The New Light of Myanmar 12-01-2010

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 271 13th Waning of Pyatho 1371 ME Tuesday, 12 January, 2010

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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 11 Jan– Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein, accompaniedby Lt-Gen Ko Ko of theMinistry of Defence, Chair-man of Ayeyawady Divi-sion Peace and Develop-ment Council Commanderof South-West CommandMaj-Gen Kyaw Swe, min-isters, deputy ministers, de-partmental heads and offi-cials, left Pathein by heli-copter for Ngapudaw andarrived in Ngayokekaung-taung village in NgapudawTownship at 8:15 a.m yes-terday.

They were wel-comed there by depart-mental officials, members

Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects Pathein-Thalupkhwar-Mawtinsun Road Project, regional

development tasks in Labutta Townshipof social organizations andlocal people.

The Prime Ministerinspected land preparationon road section from milepost Nos (54/4) to (60/4)being carried out by NaingGroup Co. Ltd on Pathein-Thalupkhwar-MawtinsunRoad Project and heard re-ports on progress presentedby officials.

At the briefing hallof Pathein-Thalupkhwar-Mawtinsun Road projectbeing implemented by Pub-lic Works of the Ministry ofConstruction, the PrimeMinister heard reports onregional development taskspresented by officials.

Effective use of manpower and heavy machinery requiredin order to complete the tasks in a timely manner

Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-GenHtay Oo, Minister forForestry Brig-Gen TheinAung and CommanderMaj-Gen Kyaw Swemade supplementary re-ports.

Minister for Con-struction Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint reported tothe Prime Minister onPathein- Thalupkhwar-Mawtinsun Road whichwill be built section by sec-tion by the ministry in co-operation with the compa-nies , arrival of heavy ma-chinery and stockpiling ofgravel.

(See page 8)

Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects roadworks on Pathein-Thalupkhwar-Mawtinsunroad.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 12 January, 2010

Tuesday, 12 January, 2010

PERSPECTIVES

Bridges for regional and

national development

* 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

Ayeyawady Division is a region where there

are many rivers and creeks. Therefore, in the

past, the people there had to rely on the waterway

as a means of transport. Now, the government is

building river-crossing bridges and up to now it

has built 48 bridges more than 180 feet long.

The Head of State has given guidance on

construction of a network of 10 highways in the

storm-hit areas in Ayeyawady Division. On 9

January, Yazudaing Birdge (2) on the Maubin-

Yaylegalay-Shwetaunghmaw-Kyaikpi-

Mawlamyinegyun section of No (1) highway was

opened.

As Mawlamyinegyun is situated on an island,

it had to depend on the waterway for

transportation. Now, with the opening of

Yazudaing Bridge (2), the people there can travel

easily to Shwetaunghmaw, Kyaikpi and

Mawlamyinegyun.

In addition to motor roads, railways are

being built in Ayeyawady Division. One is an 87-

mile-long railroad that will link Pathein, Darka,

Einme, Pantanaw, Nyaungdon, Hlinethaya and

Yangon and another one is a 48-mile-long

railroad that will link Hinthada, Zalun, Danubyu

and Nyaungdon. Therefore, the people in

Ayeyawady Division will be able to travel to

other regions by boat or by car or by train.

The government is building the transport

infrastructure necessary for development of the

economic, social, education and health sectors.

Therefore, we would like to call on the people in

Ayeyawady Division as well as in the entire

Union to work in concert with the government

for regional and national development.

NAY PYI TAW, 11 Jan—A ceremony to open16-bed station hospital was held in Kyauktaungvillage, Pauktaw Township on 7 January, attendedby Chairman of Rakhine State Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of WesternCommand Maj-Gen Thaung Aye, Rakhine Statelevel departmental personnel, members of socialorganizations, locals, and townselders.

First, officials formally opened the stationhospital and the commander unveiled the signboardof the hospital.

Foreign Affairs Minister back from India

YANGON, 11 Jan—Organized by Myanmar Geo-Science Society, the 6th annual general meeting and1st respect paying to elder geologists by old studentswho had graduated from 1969 to 2009 academic yearwill be held at Excel Treasure Hotel in Shwegondinehere on 23 January. The association has requested tomake donation through its members, old students andcommittee members.

Those wishing to make donation may contactcommittee members Dr Tin Htay Mu (ph-095153441,681407), Professor U Hla Kyi (ph-580115), U TinKyaw Than (ph-095002581), U Kyaing Sein (ph-092042054), Daw Swe Swe Aye (ph-095131584), UTin Maung Nyunt (ph-095010136), 549407), U ThanTun ( ph-095151309, 500102), U Zaw Win and UKyaw Soe Aung (1973), U Yi Sein (ph-095040411,387205), U Soe Kyin+Daw Khin Ma Ma (ph-09501233), U Kyaw Win (ph-703030), U Thet Lwinand U Soe Myint (1976), U Aye Lwin (ph-095006258), 245663), U Tin Ohn (ph- 095019315),

NAY PYI TAW, 11Jan—Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin arrived back inYangon on 11 Januaryafter attending the 5th

North-East BusinessSummit, which was heldon 8 and 9 January inKolkata, India.

During the BusinessSummit, agro-basedfood processing industryof India’s North-EasternRegion, promotion oftourism in the region,potential economicopportunities for the

North-Eastern Regionarising from the recentsigning of the ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement were

focused.Minister for Foreign

Affairs U Nyan Winmade an address in theafternoon session of theBusiness Summit on 8January. Investmentopportunities andregional connectivityregarding Myanmarwere highlighted in theMinister’s statement.Minister U Nyan Winalso received a call byHonorable Minister forIndustry of MizoramState of India Mr S Haito.The two Ministerscordially discussed thepotential economicopportunities betweenthe State of Mizoram andMyanmar.

U Kyi Thein,Myamamr Ambassador toIndia, U Hla Maung,Executive Member of

UMFCCI and Chairmanof the Tamu-Kalay BorderTrade Association, U AyeLwin, Dagon SeikanTownship IndustrialManagement CommitteeChairman, and U AyeKyaw from the MyanmarTourism IndustryAssociation also attendedthe meetings and presentedpapers on 9 January.

Delegation membersU Thant Kyaw, Director-General of the InternationalOrganizations andEconomic Department, UKyaw Swa, Director,International Organi-zations and EconomicDepartment of the Ministryof Foreign Affairs and DrHtein Lynn, DeputyDirector, Minister’s Office,Ministry of Commerce andentrepreneurs also arrivedback with the minister.

MNA

AGM of Myanmar Geo-Science Societyto be held on 23 Jan

U Khin Aung Than (ph-530755, 056-21877), U YawHlaing (ph-095163187, 554651), U Han Nyein (ph-095183934, 202802), U Aung Kyaw Tun (ph-0950473150), Professor Dr Dewa Aung (ph-543509),Dr Cho Cho Aye (ph-095184650), U Zay MaungThein (ph-02-62103, 092033453), U Tawme Thein(ph-02-31248, 092001598), U Nay Lin Aye (ph-092002794, 02-72096), U Than Htaik (ph-02-72864,02-33027), U Kaung Naing (ph-099925215), U NyanLwin (ph-095187030), U Soe Thura Tun (ph-095144005), Daw Htar Htar Aung (ph- 01-552901)and Myanmar Geo-Science Society (ph-509674 ~ 6extension 501).

The remaining old students are to make contactMyanmar Geo-Science Society and its committeemembers as fast as possible. In addition, anygeologists who are at the age of 70 years on 31December are reminded to register to be paidrespects.

MNA

Minister U Nyan Win attends the 5th North-East Business Summit.—MNA

Commander attends opening of stationhospital and tarred road

The commander and officials then sprinkledscented water on it. The commander viewedspecialists giving treatment to patients. He thenlooked round the hospital and stressed the needs.The commander addressed the ceremony to handover the hospital. Next, wellwishers presentedcash to the hospital.

The commander also attended the opening ofMinphayaung tarred road. The officials formallyopened the road and the commander inspected theroad.—MNA

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Seven Qaeda suspectsarrested near US Embassy

in YemenSANAA, 11 Jan — Yemeni anti-terror forces have

arrested seven suspected members of an al-Qaeda-linked sleeper cell in a quarter, adjacent to the US Em-bassy in Sanaa, a higher-ranking security official ofInterior Ministry said on Sunday.

The anti-terrorism forces on late Tuesday raidedal-Houri house at Sawan quarter, and captured threemembers of the family Esam, Majid and Kamal al-Houri, the official said on condition of anonymity. Oneof al-Houri members was reportedly killed in Iraq threeyears ago, as he was fighting alongside al-Qaeda. Thehouse and the US Embassy are all located in SawanDistrict in Sanaa.

A tip from an observant security officer in the areaalso led to the arrest of another four suspected mem-bers from the same quarter, said the official.

Yemen has recently launched a large-scale anti-ter-rorism campaign against al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemenfollowing the failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-boundflight which al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.

