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Volume XIX, Number 18 7th Waxing of Kason 1373 ME Monday, 9 May, 2011

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

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

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

accord with the Constitution

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

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

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

the State and the national peoples

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

and safeguarding of cultural heritage and national char-acter

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

entire nation

Four social objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 8 May—Accompanied by MandalayRegion Minister for Social AffairsU Than Soe Myint and officials,Union Minister for Informationand for Culture U Kyaw Hsanlooked into preservation of an-cient cultural works at MyananSankyaw Golden Palace andCultural Museum, the MingalaGate and Laythein Gate, 19Thudhamma wayside rest houses,Shwenandaw Monastery andMaha Atulawaiyan (Atumashi)Monastery in Mandalay, and thenumber of local and foreignvisitors.

During his inspection tour,the Union Minister stressed the

Cultural heritage buildings

inspected in Mandalayneed to make display of artifacts inMandalay Archaeological Regionmore attractive, prevent damage dueto natural elements, systematicallypreserve the ancient works with theuse of modern chemicals, renovateThudhamma wayside rest houseswith contributions of the ministryand collaborative efforts ofwellwishers and give priority tosecurity measures.

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YANGON, 8 May— Staff should strive tomeet the target of export of forest products, earnmore foreign exchange than target and ensure aclean governance said Union Minister forForestry U Win Tun while inspecting lots atSetsan raft jetty in Pazundaung Township, here,yesterday.

The Union Minister visited container yard(sawn timber) in Ahlon Township, inlandcontainer inspection yard in Botahtaung Town-ship and loading log at No.4 wharf of Sule port.

MNA

Staff should commit themselvesto clean governance

Union Minister forInformation and for Culture

U Kyaw Hsanvisits Myanan Sankyaw

Golden Palace.MNA

MUnion Minister for Forestry U Win Tun inspects Setsan jetty in Pazundaung Township.MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 9 May, 2011

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

People’s DesireMonday, 9 May, 2011

Humanitarian projectspicking up momentum

Inspired by a strong sense of altruisticspirit, Myanmar people by nature are willingto contribute volunteer service for welfare ofothers, provide assistance to needy people,and encourage those who are getting intotroubles.

Every now and then, the world seesnatural disasters due to climate changes andhuman activities. The Myanmar Red CrossSociety is aimed at rescuing and rehabilitatingvictims of disasters. With the objective: toalleviate suffering, the social organization is inpursuit of humanitarian tasks for providinghealth care, control and prevent diseases andrehabilitate those in troubles.

Red Cross members are taking part incommunity-based health care projects,collecting safe blood, prevent HIV/AIDS, andproviding artificial limbs. The association incooperation with UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and congenialorganizations is working closely for thosevulnerable to diseases and those who have onlylittle chance to receive medical treatment.

Preparedness against natural disastersand rehabilitation is one of the major tasks ofthe Myanmar Red Cross Society. To expeditethe tasks, first aid course and community-based first aid course are being conducted ona wide scale across the nation.

Now, the number of township Red Crosssocieties is 325. With the total number of RedCross members of over 200,000, humanitarianprojects are gathering momentum.

NAY PYI TAW, 8 May — Union Minister forElectric Power No. 2 U Khin Maung Soe receivedVice-President Mr Shen Ai Hua and party of

EP-2 Minister receives Chinese guests

YANGON, 8 May —Union Minister forReligious Affairs ThuraU Myint Maung attendedcoordination meeting forfull scale renovation ofBuddha Tooth RelicPagoda (Yangon) at themeeting hall of PagodaBoard of Trustees officein Mayangon Townshiphere this morning.

The chairman ofleading committee forrenovation of pagodaand officials of workingcommittees submittedreports. The ministerattended to the needs.

The minister paidhomage to the pagodaafter the meeting.

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Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda(Yangon) to be renovated

NAY PYI TAW, 8May— Chief Minister ofShan State U Sao AungMyat yesterday after-noon gave instructionson beautifying of town,systematically carryingout of development tasksat the office of ShanState DevelopmentAffairs Committee inKengtung.

Director of ShanState DAC U Sai Tun Tunreported on tasks ofDACs.

The Chief Ministerleft necessary in-structions.

MNA

Personnel urged to undertakedevelopment tasks in Shan State

Union Minister for

Electric Power No. 2

U Khin Maung Soe

receives Mr Shen Ai

Hua of Hydrochina

Kunming

Engineering

Corporation and

party.

MNA

Union Minister for Religious Affairs Thura U Myint Maungaddresses the coordination meeting for all-round renovation of

Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda (Yangon).—MNA

ShanStateChief

MinisterU SaoAungMyatmeets

staff ofShanState

DAC inKengtung.

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Hydrochina Kunming Engineering Corporation ofthe People’s Republic of China at his office, here, on6 May morning.—MNA

YANGON, 8 May—Deputy Minister forConstruction U Soe Tint inspected road works ofKobin-Thagara Yoma-crossing road and Kobin-Aunglan-Pyay road. In the evening, he met withstaff from district and township, at Pyay DistrictOffice of Public Works.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8 May — Kachin StateImmigration and National Registration Departmenthas committed to step up works of the departmentin the state.

At the work coordination meeting for the2011-2012 of Kachin State INRD at its office inMyitkyina on 6 May and yesterday, U Kyi Lin,Head of Kachin State INRD called for acceleratingthe efforts of the department and for carrying outthe tasks of the department in coordination witheach others. He also discussed the reports of district,township INRDs during the meeting. — MNA

Kobin-Thagara Yoma-crossing road under

construction

Kachin State INRD toaccelerate works

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Four dead as Taleban hold out inAfghan City

KANDAHAR, 8 May—The death toll from awave of Taleban attackson government buildingsin the key Afghan City ofKandahar has risen tofour as militants held outinto a second day, officialssaid Sunday.

Violence in the city,seen as the Taleban’sbirthplace, broke out onSaturday at around 1:00pm (0830 GMT) whenmilitants with guns androcket-propelled gre-nades attacked thegovernor’s office fromnearby buildings.

It spread to sitesincluding the local officesof the intelligence service

and several police officesas a total of ten explosionsincluding six suicide blastsrocked the city.

Nearly 50 peoplehave been wounded inthe standoff, the first majorincident since the Talebanannounced the start of itsannual spring offensivejust over a week ago.

Although the attacksdied down overnight,Taleban fighters were onSunday still occupyingone traffic policebuilding, firing shots androckets.

“It is a complicatedbuilding, that is why it hastaken a while to clear upbut soon we will clear the

building of the enemy,”said Kandahar borderpolice commander Gen-eral Abdul Razeq, incharge of the operation.

The building is alsoclose to the local office ofthe Afghan intelligenceservice, the NationalDirectorate of Security(NDS).

Internet

Five dead as storm slams into Philippines

Houses are submerged in flood waters in thesouthern island of Mindanao.—INTERNET

(62.13 miles) per hour.Storm alert

warnings had beenraised over at least 12provinces in the mainisland of Luzon and theeastern Bicol, the civildefence office in Manila

eastern Bicol region,where local officialsscrambled to launchrescue and reliefmissions.

“The provincialroad going to the area isnot passable due toflooding,” said In-spector Ayn Natuel, aspokesman at the Bicolregional policeheadquarters.

