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Established 1914

Volume XVIII, Number 20 14th Waning of Kason 1372 ME Tuesday, 11 May, 2010

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

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

technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

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

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Prevention and preparedness to be takenagainst natural disasters like storm Nargis

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye on inspection tour ofBogale and Labutta townships in Ayeyawady Division

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May—Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief of De-fence Services Com-mander-in-Chief (Army)Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye this morningtoured Bogale and Labuttatownships to inspect devel-opment of urban and ruralregions in Ayeyawady Di-vision.

Accompanied byPrime Minister U TheinSein, Member of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen Tin Aye,the Commander-in-Chief(Navy), theCommander-in-Chief(Air), senior military

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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye asking officials about regionaldevelopment tasks at Kadonkani village, Bogale Township of

Ayeyawady Division.—MNA

A bird’s eye view of systematically-alloted rural houses in Pyinsalu, Labutta District.—MNA

SAT of SPDC meets US Assistant Secretary of Statefor East Asian and Pacific Affairs Mr. Kurt Michael

Campbell and party.

Myanmar, Japandiscuss building of

modern concrete jetty.

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A woman is seen with herchildren, who were injuredin a bombing at a hospital

in Fallujah, west ofBaghdad, Iraq, on 10 May.

Woods withdraws,may have bulging

disk in back

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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 Desire

During inspection tour of AyeyawadyDivision, Vice-Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief(Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye gaveinstructions on systematic construction of roadsand bridges and preparedness measures to betaken against natural disasters after lookinginto construction and regional developmenttasks in the division.

On arrival at the Yazudaing Bridge No. 1construction project in MawlamyinegyunTownship, Vice-Senior General Maung Ayeurged officials to place emphasis on durabilityof roads and bridges, practise thrifty andminimize loss and wastage of constructionmaterials. He stressed the need to makenecessary preparations for taking preventiveand disaster preparedness measures.

Many rivers and creeks were naturalbarriers to the transport of AyeyawadyDivision in the past. Nowadays, the governmenthas built many roads and bridges in the region.More bridges and inter-township roads areunder construction to gain easy access to otherregions.

At present, a total of 10 roads are underconstruction so as to implement the Delta RegionRoad Network Development Project. Early thisyear, Yazudaing Bridge No. 2 was inauguratedon Maubin-Yaylegale-Shwetaunghmaw-Kyaikpi-Mawlamyinegyun Road. YazudaingBridge No. 1 is under construction. So far, theconstruction of the bridge has completed by 83per cent.

The southern region of Myanmar is blessedwith fertile land. As the region is located next tothe sea, plenty of food items such as meat, fish,salt and fishery products in addition to paddycan be produced. Not only food sufficiency butalso surplus of Myanmar contributes much tothe food sufficiency of the regional countries. Itis sure that due to emergence of new roads andbridges, Ayeyawady Division will be mostdeveloped region in the economic sector in thenear future.

Emphasize durability ofroads and bridges

YANGON, 10 May—Special Refresher Course No(17) for Faculty Members was opened at the CentralInstitute of Civil Service in Hlegu Township, here, thismorning.

On behalf of Chairman of the Myanmar EducationCommittee Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council General Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo, Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyeindelivered a speech.

The minister in his speech underscored the importanceof Union Spirit in the drive for development of the whole

Special Refresher Course No (17) for Faculty Members launched

Union.Faculty members are responsible for inculcating

younger generations with a sense of good morale, self-discipline, and value of education, he noted.

He spoke of the need for teachers to encourage theirstudents to value the national duties. In conclusion, hecalled on faculty members to help improve the State’spolitical, economic and social sectors through the mightof education, and to study hard throughout thecourse.Altogether 428 faculty members are attending thefour-week course.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May— The opening ofWorkshop on UniversalPeriodic Review (UPR)Preparation for the NationalReport, jointly organizedby Myanmar HumanRights Body and Office ofthe United Nations HighCommis-sioner for HumanRights, Bangkok, ofThailand, was held at ShweNanndaw Hotel in Nay PyiTaw Hotel Zone thismorning.

It was attended byChairman of WorkCommittee for UniversalPeriodic Review (UPR)Preparation for theNational Report DeputyAttorney-General Dr TunShin and members,members of MyanmarHuman Rights PaperCompilation Team,

Workshop on Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Preparationfor the National Report held

experts from UnitedNations High Com-missioner for Refugees,represontatives ofIndonesia, Laos, Thailandand Vietnam, repre-sentatives of UN agenciesand non-governmentalorganizations.

First, Chairman of

work committee DeputyAttorney-General Dr TunShin made an openingaddress.

Next, Mr. HomayounAlizadeh, OHCHRRegional Representativefor South-East Asia, andMr. Bhairaja Panday,Representative of the

United Nations HighCommissioner forRefugees (UNHCR),delivered addresses.

Then discussion oncompilation of reports ofhuman rights in Myanmarfollowed. The workshopcontinues tomorrow.

MNA

YANGON, 8 May – Innwa Computer Sales andService Centre opened one more shop here offeringspecial discount rates from 29 April to 29 July plus alucky draw programme.

Products available at special discount at the newshop, corner of Seikkantha and Merchant streets includespeakers, LCD monitors, desktop computers, hard disks,motherboards, graphic cards, scanners, printers, memorycards, camera memory cards, processors and

New Innwa computer shop offersdiscount plus lucky draw

accessories. Customers also have the chance to getnotebooks, desktop PCs, LCDs, laser printers and UPSsfrom the lucky draw programme. For information,please dial 01-73001902.

The company’s other Yangon outlet is at 142, 38th

Street (ph-01-391511). It also has outlets in Mandalayat No 9, 75th Street, (ph-02-71108) and at A 9 at thecorner of 73rd and 30th streets in Mingala Market (ph-02-71767).—MNA

On behalf of MEC Chairman Secretary-1 of the SPDC General Thiha Thura Tin Aung MyintOo, Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein addresses opening of Special Refresher Course No

(17) for Faculty Members.—MNA

Deputy Attorney-General Dr Tun Shin speaking at Workshop on the UniversalPeriodic Review (UPR) Preparation for the National Report.—MNA

Photo shows Innwa Computer Sales &Service Centre at corner of Seikkantha and

Merchant Streets.—MNA

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DURBAN, 10 May—Dozens of panickedpassengers jumped froma train in South Africaafter an electricalexplosion at a station onSunday, but there wereno serious injuries,police said. The state-operated train wastravell ing from thecoastal city of Durbanwhen the blast happenedat around 5:00 pm(1300GMT), policespokeswoman PhindileRadebe said.

“We have establishedthat the explosion came

A novel electric-power taxi waits for passengers on the street of Shenzhen,south China’s Guangdong Province, on 6 May, 2010. The first batch of pure

electric motor taxies in the mode of BYD e6, which take 1 hour for rapidrecharging, are put into trial operation on road as of 1 May in Shenzhen.

INTERNET

MOGADISHU , 10May—As the worldcelebrated InternationalMother’s Day onSunday, Somali motherswho have not seen peacetime for the past 20years, expressed theirfears and hope for thefuture.

For mothers inSomalia respect, honorand love are some of thefeelings held andexpressed towards themin families and societyin general because of therole they play inindividual’s lives.

However, AaminoAli, a mother of two, saidthe general lack ofsecurity and the ongoingconflict have givenSomali mothers theirshare of suffering andmany heartbreaks for lostsons, husband or othermembers of the family.

Somalia, which hasbeen through twodecades of civilconflicts, has one of the

Somali mother’s fears, hopes for futureworst maternal deaths inthe world with healthinfrastructures almostnonexistent. Manymothers or would-be

mothers face heath risksduring pregnancy andchild birth.

But many womenexpressed the hope thatthings would turn betterwhile some articulatedtheir fears for the futureas the east African

country faces deepeninginternal conflicts thatresulted in chronicfamine, seasonaldroughts and wides-

pread communicabledisease.

Hawa Abdi, is amother of five and livein mainly deserted partof the restive Somalicapital Mogadishu withher family.

Xinhua

Two Somali mothers carrying their babies walk ina street in the south of the Somali capital,

Mogadishu, on 9 May, 2010.INTERNET

Electrical blast causes panic at S African train

Police, paramedics and ambulance personel lookon at the scene where passengers had jumped off

of a Metro rail train after part of the traincarriage exploded at Effingham, north of

Durban.—INTERNET

KABUL, 10 May—NATO says one of its servicemembers has died in militant attack in Afghanistan.

The attack happened on Sunday in easternAfghanistan. No further details were released.

The death brings to 12 the number of NATOforces killed this month in Afghanistan.