The Interior Ministry announced last week that itsanti-terror units captured three al-Qaeda’s suspectedmembers in a security operation carried out in theArhab District, some 40 km north to the capital.

Xinhua

Nine woundedin Baghdadbombings

BAGHDAD, 11 Jan —Nine people werewounded in two bombexplosions in Baghdad,including one targeted ata politician convoy, anInterior Ministry sourceand the politician said onMonday.

An explosive chargeattached to a vehiclewhich was part of the con-voy of Izzat al-Shabander,an independent lawmaker,detonated in the morningin Jadriyah District in cen-tral Baghdad, woundingthree of his bodyguardsand two bystanders, thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

Shabander was not inthe convoy when the at-tack occurred, the sourcesaid.

“I can confirm thatterrorists attacked myconvoy. I wasn’t there, butI knew that three of mybodyguards werewounded, one of them losta leg,” Shabander toldXinhua by telephonewithout elaborating.

In separate incident, aroadside bomb went offlate on Sunday night neara police patrol, woundingthree policemen inSuliekh district in north-ern Baghdad, the ministrysource added.

Sporadic attacks con-tinue in Baghdad as partof recent security deterio-ration which shaped a set-back to the efforts of theIraqi government to re-store normalcy in thecountry ahead of thecountry’s national pollsslated for 7 March.

Xinhua

US service member killed in southern AfghanistanKABUL, 11 Jan – NATO says an American service member was killed in a bomb

explosion in southern Afghanistan.NATO says in a statement that the death occurred on Sunday. Lt Nico Melendez,

a US spokesman for the military alliance, confirmed that the service member whowas killed American.

No further details were immediately available.—Internet

Search for 11 missingcontinues after vesselcollision in E China

FUZHOU, 11 Jan — The search for 11 people miss-ing after a vessel collision continued around the coastnear Putian City in east China’s Fujian on Monday,the third day since the accident. “We have 230 people involved in the search at seaand 500 people combing the sea and small islets,” saidan officer surnamed Chen with the Putian MaritimeAffairs Bureau. He said a helicopter and 17 vesselswere involved in the search. The accident occurred when a freighter and a fish-ing boat collided 12:35 pm on Saturday off Putian’sNanri Island, causing the fishing boat, Minshiyu 3785,to sink. Two of the 14 crew were rescued, and one hasbeen confirmed dead. Wang Huayong, one of the two rescued, said theywere about to cast the net for fishing, when the freightersuddenly ran into the boat. — Xinhua

A woman peeks inside a blood-stained car inBaghdad, Iraq.

INTERNET

A vehicle destroyed on 9 January in a road-

side bomb seen on the outskirts of Kabul,

Afghanistan.

INTERNET

People inspect a rocket attack damage to the new U.S. consulate build-

ing in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, 9 Jan. 2010.

INTERNET

Six foreign troops killed inAfghan fighting

KABUL, 11 Jan– SixNATO service members,including three Ameri-cans, were killed Mondayin Afghanistan, making itthe deadliest day for theinternational force inmore than two months.

The Americans diedin a firefight with mili-tants during an “opera-tional patrol” in southernAfghanistan, U.S. mili-tary spokesman Col.Wayne Shanks said.

The deaths raised to

at least 10 the number ofU.S. service memberskilled in Afghanistan sofar this year, according toan Associated Press tally.

A French officer waskilled during a joint patrolwith Afghan troops inAlasay, a valley largelyunder insurgent controlthat NATO is trying toreclaim.

NATO said anotherservice member waskilled in the clash but did

not release the nationality.It said a sixth servicemember was killed by aroadside bomb in thesouth.

The previous deadli-est day for foreign forceswas Oct. 27 when eightU.S. troops were killed.Seven CIA agents and aJordanian intelligence of-ficer also were killed by asuicide bomber on Dec.30.

The year has gottenoff to a particularlybloody start for theNATO-led force; lastweek, four Americans andone British service mem-ber were killed in a singleday.—Internet

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A girl is attracted by the cute Panda dolls with Peking Opera’s makeup style,a novel doll brand series of Panda Town wrought by a group of young

designers born after 1980s who returned to China after having finishededucation overseas, which makes its debut at a doll shop in Beijing,

on 10 Jan, 2010.— XINHUA

HANOI, 11 Jan — Viet-nam’s coal export turno-ver reached 1.33 billionUS dollars last year, adrop of 4.5 percent year-on-year, according to theGeneral Statistics Officeof Vietnam on Monday.

The country shippedoverseas 25.14 milliontons of coal in 2009,up 30percent over a year earlier.

BEIJING, 11 Jan— Ger-man auto giant Volks-wagen AG posted a 36.7percent surge in 2009China sales to maintainthe top position it has heldfor more than 20 consecu-tive years.

The company said in arecent statement that itsold a total of 1.4 millionvehicles on the Chinesemainland and in HongKong last year, with salesof its three locally builtbrands all hitting recordhighs.

In 2009 Volkswagensold about 1.12 million ofits namesake brand cars,up 32.4 percent from theprevious year.

The company attrib-uted the rise largely to itspopular new models, es-pecially the Passat NewLingyu, New Golf,Lavida and New Bora, aswell as its cutting-edgeTSI engines. Sales by itsAudi brand rose 32.9 per-cent to 158,941 units

Volkswagen Groupsold 1.12 million of its

namesake cars in2009 as well as 58,941

Audis, 122,566Skodas, 484 Bentleys

and 118Lamborghinis.

XINHUA

BEIJING, 11 Jan —Many TV giants are dis-playing a new generationof TVs — the 3D TVs, inone of the biggest elec-tronic shows in the world,the Consumer ElectronicsShow in Las Vegas, toboost the market, accord-ing to news reports onMonday.

Panasonic expects tosell 1 million 3D TVs in2010, hoping the newtechnology will satisfyconsumers’ latest curios-

File photo shows participants wearing specialglasses for a 3D TV watch a 3D movie through

LG Electronics’ 3D TV during the company’s 3Dtelevision strategy presentation at LG Electronics’R&D centre in Seoul on 15 Dec, 2009.— XINHUA

Vietnam rakes in $1.3 bfrom coal export in 2009

All Items from XinhuaNews Agency

China was the largestexport market of Viet-nam’s coal in 2009, fol-lowed by the Republic ofKorea, Japan and Thai-land.

The Vietnamese Min-istry of Industry and Tradeforecasts coal exportturnover this year at 1.15billion US dollars, downeight percent year-on-

year, the Pioneer newspa-per said, citing a ministryreport.

In 2008, the countrypocketed 1.44 billion USdollars from selling 19.7million tons of coal to theforeign markets.

Xinhua

JAKARTA, 11 Jan —Indonesian PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudho-yono on Monday metJapanese Minister ofEconomy, Trade and In-dustry Masayuki Naoshi-ma at the State Palace,both agreeing to boostcooperation on invest-ment.

Indonesia needs in-vestment to build massiveinfrastructure to spur eco-nomic growth with an tar-get of 6.6 percent a year

HK toy exportsearn 88.55 bil-lion HK dollars

HONG KONG, 11 Jan —Hong Kong’s toy exportswent down 10 percent to88.55 billion HK dollars(11.35 billion US dollars)in the first 11 months of2009, according to figuresreleased by the Hong KongTrade Development Coun-cil on Monday at a toys andgames fair.

Toy exports to Russia fell57.1 percent while exports toCzech rose 58.2 percent. Ex-ports to the US dropped 23.6percent and that to the Euro-pean Union dipped 8 per-cent.

As for baby products inthe first 11 months of 2009,the exports reached approxi-mately 6 billion HK dollars(726 million US dollars). Itstop export markets were theUS, the UK, Macao, Italyand France.

The 36th Hong KongToys and Games Fair,Asia’s largest toy show,opened on Monday featur-ing about 2,000 exhibitorsfrom 38 countries and re-gions.

Xinhua

3D TVs to boost TV market in 2010ity. “It’s a challengingmarket. We need some-thing to kick us out ofthis,” said Panasonic’sElsuke Tsuyuzaki.

Many CTOs eye thisyear as really a break-through year for the 3Dscreen technology, as thelatest 3D movie “Avatar”has topped world box of-fice for weeks since itsrelease.

According to statisticsfrom the movie industry,this year around 20 out of

170 movies will be madein 3D, double the numberfrom last year.

TV corporations willnot stand aside and see theboom in the 3D moviemarket, as pointed out byJeffrey Katzenberg, thehead of Dreamworks Ani-mation, “While 3D hastaken many years to pen-etrate in the movie thea-tres, I believe 2010 is theyear it will begin to enterthe living rooms.”

Xinhua

Volkswagen sales surge 36.7%in 2009

while its recent arrivalSkoda more than doubledsales to 122,566 units.

The company alsomoved 484 Bentleys and118 Lambourghinis inChina last year.

The automaker nowexpects to further tap theChinese market andnearly double its nation-wide sales to 2 millionover the next decade.