Aere, the first majorweather disturbance ofthe year, hit Catan-duanes, an island ofabout 250,000 people,with maximum winds of85 kilometres (52.8miles) per hour at itscentre and gusts of upto 100 kilometres

MANILA, 8 May—Tropical storm Aereslammed into theeastern Philippineseaboard on Sunday,bringing heavy rains andlandslides that have sofar killed five peopleand left over a thousandstranded, officials said.

The Philippines’state weather bureausaid Aere made landfallover the island of Catan-duanes before noon, andwas expected to take anorth-easterly path forthe rest of the day.

Five people werekilled when heavy rainstriggered a landslide inthe Province ofCamarines Sur in the

The ruins of the DarulAman palace, theformer house of

Afghan KingAmanullah (1920-1929), in Kabul.

The death toll from astring of Taleban

attacks on governmentbuildings in theAfghan City of

Kandahar has risen tofour as militants heldout into a second daySunday, officials said.

INTERNET

23 suicide attackers killed, four detained in AfghanKandahar Province

a Press Conference.He also added that

15 civilians, 12policemen, two Afghansoldiers and 11 militants

KABUL, 8 May—Afghan security forceshad killed 23 suicideattackers and detained fourothers in fighting againstTaleban militants insouthern KandaharProvince on Saturday,Interior Ministryspokesman ZamaraiBashari said Sunday.

“Twenty threesuicide bombers hadbeen killed and fourothers made captive bysecurity forces aftermilitants’ attacks inKandahar on Saturday,”Bashari told newsmen at

Fourteen-year-oldAfghan boy Noor

Mohammad, who was awould-be suicide

bomber, speaks during anews conference by

Afghanistan’s NationalDirectorate of Security(NDS) in Kabul on 7

May, 2011.—INTERNET

were injured in the gunbattle which lasted for afew hours, he furtheradded.

Xinhua

Crash of UN observationflight kills six Bolivians

LA PAZ, 8 May—The Bolivian air force hasfound the wreckage of a plane and the bodies of thetwo crew members and four UN workers who weremonitoring the cultivation of coca.

Defence Minister Maria Cecilia Chacon says theairplane was found Saturday and there are nosurvivors. The plane was reported missing afterfailing to return Thursday to the capital of La Paz.

Everyone on board was Bolivian and includedtwo members of Bolivia’s air force and four employeesof the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

The plane was found in a remote region ofInquisivi province about 75 miles (120 kilometres)from La Paz. An investigation into the cause ofaccident is expected to take about 10 days.—Internet

Two killed in small planecrash in Texas

CONROE, 8 May—Two people — a man and awoman — died Saturday when a small plane crashedshortly after takeoff from an airport north of Houston,officials said. The two are thought to be a father andadult daughter, but neither could be positivelyidentified without an autopsy, said Trooper ErickBurse of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The fiery crash happened about 9 am a half-milenorth of the Lone Star Executive Airport in Conroe,from which the single-engine, kit-built Ravin 500 hadjust taken off on a planned 125-mile flight to Temple,Burse said. Conroe is about 40 miles north of Houston.

The pilot reported smoke in the cockpit anddeclared an emergency just before the crash of theexperimental aircraft owned by Loyd Woodward ofGirard, Burse said. Woodward was not thought to beamong the dead, he said. Woodward did notimmediately return a phone message Saturday. TheFederal Aviation Administration and the NationalTransportation Safety Board sent investigators to thescene.—Internet

An injured Iraqi man waiting for treatment outside ahospital in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers)

south of Baghdad, Iraq, 5 May, 2011. A suicide carbomber crashed his vehicle into a barrier outside a

police building in central Iraq on Thursday morning,killing and wounding dozens of policemen, a local

councilman said.—INTERNET

ISLAMABAD, 8 May—At least four people wereinjured in a blast that took place Sunday morning inPakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar, reported localEnglish TV channel Express.

According to the report, the explosion tookplace at about 11: 30 am local time outside the houseof a political party’s leader on the GT road of the city.

The house attacked belongs to Arbab Ayub, aprovincial minister of ANP (Awami National Party),a major political party in Pakistan. Arbab Ayub wasnot hurt in the blast, but one of his relatives wasinjured, said the report.

All the four people injured have been shifted tohospital. Conditions of them are not known at thispoint. Police said that the blast took place inside a carparking near the house of Arbab Ayub and it was aremote controlled blast. In another development, atleast two security personnel were killed and anotherwas injured in a remote control blast that occurredSunday morning in Pakistan’s northwest tribal areaof North Waziristan.—Xinhua

Four injured in blast inPeshawar, Pakistan said.

People living inthese areas were warnedof possible flash floodsand landslides, whilethose in coastal areaswere told to brace forstorm surges.—Internet

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CAPE CANAVERAL, 8May—An unmannedAtlas 5 rocket blasted offfrom Cape Canaveral AirForce Station on Saturdayto put the first satellite of theDefence Depart-ment’snew missile-warningsystem into orbit.

After a day’s delay dueto poor weather, the UnitedLaunch Alliance Atlas 5booster lifted off at 2:10 amEDT, soaring through clearblue skies out over theAtlantic Ocean.

Tucked inside therocket’s nosecone was the$1.3 billion Space-BasedInfrared Systems (SBIRS)Geo-1 space-craft, built by

WASHINGTON, 8 May—CadyColeman won’t be the only momspending this year’s Mother’s Day awayfrom her child and family, but she willbe higher up than any other.

Coleman is a NASA astronautwho’s been living 220 miles (350 km)above the planet on the InternationalSpace Station since December 2010.And, she’s the only mom in space forMother’s Day Coleman and herhusband Josh have a 10-year-old son.

“I miss them so much and Iappreciate them,” Coleman told theCBS television show The Talk, speakingrecently from space.

“It’s a lot of work for them for meto be gone. I’m just hoping that while

NEW YORK, 8 May—Skype plansto push out an important update to itsSkype for Mac software next weekthat will fix a big that could be leveragedby hackers looking to build a self-copying worm programme.

Details of the flaw haven’t beenmade public, so it’s unlikely thatanyone is going to write a worm anytime soon. But the bug is serious,according to Gordon Maddern, theAustralian security researcher whoreported the issue to Skype.

“The long and the short of it is thatan attacker needs only to send a victima message and they can gain remotecontrol of the victims Mac,” Maddernwrote in a blog post. “It is extremelywormable and dangerous.”

According to Skype, any attackthat exploited it would involve sending

Mother’s Day in Space: Astronaut momconnects with son from orbit

I’m up here the things that I’ll be doingend up being worth it, and I really thinkthey will be.”

While Cady Coleman is the onlymother in space at the moment, sheisn’t the first.

Many spaceflyers are parents;the first mom to fly to orbit wasNASA astronaut Anna Fisher, whoflew on the space shuttle DiscoveryIbring Hobbes with me to doexperiments and I take pictures andsend them down to the ground so heunderstands what I’m doing everyday,” Coleman said on The Talk.

Coleman is one of six astronautsliving on the space station right now.

Internet

Children watch a modelrocket blasting off

during a celebration ofthe 50th anniversary ofthe Yuri Gagarin’s first

manned flight into spaceat a school in St

Petersburg, Russia,12 April, 2011.

INTERNET

Rocket blasts off with missile-warning satelliteLockheed Martin andNorthrop Grumman.

The satellite, the firstof four scheduled forlaunch over the next fiveyears, is intended to providethe US military with earlynotice of missile launchesand other reconnaissanceservices.

