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Volume XVI, Number 281 14th Waning of Pyatho 1370 ME Saturday, 24 January, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development ofother sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms oftechnical know-how and investments from sources inside the coun-try and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the handsof 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, 23 Jan—Vice-Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council of the Union ofMyanmar Deputy Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye received Military Attaché Senior

Vice-Senior General Maung Ayereceives Chinese Military Attachés

Colonel Fan Lianfeng of the People’s Republic of Chinato the Union of Myanmar, who had completed his tourof duty, and his successor Senior Colonel Gao Tiejun atBayintnaung Yeiktha, here, at 10.30 a.m., today.

Also present at the call were Member of the

State Peace and Development Council General ThuraShwe Mann of the Ministry of Defence, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Rear-Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein and Lt-Gen YeMyint of the Ministry of Defence.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye shakes hands with incoming ChineseMilitary Attaché Senior Colonel Gao Tiejun at Bayintnaung Yeiktha

in Nay Pyi Taw. —MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye receives Chinese Military Attaché Senior Colonel Fan Lianfeng, who had completed his tour of duty, and hissuccessor Senior Colonel Gao Tiejun at Bayintnaung Yeiktha in Nay Pyi Taw.— MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye greets outgoing Chinese MilitaryAttaché Senior Colonel Fan Lianfeng at Bayintnaung Yeiktha

in Nay Pyi Taw. —MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 24 January, 2009

Saturday, 24 January, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Striving for flourishing of national cultureamounts to uplift of national prestige andintegrity of a nation and its people.

National culture constitutes educationand knowledge, customs, ethics, codes ofconduct and moral values and morality thatcan enhance the social status.

By nature, Myanmar people valuetraditional cultures. Their habit, custom andthings Myanmar are found to be deeplyentrenched in Myanmar culture, Myanmarcharacters and Myanmar style.

Therefore, efforts are to be made forflourishing of national prestige and integrityand codes of conduct while striving forpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character.

At present, some global nations arestriving for safeguarding of traditional cultureand national character as the standard oftheir culture and traditions has been on thewane. At such a time, Myanmar has been ableto stand tall with fine historical traditions asshe has firmly set up a grand and high levelcultural heritage replete with essence. This issomething to be proud of.

The national brethren of Myanmar havebeen handing over the cultural heritage theyhave further strengthened and enriched andadded more value to it from generation togeneration as a well preserved legacy.

At a time when efforts are being madefor the emergence of a new modern anddeveloped nation, it is incumbent upon theentire people to strive for continuedflourishing of national characters, culturaltraditions and human values and to guardagainst the infiltration and overwhelming ofalien culture and customs with nationalawareness.

Strive for further flourishingof national culture

YANGON, 23 Jan—Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan this afternoon attended thecoordination meeting for renovation ofShwephonepwint Pagoda, at the new Dhammayon ofthe pagoda in Pazundaung Township.

Chairman of the Pagoda Board of Trustees UTint Lwin, technicians U Aung Myat, U San Kyi, UMoe and U Maung Gyi and party reported on inspectionon condition of Seinbudaw (diamond orb),Hngetmyatnadaw (pennant-shaped vane) and Htidaw(umbrella) and arrangements for renovation, marbleslabs to be substituted in the place of old ones on theplatform, painting of the archway, the walls and plenaryposts and construction of new shops.

The minister gave necessary instructions.After inspecting the slabs, the minister paid

homage to Buddha images at the prayer hall and leftinstructions on offering of gold foils to the pagoda.

Information Minister discusses renovationof Shwephonepwint Pagoda

Also present at the meeting were ManagingDirector U Soe Win of News and Periodicals Enterprise,Managing Director U Aung Myo Myint of MyanmaMotion Picture Enterprise and officials.

The pagoda is being renovated for bettergrandeur. The pagoda, the diamond orb, the pennant-shaped vane and the umbrella are also being maintained.Moreover, the offering of gold foils at the umbrella,cleansing the gold plates at the pennant-shaped vane,offering of gold foils to Buddha images and someencircling zedis, painting of religious buildings, thearchways, the walls and sanitation at drains for properflow of water, substitution of marble slabs in the placeof old ones and reconstruction of 30 new shops.

Those wishing to donate cash to the funds of therenovation may contact the office of the pagoda boardof trustees, Tel: 01-290425.

MNA

YANGON, 23 Jan—President U Win Myint,Vice-Presidents U WinAung, U Aung Lwin, UMya Han, GeneralSecretary U Sein Win

UMFCCI, Indo-Myanmar CCI to boost bilateral trade

YANGON, 23 Jan —Myanmar TravelsAssociation will organize Talks on Myanmar NatureThru Camera Lens which will be given by JapaneseNatural Photographer Mr. Onishi at Yuzana Hotel,Shwegondine, here, on 31 January (Saturday).

Those interested may attend the talks and contactto register at the office of MTA (Ph: 559672 and559673). —MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan addresses coordination meeting for renovation ofShwephonepwint Pagoda. — MNA

President of Indo-Myanmar Chamber ofCommerce & Industries Mr GL Goenka and

party view products of Myanmar.MNA

Hlaing, Joint-Secretary(2) U Tun Aung, CECmembers and executivesof the Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambersof Commerce and Industrymet a 12-member Indiandelegation led byPresident of Indo-Myanmar Chamber ofCommerce and IndustriesMr GL Goenka at the headoffice here on 15 January.

The meeting focusedon boosting bilateral trade,plan to form jointcommittee to deal withpossible disputes betweenthe two federations, andexport of goods through CIFinstead of FOB byMyanmar to India.

It was followed by ameeting between membersof the Indian delegationand Myanmar entrepre-neurs at Mingalar Hall ofthe head office. TheMyanmar side wants to sellIndia agricultural produce,forest products, rubberproducts, handicrafts,

gems, traditionalmedicines, cosmetics andfoodstuff. The Indian sidewants to sell machines toMyanmar and to cooperatewith Myanmar in solarenergy system.

The Indian delegationalso met journalists.

MNA

MTA talks on 31 January

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 24 January, 2009 3

Russia not agree toNATO military transit

to AfghanistanMOSCOW, 23 Jan—Moscow did not permit NATO

and the United States to carry military supplies to Af-ghanistan across its territory, the Itar-Tass news agencyreported Thursday, citing Russia’s military representa-tive to NATO.

“No official documents were submitted to Russia’spermanent mission in NATO certifying that Russia hadauthorized the United States and NATO to transportmilitary supplies across the country,” Alexei Maslovwas quoted commenting on some media reports, whichcited Commander of the US Central Command GenDavid Petraeus assaying that an agreement on alter-native transit routes had been reached with Russia.

NATO suspended high-level contacts with Russiafollowing the Caucasus crisis in August. In response,Russia halted cooperation with NATO’s Moscow of-fice and called off the NATO chief’s visit to Mos-cow.

High-level political contacts between the allianceand Moscow only resumed when NATO chief Jaap deHoop Scheffer met Russian envoy Dmitry Rogozin inBrussels on 19 Dec. —Internet

US envoy in Iraqwarns against hasty

withdrawalBAGHDAD, 23 Jan—A hasty departure of US troops

from Iraq would carry severe risks, including bolster-ing al-Qaeda and threatening Iraqi progress toward afunctioning society, the outgoing US ambassador saidThursday. Ambassador Ryan Crocker spoke to report-ers a day after he and the top US commander in Iraqbriefed President Barack Obama on the situation here.

Obama, who campaigned on a promise to end thewar, asked the Pentagon to do whatever additionalplanning was necessary to “execute a responsible mili-tary drawdown from Iraq,” the White House saidWednesday.

Crocker, who is retiring after a 30-year diplomaticcareer, declined to say what he and Gen Ray Odiernotold the president during the video hookup. But henoted that the president was committed to a responsi-ble pullout of the more than 140,000-strong US force.

“A precipitous withdrawal runs some very severerisks,” Crocker said, including a possible revival of al-Qaeda and encouraging “neighbours with less than be-nign intentions” to influence events in Iraq.—Internet

Iraqi youths point to the debris left by a car bombin Baghdad. A car bomb attack targeting a Sunni

politician killed four students, underscoring arecent surge of violence in the Iraqi capital.

INTERNET

Iraqi soldiers lift the wreckage of a car bomb inBaghdad, Iraq, on 21 Jan, 2009. The dean of a

Sunni college escaped assassination in a Baghdadbombing, the third attempt against the life of aneducation official in less than a week. The blastkilled three persons and wounded five others,

police said.—INTERNET

Wounded Afghan boys are seen on the beds at a hospital, who got injuredduring a suicide attack in Baghlan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on

21 Jan, 2009. A suicide bomber attacked a wedding party in the northernprovince of Baghlan, wounding five children and a district police chief, said

Abdul Rahman Sayedkheil, a provincial police chief.—INTERNET

A welcome decision, but lateRIYADH, 23 Jan— For Jomaa al-Dosari, Barack

Obama’s decision to close the prison at GuantanamoBay is seven years too late. The Saudi national spentsix years in the detention facility, never knowing thecharges against him, never facing a trial and alwaysasserting that he was not a terrorist.