Xinhua

Indonesia, Japan agree to boost cooperation on investmentwithin the next five years.Indonesia has seen Japanas one of the sources ofinvestment to build roads,bridges, ports and otherinfrastructure facilities.

The Indonesian presi-dent said it needs invest-ment from Japan toachieve the economicgrowth target and in thiscase Japan is ready to con-tinue the cooperation withthe Indonesian side,Naoshima told a jointPress conference after the

meeting.Indonesian Trade Min-

ister Mari Elka Pangestusaid Japan seemed to beinterested in investing ininfrastructure and somenew sectors such as en-ergy.

Xinhua

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Vietnam to host 20th AFICmeeting in June this year

Northern California earthquake causes limited injuries

Chinese Kungfu kicks Muscovites’new year into motion

HANOI, 11 Jan—Viet-nam will host the 20th

meeting of the Associationof Southeast Asian Na-tions (ASEAN) FurnitureIndustries Council (AFIC)in June 2010, said a reportof the information centerof the Vietnamese Minis-try of Industry and Tradeon Monday.

The meeting will drawparticipation of sevenAFIC members, namelyIndonesia, Malaysia,Myanmar, the Philippines,

Singapore, Thailand andVietnam.

The meeting is to dis-cuss measures to promotethe wood and furniture in-dustry of each participat-ing country in 2010 andthe trend of the world mar-ket on furniture in comingyears, according to theHandicraft and Wood In-dustry Association of HoChi Minh City, the Viet-namese member of theAFIC. The ASEAN hasbecome one of the world’s

top three wood and furni-ture exporters with furni-ture exports of about 12billion US dollars in 2008,according a report of theAFIC. In the first ninemonths of 2009, membersof the regional trade or-ganization raked in about7.12 billion US dollarsfrom wood and furnitureexports.

The 19th AFIC meetingwas held in December2009 in Singapore.

Xinhua

World’s largest consumer electronicsshow concludes in Las Vegas

S Korean military to banuse of USB flash drives

SEOUL,11 Jan—South Korean military plans to banthe use of USB flash drives starting as early as nextyear after it builds a new system to transfer data, localmedia reported on Monday. The country’s Ministry of Defence will put 2.8 bil-lion won (2.5million US dollars) into developing analternative system to end the use of the portable stor-age device in transferring data, an unnamed ministryofficial was quoted as saying by Seoul’s Yonhap NewsAgency.— Xinhua

An Egyptian antiquities worker walks past a newly discovered ancient site inthis 6 June 2002 file photo. New tombs found in Giza support the view that

the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widelybelieved, Egypt’s chief archaeologist said on Sunday.— INTERNET

A man walks past LED televisions at the Haier booth during the 2010 Inter-national Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, United States ofAmerica. The world’s largest annual consumer technology tradeshow runs

from 7 to 10 Jan. —XINHUA

WASHINGTON, 11 Jan —The 2010 InternationalConsumer ElectronicsShow (CES) concluded inLas Vegas on Sunday. Itdrew are cord 330 new ex-hibitors and impressedvisitors with major tech-nology trends.

“The innovations un-veiled this week at the2010 International CESbrought new optimismand opportunity to our in-dustry and the globaleconomy,” said GaryShapiro, president andCEO of Consumer Elec-

tronics Association, theorganizor of the show.“This show exceeded ex-pectations with its innova-tion, optimism and excite-ment.”

Cutting-edge techno-logy trends wowedcrowds throughout theshow floor including ad-vancements in 3D tech-nology, mobile DTV, tab-lets, netbooks, eReaders,apps, connected TVs, em-bedded internet technolo-gies and green technol-ogy. Major innovationscreating a buzz from CES

included Lenovo’sIdeaPad U1 Hybrid,Microsoft’s Project Nataland Sprint’s 4G network.

One of the hottest topicat the show is 3D televi-sion. The CEA estimatesthat 2.2 million 3-D setswill be sold in 2010 andthat by 2013 more than 25percent of all televisionssold will be 3D-TVs.

Another positive sur-prise in the consumerelectronics industry hasbeen devices that playBlu-ray disks.

Xinhua

MOSCOW, 11 Jan — Pant-ing, puffing but still perse-vering, about a score ofMuscovites, dressed inblack T-shirts printed withChinese “Shaolin” charac-ters, sweat it out on ChineseKungfu moves for theirfirst lesson with a Masterin the New Year.

The Chinese martial artsenthusiasts met together onSunday, the last of a ten-dayNew Year break, with theirmaster Shi Yanbinin a spa-cious rented hall at the All-Russian Exhibition centerin northern Moscow.

The Russian ShaolinMartial Arts LearningCenter, founded in 1999,was the only educationaland training agency desig-nated by the famed China’sSongshan Shaolin Temple.Around 1,000 students,between the ages of 5and 70, currently study

at the centre.Against a giant backdrop

painted with a Shaolin tem-ple gate, the pupilspracticed stretching, back-flips, kicking and wooden-stick moves. 11-year oldVasily, like his fellow peers,tried strenuously to get

every move right. Vasilyhas been in this class formore than one year. Hecomes to the center threetimes a week, each time fora 90-minute session. Nowhe confidently tells otherswhat he thinks the martialart is about.—Xinhua

Chinese Shaoling martial arts enthusiasts attendtheir class with the master Shi Yanbin at the Russian

Shaolin Martial Arts Learning Center in Moscow,capital of Russia, on 10 Jan, 2010.— XINHUA

SAN FRANCISCO, 11 Jan—Humboldt, acounty in northern California hit by a6.5-magnitude earthquake on Saturday,survived the disaster pretty well withonly one major injury reported so far,authorities said on Sunday.

The quake struck off the coast ofnorthern California at about 4:27 pm onSaturday (0027 GMT on Sunday), andwas centered at about 47km fromEureka, a city in Humboldt County,which lies about 400 km north of

San Francisco, according to the USGeological Survey.

Dozens of people came to local hos-pitals for emergency care after the quakebut their injuries were all minor exceptfor one person who suffered a brokenhip, Humboldt County AdministrativeOfficer Phillip Smith-Hanes told a Pressconference in Eureka, reported Times-Standard, a daily newspaper head-quar-tered in the city.

Xinhua

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New crab species looks berry like a fruitA new species of crab that looks like

a strawberry has been discovered inChina.

Chinese Marine biologist Professorfound two of the creatures.

He said: “One was dead while theother was dying when they were foundon a beach.”

They are similar to a species thatlives around Hawaii, Polynesia andMauritius, but the new crabs have clam-shaped shells with white polka dots,which make them distinct.

Both are female and the biggestmeasures 2.5cm across.

Although the crabs are now dead,

they have been made in to specimensfor further study.

The Professor’s discovery has beenconfirmed by another specialist.

He is now writing an essay on thenew species.

A crowd watches a new luxury cruiseliner “Aidablu” leave the dockyard in

Papenburg in the German state ofLower Saxony. The

252-metre-long ship can house morethan 2,000 guests. It features 7

restaurants, 13 bars and a vast healthspa. The “Aidablu” is the fourth of

six planned cruise liners by the Aidashipping company in Rostock.

New crab species looks berry like afruit.

Police in Kansas City, Mo, arelooking for a woman who went on arampage at a McDonald’s because shedidn’t like her hamburger.

Police say the woman causedthousands of dollars in damage on 27Dec when she became upset that therestaurant wouldn’t refund her money.

Employees had offered to replaceher hamburger, but the woman refusedand demanded her money back.

Police released a video showing thewoman throwing a sign and a bucket ofwater over the counter and pushing offa glass display case and three cashregisters. She then cursed and fled.

Teen chess genius isgame’s youngest no 1A teenager who can think 20 moves

ahead in a chess match has become thegame’s youngest ever number one.

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Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, 19, hasbeen called the 'Mozart of Chess'.

He is listed at the top of the WorldChess Federation’s rankings for Januarywith 2,810 points, five ahead of hisnearest rival, Bulgarian Veselin Topalov.

His coach is the HYPERLINK “http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/russia.html”Russian chess grandmaster GarryKasparov, who took the top spot himselfat the age of 20.

Carlsen, who can remember everydetail of matches he played six yearsago, dismissed comparisons to troubledchess genius Bobby Fischer.

“Bobby Fischer was obviously oneof the greatest chess players of all time -one of the inventors.

“The difference between him and me,for example, is that he was obsessedwith chess in a way that is not healthyand that’s a line I don’t intend to cross.

Chinese car park makesspace for women onlyA shopping centre in China has

opened a car park that offers womendrivers bigger-than-normal parkingspaces to accommodate what it sees astheir special needs.

Wang Zheng, an official at theWanxiang Tiancheng shopping centrein Hebei Province’s Shijiazhuang city,told AFP the women-only parking lotaimed to address women’s “strong senseof colour and different sense ofdistance.”

The spaces are “one metre widerthan normal parking spaces,” Wangsaid, adding that the mall had “installedsigns and security monitoringequipment that corresponded more towomen’s needs.”