Violence and insecurity will be on the agendaMonday as President Hamid Karzai meets withAmerican officials in Washington. Karzai’s trip comesafter months of rocky relations with the Obamaadministration.

Xinhua

Afghan militant attack killsNATO soldier

BAGHDAD, 10 May— Nine people were killedand 23 others wounded in a series of attacks inIraqi capital Baghdad early Monday, an InteriorMinistry source said.

The violence included six attacks targetingcheckpoints and three roadside bombs, the sourcetold Xinhua.

According to the source, the armed attackersused silenced weapons in assaults on the sixcheckpoints almost around the same time atdawn.

Xinhua

9 Iraqi soldiers, policemenkilled in attacks in Baghdad

LASHKAR GAH, 10 May — Two roadsidebombings and a rocket attack organized byTaleban militants claimed the lives of 10 peopleincluding four police in Taleban hotbed HelmandProvince, south of Afghanistan, an official saidon Monday.

In the first incident a roadside bomb struck apolice van in Nahr-e-Saraj area of GereshekDistrict on Sunday claiming the lives of fourpolice personnel and leaving two others injured,spokesman for local administration in HelmandProvince Daud Ahmadi told Xinhua.

Xinhua

Roadside bombings, rocketattacks kill 10 in Taleban hub

from a nearby electricitybox, not from the train.Panicked passengers

then jumped out of thetrain,” said Radebe.

Internet

At least 84 killed in attacks across Iraq BAGHADA, 10 May— A suicide

bomber blew himself up outside atextile factory Monday in a crowdthat gathered after two car bombingsat the same spot in the worst of a se-ries of attacks that killed at least 84people across Iraq, the deadliest daythis year.

In the worst attack of the day,a suicide bomber with explosivesstrapped to his belt blew himself upamong a crowd of people who weretrying to help victims of two carbombs that went off earlier outsidea textile factory in the Shiite cityof Hillah south of Baghdad, saidprovincial police spokesman Maj.Muthana Khalid.

At least 45 were killed and140 wounded, said Khalid andZuhair al Khafaji, director of al-Hillah general hospital.

The attack was the deadliestin a series of shootings and bomb-ings across the country that beganin the capital Baghdad with earlymorning drive-by shootings andbombings at security checkpointsthat targeted police andarmy.

Other attacks targeted bothSunni and Shiite areas and by mid-afternoon, at least 75 were killedacross Iraq, and hundredswounded.

Internet

A woman is seen with

her children, who were

injured in a bombing

that targeted police, at a

hospital in Fallujah, 40

miles (65 kilometers)

west of Baghdad, Iraq,

on 10 May, 2010.

INTERNET

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Science

GOCE satellite determinesgravitational force in the himalayas

VIENNA, 10 May— Ina May 7 session at theEuropean Geosciences

Union (EGU) generalassembly in Vienna,researchers presented the

Worldwide gravity gradients from simulations.GOCE is now gathering data such as shown here

to map Earth’s gravity with unprecedentedaccuracy and spatial resolution. The final gravity

map and model of the geoid will provide usersworldwide with well-defined data products that will

be instrumental in advancing science andapplications in a broad range of disciplines. Thesewill range from geodesy, geophysics and surveying

to oceanography andsea-level research.

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first interim results of theESA mission GOCE, theGravity Field andSteady-State OceanCirculation Explorer.Evaluations of the firstdata from the satelliteindicate that currentmodels of Earth’sgravitational field insome regions — theHimalayas, for example— can be fundamentallyrevised. The resultscould contribute to betterunderstanding of manygeophysical processes.

ESA’s GOCEsatellite has beenorbiting the Earth formore than a year andsurveying itsgravitational field moreaccurately than anyinstrument previously.

Internet

Nokia sues Apple for ‘patentinfringement’

NEW YORK, 10May—The world’sbiggest mobile phonemaker, Nokia, has filed alawsuit against Appleclaiming the iPad 3G andiPhone infringe five ofits patents.

Nokia claims theinfringements involvetechnology used toenhance speech and datatransmission and antennainnovations for compactdevices.

This is the latest salvoin a long-running legalbattle between the twocompanies.

Nokia and Apple areembroiled in anotherdispute concerning theiPhone.

“We’ve taken thisstep to protect the resultsof our pioneeringdevelopment and to putan end to continuedunlawful use of Nokia’sinnovation,” said PaulMelin, general manager

of patent licensing atNokia.

In a statement, thecompany said that duringthe past two decadesNokia has invested about$51bn (£34bn) inresearch anddevelopment and hasrounded up 11,000patents.

Last year Nokia fileda similar lawsuit whichclaimed that variousApple products infringedNokia patents. Appleresponded with acountersuit against Nokiafor infringing Applepatents with itssmartphones.—Internet

The iPad will go onsale in nine countriesoutside the US on 28

May, Apple says.INTERNET

Web tool tracks Gulf oil spilleffects

MEXICO CITY, 10May—Ushahidi is a free,online mapping tool thatcan be used to collect andplot reports coming infrom people via e-mail,SMS and Twitter.

It was used in theaftermath of the Haitiearthquake to co-ordinate relief. The oilspill map aims to trackthe long-term impact ofthe spill on thecommercial fishingindustry.

Most reports arecoming from fishermenwho cannot put to seabecause of the oil.

One anonymousreport reads: “He calledhimself a pearl diver.He said he’s eating offthe Red Cross truck andhates it - all he wants todo is get back to hiswork of harves t ingoysters.” Others reportdead birds and animalsas well as incidents suchas containment boomsbeing washed ashoreThe spill began after anexplos ion thatdes t royed theDeepwater Horizon oilrig off Louisiana inApril.

Internet

Net putsKenya atcentre of

Chile rescueefforts Techtools offer

Haitilifeline.

INTERNET

Seeing into the heart of planetarysystem

GLASGOW, 10 May— Using four ofthe world’s largest telescopes, scientistshave obtained the most detailedinformation yet from the regions aroundtwo young stars tens of light years away,finding compact discs of rocky and dustymaterial at distances comparable to thatfrom the Earth to the Sun. KeeleUniversity astronomer Dr Rachel Smithpresented the team’s results on April14th at the RAS National AstronomyMeeting (NAM 2010) in Glasgow.

The astronomers used data from theMIDI interferometer, an instrument thatcombines the infrared light from the 8-m diameter telescopes of the EuropeanSouthern Observatory’s Very LargeTelescope in Chile to simulate theperformance of a single telescope with amirror more than 100 metres across.

Two of the stars observed with MIDIare similar to our Sun — one is a littlecooler and one a little hotter. The first,catalogued as HD69830, is an orange

The star HD69830 observed inthe mid-infrared on a single 8-m

telescope. This image looks the sameas the image of a star with no dust

around it.—INTERNET

star with spectral type K0V and isthought to be about 2 billion years old(compared with the Sun’s age of 4.5billion years).—Internet

New martian views from orbitingcamera show landscape diversity

The view of oddlysculpted ground insidethe giant Hellas Basin

on Mars comes from theHigh ResolutionImaging Science

Instrument on NASA’sMars Reconnaissance

Orbiter.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 10May— New imagesfrom more than 750recent observations ofMars by an orbitingtelescopic camera testify

to the diversity oflandscapes there.

The images from theHigh ResolutionImaging Science Exp-eriment camera onNASA’s Mars Reco-nnaissance Orbiter arenow available onNASA’s Planetary DataSystem and on thecamera team’s website.The features visible inthe images range fromoddly sculpted terraininside a giant crater tofrosted dunes, deformedcraters, old gullies andpits strung alongfractured ground.

Internet

BEIJING, 10 May—After last Wednesday’sFacebook privacyworries, web surfers areworried about theirprivacy online in othernet-community websitesas well, according to newsreports on Monday.

Facebook usersfound a bug which gavethem accessibility toview their friends’ chatlines and made safetyprecautions after it toprevent the leaks again.

The other popular

Net-community websites’users fear privacy bugs

net-community website,MySpace, also improvedits privacy measures byadding a securitiesofficer to the company.Its users fear theirprivacy may havealready leaked.

However, Internetexperts suggest that nomatter what moves net-community websitestake, one’s private datawould still become publicwhether due to a humanfault or a hack virus.

Xinhua

A ‘face-book’ to measure pain in micePARIS, 10 May—

Scientists have for the firsttime created a sliding scaleof pain for mice based onfacial expressions,according to studypublished Sunday.

The so-called “mousegrimace scale” will speedup the development of

new analgesics forhumans, and could helpreduce unnecessarysuffering of mice andother animals inbiomedical research, theresearchers said. “Thereare also seriousimplications for theimprovement of

veterinary care,” saidJeffrey Mogil, a professorat McGill University inMontreal and the mainarchitect of the study.