“When I heard the news I said to myself, ‘I wishObama was elected years ago. Guantanamo would nothave happened,’” said al-Dosari, speaking by telephonefrom the eastern city of Dammam where he now lives,studying computers. To many around the world, the de-cision Thursday by Obama to close the reviled prisonwithin a year is welcome news. But it is especially so incountries such as Saudi Arabia, where the detentionfacility has become a symbol of US injustice towardMuslims and Arabs around the world. At one time,Saudis made up the second largest group of detaineesthere, and, according to a Saudi human rights lawyer,at least 13 Saudi families were still awaiting freedomfor relatives detained at Guantanamo.—Internet

Aid needed for Afghan war

NATO forces kill 22 militants in E AfghanistanKABUL, 23 Jan—The NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF)

in an overnight fighting killed 22 militants with air support in Afghan easternprovince of Khost, said an ISAF statement released here on Thursday.

ISAF forces were attacked by a large number of militants while on patrol BabrakTana district on Wednesday night, the statement said. “The ISAF patrol fired backin response and called in attack helicopters and close-air support.”

It said “upon positive identification of militants forces, the close-air supportengaged the enemy. Helicopters fired multiple munitions killing the remaininginsurgents from the initial attack.”

After the battle, ISAF assessed the scene “confirming a total of 22 militantskilled in the remote area” as it claimed that “there were no civilians in the area andno damage to structures in the vicinity.”

Internet

ISLAMABAD, 23 Jan—President Barack Obama’splan to nearly doubleAmerican troop numbersin Afghanistan needs tobe matched by a similarsurge in developmentworkers and aid funding,NATO’s top official saidThursday.

In a sign of the toughfight there, NATO andAfghan troops earlier inthe day killed up to 22militants in airstrikesand ground battles nearthe Afghan border withPakistan, officials said.

The US has some33,000 soldiers in Af-ghanistan battling a resur-gent Taleban, and Obamais expected to send up to30,000 more this year ashis administration shiftsits focus from the war inIraq to the Afghan con-flict.

Speaking in Pakistan,NATO Secretary GeneralJaap de Hoop Scheffersaid the new troops willtake the fight to “placeswhere it was not, or insuf-ficiently, possible up tillnow.”

Scheffer said otherNATO allies should alsoboost troop levels in Af-ghanistan if possible,but also increase thenumber of civilian ex-perts to help with recon-struction and develop-ment in a countrybrought to its knees bydecades of war.

Internet

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The ruins of abuilding destroyed by

car bomb attack incentral Baghdad,Iraq, on 22 Jan,

2009.INTERNET

LONDON, 23 Jan—World stocks were mixedThursday after worse-than-expected US unem-ployment and housingdata cut off an earlier re-bound that saw investorsbuying up beaten-downbank stocks.

An announcement byMicrosoft Corp that it iscutting 5,000 jobs over thenext 18 months — a signof how badly even the big-gest and richest compa-nies are being stung by therecession — also sent USstocks down in early trad-ing.

The Dow Jones indus-

World markets mixed as USdata worse than expected

trials fell more than 150points. Other indexes alsodeclined, with the tech-nology-heavy Nasdaqcomposite taking the big-gest hit due to Microsoft’snews. The software giantalso posted an 11 percentdrop in profits.

In Europe, Britain’sFTSE 100 benchmark in-dex was 0.60 percenthigher at 4,084.23 in Eu-ropean mid-afternoontrade. But Germany’sDAX was down 0.67 per-cent at 4,232.52, andFrance’s CAC 40 fell 0.42percent to 2,893.51. In themorning, all three had

risen at least 2.0 percenthigher.

European markets hadfollowed Asian stockshigher as bank shares —battered this week on fearsof deep losses and possiblecollapses — reboundedwith the help of investorslooking for bargains.

The earlier rally in Eu-rope and Asia — whereJapan’s Nikkei 225 gained1.9 percent to 8,051.74and Hong Kong’s HangSeng closed up 0.6 per-cent at 12,657.99 — waslargely due to a bounce infinancial stocks.

Internet

An Afghan soldier keeps watch after a suicide car bombing in Herat on 21Jan, 2009. A suicide car bombing killed two Afghan soldiers and woundedthree more on Wednesday in the western province of Herat, the Defence

Ministry said.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 23 Jan—Russian and Cuban officials metThursday in Moscow ahead of Cuban President Raul Castro’svisit later this month — part of the Kremlin’s efforts to projectglobal power and renew Cold War alliances.

Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told a Russian-Cuban intergovernmental panel that relations betweenthe two countries should “reach a new level.” The panelincluded officials and businessmen who deal with oil,gas, nuclear energy and metals.

The Kremlin has moved to rebuild old ties with Cubaand Nicaragua — and cultivate new friends like Ven-ezuela — to flex its muscles close to the United States.

Russia and Cuba enjoy “wonderful relations” againafter a pause in the 1990s, the ITAR-Tass news agencyquoted Raul Castro as saying in an interview. He citedthen-President Vladimir Putin’s visit in 2000, as wellas President Dmitry Medvedev’s last year, as big boosts.

Medvedev visited Brazil, Cuba, Peru and Venezuelain November, and Russia also sent a navy squadron tothe Caribbean.

Russian navy ships held joint maneuvers with theVenezuelan navy and made port calls in several coun-tries of the region, including Cuba.

Internet

RAFAH, 23 Jan—After shoveling sand from theirtunnel on Thursday, the smugglers hoisted the prizedcargo out of the narrow shaft: bags of potato chips —a minor luxury for Gazans tired of bland UN humani-tarian rations.

All around them, other smuggling crews were get-ting merchandise flowing again through dozens ofsimilar tunnels only days after a cease-fire in Israel’sdevastating offensive in the Gaza Strip.

The tunnels linking Gaza and Egypt are back inbusiness, despite the hundreds of tons of bombs andmissiles that Israeli troops rained down on them.

The air reeked from spills of newly smuggled fuelbeing poured into plastic barrels as winches poweredby noisy generators hauled more goods out of thewood-lined openings in the ground.

At other shafts, workers were still raising only dirtas their colleagues laboured underground to dig outcave-ins caused by the Israeli bombardment. Egyp-tian border guards manned watchtowers barely 100yards away.

Internet

TOKYO, 23 Jan — Twopeople died and about 20others sustained injuriesafter a 27-metre-longgangway at a shipyard inOita, Kyushu Prefectureof Japan, collapsed Fri-day, local media reported.

The gangway to a shipthat is under constructioncollapsed at around 9:30am at the Ozai shipyard ofMinaminippon Ship-building Co, sendingworkers falling to theground or into the sea, lo-cal fire department andpolice officials said.

The gangway col-lapsed shortly after it wasinstalled using a crane,Kyodo News quoted theofficials as saying.

Some of the injuredwere taken to nearby hos-pitals, while those whosustained slight injurieswere treated at a tent setup near the accident site.

DAMASCUS, 23 Jan — A senior Hamas official hasdismissed any reconciliation talks with the rival Fatahgroup.

His remarks on Thursday followed claims by themilitants that they emerged victorious after the groupsurvived a relentless three-week offensive by Israelon the Gaza Strip.

Sami Khater, a member of the militant group’s Da-mascus-based branch, says Arab and international do-nations to reconstruct the war-devastated Gaza shouldgo directly to Hamas and not to rival Palestinian Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas, whose faction rules the WestBank.

Khater says Abbas and his Palestinian Authoritycannot be trusted.

Khater says a Hamas delegation will travel to Cairothis weekend for talks with Egyptian mediators onways to consolidate a Gaza cease-fire in place sincelast Sunday.—Internet

Russians, Cubans seek to boostties in Moscow

Gaza tunnels back in business

Shipyard accident kills two,injures 20 in Japan

According to Minami-nippon Shipbuilding, theshipyard was completedin May last year as thecompany’s third plant formanufacturing large ves-sels.—Internet

Hamas dismisses reconciliationtalks with Fatah

A man rebuilds a tunnel that links the Palestinianside of Rafah with Egypt. Four Palestinians were

injured when two tunnels used by smugglerscollapsed on the border between Egypt and theHamas-ruled Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security

official said on Thursday.—INTERNET

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Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand to cutrubber exports by 700,000 tons in

2009 to boost prices

An H2A rocket, carrying the world’s first green-house-gas monitoring satellite, takes off from theTanegashima Space Center, southern Japan, on

23 Jan, 2009.INTERNET

Thick smog enve-

loped Hong Kong

again on Friday, as

scientists and cam-

paigners said recent

pollution had

reached levels ten

times above annual

World Health

Organization

guidelines for clean

air.