Driving in China is notoriouslydangerous, with nearly 73,500 peoplekilled in road accidents last year, or justover 200 fatalities per day, according topolice statistics.

NEWS ALBUMA Chinese man walks past a carpark that offers women drivers

bigger-than-normal parking spaces.

Police seek woman whotrashes Mo McDonald’s

A vendor suns dry his fish along a busy street in Manila, on 11 January, 2009,before selling at a stall in a street market. The vendor sells the dried fish at 20

pesos (43 cents) for three pieces.— INTERNET

LONDON, 11 Jan — An Australian World War II hos-pital ship, the Centaur, has been seen for the first timesince it sank more than 60 years ago with a loss of268 lives.

Images of the wreck, more than 2km (1.3 miles)below the sea, were captured by a remote-controlledunderwater camera.

The ship’s location was discovered last month fol-lowing a hi-tech search.

Australia says the ship, which went down in May1943, was torpedoed by the Japanese. Japan says thecircumstances surrounding its sinking are unclear.

The search team found the ship on 20 Decemberoff the Queensland coast, about 30 miles due east ofthe southern tip of Moreton Island.

Favourable conditions allowed the crew to senddown a camera on a remotely-operated submersiblevehicle over the weekend. Further dives are planned.

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CAIRO, 11 Jan —Egypt on Sunday reportedeight more death cases ofinfluenza A/H1N1, bring-ing the nationwide deathtoll to 195, said the HealthMinistry in a statement.

The death cases camefrom the governorates ofGiza, Beheira, Port Said,Alexandria, Beni Suef,Cairo and Qalyubiya re-spectively, said the state-ment, without givingmore details.

Up till now, Egypt hasreported more than14,000 cases of the novelflu, according to theHealth Ministry.

Egypt confirmed itsfirst influenza A/H1N1death case on 19 July.

A 28-year-old Egyp-tian woman, who wasback from Saudi Arabiaafter making Umrah (pil-grimage to Mecca at anytime of the year), died ofthe flu virus. — Xinhua

CAIRO, 11 Jan – An al-Qaeda’s North Africa off-shoot has demanded therelease of four of its mem-bers in exchange for aFrench hostage it kid-napped two months ago.

Al-Qaeda in theMaghreb said in a state-ment posted on an Islamicmilitant Web site on Mon-

The Centaur was clearly marked as a hospitalship.— INTERNET

Sunk Australia WWII hospitalship Centaur

Al-Qaeda offers exchangefor French hostage

day that their only condi-tion for the freeing ofPierre Camatte is the re-lease of four of their grouparrested by Mali severalmonths ago.

“We give France andMali 20 days from thedate of issuing this state-ment to respond to our le-gitimate demand other-

wise the two governmentswill be fully responsiblefor the French hostage,” itsaid in its statement datedon Sunday.

The group announcedlast month its kidnappingof Camatte in Mali on 25Nov and three Spaniardsin Mauritania five dayslater.—Internet

Egyptregisters eightmore A/H1N1

flu deaths

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Third Traffic Rules Educative Show andCompetition crowded with visitors

Byline: Myint Maung Soe, Photos: Tin Soe

Third Traffic RulesEducative Show andCompetition organizedby Traffic RulesEnforcement Super-visory Committee of NayPyi Taw continued for thethird day with a view toreducing traffic accidentsand raising publicawareness at Aung-mingala car park in NayPyi Taw Pyinmana on 8January.

At the show andcompetition, TrafficPolice Force put ondisplay traffic accidents;

Nay Pyi Taw. And otherbooths at the show are ofDirectorate of RoadAdministration, Ministryof Health, Ministry ofEducation, Informationand Public RelationsDepartment, and booth onsales of vehicles made inindustrial zones,electronic and communi-cation devices booth, andagricultural items booth.

Nibban Electric &Electronics sold itsproducts of refrigerators,water heater and cooler,speakers, video games,

step-up transformers,inverters, antennas andTV at special price.

The show and

c o m p e t i t i o ndisseminating knowledge

was densely crowdedwith public and students.At the booth of Ministryof Education conducting

participants, and presentedfirst, second and thirdprizes.

After that, we made

interviews with somestudents coming to theshow and competition. Astudent said, “I am MaungNyan Phone Myint and atGrade-7 at No. 5 BasicEducation High School inNay Pyi Taw. I receiveknowledge of traffic rulesto come to this show. NowI know that I have to stepon pedestrian crossingwhen cross the road andto be on pavement when Iwalk on the road.”

Another student said,“My name is Ma Myat NoeHan and attending Grade-7 at No. 5 BEHS in NayPyi Taw. I am joyful andget knowledge abouttraffic rules because of thisshow.”

The next studentnamed Maung Sann LinAung told us, “I study in

Byline: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Tin Soe

Grade-4 fromKyaukchat post primaryschool in Nay Pyi Taw. Isee the documentaryphotos about trafficaccidents through lackof obeying the rules.Children shouldn’t playon the road. It beckonsthem into danger.”

A student also said,“I’m Ma Ei Sandi Kyawand studied in Grade-4 atThittat post primaryschool in Nay Pyi Taw. Iam sure to obtainknowledge of traffic rulesbecause of my presencehere. There have beensorrowful trafficaccidents due tomotorcyclists who don’twear helmets. Everyoneshould follow the rules.”

The Third TrafficRules Educative Showand Competition withentertainment andspecial salesprogrammes was alivewith a teeming crowd.All in all, that show andcompetition aims to helpthe public and studentsnot only in takingeducation on traffic rulesbut also in broadeningtheir knowledge.

Translation: ZZS(Myanma Alin;

9-1-2010)

the traffic rules puzzleprogramme, studentswere jostling.

Headmaster U NgweZin from Thabyegon postprimary school explainedto our Myanma Alin newscrew, “At our EducationMinistry booth, weorganize the contest fortraffic rules. Over 1000students from basiceducation schools comehere to take part in thecontest at primary, middleand high school levels.We hold the contestaccording to numbers of

Students jostling at Nay Pyi Taw Development Committee booth.

A student takes part in puzzle programmeat Education Ministry booth.

Maung Nyan PhoneMyint and students,

Grade-7, No. 5BEHS Nay Pyi Taw.

Ma Myat Noe

Han, Grade-7

from No. 5 BEHS

Nay Pyi Taw.

Visitors at electronic sales booth.

Transport PlanningDepartment, issuing ofvehicle license andrules for car owners; NayPyi Taw DevelopmentCommittee, progress ofroads and roundabouts in

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(from page 1)After holding dis-

cussions on the reports,the Prime Minister calledfor completion of task onschedule with the fullyuse of manpower andheavy machinery, mak-ing arrangements system-atically in carrying outthe tasks, effective useof manpower and heavymachinery with a viewto complete the tasks intime and setting assign-ment of technicians to thecompanies by PublicWorks for durability ofroads which are underconstruction.

Then the PrimeMinister from the heli-copter looked into roadsections of Pathein-Thalupkhwar-MawtinsunRoad and arrived inMawtinsun, LabuttaTownship.

The Prime Minis-ter and party paid hom-age to Myat MawtinsunPagoda and made cashdonations.

Effective use of manpowerand heavy machinery…

Then they paid re-spects to members ofSangha led by SayadawBhaddanta Sujata ofSasana Theingi MawtinMonastery and offeredrobes and provisions tothe members of theSangha.

Afterwards, thePrime Minister and partyproceeded to Chaungwavillage in Labutta Town-ship by helicopter wherethey were welcomed bydepartmental officials,members of social organi-zations and local people.

The Prime Minis-ter cordially conversedwith them and spokewords of encouragement.

The Prime Minis-ter oversaw cyclone shel-ter being built by ShweThanlwin Co.

At the briefing hall,officials of the companyreported on progress inconstruction of cycloneshelters at Chaungwa andPyinkhayaing villages.Deputy Minister for Con-

struction Brig-Gen MyintThein made a supplemen-tary report. After hearingreports, the Prime Minis-ter attended to the needs.

On his way to 3rd

Mile Myothit in LabuttaTownship by helicopter,the Prime Minister lookedinto construction of cy-clone shelters at

Pyinkhayaing, Thin-gangon and Zinywelayvillages, Labutta-T h o n g w a - O t t w i n -Hteikhun road section andcondition of salt farms.

The Prime Minis-ter and party were wel-comed at 3rd Mile Myothitby departmental officials.

Next, the Prime

Minister oversaw con-struction of office build-ings, school, hospital andstaff quarters in a motor-cade.

The Prime Minis-ter inspected constructionof 200-bed People’s Hos-pital being built by MoeKyei Sin Construction Coat 3rd Mile Myothit in the

township and heard re-ports on progress of work.

In meeting withdepartmental officials andresponsible persons of thecompanies at the briefinghall, the Prime Ministerheard reports on workprogress presented byofficials.