Research on pain andhow to relieve it dependsheavily on the use ofrodents as stand-ins forhumans, so accuratemeasurement of painintensity in lab mice iscrucial.

Up to now, however,it was not known whetherdegrees of discomfort andsuffering in micecorrespond to spontaneousfacial responses, as is thecase for people.—Internet

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Scientists have for the first time created a slidingscale of pain for mice based on facial expressions,

according to study published on Sunday.INTERNET

Ingredient in cocoa may guard againststroke: study

LOS ANGELES, 10May—— US researchershave identified aningredient in cocoa whichmight guard againststroke.

The compound, aflavanol calledepicatechin, triggers twobuilt- in protectivepathways in the brain,providing a molecularmechanism by which thecompound can guardagainst the damage of astroke, said researchers atJohn Hopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine.Thefindings were publishedin the May issue of theJournal of Cerebral BloodFlow & Metabolism.

A study of the cocoa-drinking Kuna Indians,

living on islands off thecoast of Panama, led theresearchers to studyepicatechin. As anunusually low incidenceof stroke and othercardiovascular disease inthat population could not

America’s favourite birthcontrol method turns 50

CHICAGO, 10 May—A world without “thepill” is unimaginable tomany young womenwho now use it to treatacne , sk ip per iods ,improve mood and, ofcourse , preventpregnancy. They mightbe surprised to learnthat US off ic ia lsannouncing approval ofthe world’s first oralcontracept ive wereuncomfortable.

“Our own ideas ofmorality had nothing todo with the case,” saidJohn Harvey of the Foodand Drug Administrationin 1960.

The pill was safe, inother words. Don’tblame us if you thinkit’s wicked.

Sunday, Mother’sDay, is the 50thanniversary of thatprovocative annou-ncement that introducedto the world what is nowwidely acknowledged asone of the mostimportant inventions ofthe last century.

The world haschanged, but it’sdebatable what part thebirth control pill played.Some experts think itgets too much credit orblame for the sexual

WASHINGTON, 10May — If your mother isa smoker, you mightconsider giving her aMother’s Day gift thatcould help her kick thehabit and live a longer,healthier life, suggeststhe American LungAsso-ciation.

Freedom FromSmoking Online is aself-paced programmethat’s available 24 hoursa day and offers userstools and support thatmay help them quitsmoking for good. Theprogramme costs $40for a one-yearmembership and $15 for

a three-monthmembership.

“Quitting smoking isthe single mostimportant step a smokercan take to improve thelength and quality of herlife. You can also save aconsiderable amount ofmoney,” Charles DConnor, president andCEO of the AmericanLung Association, saidin a news release.“Helping your motherkick the habit is one ofthe best ways to makesure your mother isaround long enough tobecome a grand-mother.”—Internet

revolution. After all, sexoutside of marriagewasn’t new in 1960.

Internet

A young boy is seen playingon a heap of rubbish inHarare’s Mbare suburb.Local authorites have notcollected the garbage over

the past few monthsresulting in the increase of

rats in the capital.INTERNET

be explained by geneticstudies, consumption of avery bitter cocoa drinkwhich containsepicatechin wasconsidered a contri-butor.

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Does mom need helpto stop smoking?

Health

N E W YO R K , 10May—Hearing loss inone ear is enough tocause languageproblems for k ids ,doctors reported onMonday.

However , theywrite in the journalPediatrics, the up to onein 20 kids with suchhearing loss often don’treceive the help theyneed, such as a frontseat in class, hearingaids or specia l

Hearing loss in one ear impairs kids’language

education.“The key idea that

this study is presentingis that we don’t want toignore children” withhearing loss on one ear,said Sandra M Grether,a speech pathologist atthe Univers i ty ofCincinnati, who was notinvolved in the study.

For the s tudy,researchers a tWashington Universityin St. Louis, Missouri,led by Dr. Judith Lieu,

tes ted 74 pai rs ofschool-age s ibl ings.Half the children hadhearing loss in one ear,while their siblings hadnormal hear ing.Theimpaired kids scoredlower on bothcomprehension andspeech tests and weremore l ike ly to bereceiving speechtherapy than thei rs ib l ings , but theyperformed just as wellon IQ tests.—Internet

Mercury high in Japanese townthat hunts dolphins

Dolphin sashimi, raw slices from the breast of astriped dolphin, is served during lunch at Moby

Dick, a hotel run by the local government, in Taiji,southwestern Japan, on Sunday, 9 May, 2010. —

INTERNET

TAIJI, 10 May—Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depictedin Oscar documentary“The Cove” have dang-erously high mercurylevels, likely because oftheir fondness for dolphinand whale meat, agovernment lab said onSunday.

The levels of mercurydetected in Taiji residentswere above the nationalaverage, but follow-uptests have found no illeffects, according to theNational Institute forMinamata Disease. Thetests were done on hairsamples from 1,137volunteers of the town’s

roughly 3,500 residents.“The results suggest

there is a connectionbetween hair mercurylevels and eatingcetaceans,” Director KojiOkamoto told reporters attown hall.

Mercury accum-ulates up the food chain,so large predators suchas dolphins, tuna andswordfish tend to havethe highest levels. Thelatest studies publishedby the Japanesegovernment show thatmeat from bottlenosedolphins had about 1,000times the mercurycontent of that fromsardines.—Internet

File photo shows containers waiting to be unloaded from a ship at theharbour in the northern German city of Hamburg. Germany’s trade surplusleapt higher in March, official data showed on Monday as the euro’s fall in

value against other major currencies helped exports rack up solid gains.INTERNET

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The Bank of Japan (BOJ) building in Tokyo. The Bank of Japan on Mondayjoined the central banks of Europe, the United States, Britain, Canada and

Switzerland to support financial markets by preventing dollar shortagesduring the Greek debt .—INTERNET

A doorman opens the door for a customer at theHarrods department store in Knightsbridge,

central London. Qatar Holding, which bought thelandmark London department store for 1.5 billionpounds (1.7 billion euros, 2.2 billion dollars) on

Saturday, may target Shanghai as a suitable site toexport the brand overseas.

INTERNET

Federal Reserve openscredit line to Europe

WA S H I N G T O N, 10May—The FederalReserve late Sundayopened a program toship US dollars toEurope in a move tohead off a broaderfinancial crisis on thecontinent.

Other central banks,including the Bank ofCanada, the Bank ofEngland, the EuropeanCentral Bank, the SwissNational Bank and theBank of Japan also areinvolved in the dollarswap effort.

The move comesafter the EuropeanUnion and InternationalMonetary Fund pledgeda nearly $1 tr i l l iondefense package for theembattled euro, hopingto calm jittery markets

and halt attacks on theeurozone’s weakestmembers. The ECB alsojumped into the bondmarket Sunday night,saying it is ready to buyeurozone bonds to shoreup l iquidi ty in“ d y s f u n c t i o n a l ”markets.

The Fed’s actionreopens a program putin place during the 2008global financial crisisunder which dollars areshipped overseasthrough the foreigncentral banks. In turn,these central banks canlend the dollars out tobanks in their homecountries that are in needof dollar funding toprevent the Europeancrisis from spreadingfurther.—Internet

Asian markets climb asEU moves to defend euro

TOKYO, 10 May—Asian stock marketsclimbed Monday as theEuropean Union agreedon a nearly $1 trilliondefence package for theembattled euro, hopingto contain global falloutf rom Greece’s debtproblems and protect itscommon currency.

Japan’s Nikkei 225stock average rose 1.3percent to 10,499.25,and Hong Kong’s HangSeng index jumped 1.4percent to 20,195.04.Other major bench-marks in the regionadvanced as relieved

investors began buyingafter big declines lastweek.

The euro traded at$1.2920, up from the1 4 - m o n t h l o w o f$1.2523 it hit late lastw e e k w h i l e s t o c kfutures suggested WallStreet would welcomethe euro defence plan.Dow futures climbed 215points, or 2.1 percent, to10,550 and S&P futuresjumped 28.4, or 2.6percent, to 1,135.40.Nasdaq futures added47.5, or 2.6 percent, to1,896.