XINHUA

A file photo shows customers try out the new Apple iPod Nano at an Apple

store in Palo Alto, Calif. Recession or not, there are some things that people

are still willing to buy at full price. It’s a recipe made from one part habit,

one part psychology and one part economics.—XINHUA

JAKARTA, 23 Jan— Indo-nesia, Malaysia and Thai-land, the world’s biggestnatural rubber exporters,have decided to slashedrubber exports by 700,000tons this year to raiseslumping price of the com-modity, a director executiveof Indonesia’s rubber pro-ducers association,Gapkindo Suharto Hong-gokusumo, said here Fri-day.

The director said that forthe first quarter the three

countries have decided totrim the overseas sales by270,000 tons and Indonesiagot 116,000 tons reductionout of the figure.

“The reduction hasstarted since January first,”he told Xinhua.

Honggokusumo said thatthe countries under the groupof the “Three Partied Rub-ber Council” expected therewould be new balance ofprices amid the decline of theglobal demand of rubber dueto the downturn of the world

economy.“We hope that there

would be a new balance ofprices that is beneficial forgrowers,” he said.

The slowing of worldindustrial activity, such asautomotive industry, hassapped demand of rubberwhich then slumped prices.

However, the directorsaid that it has not deter-mined yet how much the topprices were targeted by thethree countries.

Xinhua

Nokia’s profit falls 69% in Q4STOCKHOLM, 23 Jan— The world’s largest mobile

phonemaker Nokia said on Thursday its profit dropped69 percent in the fourth quarter of last year due to fallingsales and lower prices for its mobile phones.

Nokia’s Q4 net sales fell 19.5 percent to 12.7 billioneuros (about 16.4 billion US dollars) from 15.8 billioneuros (about 20.3 billion US dollars) in the same periodin 2007, while the net profit was 576 million euros (about744 million US dollars), 69 percent less than the corre-sponding season in 2007, the company said in the quar-ter report posted on its website.

The Finnish company attributed the drop in sales andprofit to less demand for its mobile phone worldwide. InOctober-December Nokia sold 113 million mobile phonesand its market share shrank to 37 percent from 40 per-cent in the last quarter of 2007.—Xinhua

Malaria illnesses decline inCambodia in 2008

PHNOM PENH, 23 Jan — The number of reportedmalaria cases and deaths in Cambodia respectivelydropped by 8.5 percent and 25 percent in 2008 overthe previous year, national media on Friday quotedthe National Malaria Center as saying.

The number of confirmed malaria cases decreasedto 59,840 in 2008 from 54,784 in 2007, and deaths to184 from 241, according to the center.

“The trend is downward but it is not sharp,” RashidAbdur, malaria scientist for the World Health Organi-zation (WHO) in Cambodia, told English-Khmer lan-guage newspaper the Cambodia Daily.—Xinhua

Microsoft to cut 5.5% ofwork force

LOS ANGELES, 23 Jan — Software giant Microsoftannounced on Thursday that it would slash 5.5 per-cent of its jobs “in light of the further deterioration ofglobal economic conditions.”

The cut would affect 5,000 of its nearly 90,000employees, and 1,400 layoffs would take effect onThursday, according to the announcement.

This would be the first mass layoff in the 33-year-old tech giant’s history.

Meanwhile, Microsoft said it posted revenuegrowth of only 2 percent, to 16.63 billion dollars, andan 11-percent drop in net income, to 4.17 billion dol-lars in its fiscal second quarter.

This fell short of Microsoft’s previous forecasts andWall Street’s expectations.—Xinhua

Four European tourists kidnapped nearNiger-Mali border

LOME, 23 Jan — Four European tourists, including two Swiss, one Germanand one Briton, were abducted on Thursday near Niger’s border with Mali, newsagencies reported.

A Mali official said the tourists were abducted at Menaka, nearthe Mali-Nigerborder, but didn’t specify the abductees’ nationalities, news monitored here inTogo’s capital Lome said.

Initial reports said the tourists include two Swiss, one German and one Briton,but haven’t been confirmed yet. —Xinhua

Robberies inBritain up 18% inthird quarter 2008

LONDON, 23 Jan —New figures released onThursday showed thatrobberies in Britain in-volving knives or sharpinstruments have in-creased by 18 percent inthe third quarter of 2008.

According to a HomeOffice news release, in thesame period, drugoffenses grew by nine per-cent, and fraud and for-gery reports was up 16percent.

The statistics, based onBritish Crime Survey(BCS) interviews and po-lice records, show that thenumber of crimes re-corded by police fell bythree percent during thethird quarter of 2008,compared with the sameperiod in 2007.—Xinhua

All items from XinhuaNews Agency

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NEWS ALBUM

Bejewelled elephants that havedelighted crowds at every IndianRepublic Day since 1950 have beenbanned from this year’s parade due totheir “berserk” behaviour, accordingto officials. The elephants had been ahighlight of the procession throughthe centre of the capital markingIndia’s birth as a republic, three yearsafter independence from British rule.

A visitor takes a picture of an artpiece, shaped as an ox, titled

“Cheongsam” during the CowParade exhibition, as part of the

upcoming Chinese Lunar New Yearof the Ox celebrations in ChineseTaipei. More than one hundred

painted oxen designed by artists inTaiwan are on display till February

1 to mark the Lunar New Yearwhich will fall.

Workers shape a snow sculpture inpreparation for the Shenyang

International Ice and Snow Festivalin Shenyang, Liaoning province.

Lottery numbers drawntwice in row

The winning numbers of Pick 3 werethe same as the ones from the night be-fore in Omaha, said a Nebraska Lotteryofficial in US. According to the official, one of twolottery computers that randomly gener-ate combinations picked the numbers 1,9 and 6 for Monday night’s drawing. Hesaid the other computer picked the samethree numbers in the same order Tues-day in the same sequence. The odd of such an occurrence couldbe the oddest of all, propably, one in amillion times, hardened lottery playerssaid.

Zimbabwe gets $4.7m cholera drugs

Toyota mulls cutting 1,000 full-time jobs

A cholera patient drinks treated water at Budiriro Polyclinic in Harare on 22Jan, 2009. Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic is spreading to rural areas because people with the disease have quit heavily-infected urban centres for the countryside, an agency official said on Wednesday. — INTERNET

HARARE, 23 Jan — A consignment ofcholera drugs and equipment worth nearly4.7 million US dollars from World Vision-Canada has arrived in Zimbabwe, as theoutside world intensified efforts to helpstem the outbreak, New Ziana reported onThursday. The consignment consists of oralre-hydration salts, aqua tablets, pediatric in-travenous fluids, body bags and generators,among others. United Nations agencies saidcholera has killed over 2,200 people andinfected more than 40,000 in the SouthernAfrican country, where the health and sani-tation systems have collapsed due to aneconomic crisis.

Speaking soon after delivery of thegoods at Harare International Airport onWednesday, World Vision cholera managerWilfred Sikukula said the drugs and equip-

ment would benefit at least two millionpeople over a period of three months in 29districts across the country.

He said the target population were chil-dren who are the most vulnerable. “It couldnot have been done this quickly withoutthe help of the Canadian International De-velopment Agency in partnership withWorld Vision—Canada. We really want toappreciate the work being done by our part-ners in assisting to combat the outbreak inZimbabwe,” Sikukula said.

Meanwhile, a fresh cholera outbreakhas hit the mining town of Mashava inMasvingo Province amid reports that thedisease had claimed nine more lives in theprovince over the past seven days, bring-ing the provincial death toll to 110 sincethe outbreak began in August.—Internet

Libya oil nationalization unlikelyTOKYO, 23 Jan—

Toyota Motor Corp isconsidering cutting morethan 1,000 full-time jobsin North America and theUnited Kingdom to copewith faltering global de-mand, a news report saidon Friday.

The details of the jobcuts will likely be final-ized by the end of themonth, said the Nikkei,Japan’s top business daily,citing an unnamed senior

company official. Japan’stop automaker could slashmore jobs in other regionsif global auto sales con-tinue to slump, the dailysaid.

Toyota spokesmanYuta Kaga declined toconfirm the report, sayingnothing had been de-cided.

Hit by the collapse indemand for cars, Toyotais expecting to incur itsfirst operating loss in 70

years. The company onTuesday tapped AkioToyoda, grandson of theJapanese automaker’sfounder, as president, pay-ing homage to its rootsamid a deepening globaldownturn.

The US-educatedToyoda, 52, is the firstfounding family memberto take the helm at theJapanese auto giant in 14years.

Internet

CAIRO, 23 Jan — Call it,if you will, classicMoammar Gadhafi.

The Libyan leader’smention of the possibilityof nationalizing the oil sec-tor in response to currentlow oil prices is merely hisunique way of calling atten-tion to the difficulties pro-ducers face because of theglobal economic melt-down, some analysts say.

The comments — dur-ing a televised address he

gave on Wednesday tostudents at GeorgetownUniversity in Washington— are also unlikely todeter oil companies frompursuing new opportuni-ties in Libya, which israpidly beginning to flexits muscles after decadeslong US sanctions werelifted in 2004.