(See page 9)

Aerial view of salt farms in Pyinkhayaing, Thingangon, Zinywelay villages in Labutta Township.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein cordially greets district and township level departmentalofficials, members of social organizations and local people at Ngayokekaungtaung village in

Ngaputaw Township.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects 200-bed People’s Hospital Project in 3rd Mile Myothit, Labutta Township.MNA

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(from page 8)Next, Region In-

Charge Minister forProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs ColThein Nyunt reported tothe Prime Minister onprogress of construction ofhousing complex for localpeople in Labutta Town-ship, land reclamation andallotment of plots to localpeople at 3rd MileMyothit, progress in con-struction of office build-

Effectiveuse ofmanpowerand heavymachinery…

ings, roads and jetty andtasks for supply of waterand electricity. MinisterMaj-Gen Khin MaungMyint and Commander

Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe madesupplementary reports.

Then the PrimeMinister fulfilled the re-quirements.

Afterwards, thePrime Minister inspected3rd Mile Myothit Lake andheard reports on inflow ofwater into the lake pre-

YANGON, 11 Jan—The Central Institute of CivilService (Phaunggyi) in Hlegu Township, here, openedits Special Refresher Course No (16) for FacultyMembers at its assembly hall “Yadana Theinga” thismorning.

Minister for Science and Technology U Thaung,on behalf of Chairman of the Myanmar EducationCommittee Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Devel-opment Council General Thiha Thura Tin Aung MyintOo, delivered an address.

Also present on the occasion were Minister forSocial Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe, Auditor-General Maj-Gen LunMaung, Chairman of Yangon City Development Com-mittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, deputy min-isters, members of the Civil Service Selection andTraining Board, heads of department, the rector, pro-rectors and faculty members of the institute, officialsand trainees.

In his speech, Minister U Thaung said thatfaculty members are the ones who nurture themselvesas well as younger generations for development ofhuman resources in advanced technology. He said thathe was glad that faculty members, who help generatea better future of the nation by working in the highereducation sector are in refresher courses like that onewith broader national outlook, concept and conviction

Goal of building a new nation will be brought to fruition in the near futureSpecial Refresher Course No (16) for Faculty Members opened

to be able to shoulder education tasks to their utmost.The government is working hard in all sectors,

upholding Our Three Main National Causes and pur-suing the political, economic and social objectives forthe Union of Myanmar to be able to keep abreast ofother nations. Since its assumption of State dutiesaccording to the objective conditions and nationalrequisites, the Tatmadaw government has given mainpriority to State stability, community peace, and therule of law.

After regaining national reconsolidation, forwhich successive previous governments worked invain due to various reasons, the government has beenimplementing the State’s seven-step Road Map tofulfil the public wish: to build up a peaceful, modernand developed nation.

It is implementing the 24-Region Special De-velopment Project, the Border Areas and NationalRaces Development Project, and the Rural Areas De-velopment Project as part of the drive for boostingnational economic growth and development of humanresources which lie at the core of building a modern,developed nation.

Besides, it has been constructing river-crossingbridges, railroads and roads to form a transport net-work covering the whole nation for ensuring equitabledevelopment of all parts of the Union, and cementing

amicable relations and friendships between nationalraces.

A large number of dams and river water pump-ing stations were built for development of the agricul-tural farming. As a result, the output of rice, is on theincrease year by year.

In the meantime, the government has estab-lished 18 industrial zones across the nation and givenencouragement to private-owned industries for indus-trial development.

It is also stepping up implementation of majorprojects such as hydropower projects, gas-fired powerstation projects, grid projects, and power house projectsto boost generation of electric power necessary forindustrial development and promoting the living stand-ard of the people.

In building a peaceful, modern and developednation, the government pays serious attention to im-provement of morale, self-discipline and education ofthe youth.

Today, the remaining steps of the State’s seven-step Road Map are ongoing, and the goal of building anew nation will be brought to fruition in the near future.Teachers and students are to have a strong sense ofUnion Spirit or true patriotism. In conclusion, he urgedteachers to inculcate the students with correct convic-tion and concepts of noble national duties.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects the lake at 3rd Mile Myothit, Labutta Township.—MNA

sented by officials.The Prime Minister

oversaw progress of con-struction of Labutta Dis-trict General Administra-

tion Department Office atthe 3rd Mile Myothit. Thenthe Prime Minister andparty left there for Patheinby helicopter. —MNA

Minister U Thaung addressing the opening of Special Refresher Course No (16) for Faculty Members.—MNA

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(from page 16)On arrival at Hinthada, the Prime Minister cor-

dially greeted departmental officials, members of socialorganizations and local people who were waiting towelcome him.

The Prime Minister and party then arrived atHinthada railway station went to level crossing nearTakalay ward in Hinthada by train. There they werewelcomed by departmental officials, members of socialorganizations and community elders.

The Prime Minister then inspected the axis ofHinthada-Zalun-Danubyu-Nyaungdon (acrossAyeyawady river) section of Hinthada-Nyaungdon (acrossAyeyawady river) and heard reports presented by Minis-ter for Rail Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Min.

In meeting with departmental officials, membersof social organizations and locals, the Prime Minister saidthat the government is building transport facilities instates and divisions that contribute to flourshing of livingstandard of local people.

When Hinthada-Zalun-Danubyu-Nyaungdon-Yangon railroad is on completion, Hinthada will enjoyeasy access transportation and swift commodity flowwith Yangon and Pathein. Utilizing the good infrastruc-tures, local people are in need of improving their livingstandard as well as the regional development.

Next, the Prime Minister and party left there forHinthada station by train.

The Prime Minister and party arrived at construc-

Prime Minister inspectsPathein (Begarat)-Einme…

tion site of Ayeyawady Bridge (Nyaungdon), nearKyikanthaik Village, Nyaungdon Township, being un-dertaken by Public Works of the Ministry of Construc-tion. There, they were welcomed by Deputy Minister forConstruction U Tint Swe and officials.

The Prime Minister inspected digging RCD borepile at pillar RP-19. Minister for Construction Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint and Chief Engineer U Tint Lwin ofSpecial Group-5 reported arrangements for constructionof the bridge to the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister then viewed alignment of the

bridge and condition of the current and later gave neces-sary instructions.

Ayeyawady Bridge (Nyaungdon) is located 8000feet upstream from Bo Myat Tun Bridge. The bridge is ofRC type beams with 2256 metres long main bridge and 17metres high clearance. The construction of the bridge onYangon-Pathein Road, spanning Ayeyawady River isaimed to have smooth transport of motorway along withrailroad.

The Prime Minister and party arrived back inYangon at 11.45 am.—MNA

YANGON, 11 Jan—Selected Bangladeshimen’s volleyball team ledby Manager Mr. Md.Fazia Rabbi arr ived

Bangladeshi Volleyball team arrives in Yangonhere by air this morningfor Myanmar-Bangla-desh vol leybal lfriendly.

They were wel-

comed by personnel ofSports and PhysicalEducation Department,Vice-President U TheinWin and executives of

Myanmar VolleyballFederation at YangonInternational Airport.

The team com-prises one chief trainer,assistant trainer, trainerand officials and 12 ath-letes, totalling 17.

It is learnt thatBangladeshi volley teamis preparing to participatein South Asia Volleyballevents to be held on 29January.

The volleyballfriendly will be held at 3pm on 12 January at Na-tional Indoor Stadium-1(Thuwunna) and volley-ball fans may enjoy thematch free.

MNA

Prime Minister

General Thein Sein

inspects earthworks

at Yangon-Pathein

railroad project.

MNA

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein cordially greets departmental officials, members of socialorganizations and community elders at Takalay ward in Hinthada.—MNA

Selected Bangladeshi men’s volleyball team seen at YangonInternational Airport.—MNA

YANGON, 11 Jan—The 13th annual meeting ofMyanmar Customs Brokers Association was held atUMFCCI Office Tower in Lanmadaw Township,here, on 27 December.

The meeting chairman U Myo Thant, chair-man of MCBA, made an opening speech on theoccasion. Next, Vice-President of the Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry U Aung Lwin and Director U Myo MyintThein of Customs Department and patron of MCBAU Maung Maung also delivered addresses on theoccasion.

Next, the master of ceremonies read out theannual report of the executives board for 2009-2010and the budget and sought approvals. Afterwards, themeeting chairman ended the meeting with his con-cluding remarks.

MNA

MCBA holds annualmeeting

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Polar bears near shore as ice vanishes

A member of an ice swimming club takes a dip in the frozen lake Orankeseein Berlin during the annual carnival swimming meeting on 9 Jan, 2010.

Some 100 members of ice swimming clubs all over Germany met for theirannual ice swimming session on Saturday. —XINHUA

ANCHORAGE, 11 Jan —A 27-year study of polarbears in the southernBeaufort Sea showedthem spending more timeon land and open water asice disappeared, officialssaid.

