesin the near future.

The flight schedules and the recommencemento sales will be “ made at the appropriate time,” itadded.

Two contestants

present traditional

costumes on a beauty

contest of the 2011

China Xichang

Liangshan Torch

Festival of the Yi

ethnic group, in

Xichang, southwest

China’s Sichuan

Province, on 27 July,

2011.

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The CASA suspended the domesticflights of Tiger Airways in Australiaon 1 July as a result of breachingsecurity rules. An investigation hasbeen going on for about a month now.The authority set out a set of formalconditions that the airline must complywith in order for its flights to resume.

Tiger said it will automatically refundall passengers who have booked to fly withthe airline between 1 to 4 Aug.

A court hearing due on Thursday onthe suspension issue was adjournedtill 1 Aug.—Xinhua

Temperature (°C/F) For Tomorrow Sr.

No. Regions/States

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 34/93 25/77 Widespread rain or thundershower 80%

2 Kayah 30/86 22/72 Isolated rain or thundershower 80%

3 Kayin 33/91 25/77 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 80%

4 Chin 23/73 13/55 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 80%

5 Upper Sagaing 32/90 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 80%

6 Lower Sagaing 38/100 28/82 Isolated rain or thundershower 80%

7 Taninthayi 28/82 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershower (IH) 80%

8 Bago 30/86 23/73 Scattered rain or thundershower 80%

9 Magway 35/95 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershower 80%

10 Mandalay 38/100 28/82 Isolated rain or thundershower 80%

11 Mon 31/88 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershower 80%

12 Yangon 32/90 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershower 80%

13 Rakhine 32/90 24/75 Scattered rain or thundershower 80%

14 Southern Shan 27/81 19/66 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 80%

15 Northern Shan 33/91 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 80%

16 Eastern Shan 34/93 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 80%

17 Ayeyawady 29/84 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershower 80%

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 34/93 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or

thundershower 60%

19 Neighbouring Yangon 32/90 24/75 One or two rain or thundershower 80%

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 38/100 28/82 Likelihood of isolated rain or

thundershower 60%

Summary of observations at 09:30 hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Lower Sagaing and Magway Regions, Kayah State, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Mandalay Region, scattered in Bago Region, Shan and Kayin States, fairly widespread in Upper Sagaing Region, Chin, Rakhine and Mon States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Homalin (2.87) inches, Machanbaw (2.17) inches, Myeik (2.09) inches, Yangon (Kaba-Aye) (2.00) inches, Yangon (Mingaladon) (1.65) inches, Khayan (1.58) inches and Kawthung (1.45) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is strong in the Andaman Sea and South Bay and moderate elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Squalls with moderate to rough seas are likely at times off and along Gulf of Mottama and Mon-Taninthayi Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35) mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days

Likelihood of strengthening monsoon.

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

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

14th Waning of Waso 1373 ME Friday, 29 July, 2011

NAY PYI TAW, 28 July—The Inter-University/College Zonal Men’s Volleyball Tournament (LowerMyanmar) for 2010-2011 kicked off at the gymnasiumof Pathein University in Pathein on 26 July morning.

It was attended by Ayeyawady Region ChiefMinister U Thein Aung, region ministers, departmentalofficials, rectors and faculty members.

The Region Chief Minister watched the matchbetween Pathein University team and MaubinUniversity team.—MNA

Inter-University/College ZonalMen’s Volleyball Tournament

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By Thein Zaw Oo (Shweli Oo)

Hlinephone Bridge Project is due to be completed ahead of schedule.

On a day in July, the sky was dull and overcastand it was drizzling. Mawlamyinegyun Port wascoping with a stream of vehicles, motorboats andmotorized sampans and teeming with travellers.Hlinephone Village is 30 miles from the port.

Upstream the confluence of Kyunpyathad Riverand Hlinephone Creek is Mawlamyinegyun Township,and downstream, Bogale Township. And beyond theHlinephone side is Labutta Township. HlinephoneModel Village is by Hlinephone Creek.

We saw 620 feet long Hlinephone Bridge

under construction. The main bridge is 500 feet longand 13 feet wide. The 57 miles long Mawgyun-Hlinephone-Kwinpauk-Pyinsalu Road is nearingcompletion. The region’s transport will be muchbetter if the two facilities are completed.

Head of the village administrative committee UWai Lwin said that Hlinephone Village-tract in the (See page 9)

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