The $17.6 billionSBIRS constellation,which includes sensors onhost satellites, willaugment and eventuallyreplace the military’sDefence SupportProgramme satellites,which have been operatingsince 1970. The satellitesscour the planet for heat

trails produced by flyingrockets and missiles.

“Geo-1 will bring thedawn of a new era inpersistent overheadsurveillance,” RogerTeague, head of the USAir Force’s Infrared SpaceSystems Directorate, toldreporters.

“These systems are somuch more sensitive. Wecan see much more, muchearlier, much sooner (and)many dimmer targets.”

Over the next ninedays, Geo-1’s position willbe tweaked so that it endsup in an orbit about 22,000miles above the planet.

Internet

Flipboard iPad app doubles users, triplesTraffic in two months

WASHINGTON, 8 May—Traffic onFlipboard, which turns your social andmedia feeds into a sleek digitalmagazine, has increased 300 percentsince early March, to between 8 and 9million flips, CEO Mike McCue toldLiz Gannes of AllThingsD. A flip onthe touchscreen app is roughlyequivalent to a page view.

The social news app also doubledits user base in two months, and I wasone of them. Flipboard was the thirdapp I installed on my new iPad lastmonth, after Evernote (forproductivity) and Angry Birds (forunproductivity).

For those of us trying to make aliving in the new media landscape,Flipboard gives a preview of what ourwork might look like in a few years:Digital, clickable, multimedia,interactive, instantly updated,streamlined and personalized.

The app picks up Facebook,Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr andother social media feeds and arrangesthem into a magazine-like layout.Instead of wandering aimless like acloud through my browser, mailbox,and desktop to see my RSS feeds,friends’ updates, Tweets, and favorite

The Lenovo IdeaPadU1 Hybrid device,

which combinesLePad, a 10-inchAndroid-poweredtablet (L) with a

Windows-poweredbase station.

INTERNET

New York Times stories, I get them,neatly assembled, usually with alovely photo of somebody else’svacation on the cover.

Users can add curated topicalfeeds and Flipboard versions of agrowing stable of publications,ranging from Lonely Planet toBusiness Insider.

It bypasses advertising, whichscares me as a writer. As a reader, Ilike it a lot.

It’s been a good couple of weeksfor Flipboard, which picked upWebbys and People’s Voice Awardsfor tablet news and social apps, andsigned the Oprah Winfrey mediaempire in mid-April and Forbes thisweek, according to Folio.

Flipboard for iPhone will launchthis summer, McCue told Gannes. “Imentioned to McCue that Flipboardmight now be part of my weekendroutine but it’s too lightweight for myweekday thirst to tap into real-timenews and conversation,” Ganneswrites. “McCue responded that thenew iPhone app is designed to be aweekday tool for people like me.” AMacOS version has been rumored butnot announced.—Internet

Skype to fix wormable bug in Mac Softwarea maliciously crafted message tosomeone on the attacker’s SkypeContact List. The flaw does not affectWindows or Linux users, Skype ChiefInformation Security Officer AdrianAsher wrote in a blog post on theissue.

Skype will push out an update toits Skype for Mac software early nextweek, which means that all Mac OSusers should be offered the fix withindays.

But security-conscious people canalready download a “hotfix” thatSkype released on April 14. However,to date, Skype hasn’t pushed this patchout to its users. Because “there wereno reports of this vulnerability beingexploited in the wild, we did notprompt our users to install thisupdate,” Asher said.—Internet

A blanket of haze hangs overthe Hong Kong skyline early

on 3 April this year. TheHong Kong government hasbeen told to hammer out a

timetable for new air qualityrules amid increasingly vocal

criticism of pollution in theglobal financial hub, a green

group says.—INTERNET

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Health Tip: After you run amarathon

Running 25 miles or more can take a major tollon your body, so it’s important to take it easy afteryou’ve finished a marathon.

The Cleveland Clinic suggests what to do afteryou cross the finish line:

* Continue drinking plenty of water.* Eat or drink carbohydrates to replenish what

you’ve used. But don’t overdo it, or you mayget an upset stomach.

* Stretch gently and walk for about an hourafter the race to help minimize stiffness.

* Ice any sore areas in 15-minute intervalsthroughout the rest of the day.

* Treat yourself to a post-race massage.* The week after the marathon, don’t run.

Walk, bike or swim if you want to exercise.* Ease back into running, gradually increasing

your distance and speed over time. Don’t focuson speed for the first month or strength trainingfor the first two weeks after the race.

* Take time to rest, recover and heal.—Internet

File picture shows a surgeonduring an operation. Surgery

appears to be a better treatmentoption for early prostate cancer

than “watchful waiting,”particularly for younger patients,

according to a Swedish study.INTERNET

A drawing adorns thesurgical mask worn bya man to help preventbeing infected with theswine flu on 28 April,2009 in Mexico City,

Mexico. Reportsindicate that most

people confirmed withthe new swine flu were

infected in Mexico,where the number ofdeaths blamed on thevirus has surpassed150, and confirmedcases in the UnitedStates has passed

60 people.INTERNET

LVMH-backed fund huntsfor emerging Asian brands

NEW YORK, 8 May—A $650-million privateequity fund backed by the world’s top luxuryretailer LVMH is on the prowl for emerging Asianbrands in the hope of transforming them into globalnames.

The L Capital Asia fund has so far spent a totalof $90 million on minority stakes in twoSingaporean fashion companies and a Hong Kong-listed watch and jewellery company.

It is in advanced talks with a fashion-relatedfirm from China and another from India and hopesto make an announcement about the investments inthe next few months, said Ravi Thakran, the fund’smanaging partner.

Unlike its parent group LVMH, whichconcentrates on the top tier of the luxury sector, hesaid the fund focuses exclusively on promisingAsian labels looking for a big breakthrough,particularly in the Chinese and Indian markets.

“The primary engine not only for Asia-Pacific,but for the whole world today, is this twin propellerof China and India,” Thakran said.

“So we are looking for those smart entrepreneurswho have a great product, very differentiated DNA,something very different in their category.”

He said the fund will look at China, India andSoutheast Asia, where promising labels wouldbenefit from an extra push from a partner such asLVMH.

Paris-listed LVMH is one of the world’s mostsuccessful luxury retailers, with a portfolio of brands

Australia’s 2011-12 budgetto create more jobs

CANBERRA, 8 May—Australian Treasurer WayneSwan on Sunday said the 2011-12 federal budget, tobe released next week, will get more Australians intojobs and spreading the opportunity of the miningboom.

Swan is due to release the budget on Tuesday,and some economists are predicting that it will includea deficit of about 56 billion US. dollars, comparedwith the 45.6 billion US dollars predicted at the timeof the mid-year budget review last November.

Swan said the federal budget is too often treatedlike a magic act, judged on the number of surprises,clever one-liners and rabbit-out-of-the-hat-style tricks.

Instead, he said next Tuesday’s budget is not aone-night show, and it will show a return to surplus in2012-13, getting more Australians into jobs andspreading the opportunity of the mining boom.

“It will get us back into the black in 2012-13,that’s the responsible course of action, well ahead ofjust about any other developed economy in theworld,” Swan said in his final Sunday economic notebefore handing down his fourth budget.

Swan has said the budget would be at least a 7.1billion US dollars hit to revenues in the short termcaused by this summer’s natural disasters, both athome and in Japan, as well as the hangover of theglobal financial crisis. However, he said longer termthere would be economic strength and strong jobcreation. Swan said small business is to the forefrontof the government’ s focus, because not everybody isgoing to be in the fast lane of the economy.