Between 1979 and1987, 12 percent of bearsightings were associatedwith no ice. Between 1997

and 2005, however, 90percent of bear sightingswere associated with noice, said Karyn Rode, apolar bear biologist withthe US Fish and WildlifeService in Anchorage,Alaska.

As sea ice disappeared,more bears were seen nearshore in the southernBeaufort Sea, Rode said in

a recent issue of the jour-nal Arctic. Many scientistsblame the warmer tem-peratures associated withclimate change for the dis-appearance of the sea ice.

The number of bearssighted steadily near shoreincreased from 138 bearsbetween 1979 and 1987, to271 bears between 1988and 1996, and 468 bearsbetween 1997 and 2005,Rode said. The bear obser-vations and ice conditionswere recorded as part of abowhead whale surveyconducted annually in thesouthern Beaufort Sea.

Internet

A tourist is attracted bya giant pumpkin at a

farmland in SalarAutonomous County of

Xunhua, northwestChina’s Qinghai

Province, on 8 Jan,2010.—XINHUA

Photo taken on 8 Jan,2010 shows a yachtdisplayed on 2010

Shenyang InternationalLuxuries Exhibition inShenyang, capital of

northeast China’sLiaoning Province.

XINHUA

‘Shaming’ may make ithard to quit smoking

Cell phone usage may cut Alzheimer’s risk

Pine beetleturns trees to

carbon emittersVANCOUVER, 11 Jan—

Canadian researchers saythe pine beetle has killedso many trees, the forestsof British Columbia nowput more greenhousegases into the air thanthey store.

The experts say thathas been true since 2003,The Toronto Globe andMail reported on Satur-day. By last year, deadlodgepole pines had abigger carbon footprintthan the province’s hu-man population.

By February 2008,when the province’s pre-mier Gordon Campbellpraised the forests as asink for greenhousegases, that was no longertrue.

“We have few naturalallies in our fight againstclimate change that aremore important than ourforests,” the Campbellgovernment said in apolicy speech.

The problem is thatthe carbon plants take induring their lives returnsto the atmosphere whenthey decompose.

Internet

Study finds snowballing effect inmemory loss disease

VANCOUVER, 11 Jan —The stigma surroundingsmoking may lead pa-tients to hide their to-bacco use from doctors,making it more difficultfor them to quit, Canadianresearchers say. In a re-port, University of BritishColumbia researchers sayyears of anti-smokinglaws and anti-smokingcampaigns haveamounted to a publicshaming of smokers, theNational Post reported.

“People are made tofeel really, really badabout their smoking andare treated quite badly,

but feel quite helpless inquitting,” lead authorKirsten Bell, a medicalanthropologist told thePost. “They feel reallynegatively about them-selves, but quitting seemslike an impossibility …They’re not really givenmuch support.”

Anti-smoking advo-cates maintain policy-makers have strived notto victimize smokersand say anti-smokingcampaigns have helpedcut the Canadian smokingrate to 20 percent from ahigh of 50 percent in1960.—Internet

BEIJING,11 Jan—Long term cell phone us-age may not only preventAlzheimer’s, it may evenreverse some of the ef-fects of the disease, anew study was quoted assaying by media reportson Sunday.

In mice prone to ananimal form of Alzheim-er’s disease, long-termexposure to electromag-netic radiation typical ofcell phones slowed andreversed the course of the

illness, according to thestudy conducted by re-searchers from the Uni-versity of South Floridain the Unitd States.

The findings provide“striking evidence forboth protective and dis-ease-reversing effects”of long-term exposure toradiation at cell phonelevels, researchers said.

The study also sug-gested that even the“normal” mice showedimproved memory

cognition.But some experts cau-

tioned that the science inthe study is still veryearly.—Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 11 Jan—Researchers have found asnowballing effect in theAlzheimer’s disease andare proposing early pre-ventive treatment for ef-fectiveness.

The findings of thestudy, conducted by theNew York University’sLangone Medical Centre,was published in the Janu-ary issue of the Alzheim-er’s & Dementia journal.

The study, involving213 adults with and with-

out subjective cognitiveimpairment (SCI) over anaverage of seven years,found that 54 percent ofthe SCI adults had aggra-vated into mild cognitiveimpairment (MCI) andeven full-blown dementia,or long-term memory loss.

The study also foundthat only 15 percent of thenon-SCI adultshad devel-oped MCI or dementia.

“The findings indicatethat a significant percent-age of people with earlysubjective symptoms mayexperience further cogni-tive decline, whereas fewpersons without thesesymptoms decline.

“If decline does occurin those without SCIsymptoms, it takes consid-erably longer than forthose with subjective cog-

nitive symptoms,” saidBarry Reisberg, lead re-searcher at the LangoneMedical Centre.

“This is the first studyto use mild cognitive im-pairment as well as de-mentia as an outcome cri-terion to demonstrate theoutcome of SCI as a pos-sible forerunner of even-tual Alzheimer’s disease,”the lead researcher added.

Researchers can nowhopefully work out poten-tial preventive therapy ofthe eventual Alzheimer’sdisease, popularly knownas the senile dementia, as“these intriguing resultsmore fully describe thepossible relationship be-tween early signs ofmemory loss and develop-ment of more serious im-pairment.” —Xinhua

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV DALIA ROJA VOY NO (06)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV DALIA ROJAVOY NO (06) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 12.1.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of S.P.W.6 where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINERSINGAPORE PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Youth now have more mental health issues

Japanese women in

kimonos take pictures

of themselves as they

celebrate the Coming of

Age Day at Toshimaen

amusement park in

Tokyo on 11 Jan, 2010.

Youths across Japan

are honoured with

special coming-of-age

ceremonies when they

reach the age of 20.

INTERNET

Cities struggle to find new uses for auto plants

Despite dangers, some get illicit silicone shots

NATO chopper makes emergencylanding in Taleban hotbed

KABUL, 11 Jan—A helicopter of the NATO-led In-ternational Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made anemergency landing in southern Afghanistan’s HelamndProvince on Monday. A Press release issued by theISAF said, “During a landing this morning at a basein Helmand Province, an ISAF helicopter and its crewexperienced a hard landing.”

The helicopter needs repair and no crew memberwas injured, said the Press release. The investigationwas underway, said the release, adding that no proofof enemy involvement has been found so far.Helmand, a hotbed of Taleban fighters and notoriousfor poppy growing, has been the scene of increasinginsurgency.— Xinhua

WIXOM,11 Jan—HenryFord’s great-grandson ar-rived at the shuttered autoplant to brag about a planto revive the vast emptyspace: Investors wouldtransform it into a modernfactory to make solar pan-els and high-tech energysystems instead of TownCars and Thunderbirds.

“I can’t imagine a betterway to reuse the facility,”Bill Ford said during hisvisit to the former WixomAssembly plant in Septem-ber. Several months later, aplan that exists only on pa-

per is still awaiting final ap-proval. The plant is still va-cant, just like scores of othercavernous auto factoriesacross the nation that havenever been redeveloped.

An Associated Pressanalysis illustrates thescope of the problem: Of128 manufacturing plantsin North America closedsince 1980 by the DetroitThree automakers andtheir largest suppliers,three of every five now sitidle.At their peak, theseroaring engines of eco-nomic activity employed

hundreds of thousands ofpeople, mostly well-paidunion members on the as-sembly line and white-col-lar engineers in windowedoffices above the factoryfloor. Those 128 plants hada payroll of 196,000 work-ers at the time they closed.Today, only 36,500 peoplework at those sites thathave been redeveloped,and at only three of the re-vived plants does thenumber of employeesmatch or exceed thenumber in their carmakingpast.—Internet

The old General Motors auto plant is slowly being taken apart to make roomfor the new Tinker Aerospace Complex, in Oklahoma City.— INTERNET

NEW YORK, 11 Jan—Clara Tolentino was terri-fied when her 43-year-oldsister died last year aftergetting liquid silicone in-jections to add a bit moreshape to her buttocks. The35-year-old Tolentino hadgood reason to be. In 2006,she paid $2,000 to get liq-uid silicone injections, too.“I didn’t do it as manytimes as my sister ... But Iwas afraid,” said the Do-

minican woman who livesin the Bronx. “I was afraidthat something was goingto happen to me.”

Her sister, FiordalizaPichardo, died in March.According to an autopsy,about 1,400 milligrams ofsilicone were in her lungs.Fresh injection sites dottedher thighs and buttocks.The New York City medi-cal examiner’s office saidthe cause of death was sili-

cone pulmonary embo-lism. In the United States,liquid silicone is not ap-proved for cosmetic injec-tions. It can kill, disfigureand cause long-term healthproblems. Still, it is avidlysought on the black mar-ket by untrained providersfor those women who de-sire rounder breasts, but-tocks and more shapelythighs.

Internet

People sled in a snow-blanketed park in

Brussels, capital ofBelgim, on 10 Jan ,

2010. People entertainedthemselves after thecontinuous snowfallalthough it broughtabout some chaos to

normal life.—XINHUA

CHICAGO, 11 Jan—Anew study has found thatfive times as many highschool and college stu-dents are dealing withanxiety and other mentalhealth issues than youth ofthe same age who werestudied in the Great De-pression era.