“Gadhafi never ex-presses his thoughts in aconventional manner,”Saad Djebbar, a Libya

expert and deputy direc-tor of the North AfricanInstitute at Britain’s Cam-bridge University, saidThursday. “I believe thatwhat he meant was ... towarn of the effect of lowoil prices on countrieswhich depend almost en-tirely on oil revenues.”

Companies are un-likely to seriously stepback from investing in thecountry, despite his com-ments.—Internet

Thief caught outgiving policeman’s

addressA German teenager caught shoplift-

ing tried to dupe police by lying aboutwhere he lived — but only ended up inmuch more trouble when the addresshe gave turned out to be the home of aninvestigating officer, said media reportsThursday.

The 18-year-old teenager was fromAchim, a town of 30,000 in northernGermany. He admitted he had lied whenthe officer explained that the addressbelonged to him, said police in nearbyVerden.

Obama’s daughters turned into dolls?Stray dog finds gig astraffic police assistant A stray dog has found a new friend, aswell as a job, ever since he was foundby a police officer in Zhengzhou, capi-tal of Henan Province. The blonde dog, which is 1.2 m longand 1 m tall, has become a “police dog”and works with traffic officer ChenGuangyan. The dog arrived at the office whenChen starts his workday and leaveswhen the officer clocks out. The dogalso seems to understand traffic as italways stops when the light turns redand continues to walk when it’s green.

P r e s i d e n tBarack Obama al-ready adornstshirts, coffee cups,wine bottles andeven lipstick.

Now, the com-pany that makesBeanie Babies hascome out with apair of plush dollsnamed “Mar-velous Malia” and“Sweet Sasha.”But officials from

Illinois-based Ty,Inc insist the dar-ling dolls are notmodeled after theFirst Daughters.

“Sasha andMalia are beautifulnames... thatworked very wellwith the dolls wewere making,”Tania Lundeen, Tysenior vice presi-dent of sales toldCNN. “We did not

make the dolls tophysically resembleeither of the Obamagirls,” Lundeensaid, adding that thedolls follow “theexact patterns” usedfor other “TyGirlz.” The dolls,which hit storesacross the United

States earlier thismonth, are the firstAfrican-Americandolls added to thecollection, whichincludes BubblyBritney (Spears),Lucky Lindsay(Lohan) and Pre-cious Paris(Hilton).

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Our media teamrecently observed thecold season cropsplantations on the bankof the Laymyo River inMyetyeikkyun Village-tract in MraukUTownship.

When we passedby Phayaoak Village

Cold season crops thriving on bank ofLaymyo River in MraukU Township

Article: Reporter Singu Soe Win; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

A thriving crop plantation is seen in MraukU Township with mountain ranges in the background.

Farmer Ko

Aung Soe

and his

family

members

of

Myetyeik

Island,

MraukU

Township.

U Naing Min Hlaing, Manager of TownshipMyanma Agriculture Service.

Thriving corn plantation and vegetable patchin Myetyeik Island, MraukU Township.

beyond MraukU, we sawthriving patches of blackgram, cabbage and oilmustard in the harvestedpaddy fields. After thepaddy harvest, blackgram plants among thepaddy plants grew faster,which was heartening.

The alluvial landon the bank of theLaymyo River on theother bank of MyetyeikIsland is five miles longand about one mile wide.About 500 acres of theland were put under coldseason crops, so thewhole alluvial land isnow colonized by cropplantations.

Just as we got tothe bank, we were very

pleased to view thrivinggroundnut plants that wereas high as two to three feetbecause on average, agroundnut is not higherthan one and a half feet.Moreover, corn plantswere as high as about 10feet. And the plantationsof such crops as chilly,

over 100 baskets. Last year,Daw Win Sein of NankyaVillage-tract gained 217baskets of groundnut anacre. So, Chairman ofRakhine State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander Maj-GenThaung Aye awarded herat the Rakhine State levelceremony to marksuccessful completion ofthe ploughing of alltargeted monsoon paddyfields and transplant paddyat Kandawgyi farm inSittway.”

In an interview,farmer Ko Aung said, “Ihave five mouths to feedincluding my parents. Igrow several cold seasoncrops on a land of six acres.I sell 1000 ears of corn for65,000 kyats, and 120baskets of chillies for24,000 kyats. I harvestchilli once a month. And Iharvest corn whenever Ireceive an order.Customers come here tobuy crops. On average, Iearn about 600,000 kyatsfrom the farm a month.”

He said that when

cucumber, musk melon,pumpkin, red water cress,white water cress, bittergourd, carrot, summerbean, gourd, long bean eggplant and tomato werefound thriving.

Manager U NaingMin Hlaing of MraukUTownship MyanmaAgriculture Service toldthe Myanma Alin Daily,“In our township, theLaymyo River flowsthrough Hnitshei,Myaungbwe and Pyilongyivillage-tracts. It is afreshwater river; therefore,many people grow cropsand live along the bank.All the crops we grow arethriving. On average, anacre of groundnut yields

the river raged in the rainyseason, his family movedto Myetyeik Island andgrew monsoon paddy; thathe earned net income ofabout four million kyats ayear from monsoon paddyand cold season crops.

On schooldays,local children went toschool by boat. He servedus musk melon, which wascool and delicious. So, itis sure that the soil of theregion is fertile.

In MraukUTownship this year,15,183 acres are put under

cold season crops; 2900acres, under groundnut;11,361 acres, under oilmustard; 599 acres, undersunflower; 225 acres,under summer sesame;and 90 acres, under niger.

In the township,136,800 acres of monsoonpaddy yielded 10,405,008baskets or 76.06 basketsan acre. Now, it grows1600 acres of summerpaddy plus cold seasoncrops, edible oil crops andbeans and pulses in otherfields.

On the alluvial landof Myetyeik Island, 90farmers of 11 villagesgrow 500 acres of coldseason crops and edibleoil crops.

Some sections of3.5-mile road linkingMyetyeik and Po Phyuislands with MraukU arenot serviceable. SecretaryU Kyaw Hlaing ofTownship PDC said thatthe road would be repairedsoon under the programmefor regional development.

In Phayaoak Villagefarmers grow variouscrops, and they use legpumps to get irrigationwater. They sell acauliflower for 150kyats, and a cabbage, for100 kyats. We learnt asalient point that inRakhine State,underground freshwatercan be obtained at anysite from a depth of 70feet at maximum.

M r a u k UTownship has an area of490.97 square miles andis constituted with sixwards and 251 villagesof 222,040 people. In thetownship, rice supplyexceeds the demand by264.54 per cent. Localpeople are now planningto take part in the fruitand flower contest to beheld to mark the 62ndUnion Day by RakhineState PDC.

******Translation: MS

Myanma Alin: 22-1-2009

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NAY PYI TAW, 23 Jan— A ceremony toconclude English Proficiency Course, conducted byMinistry of Immigration and Population, was held atthe hall of the Ministry here this morning, with aconcluding speech by Deputy Minister for Immigrationand Population Brig-Gen Win Sein. The deputy ministerpresented awards to outstanding trainees and certificatesthrough a trainee.

Afterwards, Director-General U Maung Myintof Population Department presented gifts through aninstructor.

On behalf of trainees, a trainee spoke words ofthanks and those present were entertained with Englishsongs.

Altogether 40 trainees of departments under theministry attended the 10-week course.—MNA

YANGON, 23Jan—MAY Int’l Schoolwill organize an Englishessay contest for primary,middle and high schoolstudents to commemotateits 10th anniversary of theestablishment of theschool and presentscholarship as part of theprogramme.

Students interestedare encouraged toparticipate in the contestand those who getscholarship may attend theSummer English Courseto be conducted fromMarch to May of2009.Those who getabove 90 points will get

(from page 16)Maj-Gen Ko Ko unveiled the signboard of the

building.At the new ward, Maj-Gen Ko Ko and the

Bago, AyeyawadyDivisions…

commander delivered addresses.The wellwisher handed over the documents

related to the building to the Acting Director-Generalwho presented a certificate of honour.

Maj-Gen Ko Ko viewed the patient ward, themedical store and the X-ray room, gave necessaryinstructions to officials and presented cash award to

the dance troupes.On 21 January, accompanied by Chairman of

Ayeyawady Division PDC Commander of South-WestCommand Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe and officials, Maj-Gen Ko Ko inspected tarmacking of road section onYangon-Pathein road and maintenance works.

MNA

Maj-Gen Ko Ko of the Ministry of Defence unveils the signboard of new building for Thakkala Station Hospital. —MNA

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Win Sein presentsprize to an outstanding trainee.

MNA

(Award of Excellence)Ma Cho Zaw Aung (Yangon University of

Foreign Languages) (News on page 16).—MNA

(Special Prize)Ko Kyaw Khaing

(Graphic Designer) (News on page 16). —MNA

MAY Int’l School to organize essay contest

100% exemption and,those above 75 points,75 % exemption and thoseabove 50 points 50%exemption. The topics ofthe essays are dividedaccording to levels and canbe taken at MAY Int’lSchool in advance andstudents are to sit for thecontest between 24 and31 January.