Xinhua

A Louis Vuiton luxury handbag displayed inSingapore. The L Capital Asia fund has so far

spent a total of $90 million on minority stakes intwo Singaporean fashion companies and a Hong

Kong-listed watch and jewellery company.INTERNET

that includes Louis Vuitton, Parfums ChristianDior and Guerlain perfumes alongside Moet andChandon and Dom Perignon champagnes.

In 2010 it posted record sales of 20.3 billioneuros ($30 billion) and a profit of 3.03 billioneuros, as demand for its high-end products roseamong Asia’s growing ranks of affluent and brand-conscious consumers.

Xinhua

Most leukemia patients recover from‘chemo brain’ after transplant

persisted for five yearsin nearly 42 percent ofthe patients, a finding thatsurprised the researchersat the Fred HutchinsonCancer Research Centrein Seattle.

“We really thoughtthe rates would be lower,”study leader KarenSyrjala, director ofBiobehavioral Sciences,said in a Hutchinsonnews release. “We werethrilled to see that peoplerecovered substantially,but we also weresurprised that so manypeople did continue tohave measurable deficitsin some areas even afterfive years.”

Further research isneeded to identify thereasons for thesepersistent deficits, sheadded. The study waspublished 2 May onlinein the Journal of ClinicalOncology.—Internet

affect memory and motorskills. This study lookedat how long it takes themto recover from thoseproblems, often referredto as “chemo brain.”

The study included92 patients with chronicmyeloid leukemia, acuteleukemia, lymphoma ormyelodysplastic syn-drome, in which the bonemarrow does not functionnormally. The patientshad received an allo-geneic (cells donated byanother person) bonemarrow or stem celltransplant.

After treatment, thepatients’ memory andmotor skills wereassessed. Most patientsshowed substantialimprovement inneurocognitive functionbetween one and fiveyears after theirtransplant. But deficits,described as mostly mild,

SEATTLE, 8 May—Adecline in memory andfine-motor skills iscommon among patientswho undergo a bonemarrow or stem celltransplant to treatleukemia or lymphoma,but most patients returnto normal within fiveyears, according to a newstudy.

Previous researchhas shown that thechemotherapy drugsthese patients take beforetransplantation andmedicines they take toprevent rejection of thetransplanted cells can

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WELLINGTON, 8 May—An Air New ZealandBoeing 737 plane made an emergency landing atan airport in New Zealand North Island City ofHamilton on Sunday morning after one of itsengines shut down mid-flight.

A spokesman for Air New Zealand said theplane landed normally and safely. He said earlyindications showed the problem was most likelycaused by low oil pressure. The engineers wouldlook at the cause later Sunday. A spokesman forthe Fire Service said there were 101 people onboard the Boeing 737, which was on its way fromAuckland to Wellington.—Xinhua

Italian police save 400 migrants offLampedusa

ROME, 8 May—Italian police and coastguard officials onSunday rescued some400 illegal migrantscoming from Libyawhose boat was tossedagainst rocks near portin southern Italy after thesteering malfunctioned,officials said.

Images of the rescueshowed panickedmigrants jumping orfalling into the choppywaters as their boatheaved in the waves offthe tiny island ofLampedusa.

Some managed tomake their way to shoreholding on to ropes thathad been attached to theboat’s stern; others werehauled up on shore byrescue crews in thewater.

Financial policeofficial Fabrizio Pisanellisaid the boat’s steering

had stopped working asthe boat was nearingLampedusa’s portshortly after 4 amSunday.

reached the migrantsimmediately, savingthem all.

Pisanelli said theyincluded women and

File picture shows a boat carring Tunisianmigrants entering the port of Lampedusa in

April.—INTERNET

Strong winds hadpushed the boat againstrocks, throwing migrantsoverboard.

Three policeofficials who hadboarded the boat in openseas helped control thesituation, and rescuers

children, and were fromsub-Saharan Africa.

Tens of thousands ofmigrants have fled unrestin northern Africa sinceJanuary, most arrivingat Lampedusa, thenearest Italian port toAfrica.—Internet

Air NZ passenger planemakes emergency landing in

North Island’s Hamilton

Steve Scheer looks at floodwater on7 May, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn. Communities

all along the banks of the Mississippi arekeeping a close eye on the river’s rise with the

crest in Memphis not expected until Wednesday.INTERNET

Violence in Venezuelan prisonleaves eight dead

CARACAS, 8 May—Authorities at a Venezuelanprison have found the bodies of eight inmateskilled in what officials say is a conflict betweenrival gangs fighting for control of their cellblocks.

National Guard Col Juan Ramon Rivas saidSaturday the bodies were discovered in anadministrative area of the prison in western Tachirastate. Authorities think the dead were moved thereafter being killed elsewhere in the prison.

The slain men found Friday all had stab woundsand belonged to the same gang. Violence is commonin Venezuela’s severely crowded prisons, whereinmates can obtain firearms and other weaponswith the help of corrupt guards.

Internet

Three dead, one injured in shooting atCalifornia home

FAIRFIELD, 8 May—A shootinginside a home Saturday left threepeople dead, including the suspectedshooter, after what investigatorsbelieve was a dispute amongroommates, a police spokesman said.

Fairfield police received a callfrom a man inside the home shortlyafter noon reporting that he had beenshot and that the shooter was firing atother people, said Officer CleoMayoral. Officers surrounded thehouse, and when they entered, theyfound a man and a woman dead.

A third man, believed to be theshooter, was critically injured with aself-inflicted gunshot wound,Mayoral said. He was taken to a local

Photo taken on 6 May, 2011shows boats anchor in thewater of the Nanjing reachalong the Yangtze River in

Nanjing, east China’sJiangsu Province. Due to the

drought, the highest andlowest water levels of theNanjing reach along the

Yangtze River this year areboth one meter less than the

normal.—INTERNET

trauma centre, where he later died.The man who phoned police was

shot in the foot and was being treatedat a hospital, Mayoral said.

Police believe the four victims wereroommates. Mayoral said Saturday’sshooting was not the first time policehad been called to the residence inFairfield, about 40 miles northeast ofSan Francisco. “Officers have beenthere several times in the past involvingdisturbances,” he said.

Investigators were trying todetermine the exact relationshipsbetween the victims and what mayhave caused the deadly altercation.

Police did not release the victims’names.—Internet

Staff are seen here standing guard at the

entrance of an Apple store in Beijing’s chic

Sanlitun commerical district, on 7 May. Four

people were hospitalised and a glass door

smashed as a near riot broke out at Beijing’s

top Apple store as crowds rushed to snap up

the popular iPad 2 tablet computer.

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Four injured in iPad fight at Beijing Apple storeBEIJING, 8 May— Four people were taken to

hospital and a glass door smashed as a near-riotbroke out at Beijing’s top Apple store amongcrowds rushing to snap up the popular iPad 2tablet computer, according to state press.

Angry consumers began rushing the store onSaturday afternoon after a “foreign” Appleemployee allegedly stepped into the crowd topush and beat people suspected of queue jumping,the Beijing News said.

After the employee retreated back into thestore, a crowd of consumers smashed the glassfront door and shoved security guards as theysurged forward in anger over the alleged beatings,the report said.

Consumers have lined up for hours at Applestores in Beijing and Shanghai since the iPad 2,the updated version of the tablet computer, wenton sale in the world’s biggest Internet market onFriday.