Internet

A woman is seen reading a webpage written inChinese, in Beijing. Internet addresses written in

Arabic are making history as the first onlinedomains in non-Latin characters, with Chinese

and Thai expected to follow close behind.INTERNET

Poly Real Estate’s sales up 16% infirst four months

BEIJING, 10 May—The Poly Real EstateGroup, China’s secondlargest property developerby market value, saidSunday its contractedsales volume in January-to-April period totaled12.22 billion yuan (1.79billion US dollars), up16.21 percent year onyear.The increase wasgenerated on the back ofthe 1.5 million square

meters of floor space sold,a 21.26-percent increasefrom the same period lastyear, said the company ina statement filed to theShanghai StockExchange.The company’scontracted sales volumein April stood at 4.09billion yuan, and thetransaction area was496,900 square meters,according to thestatement.—Xinhua

Business

BEIJING, 10 May—Sony Music said it is consideringa bid for ailing British rival EMI yesterday, while its mainrivals deny any interest or decline to comment on theirintentions.

“We are in a position that allows us to seize everyopportunity in the market - including EMI,” the head ofSony Music, Rolf Schmidt-Holz, was quoted as sayingby German paper Frankfurter AllgemeineSonntagszeitung.

EMI’s owner, buyout firm Terra Firma, is askinginvestors for 360 million pounds (US$557 million) forthe British music company to prevent the investmentfrom falling into lenders’ hands, a source told Reuterslast month. EMI, home of artists like the Beatles andColdplay, tried but failed to agree a licensing deal for itsNorth American rights in March after holding talks withSony Music and Universal Music Group.

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Sony eyes EMI for possibletakeover

Suzuki forecasts profit rise as demandfor fuel-efficient cars increases

TOKYO, 10 May—Suzuki Motor Corp. onMonday forecast amoderate rise in annualoperating profit as Japan’sfourth largest automakeris well-placed to benefitfrom a global trend towardssmaller, fuel-efficientvehicles and growingdemand from India.

For the current fiscalyear ending March 31,2011, Suzuki forecast anoperating profit of 80billion yen (874 millionUS dollars) — a 0.8 percentincrease from the 79.36billion yen 856. 29 million

US dollars) it made lastyear.

Additionally the firmsaid it expects its net profitto rise 3. 8 percent to 30billion yen (323.7 millionUS dollars).

Suzuki’s operatingprofit in the final January-March quarter totaled 29.5billion yen (318.30 millionUS dollars), comparedwith a profit of 10.45billion yen (112.75 millionUS dollars) booked a yearearlier.

Fourth-quarter netprofit came to 13.4 billionyen versus a profit of 5.8

billion yen a year ago, onrising sales of itsminivehicles including itsKei, Lapin, Splash andSwift models, theautomaker said.

As of March Suzukiexpanded its capacity inIndia to a million units ayear and a will add a further250,000 units to itsproduction output fromApril 2012, the automakersaid.

Xinhua

A Toyota mechanic fixes the anti-lock brakesoftware on a Prius hybrid vehicle at a dealer’s

repair shop in Aichi prefecture, Japan.INTERNET

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NAY PYI TAW, 10May—A delegation ledby Assistant Secretary ofState for East Asian andPacific Affairs of theUnited States of AmericaMr. Kurt MichaelCampbell arrived here byspecial aircraft at 1.30 pmyesterday.

US AssistantSecretary of State Mr.Kurt Michael Campbelland party separatelycalled on Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin at the Ministry ofForeign Affairs at 2 pm,the Spoke AuthoritativeTeam of the State Peaceand DevelopmentCouncil led by Ministerfor Information U KyawHsan at the Ministry ofInformation at 3 pm,

US Assistant Secretary of State calls on senior officials andothers in Nay Pyi Taw, holds press conference in Yangon

Minister for Science andTechnology U Thaung atthe Ministry of Scienceand Technology at 4.30pm, Chairman of UnionElection Commission UThein Soe at OfficeBuilding No. 22, here, at5 pm, Minister for LabourU Aung Kyi at theMinistry of Labour at 5.45pm, and responsiblepersons of the UnionSolidarity andD e v e l o p m e n tAssociation led bySecretary-General UHtay Oo at the hall ofUSDA Headquarters inNay Pyi TawDekkhinathiri at 6.50 pm.

At 7.45 pm, theDeputy Minister forScience and Technologyhosted a dinner to the US

Assistant Secretary ofState and party at MyatTaw Win Hotel in NayPyi Taw Hotel Zone.

The US AssistantSecretary of State andparty accompanied byofficials arrived inYangon from Nay PyiTaw at 9.05 am today.

At 9.30 am, thedelegation visitedShwedagon Pagoda inYangon.

The US AssistantSecretary of State metwith some persons offormer NLD at theresidence of the Charged’Affaires ai of the USEmbassy to the Union ofMyanmar on Pyay Road,Yangon, at 10.25 am,representatives of someofficially registeredpolitical parties at noon,Daw Aung San Suu Kyiat Seinle Kantha

Guesthouse on UniversityAvenue in Yangon at 1.45pm, some persons of non-g o v e r n m e n t a lorganizations at theresidence of the Charged’Affaires ai of the USEmbassy on Pyay Roadin Yangon at 5.00 pm andambassadors of foreignembassies to Myanmar at5.30 pm.

At 7 pm, he metmember correspondents

of Myanmar ForeignCorrespondents Club andeditorial staff of localjournals and magazinesat the American Centre inDagon Township ofYangon and read out thepress release.

The US AssistantSecretary of State andparty left Yangon byspecial flight later in theevening.

MNA

YANGON, 10 May—Deputy Minister forTransport U Nyan Tun Aungreceived Economic

Myanmar, Japan discuss buildingof modern concrete jetty

Counsellor Mr. MitsujiSuzuka of the Japaneseembassy in Myanmar andparty at Myanma Port

Authority (Head Office)here today.

Both sides discussedmatters on construction ofa storm-resistant modernconcrete jetty near Nos. 5and 6 Botahtaung pontoonjetties at Yangon Port withthe assistance of JICA.

MNA

SpokeAuthoritative

Team of SPDC ledby Minister forInformation U

Kyaw Hsan meetsUS Assistant

Secretary of Statefor East Asian andPacific Affairs Mr.

Kurt MichaelCampbell andparty.—MNA

US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asianand Pacific Affairs Mr. Kurt Michael

Campbell and party call on Chairman ofUnion Election Commission U Thein Soe.

MNA

Deputy Minister for Transport U Nyan TunAung receives Economic Counsellor

Mr. Mitsuji Suzuka and party of JapaneseEmbassy.—MNA

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Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye visits

Township People’s

Hospital opened at

Cyclone Shelter

No. 2 in Pyinsalu of

Labutta District.

MNA

Photo shows No. 1 Cyclone Shelter in Pyinsalu of Labutta District.—MNA

A lake that can store 180 million gallons of water in 3rd-Mile satellite town in Labutta.—MNA

(from page 1)officers of the Ministry ofDefence, the Chairman ofAyeyawady Division PDCCommander of South-WestCommand, the ministers, thedeputy ministers, depart-mental heads and officials,

Prevention and preparednessto be taken against…

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye arrived atBogale of Pyapon Districtat 7 am.

He was welcomedby Minister for Forestry

U Thein Aung and depart-mental officials.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye lookedinto progress of Bogale ina motorcade.

At the hall of Town-ship Maternal and Child

Welfare Association,Minister U Thein Aungreported on loss of livesand property in the eventof storm Nargis in Bogale,collaborative efforts made

by the government, thepeople and the Tatmadawin resettlement work in theshort period under theleadership of the State,efforts made for rehabili-tation work with momen-tum to turn the region intonormalcy in the accom-modation, health, educa-tion, social and economicsectors within one year,

renovation of storm-hithospitals, dispensaries,schools and religiousbuildings, construction ofnew buildings, completionof 10,046 rural housings,

building of TownshipHospital (100-bed), ar-rangements for supply ofdrinking water, construc-tion of nine Cyclone Shel-ters, progress of Bogale-Kyeinchaung-KadonkaniRoad and Bogale-Sethsan-Ahmar Road,construction of the four-mile section in BogaleTownship on Bogale-

M a w l a m y i n e g y u n -Myaungmya Road, com-pletion of bridges and con-servation of mangroveecosystem.

The chairman of

Htoo Trading Co Ltd re-ported on construction ofnew Township Hospital(100-bed) and facts aboutthe hospital.

After hearing thereports, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye explainedprevention and prepared-ness to be taken againstnatural disasters like stormNargis, sufficiency ofdrinking water, enhance-ment of education andhealth sectors, growingof perennial trees andcompilation of correct andaccurate economic statis-tics.

After looking intoprogress of storm-affectedvillages of Bogale Town-ship namely Kondan,Sethsan and Htawpaingvillages and conservationof mangrove forests, Vice-Senior General MaungAye arrived at KadonkaniVillage of Bogale Town-ship.

He viewed openingof Basic Education HighSchool at the CycloneShelter and donations onschool furniture, compu-ter and accessories of HtooTrading Co Ltd to theschool.