MAY Int’l School

conducts the 2009Summer English Coursefrom 9 March to 31 Maywhich is intended forprimary up to high schoolstudents. Subjects to befocused on are 4 SkillsGrammatical English,Mathematics, ComputerBased English, Science,General Knowledge,International Culture,Arts, Sports & Excursion

and Singing & Movie withcourses full time, part timeand weekends classes.

Those who enrollbetween 26 and 31 Janmay get 5% to 10%discount. For furtherinformation, contactMAY Int’l School No. 91(A) Banyadala StreetBahan township, YangonPh: 01-545375, 544224, .

MNA

English ProficiencyCourse concludes

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Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe presents first prize toMin Naing (Srixon).— MNA

YANGON, 23 Jan—The fourth and final roundof the MonywaInvitational GolfTournament, jointlyorganized by MyanmarGolf Federation andMonywa Golf Club,continued at the golf clubin Monywa yesterday.

Chairman ofSagaing Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of North-West Command Maj-GenMyint Soe attended theprize presentationceremony of thetournament.

After the fourthround of the competition,Executive of MGF U KoKo Lay handed over thegift presented by the

Min Naing wins Monywa Golf Cuppresident of MPGA andMGF to Chairman ofMonywa Golf Club ColHsan Aung.

Managing DirectorU Kyi Shein of CherryYoma Co Ltd gave prizesto daily best golfers in themen’s amateur golfersdivision and MonywaGolf Club Chairman ColHsan Aung, those of theprofessional golfersdivision.

Deputy Com-mander of North-WestCommand Brig-Gen TinMaung Ohn presentedprizes to Tin Lin Ko whostood third in the men’samateur golfers divisionwith 303 strokes, Nay BalaWin Myint second with297 and Aung Win

(Forest) first with 291.Commander Maj-

Gen Myint Soe awardedfirst, second and thirdprizes to Min Naing(Srixon) with 281 strokesin the professional golfersdivision, Naing Naing Lin(Point) with 289 and SoeKyaw Naing (Srixon) with292.

Future Engineer-ing Group, Moe & MoreCo Ltd and Cherry YomaCo Ltd mainly sponsoredthe tournament togetherwith co-sponsor Inter-national BeveragesTrading Co Ltd for turningout superb Myanmargolfers. Han EventManagement performedthe task of holding thetournament.—MNA

Minister U Aung Kyi receives Deputy Director-General Mme. NdioroNdiaye of IOM and SEA Regional Representative Mrs Irena

Vojackova Sollorano. —MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23Jan—Minister for LabourU Aung Kyi receiveddeputy director-general ofInternational Or-ganization for Migration(IOM) Mme. Ndioro

Labour Minister receives IOM officialNdiaye and representativefor Southeast Asia regionMrs. Irena VojackovaSollorano at the ministry,here, this evening. Theyexchanged views onundertakings of the

organization for overseasjob seekers.

Also present wereDeputy Minister forLabour Brig-Gen Tin TunAung and officials.

MNA

F&R Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun and wife being welcomed byAustralian Ambassador HE Michelle Chan at the reception to mark

Australia Day on 23 January.— MNA YANGON, 23 Jan—The Fujitsu Notebookswith two colours inA1110 group and fivecolours in A1010 groupand Lifebook modelsS6420, S6520 and U2010are put on sales till today.

The screen ofnotebook is made ofGrade-A LCD Panel. Thenotebooks are designedfor easy deaning in case ofthe spill of water, coffeeand liquid on the keypad.DDR3 (1066MHz) isused at L1010 model for

Fujitsu Notebooks and LCDs on saleincreasing 20 per centperformance. Beingapplyed with the Air DustTechnology, the heat willnot rise at the computerand the high capacitybattery, suitable for longhours use with just onetime recharge.

The models ofFujitsu Notebooks areinstalled with the securityfunctions such as fingerprint sensor and TMP(Trusted PlatformModule). Moreover, thenotebooks are equipped

with 1.3 Mega PixelWebcam which providebetter videocommunications. Forpurchase, contact BluerayDigital IT Showroom, Tel:556118 and 554745,Citicom, Tel: 381720,374554 and 246020, ICEComputer Center, Tel:228805, 215353 and216484, Syntax ComputerSales & Service, Tel:224441 and TechnolandComputer Sales & Service,Tel: 249565 and 384780.

MNA

Sales of Fujitsu Notebook & LCD in progress. — MNASAY NO TO DRUGS

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(from page 16)National compa-

nies have been runningoil palm farms to helpachieve the goal“Taninthayi Divisionmust become anotheredible oil bowl of thenation” for ensuring ed-ible oil supply of the na-tion. As a result of theprudent drive, Kaw-thoung District has seena good number of oilpalm farms.

The governmenthas launched oil palmfarming in TaninthayiDivision since 1999.Now, oil palms are wellin fruit there. Being con-vinced of the lucrativebusiness, national com-panies are now growingoil palms on a wider scaleyear by year. In addition,they are building oilmills.

Benefits of farm-ing oil palm are many.Nothing of the whole oil

Kawthoung District growing oil palm increasinglyArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)

The 2000-ton palm oil tank and 500-ton palm kernel oil tank.

U An Ban, Managerof Yuzana Oil Palm

Project.

A thriving oil palm farm of Dagon Timber Co.

Palm oil milling machines of the palm oil mill of Golden Oil Palm Co.

Harvested bundles of oil palm are carried onto coaches to mill them.

palm is useless. Palm oil,palm kernel oil, fertilizer,fuel and feedstuff aresome palm oil products.

Manager U Nu ofGolden Oil Palm Co, 18miles from Kawthoung,told the Myanma AlinDaily, “We run oil palmfarms, and we have got apalm oil mill inKawthoung. It can millfive tons of oil palm fruitan hour. We are growingoil palm extensively yearby year. Up to 2007-2008, our company had

grown over 720 acres ofoil palm. We started oilpalm farming in 2005-2006, so the palms are not

Myay Yadana have runoil palm farming inK a w t h o u n g ,Khamaukkyi, Karathuri,Bokpyin and PyigyiMandaing townships inKawthoung District sinceMarch 1999. The totalacreage of oil palm farmsis 117,866. Of them, about10,000 acres have startedto yield fruit, and theywere grown in 1999-2000.Oil palms yield fruit wellwhen they are at the age of

in fruit yet. We have tobuy oil palm fruits fromother companies to pro-duce palm oil. We have atarget of milling own oilpalm fruits in the near fu-ture, so we are planning togrow oil palm on a widerscale.”

In an interview,Project Manager U AnBan of Yuzana Oil PalmCo on Kawthoung-Bokpyin Road said, “Ourcompany’s threebranches: Yuzana,Annawah Tun, and Shwe

about five years. Theyyield fruit most in the rainyseason. The heavier itrains, the sooner the fruitbecome ripe.

“Now, we have gotan oil palm mill that canmill 60 tons an hour. Wealso buy oil palm fruitfrom the Myanma Peren-nial Crops Enterprise,Dagon Timber Co, and PoKaung Co to produce morepalm oil. Then, we sendcrude palm oil to Yangonto produce finished prod-uct. Now, our product has

local market. We expectto distribute more palmoil when our farms have ahigh yield.”

We observed theproduction line in themodern mill operatingwith just a smallworkforce. It producesboth crude and finishedpalm oil. Stalks of oilpalm fruit bundles can beused as fuel. Byproductis used to produce potas-sium fertilizer. Fruit seedsare used to produce palmkernel oil. Byproduct offruit seeds can be used asfeedstuff.

The yield of oilpalm starts to fall when it

is at the age of 15 years.Trunks of 30-year-old oilpalms can be used to makefurniture. From April2005 to October 2008, themill produced 55,839 tonsof crude palm oil, and5284 tons of palm kerneloil.

Project Manager UWin Myint of Dagon OilPalm Project of DagonTimber Ltd, 52 milesfrom Kawthoung, said,"Our company has run oilpalm farming in the areabetween mile post No. 50and 59 on Kawthoung-Bokpyin Road since1999. So far, we have put11,378 acres under oilpalm. Now, the farmsyield 15 to 20 tons of fruita day. In the rainy season,they yielded about 30 tonsof fruits a day. We soldall the fruit to Yuzana Co.We have a plan to grow1000 more acres of oilpalm this year. We have atarget of 20,000 acres ofoil palm here.

“We import oilpalm seeds from CostaRica. Chana, Ekona andLame are high-yield oilpalm strains. We also

have a plan to establish a50-ton crude palm oilmill at the 52nd milecamp on Kawthoung-Bokpyin Road, and wehope to complete con-struction of the mill by2009-2010.

Now, 17 compa-nies have put 185,025acres under oil palm inKawthoung District,which is helpingTaninthayi Division toachieve the target of500,000 acres of oil palmlaid down by the gov-ernment.