The store in Beijing’s chic Sanlitun commercialdistrict closed early Saturday because of thealtercation, but according to a voice recording onthe store’s phone was open for business Sunday.

Apple officials were not immediately availablefor comment when telephoned by AFP.

Police were investigating the incident andhave interviewed four people hospitalised withinjuries, the Beijing News said.

Lines for the popular iPad 2 have grown solong that people have begun selling their places inthe queue, while a secondary market has alsodeveloped with consumers reselling their tabletcomputers for profit after leaving the store, thereport said.

Late Saturday, the store posted a notice sayingthat queue jumping and the unauthorised sales ofApple products would not be tolerated, the papersaid.

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The Myanmar Writers and JournalistsAssociation in cooperation with the Informationand Public Relations Department carried out thepost-literary programme and tasks for sustainabledevelopment of the school libraries in DagonMyothit (North) and Thakayta townships fromDecember 2010 to January 2011.

The programme covered essay contests,extempore talks contests and poem-recitingcontests at the high, middle and primary schoollevels. The topics for the contests were “TheBook I have Read”, “Our School Library”, and“Knowledge is Power”.

The awarding ceremony for the contestswere held on a grand scale, attended by the thenMinister for Information U Kyaw Hsan.

The Myanmar Writers and JournalistsAssociation and well-wishers donated periodicalsto the school libraries.

The Information and Public RelationsDepartment has been opening libraries in bothurban and rural areas as part of the post-literary programme. So far, it has establishedover 50,000 libraries in rural areas alone.

A growing number of libraries acrossthe nation help broaden the horizons of thepublic and enable them to distinguish betweengood and bad and make remarkablecontribution towards the shaping of the futureof the nation.

I would like to present aphorisms of somedoyen literati.

Mind controls body. Wisdom controls mind.Knowledge controls wisdom. So read as manypublications of various genres as you can toacquire knowledge.

(P. Moe Nin)Reading is ‘keeping doors open’. Reading

no books is ‘keeping doors closed’.(U Bagyi Ngo)

Keep off reading and your future willremain dim.

(Dagon U San Ngwe)Reading makes you get relaxed and

refreshed, expands your horizons, keepsdepressing away, suppresses conceit, guides you

Step up post-literary programmeMin Than Hlaing

to enlightenment, and enriches your life in mundaneand supramundane affairs.

(Mann Tin)Book is the best friend. If you want to read

books, then go to a library where a wide range ofbooks are kept. A library is the best university.

(U Thaw Kaung)In my opinion, once a village gets a library,

it provides a starting point for vast knowledge ofthe villagers. It is because knowledge can changefrom bad to good.

Actually, book is the best mass medium forknowledge, entertainment and information. A placewhere books can be stored systematically for along time is a library.

Today competition for prosperity is intense.If one does not read books to acquire knowledge,one will not know as much as it should be andsurely one will lags behind others in prosperity.

A doyen writer once said that readingenriched knowledge and got rid of wrong concepts.By reading, a person can not only broaden hishorizons but also removes imprudent ideas.Suppose a person has applied a method for a longtime, and it is deep in his heart. And reading books,he gains a better method, then it is safe to say thathe has improved his knowledge.

Book is a source of knowledge. So, onecannot improve one’s reasoning power if onekeeps off reading. If so, one’s intellectual powerremains normal. To read books is to gainknowledge, not to know how to read. Sayingssuch as “Book is the best friend”, and“Knowledge is power” reflect the benefits ofliteracy.

With our experiences only, we cannot knoweverything. Only when we read books in whichwriters present their experiences and lessons willit be possible for us to gain knowledge.

If we are going to read a book, we shouldknow the life of the writer to some extent and weshould judge whether we can gain knowledgefrom the book or not. If a book “How to be rich”is written by a poor man, it is out of the questionfor readers to become rich by applying the pointsfeatured in the book.

If an illiterate becomes rich, his richnesswill not last long. The progress of a lifelonglearner will come to an end only when he is dead.

Now, the people have easy access to librarieswhere they can make choices of books they like.The people can visit libraries and take time toread.

It is heartening to note that the MyanmarLibraries Foundation has been established. So,the number of libraries will keep growing. Well-wishers are donating cash and publications withgood volition. The most encouraging news forbook lovers is that the Myanmar Writers andJournalists Association has launched a test run ofmedia corners in Yangon.

A marked increase in the number oflibraries and media corners gives furtherimpetus for dealing with the challenge of theAge of Knowledge. In conclusion, I am verypleased the people can now expand theirhorizons due to the literary institutions thatcan provide intellectual nourishment.

*****Translation: MS

A doyen writer once said that reading enriched knowledgeand got rid of wrong concepts. By reading, a person can notonly broaden his horizons but also removes imprudent ideas.Suppose a person has applied a method for a long time, and itis deep in his heart. And reading books, he gains a bettermethod, then it is safe to say that he has improved his knowledge.

Workers are seen in the Reactor Building of Unit

1 at Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) Co’s

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in

Fukushima prefecture on 6 May, 2011.

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Japan won’t abandon nukesdespite crisis

TOKYO, 8 May— A top Japanese official saidSunday that Japan would maintain atomic power asa major part of its energy policy despite the country’songoing nuclear crisis.

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary YoshitoSengoku also said the government has no plans tohalt nuclear reactors other than three at the Hamaokapower plant in central Japan. The plant was askedlast week to halt the units until a seawall is built andbackup systems are improved.

“Our energy policy is to stick to nuclear power,”Sengoku said on a weekly talk show on publicbroadcaster NHK.

He said Hamaoka was an exception and that thegovernment’s closure request Friday did not meana departure from its nuclear-reliant policy.

Chubu Electric Power Co, which runs the threeHamaoka reactors, postponed its decision Saturdayon the government’s shutdown request.

The main concern is that shutting down thereactors would likely worsen power shortagesexpected this summer.

The government has been reviewing the safetyof the country’s 54 atomic reactors since a 11March earthquake and tsunami crippled theFukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the north. Thedisaster left more than 25,000 people dead ormissing on the northeast coast and triggered theworst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.

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“Work harmoniously and dutifully and be proud ofyourselves” Union Minister urges staff in Mandalay

NAY PYI TAW, 8 May—Union Minister forInformation and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan metwith officials and staff of the Fine Arts Department(Mandalay Branch) and Archaeology, NationalMuseum and Library Department (Mandalay) atthe National Theatre (Mandalay) on 6 May andstaff of National Culture and Fine Arts University(Mandalay) on 7 May.

In meeting with the staff, the Union ministersaid knowing the fact that the culture ministry isan important one for the nation, every staffmember is to carry out their tasks dutifully andefficiently. The Archaeology Department andFine Arts Department are not only to work inaccord with their aims and objectives but also toexpose, maintain and promote ancient culturalheritages and fine arts. To do so, cooperation isneeded in the interests of the nation and thepeople. Only then, will the people including theyouth respect and value Myanmar’s culturalstandard and national prestige and integrity. Andit will help them promote the spirit of cherishingtheir country and people and treasuring theirlanguage, culture and character.

Moreover, with those from foreign countriesknowing the value of Myanmar cultural heritagesand willing to visit Myanmar to study them, moreforeign exchange will be earned and the peoplewill enjoy more job opportunities.

The Union Minister continued that thepersonnel are to work in accord with the 14objectives the ministry has laid down. Only if thenation improves its standard, the servicepersonnel will be proud of their nation. At a timewhen the government is striving its utmost fordevelopment of the nation and the people, thedepartmental staff are to be proud of themselves

by working harmoniously and dutifully, addedthe Union minister.