The chairman ofHtoo Trading Co Ltd re-

ported on construction ofone 500-person-capacityCyclone Shelter, 15 feethigh Hillock and waterlake, use of Cyclone Shel-ter as school in the normalcondition, and handingover the building to theState in January 2010.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye asked thevillage responsible per-sons about the health, edu-cation, drinking water suf-ficiency and regional de-velopment and attended tothe needs.

After inspectingdigging of lakes aroundthe Cyclone Shelter, helooked into progress ofKadonkani Village in amotorcade.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and partyflew over villages to viewsalt farming.

At Pyinsalu ofLabutta Township, theywere welcomed by Minis-ter for Progress of BorderAreas and National Racesand Development Affairs UThein Nyunt and officials.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and partycomforted the patients atthe Township People’sHospital opened at No. 1Cyclone Shelter inPyinsalu.

After looking intothe cyclone shelter and itsenvirons, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Ayeviewed construction of therural housings in Pyinsaluand systematic allotmentof offices and departments.

At No. 2 CycloneShelter, he inspectedopening of PyinsaluBEHS and donations onschool furniture, compu-ter and accessories byMax Myanmar Group ofCompanies.

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(from page 8)At the briefing hall

of the town, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye metofficials and explaineddevelopment of the re-gion and sufficiency ofdrinking water.

In Labutta, Vice-Senior General MaungAye viewed implemen-tation of 3rd-Mile satel-lite town project inLabutta.

At the hall of the

Preventionand prepar-edness to betakenagainst…

construction of 200-bedhospital in 3rd-Mile sat-ellite town, Minister UThein Nyunt reported oncompletion of 4548 ru-ral housing and sevencyclone shelters inLabutta Township,progress of local roadsand bridges, construc-tion of new jetty, build-ing of 180-million-gal-lon-capacity water tankon 66 acres of land, sup-ply of water from thetank, distribution ofelectricity, constructionof 200-bed hospital, thecarpentry, masonry andsteel fixing trainingschool and BEMS,progress of buildingYouth Ahman Training

School sponsored byMax Myanmar Group ofCompanies, and con-struction of district leveloffices and departmentsand private housing.

After hearing thereports, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye gave in-structions on developmentof the satellite town, ad-equate supply of drinkingwater and development ofmeat and fish sector.

He inspectedprogress of the hospital.

After looking intodevelopment of Labuttaby helicopter, Vice-Sen-ior General Maung Ayeleft there and arrived inPathein in the afternoon.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May—It has been reported that of 170 bomb blastvictims in front of X20 water throwing pandal on Kandawgyi Circular road inMingala Taungnyunt Township in Yangon on 15 April, most of them have beendischarged from Yangon General Hospital and other hospitals, and only 18victims —12 men and 6 women — were undergoing treatments.

As more were discharged from the hospitals, only 11 victims— six malesand five females— are under treatment at present.

MNA

Only 11 bomb blastvictims under treatment

YANGON, 8 May—The (3/2010) meeting ofGold Entrepreneurs As-sociation took place atthe meeting hall ofUMFCCI inMinyekyawswa road,Lanmadaw Townshiphere this evening.

It was attended bymembers of GEAs(state/division) and As-

Gold Entrepreneurs Association meetssistant Director of Infor-mation and Research De-partment under Ministryof Finance and RevenueDaw Win Win Naing.

Chairman of GEAU Thutaw (Academy GoldRefinery) made an open-ing speech. Secretary ofGEA U Kyaw Win (UHton Gold Smith Centre)presented the minutes of

the previous meeting.Members of GEAs (state/division) reported on taskscarried out and ViceChairman of GEA UKyaw Myint (Shwe MyinPyan Gold Refinery) alsoreported on general tasksundertaking and the meet-ing came to an end withthe concluding remarks ofthe Chairman.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye visits Basic Education High School opened at Cyclone Shelter No 2 inPyinsalu of Labutta District.

MNA

Photo shows Cyclone Shelter that can accommodate 500 persons, in Kadonkani Village ofBogale Township.

MNA

200-bed People’s

Hospital in 3rd-Mile

Satellite Town of

Labutta.

MNA

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A girl looks around the

exhibition of “Scenes of

Variation” held in

Yuehu Art Museum in

east China’s Shanghai

Municipality, on 8 May,

2010.

XINHUA

India minister says chance of climatedeal ‘remote’

BEIJING, 10 May—India’s environmentminister warned onSunday that there was littleprospect of a breakthroughin efforts to forge aninternational agreementthis year to fight globalwarming.

“So far as negotiationsare concerned... theprospects of abreakthrough in 2010 arevery, very remote,” JairamRamesh told reportersduring a visit to China, theworld’s largest greenhousegas polluter.

A new UN con-ference is due to be held inthe Mexican resort ofCancun towards the end ofthe year to try to build on

A wind park in Copenhagen. India’s environmentminister has warned that there was little prospect ofa breakthrough in efforts to forge an international

agreement this year to fight global warming.INTERNET

an accord hammered outat marathon talks inCopenhagen that werewidely regarded as afailure.

“I don’t see any silverlining or any silver bullet

anywhere which is goingto lead to an agreement,”said Ramesh, whosecountry gave its formalbacking to the Copenhagenaccord only last month.

Internet

Bringing history to life fortoday’s high-tech generation

BEIJING, 10 May—Visitors to ShanghaiExpo will be amazed bythe giant scroll paintingAlong the River Duringthe Qingming Festivalin the China Pavilion.

Painted by SongDynasty artist ZhangZeduan (1085-1145)and known as “China’sMona Lisa”, it has beenconverted into a three-dimensional image on adigital screen measuring100 metres by sixmetres.

The r iver in thepicture appears to beflowing. People andcatt le seem to bestanding next to

audiences. Expanded by10 times, the digitalversion of the paintinghas special sound andlight effects, and willvary according to thelevel of sunlight.

The image wascreated by Beijingcompany Crystal CG.Established in 1995, ithas made its way tobecoming one of the top3D modeling, simulationand visualization firmsin Asia. The company’sclients include thegovernment, the militaryand domestic real estatebusinesses.

Xinhua

Chinese investors monitorshare prices at a securityfirm in Hefei, in centralChina’s Anhui province.The euro has surged inAsia after a monster aid

package came through forthe eurozone economies

and the European CentralBank vowed to implementexceptional measures in

support, dealers havesaid.—INTERNET

Sugar plantation, native Hawaiiansin water battle

HAIKU, 10 May—LynScott’s family has fished inHonopou stream forcenturies and tapped itswater to farm the Hawaiianstaple taro on stone-linedterraces built by herancestors. Up the road,Leonard Pagan helps runirrigation systems atHawaii’s last sugarplantation. He’s the fourthgeneration of his family towork at HawaiianCommercial & Sugar Co,going back to his great-grandfather who emigratedfrom Puerto Rico.

Taro, fish and sugar areall central to Hawaii’s richhistory and identity. Tothrive in this corner of Maui,however, they must all benourished by the samesupply of water. This hastriggered an emotionalstruggle pitting one ofMaui’s biggest employers— the last representative

of Hawaii’s once-mighty“King Sugar” — againstNative Hawaiians fightingto hang on to neglectedancient traditions.

“They’re fighting fortheir way of life and we’refighting for ours,” saidWesley Bissen, a 30-yearveteran machinist at theplantation, HawaiianCommercial & Sugar Co.

The battle is now in it’sninth year, dating to 2001when the Native HawaiianLegal Corporation filed a

petition asking the state toreturn water to East Mauistreams. In 2008, the statewater commission orderedthe sugar plantation torestore water to 8 streams— including Honopou. ButScott says her family’s stillnot getting enough water tofish and farm taro like herancestors. They’re waitingfor the water commissionto respond to a complaintfiled by her lawyers.

Internet

Two dead in small plane crash innorthern California

SAN FRANCISCO, 10May—A small single-engine plane crashed onSunday morning innorthern California inthe Uni ted Sta tes ,k i l l ing both of thepeople onboard, localmedia repor ted .ThePiper Cherokee wentdown in rough terrain at

Mexican Olympic diver JoaquinCapilla dies at 81

MEXICO CITY, 10May—Mexico’s topOlympic-medal recipienthas died at the age of 81.

His wife says Olympicdiver Joaquin Capilla diedof natural causes onSaturday and was buriedon Sunday.

Carmen Capilla saidshe was by her husband’sside at the time of his death.In the 1948 games inLondon, Capilla, then 19,won a bronze medal forplatform diving. Four yearslater in Helsinki, he won asilver medal, again for

platform diving. In 1956 inMelbourne, Australia, hetook home a bronze medalfor springboard diving anda gold for platform diving.