*****Translation: MS

Myanma Alin: 23-1-2009

An oil palm ofDagon Timber Co.

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Pizza chef GaetanoEsposito displays his

creation, a pizza in the

form of US President

Barack Obama and his

wife Michelle, in front

of his brick ovens inNaples on 22 Jan,

2009. The pizza is

made with cream of

eggplant, tomatoes,

ricotta cheese, cream

of artichoke, buffalomozzarella and extra

virgin olive oil.

INTERNET

Australian passenger plane makesemergency landing in Queensland

CANBERRA, 23 Jan—A plane carrying 21 passen-gers made an emergency landing in north-westQueensland, a Queensland Police Service spokes-woman said on Friday.

She said in Brisbane that emergency services hadrushed to Cloncurry airport in the afternoon when aMacAir plane experienced engine problems minutesbefore landing.

The flight from Townsville to Mount Isa wasscheduled to stop at Cloncurry when police receivedan emergency call at about 5.15 pm AEST (Austral-ian Eastern Standard Time), according to a report byAustralian Associated Press.

It said the 42 seat plane landed a few minuteslater. A Queensland Ambulance spokesman said noone was injured during the incident.—Internet

Five stabbed to death at Belgianday care centre

BRUSSELS, 23 Jan—Five people, including threechildren, were reportedly stabbed to death on Fridayat a day care center in Dendermonde in northwestBelgium, Flemish broadcaster VRT reported.

The assailant has been arrested by police, the re-port said. There are no official information availableon deaths or injuries in the incident.

The municipality of Dendermonde has put intoeffect its disaster plan. Ambulances are speeding toand from the creche, and police are carrying out amassive operation.—Internet

Two killed, over 100 injured intrain collision in Indonesia

JAKARTA, 23 Jan—Two people were killed andover 100 others wounded after a passenger train anda cargo train collided in East Java province on Fri-day, Metro television reported.

Dozens of people were still trapped under thedamaged passengers train, the report said. The colli-sion occurred in Bonjonegoro station.—Internet

Moderate earthquake rocksBashi Channel

HONGKONG, 23 Jan—A moderate earthquake meas-uring 5.6 on the Richter scale rocked the Bashi Chan-nel at 1240 GMT Friday, the Hong Kong Observatorysaid in a news bulletin here Friday night.

The epicenter was initially determined by the HongKong Observatory to be at 21.2 degrees north latitudeand 121.4 degrees east longitude, about 180 kilometerssouth of Taitung, China’s Taiwan.—Internet

Samsung suffers first-everquarterly loss amid global

recessionSEOUL, 23 Jan—Samsung Electronics Co, the

world’s largest maker of computer memory chips,announced Friday it lost 20 billion won (14.7 millionUS dollars) in the fourth quarter of 2008, posting itsfirst-ever quarterly loss.

��During the same period in 2007 the companyearned a profit of 2.21 trillion won (1.63 billion USdollars), according to Samsung Electronics.

��The company said its fourth-quarter operatingloss was at 94 billion won (69.1 million US dollars),compared with a profit of2.8 trillion won (2.06 billionUS dollars) in the previous year.

��Sales also dropped to 18.45 trillion won (13.6billion US dollars) from 20 trillion won (14.7 millionUS dollars) a year ago, it added. �Samsung has beenhurt by sinking demand for semiconductors, mobilephones and other consumer electronics as worldwidedemand for these products plunged amid the ongoingglobal economic recession.—Internet

Passengers walks forward against chill and gale torailway station in Shanghai, east China, on 23

Jan, 2009.—INTERNET

South Korean clerks work at an electronic shop inSeoul, South Korea, on 23 Jan, 2009. SamsungElectronics, the world’s largest manufacturer offlat screen televisions, memory chips and liquid

crystal displays, posted its first ever quarterly lossFriday as the global economic slump hit prices and

demand for mainstay products.—INTERNET

Photo taken on 22 Jan, 2009 shows a scene of alandslide in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on 22Jan, 2009. The landslide caused two people deadwith another one injured. The reason is estimated

to be the loose structure of the hill caused bycontinuous heavy rains last year.—INTERNET

MA C A O, 23 Jan—Macao saw its visitor ar-rivals for the whole of2008 rose 11.8 percentyear-on-year to over 30million, according to thestatistics released onFriday by the city’s Sta-tistics and Census Serv-ice (DSEC).

The figures showedthat among the totalvisitor arrivals in 2008,visitors from the Chi-nese mainland (17.5million) and Southeast

Asia increased by 17.7percent and 33.3 percentrespectively over theprevious year, and thosefrom Hong Kong wentup slightly by 0.7 per-cent. Same-day visitorsshared 52.8 percent ofthe total arrivals, at 15.9million.

Analyzed by modeof transport, visitor ar-rivals by land took upthe majority of the total,rising by 13.7 to 18.8mill ion. Meanwhile,visitors by sea and airincreased by 7.9 percentand 15.2 percent respec-tively over 2007 to 9.69million and 1.7 million.

Internet

Macao logs over 30 mlnvisitor arrivals in 2008

Singapore private home prices drop 6.1% in Q4, 2008SINGPORE, 23 Jan—

Singapore’s private resi-dential prices decreasedby 6.1 percent in thefourth quarter of 2008,after a decline of 2.4 per-cent in the previous quar-ter, the country’s UrbanRedevelopment Authority(URA) said on Friday.

For the whole year of2008, overall prices ofprivate residential proper-ties fell by 4.7 percent,compared with an in-crease of 31.2 percent in2007.

The latest figure forthe fourth quarter showed

that private residentialprices fell further than theprevious estimate of a 5.7percent drop announcedby the URA on 2 Jan.

In the fourth quarterof 2008, there were64,982 private residentialunits in the pipeline, com-prising supply fromprojects that were alreadyunder construction andthose that had beengranted planning approvalbut were not under con-struction yet.

Prices of office, shopand industrial propertiesdecreased by 4.9 percent,

4.8 percent and 6.5 per-cent respectively in thefourth quarter.—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BANGSRIMUANG VOY NO (76)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BAN-GSRIMUANG VOY NO (76) are hereby notified thatthe vessel will be arriving on 24.1.2009 and cargo willbe discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S WONGSAMUT OCEANSHIPPING CO., LTD

Phone No: 256919/256916/256912

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Men employ maths for subway riding recordNEW YORK, 23 Jan—A pair of New Yorkers said maths is on their side in their

attempt to break the Guinness World Record for visiting the city’s subway sta-tions. Chris Solarz, 28, and Matt Ferrisi, 30, began their trek on Thursday at theFar Rockaway-Mott Avenue station in the city’s Queens borough, WABC-TV,New York, reported on Thursday.

The two men said their calculations indicate that they can break the record byvisiting all of New York’s 468 subway stations in less than 24 hours, 45 minutes,and 3 seconds.—Internet

Journalists, military commission personnel and oth-ers leave the US naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba ona military plane, on 22 Jan, 2009. Breaking force-fully with Bush anti-terror policies, President BarackObama ordered major changes on Thursday that hesaid would halt the torture of suspects, close down theGuantanamo detention center, ban secret CIA pris-ons overseas and fight terrorism ‘in a manner that isconsistent with our values and our ideals.’ —INTERNET

Smoking linked to most male cancer deaths

$70,000 ring rescued from toilet

Dollar falls against most major currencies

DAVIS, 23 Jan—Smok-ing was linked to morethan 70 percent of the can-cer death burden amongMassachusetts men in2003, researchers said.

Lead author BruceLeistikow, an associateadjunct professor of pub-lic health sciences at theUniversity of California atDavis, used NationalCenter for Health Statis-tics data to compare deathrates from lung cancer to

death rates from all othercancers among Massa-chusetts males.

The assessment, pub-lished in BMC Cancer,revealed that the two rateschanged in tandem year-by-year from 1979 to2003, with the strongestassociation among malesages 30 to 74 years.”This study provides sup-port for the growing un-derstanding among re-searchers that smoking is

a cause of many morecancer deaths besideslung cancer,” Leistikowsaid in a statement.”The full impacts of to-bacco smoke, includingsecondhand smoke, havebeen overlooked in therush to examine such po-tential cancer factors asdiet and environmentalcontaminants. As it turnsout, much of the answerwas probably smoking allalong.”—Internet

NEW YORK, 23 Jan—The dollar fell againstmost major currencies onThursday as Wall Streettumbled amid weak eco-nomic data. US privatelyowned housing starts inDecember were at a sea-sonally adjusted annualrate of 550,000, 15.5 per-cent below the revised No-vember estimate, the USCommerce Department re-ported on Thursday.

For all 2008, housingstarts plunged by 33.3 per-cent to 904,300units. Itwas the biggest declinesince 1974. An estimated1,116,600 housing units

were completed in 2008,25.7 percent below the2007 figure.