The ministry will provide assistance for thestaff to enjoy a pleasant working environment anddevelopment in line with the rules and regulations,he concluded. Later, the Union minister cordiallygreeted the personnel.

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Panhlaing Hospital gets ISO9001:2008 Certificate

YANGON, 8 May—Aceremony to present ISO9001:2008 Certificate byGIC (Guardian

Independent Certi-fication) of England toPanhlaing Hospital, washeld at Sedona Hotel on

Kaba-Aye Pagoda Road,here, this evening.

It was attended byChief Minister of Yangon

Region U Myint Swe,Yangon Region HluttawSpeaker U Sein Tin Win,Yangon Mayor U HlaMyint and authorityconcerned from YangonRegion and officials fromMinistry of Health. At theceremony, the medicalsuperintendent ofPanhlaing Hospital DrYe Moe Myint extendedgreeting and explainedthe reason of getting ISOcertificate. OperationDirector Dr Tin Lat ofGIC handed over thecertificate to the medicalsuperintendent. After that,Chairman of SPA/FMI CoU Thein Wai spoke wordsof honour and hosted a

Seminar on franchisebusiness organized

YANGON, 8 May —Republic of the Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry andDepartment of ExportPromotion, Ministry ofCommerce of Thailand,jointly organizedSeminar on “BusinessOpportunity forFranchise Business” on2 and 3 May.

Thai scholars gavetalks on franchisebusiness at the seminarwhich was attended bydirectors and staff ofR U M F C C I - m e m b e rcompanies and membercompanies of brotherassociations and facultymembers fromuniversities, accountingfor 120 attendance.

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UnionMinister forInformation

and forCulture U

Kyaw Hsangreets staff

of Fine ArtsDepartment(Mandalay

Branch)and

Archaeology,NationalMuseum

and LibraryDepartment(Mandalay).

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OperationDirector

Dr Tin Latof

GIC handsover

ISO certificate to the medicalsuperintendent

Dr Ye MoeMyint.

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Union Minister for Information and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan meets staff of National Culture and Fine Arts University (Mandalay).—MNA

dinner. PanhlaingHospital, established lastsix year, got the ISOcertificate for qualitymanagement system forprovision of health care.

It is the first hospital thatgets the ISO certificate inMyanmar. It is providingquality health care to thepatients.

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NAY PYI TAW, 8 May—A Myanmar delegationled by Union Minister forFinance and RevenueU Hla Tun attended the14th ASEAN + 3 FinanceMinisters’ Meeting heldon 4 May and the 44th

Asian DevelopmentBank Annual Meetingand related meetings heldon 5 and 6 May in Hanoi,the Socialist Republic ofVietnam.

The Union ministertouched upon furtherdevelopment of ADB

Union F&R Minister attends 14th ASEAN + 3Finance Ministers’ Meeting

member countries andASEAN members andfinancial assistance.

On 4 May afternoon,the Union ministerattended signed the fifthagreement on freedom ofASEAN financial service.At the 14th ASEAN + 3Finance Ministers’Meeting, ADB ChairmanMr Haruhiko Kurodadealt with economicprospect and challengeson policies in Asian, forwhich Korean, Japanese,Chinese and ASEAN

finance ministerscompared notes.

Deputy governors ofASEAN + 3 finance andcentral banks and co-chairmen of the meetingpresented progress ofAsian Bond MarketInitiative-ABMI, ChiangMai InitiativeMul t i l a t e ra l i za t ion -CMIM and ASEAN + 3Research Group beingcarried out underASEAN + 3 FinancialCooperation.

In the evening, the

joint press release ofASEAN + 3 FinanceMinisters was issued,followed by a pressconference.

At the 44th AsianDevelopment BankAnnual Meeting on 5 Maymorning, Governor of theCentral Bank of VietnamMr Nguyen Van Giaudelivered an introductoryspeech. VietnamesePrime Minister MrNguyen Tan Dung andthe ADB chairmanextended greetings.

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YANGON, 8 May—Chief Ministerof Yangon Region U Myint Swe saidthat the government has encouragedthe Myanmar Red Cross Society to beupgraded into a national level force, atthe ceremony to mark the World RedCross Day (2011) at the University ofNursing in Lanmadaw Township, here,this morning.

He called for cooperation andmore contribution to humanitarian tasks

World Red Cross Daymarked in Yangon

Region

NAY PYI TAW, 8May—Mandalay Region,regarding the health sector,has so far seen one 800-bed hospital, one 700-bedhospital, one 550-bedhospital, four 300-bedhospitals, six 200-bedhospitals, one 150-bedhospital, four 100-bedhospitals, 10 50-bedhospitals, 15 25-bedhospitals, three 16-bedhospitals, 41 16-bed

Union Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun at 14th ASEAN+3Finance Ministers, Meeting.—MNA

Chief Minister ofYangon Region

U Myint Swe awardsan outstanding Red

Cross member.—MNA

Magway Region Chief MinisterU Phone MawShwe meets trainees attending

teacher training course.MNA

NanthaU Village gets new health centreand library building

Mandalay Region Chief Minister U Ye Myint at NanthaU Library. MNA

station hospitals, 12 schoolhealthcare centres, 37maternal and childhealthcare centres, 127rural health centres, 672sub rural health centres,nine sub local healthcentres, and 23 traditionalhealth centres.

The government aswell as the public iscontributing to thosehealthcare facilities. On 5May, new rural health

centre building inShwenantha Village,Madaya Township,

PyinOoLwin District,Mandalay Region wasopened along withhanding over of NanthaULibrary building, attendedby Mandalay RegionChief Minister U Ye Myint.

Donor of the healthcentre U Tine Win anddonor of the librarybuilding Daw Win Hlaingalso donated K 7 millionto the medical fund of thevillage for needypatients. MandalayRegion Minister forEducation and Health DrWin Hlaing and Ministerfor Social Affairs U ThanSoe Myint presentedcertificates in honour tothe donors.

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in compliance with the theme of thisyear’s World Red Cross Day“Volunteerism”.

President of the Myanmar RedCross Society Dr Tha Hla Shwe read theRed Cross Day message. The YangonRegion Chief Minister and ministersand officials awarded outstanding RedCross member. After the ceremony thechief minister and party viewedcommemorative exhibits.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8 May — Chief Minister ofMagway Region U Phone Maw Shwe urged traineesof teacher training course at training basic educationmiddle school (Magway) and Education College(Magway) to educate the children to become agood citizen with patriotic spirit when theydischarge their duties as teachers.

At the meeting with trainees for teachers on 6May, Chief Minister U Phone Maw Shwe alsocalled on the trainees to participate in regionaldevelopment tasks.—MNA

Teachers urged to educatechildren to become good

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SAN FRANCISCO, 8 May—When he was deported fromthe US to Mexico for the third time, Martin Estrada Lunawas a high school dropout with a rap sheet of petty crimeslike burglary. Less than two years later, Mexican authoritiessay, he has transformed himself into a drug baron knownas El Kilo, the leader of a ruthless cell of the Zetas gang whomasterminded the mass killings of more than 250 people.He is now under arrest in Mexico City. Mexican prosecutorshave not presented any evidence publicly to support theirclaim that he was responsible for the deaths of 72 migrantsin August and 183 people months later. The Mexicangovernment often announces big arrests immediately afterhigh-profile crimes, but according to its own statistics,three-quarters of those initially accused as drug traffickersor assassins are let go without charges.—Internet

Turkey hosts forum onpoorest nations

ISTANBUL, 8 May—Turkey is hosting a UN-backed conference this week in an effort to promotedevelopment in the world’s poorest countries.