He later taught divingin Mexico City, inspiringa new generation ofcompetitors.—Internet

about 10: 50 a. m. localtime at a site about 5miles (8 kilometers)near the LivermoreMunicipal Airport, itwas reported.IanGregor, a US FederalAviat ion Admi-nistrat ion (FAA)spokesman, said thecause of the crash is still

unknown.FAA inves-tigators are heading tothe crash site and theNational TransportationSafety Board is alsoplanning to investigate,local CBS 5 televisionstation quoted Gregor assaying.

Xinhua

In this photo taken on 27 April, 2010, Beatrice Kekakuha, left, and herniece, Lyn Scott, sit in front of taro patches on their family’s farm inHaiku, Hawaii. Taro is perhaps the most important crop in Hawaiian

culture considered a relative and a food staple.—INTERNET

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KABUL, 10 May—Three AfghanNational Army (ANA) soldiers werekilled on Saturday as the Afghan andNATO-led forces came in contact withmilitants in Taleban hotbed HelmandProvince of southern Afghanistan, theAfghan Defence Ministry said in astatement on Sunday.

“A joint unit of Afghan andinternational forces were on their routinepatrol in the southwestern part of SanginDistrict on Saturday but the combinedforces clashed with rebels, as a resultthree ANA soldiers were martyred,” thestatement said.

It also said during the cleanup

The submarinearchaeological probe onan ancient vessel sunk inthe South China Sea nearShan’tou has been goingon for about a month.Nearly 1,000 pieces ofcultural relics have beenretrieved.

Archaeologists saythe vessel, known as“Nanao No.1”, containssome very rare and

Archaeologists in Egypt believe they havediscovered the burial place of Cleopatra and herlover, Mark Anthony. They found a columnedentrance to a temple in Alexandria and think itmay contain the remains of the famous andbeautiful Egyptian Queen. Excavation is nowunderway on a chamber where they may beentombed.

An Egyptian-Dominican team made thediscovery at the temple of Taposiris Magna, westof the coastal city of Alexandria.

Pachyderm push-start

“Five” is an 18-year-old Africanelephant living at theWest Midland SafariPark in England, whorecently tapped intopreviously unknowntalents. According toits, while watchingemployees of the parktrying to get a broken-down car started asecond time, Fivewalked over and startedpushing tit from behind.Not only did he help getthe vehicle pushed outof the enclosure, Fivealso gave it a quick washwhen he sprayed the

Underwater archaeologicalinvestigation for ancient vessel

in South Sea

The submarinearchaeological probeon an ancient vessel

sunk in the SouthChina Sea near

Shan’tou has beengoing on for about amonth. Nearly 1,000

pieces of culturalrelics have been

retrieved.

Cleopatra’s tomb discovered,says Egyptian archaeologists

Indian people give tribute to a statue of poetRabindranath Tagore during a celebration on

his 150th birthday anniversary in Kolkata,capital of eastern Indian state West Bengal, on

9 May, 2010.

jeep with water from a

nearby bucket.

Photo taken on 9 May, 2010, shows a bunny momfeeds her babies.

valuable porcelainwares. Most of themwere made by twoleading workshops inZhangzhou andJingdezhen, back to theSong and Mingdynasties.

Greek people ride bicycles to celebrate Mother’s Day and to promote a moreeco-friendly form of transportation in the centre of Athens, capital of Greece,

on 9 May, 2010.—XINHUA

Three Afghan army soldiers killed in Talebanhotbed

PHNOM PENH, 10 May—Cambodian garment andapparel exports have increased 7.24 percent for the firstquarter of 2010 compared with the same period lastyear, but remain below the pre- crisis levels of the firstquarter in 2008, local media reported on Monday, citingthe figures from the Ministry of Commerce.

Ministry of Commerce (MoC) figures valueCambodia’s garment and apparel exports for the firstquarter at 671 million US dollars, up from 626 millionUS dollars for the same quarter last year, the PhnomPenh Post reported. According to a country by countrybreakdown, exports to the US market went up 4.13percent - from 395 million US dollars to 411 million USdollars - while the EU markets saw a 7.32 percentincrease, and other foreign markets were up 20.12percent.—Internet

Cambodian garment industryremains wary despite export

growth PA R I S, 10 May—Football has a pedigreedating back tomediaeval England,when villagers hoofedan inflated pig’s bladderaround a muddypaddock.

Today, though, the22 players on the pitchare supported by a ghostsquad of scientis tsdrawing onbiomechanics, physics,nutrition, psychologyand other performance-enhancing disciplines.

Science lifts lid on some of football’s myths andmysteries

Here are someexamples of how sciencehas helped to changefootball, answer riddlesand end hearsay.

FAKING A FALL:How can you tell when aplayer is diving? Onetelltale is the “archer’sbow,” says Bri t ishpsychologist PaulMorris. This is when aplayer falls with botharms in the air, withopen palms, chest thrustout and legs bent at theknee, l ike a sprung

archery bow. “Thisoccurs in many dives butbiomechanically it doesnot occur in a naturalfal l ,” says Morris .“Instead, instinctivelythe arms go down in anattempt to cushion thefall or out to the side forbalance.”

NOW IT’S OFF-ICIAL: Those who sayfootball is the world’smost exciting game cantake comfort instatistics.

Footy beat four

operation in the area two militants havebeen detained and a handful of weaponsincluding a heavy caliber 80mm gun, arocket-propelled grenade and aKalashnikov were also found from theirpossession.

The detainees were handed over toconcerned authorities for furtherinterrogation, it said.

Taleban militants, who were oustedfrom power in the US-led militarycampaign in late 2001 have vowed tolaunch a spring offensive against Afghanand NATO troops stationed inAfghanistan from 10 May.

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other major sports(American football, icehockey, baseball andbasketball) for “upsetfrequency” when theunderdog won, ac-cording to data cru-nchers at Los AlamosNational Laboratory inMexico, whose 2006study pored over topclub results dating backto 1888. Americanfootball was the mostpredictable. Its “upsetfrequency” was awhopping 25 percentless than soccer.

Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV DONG MAI VOY NO (003)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV DONG MAIVOY NO (003) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 10.5.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S TONG JOO SHIPPINGPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV RATHA BHUM VOY NO (518)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV RATHA BHUMVOY NO (518) are here by notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 10.5.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.


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


AGENT FOR: M/S REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TEGAP VOY NO (511)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TEGAP

VOY NO (511) are here by notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 10.5.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.


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


AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CONDOLENCESWe extend our heartfelt condolences to the

family of Colonel Win Maung (Retd.), ChairAdvisor to the Board of First Myanmar Invest-ment Company Limited, who passed away onFriday the 7th of May, 2010.

Our sincere thoughts and prayers are with youat this time of sorrow

Mr. & Mrs. Serge Pun

CONDOLENCESWe wish to express our deepest sympathies to

the family of Col.Win Maung (Retd.), ChairAdvisor to the Board of FMI Co. Ltd., whoexpired on Friday, May 7th, 2010.

Board of Directors and Staft FMI Co. Ltd.

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RESTU VOY NO (025)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RESTUVOY NO (025) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 11.5.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.


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


AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Woman hackedto death for

marrying withoutconsent

NEW DELHI, 10 May —A 20-year-old woman washacked to death by her fa-ther, brothers and cousinsfor daring to marry with-out her family’s consent.The victim, named only asSoni, was the same casteas her groom, but the fam-ily did not approve of therelationship, according toa report in The Times ofIndia.

Police said the malerelatives of Soni draggedher to a temple inKaushambi district, in In-dia’s north-east, andhacked her to death.Kaushambi’s senior su-perintendent of police,Kripa Shanker Singh, toldThe Times that Friday’smurder came to lightwhen the victim’s motheraccused her husband andson of brutally killing thegirl.—Internet

Oil booms are seen washed on to a beach as high

winds and waves push the booms ashore on 9 May,

2010 in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

INTERNET

Two hospitalizedafter flightturbulence

ALBANY, 10 May— Tur-bulence on a ContinentalAirlines flight from Ohio toNew York battered aroundpassengers and crew, injur-ing four.

Two people werehospitalized. Continentalspokeswoman Julie Kingsays Flight 2768 fromCleveland experienced se-vere turbulence as itapproached Albany onSaturday afternoon. Shesays the crew called formedical assistance to meetthe plane when it landedat 1:50 pm.—Internet

Cadel Evans of Australia(BMC) celebrates thepink jersey on the po-dium after the 2nd stageof the 93rd.—INTERNET

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Italy celebrates first BikeDay to boost sustainable

mobilityROME, 10 May—Italy celebrated on Sunday the

first National Bike Day edition with a series ofinitiatives aimed at spreading awareness on sustainablemobility, climate change, environmental and naturalheritage preservation.