First time applicationsfor state unemploymentinsurance benefits rose by62,000 to a seasonally ad-justed 589,000 last week,the Labour Departmentsaid. It was the highestlevel of initial claims in 26years. The weak economicreports sent Wall Streetdown. Stocks were alsohurt by software giantMicrosoft, which said itwould cut 5,000 jobs in 18months. The dollar fellagainst the euro and theyen in New York trading.

It rose against the poundas the British currency wasunder heavy pressure fromworries over UK bankingsystem.

The euro bought 1.3021dollars in late New Yorktrading compared with1.2954 dollars it boughtlate Wednesday. Thepound fell to 1.3876 dol-lars from 1.3922 dollars.The dollar fell to 1.2532Canadian dollars from1.2613 Canadian dollars,and fell to 1.1541 Swissfrancs from 1.1574 Swissfrancs. It fell to 89.09 Japa-nese yen from 89.43 Japa-nese yen.—Internet

Missing girl found safe in France

MONROVIA, 23 Jan—Liberia signed Thursday a 2.6 billion dollar agreement withChinese conglomerate China Union to develop its main iron ore mine, the biggestever investment in the West African nation.

A government statement said President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed a mineraldevelopment agreement with officials from the Chinese mining company to de-velop the Bong Mines.

Sirleaf invited other Chinese companies to come and invest in the country, whichemerged from a crippling 14-year civil war in 2003.

“The Liberian leader expressed the hope that the signing of the agreement willserve as a motivation to other Chinese companies to invest in Liberia,” the state-ment said.

The deal has been sent to the parliament for ratification.Internet

PHOENIX, 23 Jan—APhoenix plumber said hewas able to locate a$70,000 diamond ring thatwas accidentally flusheddown a restaurant toilet.Mike Roberts, generalmanager of Mr Rooter,said city workers called hisbusiness after spendingseveral hours trying to findthe ring in the Black BearDiner’s sewer line,KPHO-TV, Phoenix, re-ported Thursday.

“Everybody said, ‘No,it’s gone,’” Roberts said.“We figured we’d give ita shot. We’d either savethe day or be completelydisappointed.”

The plumber said hefished a fiber optic cabledown the toilet and even-tually located the ringstuck 300 feet down thesewer line.

”Eight, nine, 10 hourslater, they managed to diga hole in my floor and get

it out of the pipe,” saidCheryl Jones of the BlackBear Diner. “A huge soli-taire diamond and tons ofsmaller diamonds en-crusted in it. It was verybeautiful.”

The couple paidRoberts $5,000 for theplumbing and excavatingin addition to a down pay-ment to the restaurant forthe cost of repairing thetorn-up floor.

Internet

LILLE, 23 Jan—Missing15-year-old schoolgirlLaura Stainforth has beenfound safe and well inFrance a week after disap-pearing. The teenager,from Cleethorpes, Lin-colnshire, was found with49-year-old RobertWilliams in Lille.

Mr Williams was ar-

rested by French policeofficers after the pair at-tended the British consu-late in Lille. He has beentaken into custody. He isexpected to appear beforea court in Douai on Thurs-day which could deter-mine his extradition.

Laura’s mother Debraread a tearful statement tothe media, thanking themand the police for theirsupport. Mrs Stainforthsaid: “I am pleased to in-form everybody that mydaughter, LauraStainforth, is safe andwell.

“I am grateful for allthe support from the pa-pers and all the publicitythat has brought Lauraback home to us. “We are

grateful for all the supportmy family and myselfhave been given from thepolice. Thank you.”

Laura went missing laston 14 January after tellingher parents she was goingshopping. She is believedto have met Mr Williamson an Internet chat room.Officers from Humber-side Police are currentlyen-route to France tobring her back to the UK.

Durham Police saidearlier that Mr Williamswas currently on bail af-ter being questioned overthe alleged rape of a 16-year-old from West Sus-sex. He was arrested overthe matter in Darlington inDecember.

Internet

Liberia signs2.6 billion

dollarmining dealwith China

Union

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Motorists drive on a street covered with fog on theoutskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on 23 Jan, 2009.

Thick fog brought by warm weather from thecountry’s South continue to cause poor visibility inBangkok on Friday, according to the Meteorologi-

cal Department.—INTERNET

Bathroom birth leavescouple in shock

SAN JOSE, 23 Jan — LaShay and Miguel Lozanosay they were shocked when their new daughter cameinto the world while her mother was stepping out ofthe shower in San Jose, Calif.

LaShay Lozano said while exiting from her home’sshower this week, she suddenly began to give birthand she immediately called to her husband for assist-ance, the San Jose (Calif) Mercury News said onWednesday.

“I felt her head coming out and I held it,’’ LaShaysaid of Monday’s birth. “I said ‘Catch her!’ and sheslid out into his hands.’’

Miguel said being placed in a role traditionally re-served for trained doctors was a shocking experienceto be sure.

“I got so freaked out. I thought ‘What do I do,’” hesaid. “I told her, ‘Keep pushing, babe.’”

“I felt so helpless,” the relieved father added. “Itwas really scary.’’

Despite the unique birthing details faced by the cou-ple, who already had a 2-year-old daughter, they suc-cessfully welcomed a new daughter, Maya, to theworld, the Mercury News reported.

Internet

Apple juice may delayAlzheimer’s disease

LOWELL, 23 Jan — Drinking apple juice helpedmice perform better in maze trials and preventedthe decline in performance otherwise seen in aging,US researchers said.

The research team of Thomas B Shea of the Uni-versity of Massachusetts, Lowell, carried out anumber of laboratory studies demonstrating thatdrinking apple juice helped mice perform better thannormal in maze trials and prevented the decline inperformance that was otherwise observed as themice aged.

The study, published in the Journal of Alzheim-er’s Disease, demonstrated that mice receiving thehuman equivalent of two glasses of apple juice perday for one month produced less of a small proteinfragment called beta-amyloid that is responsible forforming the “senile plaques” commonly found inbrains of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Internet

Two top executives at Research in Motion, theCanadian maker of hugely popular Blackberry

smartphones, face record fines for their roles in astock option accounting controversy, local media

reported on Thursday.—INTERNET

US company develops plastic solar cells

In this image provided by Tasmania Parks andWildlife Service, a pod of sperm whales are seen

stranded on a sand bar off Perkins Island, Austral-ia’s Tasmania state on 23 Jan, 2009.—INTERNET

50 sperm whales strand on Tasmanian islandHOBART, 23 Jan —

Australian wildlife offi-cials said they were hop-

ing to save a few of a podof sperm whales thatstranded Thursday on an

island off Tasmania.Chris Arthur of Tas-

manian Parks and Wild-life said only eight of the50 whales were showingany activity early Friday,the Australian Broad-casting Corp reported.

The whales beachedthemselves on PerkinsIsland in northwesternTasmania, in a placereachable only by boat.Parks and Wildlife ar-ranged helicopter flyo-vers to look for signs oflife.

“What the crews cando is try and give the ani-mals the best chance wecan,” Arthur said.“We’ve got gale force

winds forecast and theweather doesn’t look asif it’s going to be kind.It could hamper opera-tions in that it couldmake navigating in thesand flats where theseanimals are very diffi-cult.”

A boat and rescueequipment was beingsent from Hobart, theTasmanian capital.

There were two largewhale strandings in Tas-mania in November —one of 55 pilot whales inStanley near Perkins Is-land, and another of 155whales on Sandy Capeon the west coast.

Internet

Zambia doctors to cut feet of unformedtwin from baby’s buttocks

Eight-month-old Faith Mwampe isback in hospital for miracle

surgery.—INTERNET

LUSAKA, 23 Jan — The amazing storyof a little girl in Zambia with the feet ofan unformed twin protruding from herbuttocks has gained worldwide attention.Eight-month-old Faith Mwampe is setto undergo a potentially lifesaving op-eration to have the horrific deformityremoved while her 18-year-old mother,Mercy Lenganji, waits anxiously, theUK’s Daily Telegraph reports.

But this picture of Faith’s bizarrecondition, provided by Barcroft Media,reveal the true horror that became ap-parent when Faith was delivered.

Zambian doctors allegedly labelledher condition as so shocking they hidher from her mother for two hours afterbirth for fear she would go into shock.

“They put Faith in an incubator as isthe procedure with all babies born withdeformities in Zambia, and only then wasI allowed to see my child,” Mercy said,adding that she loved her baby uncondi-tionally. –Internet

CHICAGO, 23 Jan — AUS company is develop-ing plastic solar cells forportable electronic de-vices that will incorporatetechnology invented at theUniversity of Chicago,the university said onThursday.

The company is ontrack to complete a com-mercial-grade prototypelater this year, said DinaLozofsky, vice presidentof IP development andstrategic alliances atSolarmer.

The prototype, a cellmeasuring eight squareinches (50 square

centimeters), is expectedto achieve 8 percent effi-ciency and to have a life-time of at least threeyears, according to a pressrelease issued by the Uni-versity of Chicago.

New materials withhigher efficiencies are thekey in the industry, it said.Plastic solar cells are be-hind traditional solar-celltechnology in terms of theefficiency that it can pro-duce right now.