The findings, culledfrom responses to a popu-lar psychological question-naire used as far back as1938, confirm whatcounselors on campuses

nationwide have long sus-pected as more studentsstruggle with the stresses ofschool and life in general.“It’s another piece of thepuzzle — that yes, this doesseem to be a problem, thatthere are more young peo-ple who report anxiety anddepression,” says JeanTwenge, a San Diego StateUniversity psychology pro-fessor and the study’s leadauthor. “The next questionis: what do we do about it?”

Though the study, re-

leased on Monday, doesnot provide a definitivecorrelation, Twenge andmental health profession-als speculate that a popu-lar culture increasingly fo-cused on the external —from wealth to looks andstatus — has contributedto the uptick in mentalhealth issues. Pulling to-gether the data for thestudy was no small task.Led by Twenge, research-ers at five universitiesanalyzed the responses of77,576 high school or col-lege students who, from1938 through 2007, tookthe Minnesota MultiphasicPersonality Inventory, orMMPI. — Internet

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iMini Pet iPod players from Ozaki are on display at the 2010 InternationalConsumer Electronics Show. The iMini Pet is an iPod dock, a radio and an

alarm clock with a stuffed pet on top that moves and ?dances? and “sings” asmusic is being played.— INTERNET

In this undated photo released by the Egyptian Supreme Council ofAntiquities on 10 Jan , 2010, pottery and bones are seen in a tomb, in Giza,

Egypt.— INTERNET

Airbus A380 fails to takeoff due to technical

problem SEOUL, 11 Jan — A luxury airliner Airbus A380

was grounded at the Incheon International Airport onSunday due to a technical problem in its fuel tank,local media reported on Monday.

The Dubai-bound plane scheduled to take off lateSunday was found to have a technical defect and theflight was canceled at the last minute, the first suchcase since the Dubai-based carrier Emirates launchedSouth Korea’s first A380 service last December,Seoul’s Yonhap News Agency said.

Some 420 passengers protested the last-minutenotice and stayed at nearby hotels, Yonhap said. TheIncheon International Airport Corporation did notconfirm the report. — Xinhua

Air New Zealand planediverted due to crack in

windscreenWELLINGTON, 11 Jan — An Air New Zealand plane

had to be diverted to Australian city of Brisbane onSunday due to a cracked windscreen.The flight was enroute from Auckland to Cairns. Australian TransportSafety Bureau engineers and investigators wouldexamine the windscreen and prepare an initial reporton the incident later Monday, ABC News in Australiareported.

The 118 passengers put up in Brisbane hotelsovernight and were being flown to Cairns on Monday.Passeanger Ruby Boussard, from Cairns, said therewas no panic on board when the plane plummetedmomentarily after its wind screen cracked mid-flight,the ABC reported.— Xinhua

Swiss airliner makesemergency landing in Russia

MOSCOW, 11 Jan — A Swiss airliner made anemergency landing shortly after taking off in Russia’snorthern city of St Petersburg on Sunday as a bird wascaught into one of its engines, the Interfax newsagency reported.

The Airbus 319 with 123 passengers and sevencrew members on board was to travel to Zurich, butturned around and landed at St Petersburg’s Pulkovoairport because of an engine problem, Interfax cited alocal prosecutor as saying.

“After the plane’s takeoff at 3 pm Moscow time(1200 GMT), the crew informed authorities that therewere vibrations in an engine,” the official said. Hesaid an examination showed that a bird had flown intothe plane’s engine and that it had caused the vibrations.

Xinhua

Chemical fears over plastic productsCANBERRA,11 Jan — The consumer group Choice on Monday urged the

Australian food industry to phase out plastics containing potentially harmfulchemicals.

It said there is an urgent need to label products such as cling wrap and babyproducts that may contain the chemical bisphenol A.

“PVC (an amorphous plastic) is used to make the gaskets that seal glass jarsused for foods such as pasta sauces,” Choice spokesman Christopher Zinn said.

“There are safer alternatives, which should be used instead.”“There is vigorous debate about the various risks.”“Choice believes the evidence, while far from conclusive, can no longer

beignored.”Many retailers still use PVC cling wrap to package meat and other produce,

Choice noted.Concerned consumers should avoid food packaging and baby products with

the voluntary identification code three (for PVC) and seven (a catch-all categorythat includes polycarbonate and plastics that can’t be easily identified).

Xinhua Light worsens migraine sufferers’ painsBEIJING, 11 Jan —

Scientists in HarvardMedical School have foundthe reasons why light canworsen migraine sufferers’pains, according to reportsin Monday’s journalNature Neuroscience online.

The scientists fromBeth Israel DeaconessCenter, an affiliate ofHarvard Medical School,made an experiment byprobing two groups of

migraine-suffering blindindividuals. Twenty blindpeople were divided intotwo groups, one totallyblind and the other legallyblind. The first group wasunable to see images or tosense light and thereforecould not maintain normalsleep-wake cycles. In thesecond group, althoughthey were unable toperceive images, theycould detect the presenceof light.

After studying thesetwo groups of blind peoplewho have migraineheadaches, the researchersfound out that lighttriggered a reaction in agroup of brain neurons thatremained active for sometime. Nearly 85 percent ofmigraine sufferers arehighly sensitive to light, acondition known asphotophobia, but until noone understands why now,the reports said. — Xinhua

Kookonesuo can heal buluri ulcerMAMPONG, 11 Jan — A

team of researchers atAsante Mampong, afarming community inGhana, have found thatcold bark extract ofKookonesuo (spathodiacampanulata) could healburuli ulcer. The cold barkextract, they said, applieddermatologically or on theskin, heals buruli ulcer in

the post-modular phase,but does not regenerate losttissues.

In the research, whichwas a pre-test carried onfour people medicallydiagnosed as buruli ulcerpatients over a one-yearperiod, the team also foundthat the plant had anti-bacterial property. Thestability was, however,

suspected.Jacob Amoah, district

pharmacist of theMampong DistrictHospital and head of theresearch team that alsoincluded two medicaldoctors, announced this inan interview with theXinhua News Agency atMampong on Sunday.

Xinhua

Artists perform during the opening ceremony of the “Pecs 2010” cultural capitalevent at the main square in Pecs, southwestern Hungary, on 10 Jan. —INTERNET

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AC Milan’s Brazilian forwardRonaldinho (R) celebrates

with teammates after scoringagainst Juventus during theirItalian Serie A football match

at Turin Olympic Stadium. INTERNET

Defensive disasters cost Juve in Milan thrashing ROME, 11 Jan—Defensive horror shows at three corners saw AC Milan humili-

ate Juventus 3-0 at Turin’s Stadio Olimpico and all but end their rivals’ Serie Atitle hopes and leave coach Ciro Ferrara’s job on the line. The victory meant Milanmoved to within eight points of leaders Inter Milan with a game in hand and theMilan derby to come in two weeks time.

A victory for the rossoneri in that would ensure the champions come undermuch greater pressure than they have in their previous four title triumphs. Juve are12 points back and have lost six of their last eight matches in all competitionswhile they are also out of the Champions League.—Internet

S Korea’s SamsungElectronics to sponsor 2010

African Cup of Nations SEOUL, 11 Jan—Samsung Electronics, Co. South

Korea’s top electronics brand, announced Mondayits agreement with the Confederation of AfricanFootball (CAF), the African football representative,to be an official sponsor of the Orange Africa Cupof Nations (ACN), ANGOLA 2010 this month.

Under the agreement, which is part of a four-yearagreement set to conclude in 2012, the CAF will fea-ture the Samsung brand in its “Samsung Fair PlayerAward” presented after each match and at the end ofthe tournament, while providing enormous promotionopportunities at product exhibitions, hospitalityprogrammes, and outdoor advertisements throughoutthe tournament, the company said.

Samsung, on the other hand, will supply elec-tronics and telecommunications equipment forsmoother operation of the Orange ACN 2010, it said.“Through our sponsorship of the Orange Africa Cupof Nations, Samsung will connect with loyal anddedicated football fans, ensuring that the Samsungbrand gains ongoing exposure and recognition inthe African region,” said Gyehyun Kwon, VicePresident and Head of Worldwide Sports Market-ing at Samsung.

Xinhua

Roger Federer ofSwitzerland

Federer to miss Kooyong Classic

Barcelona’sArgentinian forward

Lionel Messi

Mesmerising Messi hat-trick sends Barca top

Real Madrid’s sportingdirector wants more goals

MADRID, 11 Jan—Real Madrid’s Director of Foot-ball Jorge Valdano said his side should have beatenMallorca by more than two goals on Sunday night.

Goals from Gonzalo Higuain and Esteban Granerogave Real Madrida comfortable win against the teamfourth in the table, but Cristiano Ronaldo and Kakamissed easy chances to have made the score line moreconvincing on a snowy night in the Spanish capital.