The event was strongly sponsored by EnvironmentMinister Stefania Prestigiacomo. A total of 1,300cities across the country adhered to the celebrations byorganizing bike site-seeing tours, treasure hunts andchildren games and performances.

Prestigiacomo was very satisfied of the outcomesand high public participation. “This first bike day hasturned out into a real success which demonstrates theappeal of the initiative among Italians,” she said in astatement issued by her office.

“Bike Day is a national party, characterized bypublic enthusiasm and clean air. The fact that so manychildren, youth, adults and old people have taken partin it is the proof that they want better, livable citieswith less traffic and smog. Cities that are healthy, witha human-dimension, where well-being and life qualityare high,” Prestigiacomo stressed.—Xinhua

Children take part in the National Children’s Abacus Competition inJakarta, capital of Indonesia, on 9 May, 2010. A total of 1,130 Indonesian

children aged from 5 to 14 took part in the National Children’s AbacusCompetition.—XINHUA

Suspectedbomber

arrested atPakistan’sKarachiAirportISLAMABAD, 10

May—Pakistani AirportSecurity Force onSunday night arrested asuspected bomber atKarachi Airport insouthern Pakistan.

According to theprivate Geo TV, the 20-year-old suspect, whohad electric circuitshidden in his shoes, wasgoing to Muscat fromKarachi by Thai airways.

Initial reportssuggest that FaizMuhamad, a civilengineer, belongs toHazara division ofKhyber-Pakhtunkhawaprovince in northwesternPakistan.

Xinhua

Yemen coastguard seizes shiploaded with heavy arms

SANAA, 10 May—Yemeni coastguard seized onSunday a ship loaded with heavy weapons at the Gulfof Aden, a security official of the coastguard toldXinhua by phone.

“The ship, with 14 Yemeni crew members onboard,is a Yemeni ship and carries a large quantity ofmachine guns and other types of heavy arms when itwas captured today at dawn,” the official said oncondition of anonymity.

“The ship was seized when it docked due to atechnical fault about 5 nautical miles south to theYemeni city port of Aden,” he added.

“The coastguard have confiscated the weapons,arrested the 14 crewmen, and launched an investigationover the shipment of heavy arms,” he added.—Xinhua

An elderly woman performs with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter during a “three

generation’s fashion show” which is held to markthe Mother’s Day in Hong Kong, China, on 9

May, 2010. —XINHUA

Ash from Iceland’s volcano shutsEuropean airports

GENEVA, 10 May—Airlines canceledhundreds of flights acrossEurope and added hoursto trans-Atlantic journeysSunday as planes werediverted around a largeplume of ash spewed byan Icelandic volcano andstretching fromGreenland to Portugal.

So far, the weekendcancellations have beena fraction of the flightsnixed two weeks agowhen jittery European airtraffic authorities closeddown much of thecontinent’s airspace forfear the volcano’sabrasive ash could harmjet engines. But thepossibility loomed ofcontinuing eruption, andrising costs to airlinesfrom ongoing disruption.

The bulk of the cloud,

measuring 2,100 mileslong and 1,400 miles wide(3,400 kilometers by2,200 kilometres), stretc-hed over the NorthAtlantic, according to theIrish Aviation Authority.It ordered Ireland’s fivewes-ternmost airports toclose Sunday afternoonbut allowed the country’sthree biggest airports inDublin, Shannon andCork to stay open.Airlines diverted their

trans-Atlantic trafficnorth and south of thecloud, causingcongestion as planes triedto squeeze throughremaining routes. Someconnections werecanceled entirely bec-ause of an offshoot ofthe main cloud that wassnaking its way fromPortugal through Spain,southern France andnorthern Italy, then up toGermany, the CzechRepublic and Austria.

Internet

Israeli planes bomb Gazatunnels

GAZA, 10 May—Israeli warplanes hit smugglingtunnels on Gaza/Egypt borders late Sunday, witnessessaid.

At least two underground tunnels were bombed onthe Palestinian side of the border in the city of Rafah,the witnesses added. The airstrikes, which took placearound midnight, caused no casualties.

The Israeli shelling came hours after Palestinianmilitants fired a home-made rocket from Gaza toWestern Negev. The shell landed in an open area inIsraeli territories and there has been no word oninjuries, Israel Radio reported.

Israel accuses militant Palestinian groups of usingthe tunnels, which flourished after Israel imposed asiege on Gaza when Hamas seized the enclave in 2007,to bring in arms and materials for manufacturingrockets. —Xinhua

Fire and smoke are seen at Shanghai Oil Refineryin Shanghai, east China, on 9 May, 2010. An oiltank at the refinery caught fire on Sunday, whichhas been under control. No casualties have been

reported.—XINHUA

Passengers sleep on a

bench as they wait for a

flight inside SaCarneiro Airport in

Porto, Portugal, on 9

May, 2010. Dozens of

flights in France, Italyand Portugal were

cancelled on Sunday.

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LONDON, 10 May— Ar-senal booked their place inthe group stage of next sea-son’s Champions Leagueby beating a shadowFulham side 4-0 at Emir-ates Stadium on Sunday.

Arsene Wenger’s sidehad kicked off knowingthat defeat at home wouldhave cost them third placein the English PremierLeague had Tottenhamwon at Burnley.

But first half goals

Qualificationand relegationin respective

leaguesYANGON, 10 May—

Chelsea, ManchesterUnited and Arsenal havedirectly qualified for the2010-2011 UEFA Cham-pions League group stage.Fourth-placed TottenhamHotspur is included in the2010-2011 UEFA Cham-pions League play-offround, and fifth-placedManchester City andsixth-placed Aston Villain the 2010-2011 UEFAEuropa League play-offround. Seven-placed Liv-erpool is scheduled in the2010-2011 UEFA EuropaLeague third qualifyinground. Burnley, Hull Cityand Postsmouth have rel-egated to the 2010-2011Barclays Premier League.

Internet

Arsenal secure third as Fulham flattened

Arsenal’s Dutch strikerRobin van Persie (R)vies with Fulham’s

English defender ChrisSmalling during the

English PremierLeague football

match.—INTERNET

from Andrey Arshavinand Robin van Persie plusan own goal from ChrisBaird and a late chip fromCarlos Vela meant thirdplace was never in doubt.

It was made all theeasier by Fulham man-ager Roy Hodgson restingeight regulars ahead of thebiggest-ever match in theclub’s history, Wednes-day’s Europa League fi-nal with Atletico Madrid.

Internet

YANGON, 10 May—Top scorers who are now in Barclays Premier League onthe final day for 2009-2010 season are to the followings:

Player Team Goals

1. Didier Drogba Chelsea 29

2. Wayne Rooney Manchester United 26

3. Darren Bent Sanderland 24

4. Frank Lampard Chelsea 22

5. Carlos Tevez Manchester City 22. —Internet

Top scorers in Barclays Premier Leaguefor 2009-2010 season end

MADRID, 10 May —Real Madrid coachManuel Pellegrini insistshe is still confident he willbe in charge of the clubnext season despite thepossibility that Madridcould end the seasonempty-handed.

Real beat Athletic Bil-bao 5-1 on Saturday tostop Barcelona from win-ning the title but Madridtrail Barca by one pointgoing into the final day ofthe season and must winat Malaga and hope thechampions slip up athome to Valladolid.

It makes Barcelona,who beat Sevilla 3-2,strong favourites to retainthe trophy and casts a darkcloud over Pellegrini’sfuture.”

SAN ANTONIO, 10May—The Phoenix Sunsswept away seven yearsof bad playoff memoriesbrought by the SanAntonio Spurs.

Steve Nash scored 20points and played with aright eye that was swol-len shut as Phoenix sweptSan Antonio from theWestern Conferencesemifinals with a 107-101win Sunday night. AmareStoudemire led the waywith 29 points to help theSuns get past the Spurs inthe playoffs for the firsttime in five tries.

“That was ugly,” Sunsforward Channing Fryesaid walking off thecourt.Kind of like Nash’sblack-and-blue, stitched-up eye.—Internet

Suns sweep Spurs to reachWest finals

Phoenix Suns’ SteveNash, right, drives the

the basket as SanAntonio Spurs’ GeorgeHill defends during thefirst quarter of Game 4of a Western Confer-ence semifinals NBAbasketball series, on9 May, 2010 in SanAntonio.—INTERNET

BARCELONA, 10 May—Red Bull’s Mark Webbersecured a comfortablewire-to-wire victory at theSpanish Grand Prix onSunday, while Ferrari’sFernando Alonso andWebber’s teammate Se-bastian Vettel filled out thepodium after Lewis Ham-ilton crashed with one lapremaining.