The conference will address the problems of 48countries, most of them in Africa, that are particularlyvulnerable to unrest, disease, economic turbulenceand natural disasters.

Those attending include UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon, EU Commission President JoseManuel Barroso, Afghan President Hamid Karzaiand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The five-day conference starts Monday. Thelast such conference was hosted by the EuropeanUnion in Brussels in 2001.

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BRUSSELS, 8 May—Europe faced the spectre ofGreek calls for new financial aid Saturday as Athens’“catastrophic” finances returned to haunt stressedeurozone states.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou urged“the EU in particular, to leave Greece in peace to doits job”, but Finance Minister GeorgePapaconstantinou later warned that Athens mayneed more hard cash support.

“We need to plan our next steps for 2012 and2013 so that Greece can either access markets oruse the European council’s recent decision thatenables the European (rescue) fund to buy Greekbonds,” Papaconstantinou said, after G20-eurozonetalks overnight in Luxembourg.

National and specialist financial media eachreported that Athens may yet come calling for freshfunds from European Union bailout mechanisms,over and above the 110 billion euros ($160 billion)agreed a year ago.

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Europe faces up toboomerang Greek debt chaos

Canadian survives sevenweeks lost in US wilderness

WASHINGTON, 8 May—A Canadian touristreported missing since mid-March has been foundalive in a remote wilderness area of the westernUnited States and is recovering, police told AFP onSaturday.

Rita Chretien, 56, “is safe and has been able totalk with her family, she is now treated in a hospitalat Twin Falls, Idaho,” said Sergeant Josh Bryantwith the Baker City, Oregon police who coordinatedthe search.

Rescuers are still searching for Chretien’s husbandAlbert, Bryant said by telephone. The couple’s vangot stuck on a logging road while they were travelingin the remote region en route to the gambling city ofLas Vegas, Nevada, police said.—Internet

A forest is pictured in 2003. A Canadian touristreported missing since mid-March has been

found alive in a remote wilderness area of thewestern United States and is recovering, police

told AFP on Saturday.—INTERNET

Vale opens new coal mine inMozambique

MAPUTO, 8 May—Brazilian mining giantVale opens a new $1.7-billion coal mine inMozambique, tappingthe southern Africancountry’s thermal andcoking coal reserves ofaround 23 billion tonnes.

M o z a m b i c a nPresident ArmandoGuebuza and outgoing

Vale chief Roger Agnelliwere to attend theopening ceremony inMoatize outside the cityof Tete in northwestMozambique onSunday, to mark thelargest single investmentto date in one of theworld’s poorestcountries, according toa note sent to journalists.

Vale plans to exportone million tonnes ofcoal from the $1.7-billion (1.2-billion-euro)project this year,ramping up productionto 11 million tonnes in afew years — and, localofficials hope, boostingMozambique’s currenteconomic growth of 6.5percent.

Mozambique’s coalreserves have lainrelatively untapped sinceindependence fromPortugal in 1975. A civilwar from 1977 to 1992crippled the country’seconomy and decimatedits infrastructure.

Two decades later,Mozambique iswelcoming foreigninvestors to its mineralwealth and licking its lipsat the prospect of aboom.—Internet

Visitors choose handicrafts at a bambooproduct shop in Damyang, South Korea,

7 May, 2011. The 13th Damyang BambooFestival was held here recently, attracting

lots of visitors.XINHUA

US-bred criminal accused inMexico mass killings

A paraglider flies over the suburban areaduring a training session in Shenzhen,Guangdong Province on 7 May, 2011.

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Dozens injured after traincrashes into platform in

New JerseyNEW YORK, 8 May—A passenger train crashed

into a platform in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Sundaymorning, injuring at least 50 people, ABC Newsreported. The accident occurred at the EerieLackawanna terminal at around 9:00 am local time(1300 GMT). Fourteen of the injured have beenrushed to Hoboken University Medical Centre andother local hospitals. Train service into and out ofHoboken has been suspended and emergencyofficials are on the scene.

An accident investigation team sent by the PortAuthority is now on its way to the scene.So far noofficial statement has been made.—MNA/Xinhua

One hurt inexplosion in

KualaLumpur,Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, 8May—At least one personwas hurt in the explosionoccurred in a luxuryresidence building indowntown Kuala Lumpurof Malaysia at around19:45 pm local time onSunday, local police said.

The police told Xinhuathat the person was awesterner who wasseverely hurt and has beesent to hospital.

Located about halfkilometre northwest of theKuala Lumpur’s landmarkTwin Tower, the building,called Hampshire Park,contains many locals andwesterners. Severe fire wasalso seen in the building.The reason for theexplosion was stillunknown.—MNA/Xinhua

True patriotism * It is very important for every-

one of the nation regardless ofthe place he lives to have strongUnion Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationalitieswill have to safeguard.

Brazilian mining giant’s Vale coal mine is seenhere on the outskirts of Tete in the Moatize coal

basin in Mozambique.—INTERNET

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SEOUL, 8 May—South KoreanPresident Lee Myung-Bak departedSunday for a week-long visit toGermany, Denmark and France aimedat cementing ties before a sweepingfree trade pact with the European Uniontakes effect.

Lee will meet German ChancellorAngela Merkel and President ChristianWulff to discuss expanding trade andinvestment with the continent’s largesteconomy in areas including renewableenergy, Seoul’s presidential office said.

In Copenhagen, Lee will sign ajoint strategic partnership withDenmark and deals to launch morejoint projects on renewable energy,before meeting with French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy on the last leg of a tripending Saturday.

“The tour has an added significanceas it comes on the eve of... the Korea-EU FTA, tentatively set for 1 July,” the

AMSTERDAM, 8 May—Denmark earns thebiggest share of itsnational revenue fromproducing windmills andother clean technologies,the United States is rapidlyexpanding its clean-techsector, but no country canmatch China’s pace ofgrowth, according to anew report obtained byThe Associated Press.

China’s production ofgreen technologies hasgrown by a remarkable77 per cent a year,

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak, seen here, departed Sunday for

a week-long visit to Germany,Denmark and France aimed at

cementing ties before a sweepingfree trade pact with the European

Union takes effect.—INTERNET

S Korea president starts Europe trip

TUCSON, (Ariz), 8May—What do dozens ofAmerican billionaires talkabout when they gettogether? Their topic thisweek was of coursemoney; not how to makeit, but how to give it away.

Billionaire investorWarren Buffett said Fridaythat a private gathering wasa great chance for thebillionaires who havepledged to give away atleast half their wealth tomeet each other, comparenotes, eat and laugh.

The media was bannedfrom Thursday’s firstmeeting of the group thathas accepted the givingchallenge by Buffett and

Billionaires gather in Arizonato discuss giving

In this photo providedby the Giving Pledge

Gathering,philanthropists Gerry

Lenfest, left, andWarren Buffett takepart in a discussion,on 6 May, 2011, in

Tucson, Ariz.INTERNET

presidential office said earlier.Seoul lawmakers last week ratified

a free trade agreement with the EU in adeal South Korea said would allow itscompanies to tap deeper into the world’slargest market.—Internet

LONDON, 8 May—Indian-born steel tycoonLakshmi Mittal saw about£5 billion ($8 billion, 5.7

Mittal’s fortune falls but stillBritain’s biggest

The chief excutive ofthe world’s biggest

steelmaker,ArcelorMittal,

Lakshmi Mittal, speakson February 2011 at

the companyheadquarters.