“It was a difficult night in terms of the weather,but the win could have been by a bigger margin,” saidValdano. “We showed a good attitude with the playand by creating chances. We deserved to score moreand once again in defense we were impeccable,” hetold the Monday edition of sports paper Diario AS.

Xinhua

Andy Roddick of the USholds the trophy aloftafter defeating RadekStepanek in the men’sfinal at the BrisbaneInternational tennis

tournament inBrisbane.— INTERNET

Roddick stormsto Brisbane victory

AIK Solna’s Dutchdefender Jos Hooiveld

Dutch defender Hooiveldbound for Celtic

Tennis starWozniackicrashes outin Sydney

SYDNEY, 11 Jan—USOpen finalist CarolineWozniacki crashed out inthe first round of theSydney International onMonday to China’s Li Nawhile Japan’s KimikoDate Krumm continuedher renaissance.

Li upset fourth seedWozniacki, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2,while Date Krummbattled to a 6-3, 5-7, 6-4victory over world num-ber 20 Nadia Petrova ofRussia.

Li, who lost toWozniacki in their onlyprevious meeting, dugdeep after dropping thefirst set to prevail in al-most two hours againstthe tiring Dane. “I didn’tplay my best game today,”said Wozniacki. “It wastough out there. It was myfirst real match this sea-son.

“I didn’t really feel ascomfortable as I thoughtI would and she playedwell. Just better than metoday for sure.”Wozniacki lost to Belgiancomeback queen KimClijsters in last year’s USOpen final.— Internet

BRISBANE, 11 Jan—American Andy Roddickheld off a magnificentfight-back from RadekStepanek to claim athrilling 7-6 (7/2), 7-6(9/7) victory in the final

of the Brisbane Interna-tional on Sunday.Stepanek saved sixmatch points in the sec-ond set tie-break butcouldn’t save a seventhand when he served adouble fault at 7-8,Roddick claimed thefirst title of the year.

Roddick seemed to beheaded for a straightfor-ward victory when hewon the first set and led5-1 in the second. But ina match reminiscent ofthe women’s final on Sat-urday when JustineHenin came back from analmost identical positionagainst Kim Clijsters,Stepanek stormed backagainst an increasinglyagitated Roddick.

Internet

GLASGOW, 11 Jan —Scottish champions Celticare set to make 26-year-oldDutch defender JosHooiveld their first signingof the new year, Press re-ports said on Monday. TheAIK Solna player will costin the region of 2 millionpounds and he will begiven the role of replacingScotland defender GaryCaldwell who is heading

to Middlesbrough to joinformer Hoops boss Gor-don Strachan.

Hooiveld told the DailyRecord: “I think my styleof play will be good for theScottish league and I cando a very good job forCeltic. “It should be some-thing special for me to playfor Celtic because they area big, classic club.

“In many ways, they arelike AIK to me becausethey have a big andpassionate following ofsupporters. “All the townof Glasgow speaks aboutfootball. It’s a massive in-terest to everyone. It willbe a very good move forme.” AIK won the doublein Sweden recently buthave fallen on hard timesfinancially. Hooiveldjoined the club on a freetransfer 12 months ago.

Internet

SYDNEY, 11 Jan—World number one RogerFederer will not play inthis week’s KooyongClassic in Melbourne,preferring to practiseahead of next week’s Aus-tralian Open, tournamentofficials said on Monday.Tournament DirectorColin Stubs said he had

been holding the eighthand final spot in the eight-player exhibition eventopen for Federer, but theSwiss opted not to take uphis place in the draw.

Stubs said Federer’smanager, Tony Godsick,contacted him early Mon-day to say that the 15-timeGrand Slam championwould not take up the op-tion of eighth spot in thefield. Federer, who is bid-ding for his fourth Austra-lian Open, was defeatedby Russian NikolayDavydenko in the semi-finals at the Qatar Openlast week before headingto Melbourne. Federer isscheduled to have a hit onthe Australian Open’sRod Laver Arena onTuesday.— Internet

MADRID, 11 Jan—Lionel Messi scored asensational hat-trick aschampions Barcelonanudged Real Madrid offthe top of the table crush-ing Tenerife 5-0 away onSunday for their first vic-tory of 2010.

Barca scored threetimes in a destructive nineminutes with Ballon D’Orwinner Messi scoring twoof them (36, 45) beforeclinching his hat-trickwith a nonchalant curlerlate in the second half tojoin Valencia’s DavidVilla on 12 goals at the topof the goalscoring charts.

“It was complicatedfor us at the beginning butwe scored some quickgoals and that changedthings,” said Messi. “I amdelighted with my threegoals and more impor-tantly the team won, how-ever, it is a bit unfair onTenerife.”

Real Madrid had leap-frogged Barca with a 2-0home win over RealMallorca earlier on Sun-day but Pep Guardiola’sside responded to moveback to the summit twopoints ahead of Real.Barcelona’s next chal-lenge is at Sevilla in the

second leg of the last16 Kings Cup tie inwhich they trail 2-1 fromthe first leg.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, light rain have beenisolated in Taninthayi Division, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin, Rakhine and Mon States and LowerSagaing Division and generally fair in the remaining areas.Night temperatures were (4°C) below January averagetemperatures in Kachin State, (6°C) below January averagetemperatures in upper Sagaing Division,(3°C) to (4°C)above January average temperatures in Kayah and KayinStates, Mandalay, Bago and Taninthayi Divisions andabout January average temperatures in the remaining areas.The significant night temperatures were Loilem (-1°C),Namsam (1°C), Haka (3°C) , Putao, Pinlaung and Katha(4°C) each. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recodedwas Myeik (0.16) inch.

Maximum temperature on 10-1-2010 was 96°F.Minimum temperature on 11 -1-2010 was 64°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 11 -1-2010 was 69%.Total sun shine hours on 10 -1-2010 was (9.2) hours approx.

Rainfall on 11 -1-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was (Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from Northwest at (18:30) hours MST on 10-1-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 12th January 2010:Rain is likely to be isolated in Taninthayi Division, weatherwill be partly cloudy in Shan and Mon States, Yangon andAyeyawady Divisions and generally fair in the remainingStates and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Generally fairweather in the whole country.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for12-1-2010: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for12-1-2010:Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for12-1-2010: Generally fair weather.

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People fish for trout through holes in a frozenriver in Hwacheon, about 20 km (12 miles)

south of the demilitarized zone separating thetwo Koreas, northeast of Seoul 10 January2010. The annual ice festival expects to see

1,000,000 people attend, which lasts for threeweeks from 9 Jan, 2010.—INTERNET

Marriage a headache for 41 pctsingle women in China

BEIJING, 10 Jan—About 41.2 percent of singlewomen in China were worried that they might not beable to find a right person to get married, accordingto a recent survey.

The figure was almost five times lower in men asonly 8.1 single men interviewed admitted that they hadthe same worry, said the survey, which lasted threeyears and attracted more than 2.02 million respondents.The survey also said that some 40 percent womenadmitted they had high expectations for their futurehusbands. But 44 percent said they would not lowertheir standards just in order to get married.

The respondents, reached either by random visits inthe street or by online questionnaire, averaged at about30 years old. “Many single people especially womenare confused in their criteria of a suitable spouse underthe pressure from society and work,” Fan said.

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13th Waning of Pyatho 1371 ME Tuesday, 12 January, 2010

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC-sowing hatred amongthe people

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

NAY PYI TAW, 11 Jan—Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein, accompanied by Lt-Gen Ko Ko of theMinistry of Defence, Chairman of Ayeyawady Divi-sion Peace and Development Council Commander ofSouth-West Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe, minis-ters, deputy ministers, heads of department and per-sonnel, left Pathein for work site of Pathein (Begarat)-Einme section of Yangon-Pathein railroad project inhelicopter this morning.

They were welcomed there by district andtownship level departmental officials. At the briefinghall of Pathein (Begarat)-Einme railroad construc-

Prime Minister inspects Pathein (Begarat)-Einme sectionof Yangon-Pathein railroad project and construction of

Ayeyawady Bridge (Nyaungdon)tion site, Minister for Rail Transportation Maj-GenAung Min reported to the Prime Minister on pre-engineering work, land survey and earthworks androle of assigned companies for construction of Pathein(Begarat)-Einme-Pantanaw-Nyaungdon-Yangon(Hlinethaya) railroad.

The Prime Minister assessed the reports andgave instructions. The Prime Minister then inspectedearthworks being carried out with the use of heavymachinery near Singaung village in Pathein (Begarat)-Einme section of Yangon-Pathein railroad.

(See page 10)

Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects Ayeyawady Bridge (Nyaungdon) Project.—MNA

Ayeyawady Bridge(Nyaungdon) is located 8000feet upstream from Bo MyatTun Bridge. The bridge is ofRC type beams with 2256metres long main bridge and17 metres high clearance.

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