Webber made it 10straight winners from poleposition at the Circuit deCatalunya after the Austral-ian drove a flawless race fora 24-second victory overAlonso.”—Internet

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, 10May —Dressed in his onSunday red shirt, TigerWoods bowed his head andsat in silence in front of hislocker. He was supposed tobe on the ninth hole at ThePlayers Championship. Inanother stunning twist forsomeone whose life used tobe so predictable, Woodswithdrew suddenly withneck pain that he fears mightbe a bulging disk.

Internet

MADRID, 10 May—Roger Federer’s semi-fi-nal exit in Estoril came asa major surprise to RafaelNadal, though the Span-iard tried to play down theeffects of the defeat withboth men headlining atthe Madrid Masters.

Top seed Federer washeading to Spain to re-cover his game with justa fortnight remaining be-fore his title defence atRoland Garros form 23May.

Nadal takes the secondseeding in Madrid, wherehe lost the final to theSwiss a year ago.

“Roger losing is a real

Real Madrid coachManuel Pellegrini,

pictured, insists he isstill confident he will be

in charge of the clubnext season despite thepossibility that Madridcould end the season

empty-handed.INTERNET

Real’s Pellegrini saysconfident of future

You will have to askthe board.

I have one more yearleft on my contract and noone has told me that I amnot going to continue nextseason,” said Pellegrini.

Internet

Tiger Woods looks downafter hitting from therough on the 7th holeduring the final round

of The Players Champi-onship golf tournament

on Sunday.INTERNET

Woods withdraws, may have bulging disk in back

Webber leads Red Bull tovictory at Spanish GP

Red Bull Formula Onedriver Mark Webberfrom Australia cel-

ebrates on the podiumafter winning the

Spanish Formula OneGrand Prix at the

Circuit de Catalunya.INTERNET

Nadal stunned by Federer loss on clay

Spain’s Rafael Nadalgives a press conference

at the Madrid OpenTennis Tournament in

Madrid.—INTERNET

surprise,” said Nadal ofthe Swiss player’sstraight-set loss to AlbertoMontanes.

Internet

Westwood: I didn’t doenough

FLORIDA, 10 May—Lee Westwood isrefusing to be toodisappointed afteranother final-roundfailure cost him ThePlayers Championship inFlorida.

Just as he had doneat The Masters,Westwood started thelast 18 at the top of theleaderboard, only for thewheels to come off hischallenge.

And having lost toPhil Mickelson atAugusta, it was TimClark this time who camethrough the field tosecure the biggestwinner’s cheque in golf.

Ultimately it was thefinal few holes that cost

Westwood as he found abunker at the 16th andthen the water at the 17th.

But despiteeventually finishingback in joint-fourth, fourshots behind Clark,Westwood is determinednot to let the setbackeffect him.

Westwood said:“I’m disappointed, butit’s not something I’mgoing to pull my hair outover.

“If you don’t playwell you don’t deserveto win and I just didn’tplay well over theweekend.

“As the course gotharder you really neededto be on your game and Iwasn’t striking the ballsolidly enough.

“You needed to hitmore fairways, havemore control of the balland I just didn’t havethat.

“It all needs fine-tuning. I’ll keep workingon things, just trying toget a bit better for nexttime.”—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T.During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenscattered in Kachin State, isolated in Shan ,Chin, RakhineStates,Sagaing and Mandalay Divisions and weather has beenpartly cloudy in the remaining States and Divisions. Daytemperatures were about May average temperatures in Chinand Rakhine States, (3°C) to (5°C) above May averagetemperatures in Kachin State and upper Sagaing Division (6°C)to (8°C) above May average temperatures in the remainingStates and Divisions. The significant day temperatures wereChauk (45.9°C) , Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin), Nay Pyi Taw (Pyinmana),Minbu, Magway and Myingyan(44.0°C) each. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Putao (0.75)inch, Machanbaw (0.28) inch.

Maximum temperature on 9-5-2010 was 105°F. Minimumtemperature on 10-5-2010 was 82°F. Relative humidity at (09:30)hours MST on 10-5-2010 was 56%. Total sun shine hours on 9-5-2010 was (11.0) hours.

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Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the SouthWest Bay and generally fair elsewhere in the Andaman seaand in the Bay of Bengal.

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Maha Thray Sithu U Chan Htoon & Daw Khin Khin Thein)of 53, Pyay Road, 61/2 Mile, Hlaing Township, Yangon,Son-in-law of (Adipati Dr. Ba Maw-Daw Khin Ma MaMaw), beloved husband of Daw Onma Maw, belovedfather of Daw Yuza Maw Htoon (SAIS, John HopkinsUniversity, USA, Myanmar Development Foundation)-Dr. Phone Win (Shambhala Group, Mingalar Myanmar),(Ko Ogga Maw Htoon), beloved grandfather of Ma Haithi(X-A, TTC), Mg Phone Maw Htoon (VII-L, TTC), brotherof Daw Sanda Khin-Mr. Westley Kingsley, U Aung ChanHtoon, U Win Htoon-Daw Thin Thin, Daw Khin ThuzarChan Htoon, (U Fred Chan Htoon)-Daw Aye Aye Yee, DawMya Marlar Chan Htoon-Mr. Doulas Georgian, (U ZeyarChan Htoon)-Daw Sao Hem Hsai, passed away peacefullyat 2.35 pm on Friday, 7th May 2010 at HaematologyDepartment, Yangon General Hospital. Cremation has beenheld at 9.00 am on Sunday, 9th May 2010 at Ye WayCemetary.

The bereaved family cordialy invites all friends andrelatives for the soon-offering from 7:00 am to 10:00 amon Thursday 13th May 2010, at the above address.

Bereaved Family

Exercise

KUNDUZ, 10 May—A pilotless plane of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)crashed in Kunduz north of Afghanistan Sunday,an official said.

“The drone crashed due to technical problem inBagh-e-Sharkat area at 01:00 pm local time,” aspokesman with German troops in Kunduz ProvinceWeber told Xinhua.

Weber who gave only one name ruled out anyhostile fire in the incident.

Meantime, Taleban spokesman ZabihullahMujahid in talks with media via telephone fromundisclosed location claimed of responsibility,saying the militants shot down the drone.

More than 4,000 German troops with majorityof them deployed in Kunduz Province have beenserving in Afghanistan within the framework ofISAF to help stabilize security in the war-torncountry.

Kunduz and the neighbouring BaghlanProvince has been the scene of Taleban-linkedinsurgency over the past several months.

Xinhua

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14th Waning of Kason 1372 ME Tuesday, 11 May, 2010

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

Regional development tasks in Namsang, Loilem,Mongpun inspected

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May— Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing of the Ministry ofDefence, accompaniedby Chairman of ShanState Peace and Devel-opment Council Com-mander of Eastern Com-mand Maj-Gen Yar Pyaeand departmental offi-cials, comforted patientsand presented medicinesfor Namsang People's

Hospital and NamsangStation Hospitals throughofficials on 7 May.

After viewingaround development andcleaning and beautifyingtasks of Namsang andLoilem on a motorcade,Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing visited MongpunStation Hospital and pre-sented medicines for thehospital through offi-

cials.He also inspected

development and clean-ing and beaut i fyingtasks of Mongpun. Af-ter hearing reports onwork progress at thebr ief ing hal l ofTaunggyi-Loilem roadupgrading project(Mongpun) , Lt-GenMin Aung Hlaing gavenecessary instructions.

At the meeting hallof University of Compu-ter Studies (Taunggyi),Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlainggave instructions on re-ports presented by offi-cials and looked intoprogress of constructionof the university.

Upon completion,the university will admitabout 3,000 students.

MNA

New maximum

temperature

recordNAY PYI TAW, 10

May—The maximumtemperature 44.0°C(111.2°F) observed on9 May, 2010, in NayPyi Taw (Pyinmana) isthe new maximum tem-perature record of thestation for the month ofMay during last 45years. The formerrecord of the station was43.5°C (110.3°F) on 8May, 1998.

MNA

Chauk 45.9° CNay Pyi Taw (Yezin) 44.0° CNay Pyi Taw (Pyinmana) 44.0° CMinbu 44.0° CMagway 44.0° CMyingyan 44.0° C

The significant day temperatures

(10-5-2010)

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of Ministry of Defence inspects University of Computer Studies(Taunggyi).—MNA

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