The invention, a newsemiconductor materialcalled PTB1, convertssunlight into electricity.The active layer of PTB1

is a mere 100 nanometersthick, the width of ap-proximately 1,000 atoms.Synthesizing even smallamounts of the material isa time-consuming, multi-step process.

The university licensedthe patent rights to thetechnology to Solarmerlast September.

�An advantage of theChicago technology is itssimplicity. Solarmer hasentered into a sponsoredresearch agreement withthe university to provideadditional support for fur-ther research.

Internet

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S P O R T S

LONDON, 23 Jan—Liverpool co-owner Tom Hickshas reportedly started discussions with a wealthy Mid-dle East family over a possible 600 million-pound saleof the English Premiership club, the Daily Telegraphclaimed on their website on Thursday.

The preliminary talks are with the Kuwaiti AlKharafi family, led by Nasser Al Kharafi who is worthnine billion pounds and is the 48th richest man in theworld, the site added.

A purchase of Newcastle by the Al Kharafi familylast year had also reportedly been a possibility.

Liverpool’s 350-million-pound loan is due to berenegotiated in July and sources have claimed bothHicks and co-owner George Gillett, who own Liver-pool shares at 50-50 and therefore need to be in agree-ment to sell the club, both have a new willingness tofind the right buyer.—Internet

ROME, 23 Jan—Chelsea’s French forward NicolasAnelka confidently claimed the three English teamsfacing Italian opposition in the Champions Leaguesecond round will record a clean sweep.

Anelka made his undiplomatic prediction in an in-terview with Italian sports newspaper La Gazzettadello Sport.His Chelsea team face Juventus, reigningchampions Manchester United take on Inter Milanwhile Arsenal were drawn against AS Roma.

“If I had to make a bet I’d say 3-0 to the English.Chelsea, Manchester and Arsenal progressing aheadof Juve, Inter and Roma,” he said. “Watch what hap-pens but anything can happen.”

Anelka is particularly looking forward to comingup against Juve’s David Trezeguet, who came throughthe French junior system at the same time as the manknown as ‘the Incredible Sulk’.—Internet

Liverpool discuss 600m poundsale with Kuwaiti family

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks, has reportedlystarted discussions with a wealthy Middle East

family over a possible 600 million-pound sale of theEnglish Premiership club, the Daily Telegraph

claimed on their website on Thursday.—INTERNET

English will sweep the Italians,says Anelka

Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka, confidently claimed thethree English teams facing Italian opposition in

the Champions League second round will record aclean sweep.—INTERNET

LONDON, 23 Jan—Manchester City manager MarkHughes has said Brazil star Robinho has apologisedto him for leaving the Premier League club’s warmweather training camp in Tenerife without permission.

And he also dismissed reports Robinho would beinvolved in a January transfer window swop deal withChelsea’s Didier Drogba.

Robinho flew home to Santos on a private jet andhas since claimed he had to deal with a pressing fam-ily matter.

That has cut little ice with City officials who saythe forward will be disciplined on his return to the club- Robinho rejoining the training camp has been ruledout because of time-difference and travel constraints.

Hughes was adamant the 24-year-old’s walkout wasin no way linked to the collapse of the deal to signRobinho’s fellow Brazil star Kaka and a feeling the club’sgrand ambitions are unlikely to be realised.—Internet

MELBOURNE , 23 Jan— Defending champion NovakDjokovic survived a scare to book a place in the Aus-tralian Open fourth round as Dinara Safina fired awarning with a convincing rout.

World number three Djokovic was made to workby American Amer Delic on a hot day before runningout a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) winner.

It was a less than convincing display by the Serbwho struggled to cope with Delic’s big serve.

“He has one of the biggest serves out there, it wasdifficult for me to return and find rhythm,” he said.

“I have big respect for Amer, we have known eachother a long time and he absolutely deserved to be here.He played great tennis today.”

While Djokovic went through Spain’s David Ferrer,the 11th seed who was beaten by Djokovic in the quar-ter-finals last year, crashed out to Croatia’s Marin Cilic7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6-4.

Cilic will now meet dangerous Argentine eighthseed Juan Martin del Potro who came from a set downto beat Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller 6-7 (5/7), 7-5,6-3, 7-5.—Internet

MELBOURNE, 23 Jan—Seven-time Grand Slamchampion Venus Williams was dumped from the Aus-tralian Open on Thursday but it was a different storyfor Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray who barged intothe third round.

Venus lost the plot against Spain’s unseeded CarlaSuarez Navarro, crashing 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 for the upset ofthe tournament so far and continuing her unhappy as-sociation with the event which she has never won.Hersister Serena lived to fight another day, but she toostruggled.—Internet

Hughes reveals Robinho apology

Venus Williams returns the ball to Carla SuarezNavarro of Spain during their women’s singles

tennis match on the fourth day of the AustralianOpen in Melbourne.—INTERNET

Venus flops in Australian Open asRafa and Murray march on

Djokovic survives Australian Openscare as Safina fires warning

LA QUINTA, 23 Jan —Pat Perez shot a 9-under 63on Thursday to become thefirst player in PGA Tourhistory to play a 36-holestretch in a tournament in20 under, keeping him twostrokes in front in the BobHope Classic.

After opening with a61, Perez had nine bird-ies during a bogey-freesecond round and was at124 through the first twodays of the 90-hole tour-nament. Along with set-ting a PGA Tour lowagainst par for consecu-tive rounds, his 36-holetotal was the lowest everto begin a tournament.

Internet

Pat Perez acknowledgesthe crowd as he ap-

proaches the 18th holeof the Nicklaus Private

course at PGA Westduring the second round

of the Bob HopeChrysler Classic PGAgolf tournament in LaQuinta, Calif, on 22

Jan, 2009.—INTERNET

Perez holds lead after record-setting 36 holes

LONDON, 23 Jan—Falkirk have signed former Sport-ing Braga and Deportivo La Coruna keeper Dani Malloinitially till the end of the season, the Scottish PremierLeague club said on Thursday.

Mallo could make his debut in Saturday’s leaguematch at Motherwell provided all the necessary trans-fer formalities are completed in time.

Bairns boss John Hughes told his club’s officialwebsite, www.falkirkfc.co.uk: “I’m really glad to getthe lad —he comes highly recommended.

“He has impressed me at training and if the inter-national clearance comes through on time, he will bepart of the squad for Saturday’s game with Mother-well.”—Internet

Keeper Mallo joins Falkirk

Falkirk havesigned former

Sporting Bragaand Deportivo La

Coruna keeperDani Mallo, seen

here in 2003,initially till theend of the sea-

son, the ScottishPremier League

club said onThursday.INTERENT

Brazil inter-

national

Roberto

Carlos, has

signed a one

year exten-

sion to his

contract at

Turkish

giants

Fenerbahce,

the club

announced

on Thursday.

INTERNET

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, light rain has been iso-lated in upper Sagaing Division, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin State and Taninthayi Division and gen-erally fair in the remaining areas. Night temperatures were(3˚C) below January average temperatures in Chin andMon States, (3˚C) to (4˚C) above January average tem-peratures in Mandalay and Taninthayi Divisions, (5˚C)above January average temperatures in Kachin State andabout January average temperatures in the remainingStates and Divisions. The significant night temperatureswere Haka (-1˚C), Loilem (0˚C), Pinlaung (2˚C) andNahsam (4˚C).

Maximum temperature on 22-1-2009 was 91˚F.Minimum temperature on 23-1-2009 was 60˚F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 23-1-2009 was 63%.Total sunshine hours on 22-1-2009 was (9.0) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 23-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (5) mph from Southeast at (12:30) hours MST on22-1-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is generally fair in the NorthBay and partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and elsewherein the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 24th January 2009:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin State, upperSagaing, Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions and gener-ally fair in the remaining areas.

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight decrease of night temperatures in Southern Shan,Chin, Kayah and Kayin States.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 24-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 24-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 24-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Weather outlook for forth weekend of January2009: During the coming weekend, weather will be gen-erally fair in the Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and MandalayDivisions.

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Local Transmission

* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights* Valuable Myanmar Native Orchids* The Art of Silk-screen Painting* Taunggyi: An Environmentally Sustainable City* Rakhine State Cultural Museum* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights

Abroad Transmissions

* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights* Fossilized Wood Picture* The Fruits of Myanmar* Smogless sky, Enchanting Smiles (Inlay, Southern

Shan State)* Rope Painting* Clothes decorated with Sequin-like Colourful Plastics* Expedition of Rare Crocodile Species Inhabiting in

Fresh And Seawaters (II)* Myanmar Modern Song* Valuable Myanmar Native Orchids* The Art of Silk-screen Painting* Marquetry* Taunggyi: An Environmentally Sustainable City* Rakhine State Culture Museum* How to Make Chinlone* Expedition of Rare Crocodile Species Inhabiting in

Fresh And Seawaters (III)* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights

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