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BEIJING, 8 May—TheChina Economic andSocial Council (CESC)would expand coo-peration with theEuropean Economic andSocial Committee(EESC), a senior Chi-nese official said hereSunday.

Wang Gang, presi-dent of the CESC andvice chairman of theNational Committee ofthe Chinese People’sPolitical ConsultativeConference, made theremarks during ameeting with EESC

Citizens are seen purchase gold jewleries in theCaishikou Department Store in Beijing, capitalof China, on 7 May, 2011. In spite of gold and

silver price fall-offs recently, gold trade isrobust here as many investors reckon a

good investment opportunity.XINHUA

US ranks 17 as clean tech producer,China is No 2

China, EU economic, social committees eyeon expanding ties

his friend Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Sincelast June, 69 individualsor couples have made thegiving pledge.

Buffett knew onlyabout 12 of the 61 peopleat the dinner at the MiravalResort in Tucson beforethe famously gregariousBerkshire Hathaway CEOworked the room andmade 40 new friends.

“They all more thanfulfilled my expectations,”Buffett told The AssociatedPress in a telephoneinterview.

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & MelindaGates Foundation, saidshe was delighted by the

openness of the virtualstrangers. At one point,conversation at her tabledrifted toward the biggestmistakes people had evermade as philanthropists.

“One of the thingsabout being aphilanthropist, in manyways it’s rather a lonelyjob,” said TashiaMorgridge, a retiredspecial education teacher.

She works with herhusband, Cisco Systemschairman JohnMorgridge, to give moneyto improve US educationthrough the Denver-based Morgridge FamilyFoundation.

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billion euros) wiped offhis fortune in the past yearbut remains the wealthiestperson in Britain, it wasrevealed Sunday.

The fortune of theLondon-based head ofArcelorMittal, the world’slargest steel maker, fellby around 22 percent to£17.5 billion in the past12 months, according toan annual rich listcompiled by The SundayTimes newspaper.

The huge drop in the60-year-old’s wealth wasdriven by a fall in theshare price ofArcelorMittal as the global

steel industry struggled tocope with costly rawmaterials and slowdemand.

He was the biggestfaller on this year’s list —but remains in first placefor the seventhconsecutive year and ismore than £5 billionahead of the second-placed Alisher Usmanov,a fellow steel magnate.

The fortunes of Mittal,who is chairman and chiefexecutive ofArcelorMittal, weremarkedly different fromthe rest of Britain’s superrich.—Internet

according to the report,which was commissionedby the World WildlifeFund for Nature andwhich will be unveiled onMonday at an industryconference in Amster-dam.

“The Chinese havemade, on the politicallevel, a conscious decisionto capture this market andto develop this marketaggressively,” saidDonald Pols, aneconomist with the WWF.

Denmark, a longtime

leader in wind energy,derives 3.1 percent of itsgross domestic productfrom renewable energytechnology and energyefficiency, or abouteuro6.5 billion ($9.4billion), the report said.

China is the largestproducer in money terms,earning more than euro44billion ($64 billion), or1.4 percent of its grossdomestic product.

The US ranks 17 inthe production of cleantechnologies with 0.3percent of GDP, oreuro31.5 billion ($45billion), but thoseindustries have beenexpanding at a rate of 28percent per year since2008.

“The US is growingsubstantially, so it seemsthe policy of (PresidentBarack) Obama isworking,” Pols said. Butthe US cannot comparewith China, he said.

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president Staffan Nisson.Wang spoke highly

of the growth of China-EU relations, noting thatcurrent China-EU relat-ions were maintaininggood development mo-mentum.

Wang expressed hishope that the currentmechanism and platform

for cooperation betweenthe two sides can be betterutilized to promote thegrowth of China and theEU’s comprehensive andstrategic partnership.

Echoing Wang’sviews, Nisson vowed tostep up bilateral coo-peration to a higherlevel.—Xinhua

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Photo taken on 6 May , 2011 shows the "Tower ofBabel", a creation made by Argentine artist Marta

Minujin with thousands of books in languagesfrom all over the world, at San Martin square in

Buenos Aires, Argentina. The artwork was createdto celebrate that the UNESCO nominated BuenosAires as the World Book Capital 2011.—XINHUA

Visitors andparticipants

attendQatar's first

Interna-tional KiteFestivalheld at

Katara inDoha, thecapital of

Qatar on 7May, 2011.

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Visitors board onto Accelera 98, an exhibited yachtin 2011 Gold Coast Yacht Country Club (GCYCC) in

Hong Kong, south China, on 7 May, 2011. Theannual GCYCC opened here on Saturday, with over

80 exhibitors from some 60 countries and regionsbringing their yachts on show, including the first

made-in-mainland one, Accelera 98, showcasing inHong Kong.— XINHUA

Students participate in a robot contest in TianjinMunicipality, north China, on 7 May, 2011. A robot

contest was held for students here on Saturday,attracting over 500 participants.—XINHUA

Liquid invented to restore ancient bronzewarein north China

London terrorattack victims

‘unlawfullykilled’

LONDON, 8 May—The52 victims of the 7 July,2005, terrorist attacks onLondon were unlawfullykilled, a coroner ruled onFriday. At the RoyalCourts of Justice in Lon-don, Ms Justice HeatherHallett said the evidence"does not justify the con-clusion that any failingsof any organization or in-dividual caused or con-tributed to the deaths".

She spoke to a court-room packed with be-reaved families and sur-vivors who have waitednearly six years for an-swers to their questionsabout how four suicidebombers were able tocarry out the attacks.

She also warned thatLondon was "woefully"unprepared for a terroristattack on the 2012 Ol-ympics because of achronic shortage of airambulance crews andother fast responseteams.—Internet

Lightning hits planeat Manila airport

MANILA, 8 May—Baggage handlers and otherground crew were injured on Saturday when aPhilippine Airlines jetliner was hit by lightningwhile at Manila's airport.

The Airbus 320 had recently arrived fromBangkok and was parked at Terminal 2 of NinoyAquino International Airport at the time of thelightning strike, ABS-CBN News reported. The planewas taken out of service and its turnaround flight toBangkok was delayed for about 45 minutes.

Most of the injured were baggage handlers andequipment operators, officials said. Six were takento a hospital. No passengers were hurt.— Internet

China launches rocket tomonitor space environment

BEIJING, 8 May—Chinasuccessfully launched aspace environment-moni-toring rocket on Saturdaymorning from the southernisland Province of Hainanas part of the nation's key"Meridian Project." Therocket was sent into space at7 am from a launch site inHainan, said a statementfrom the Centre for SpaceScience and Applied Re-search of the Chinese Acad-emy of Sciences (CAS).

"The successful launchtest will play an importantrole in the country's re-search on the independentmonitoring of the spaceenvironment and safe-guarding the security ofspace activities," it said.

The rocket is the first of itskind for the "MeridianProject," which is a ground-based network programmeto monitor the solar-terrestrial space environ-ment and has been sup-ported by the Chinesegovernment.

The project consists ofa chain of ground-basedobservatories with multi-ple instruments, includingmagnetometers and vari-ous radar. —Xinhua

SHIJIAZHUANG, 8 May—Experts in north China'sHebei Province said theyhad invented a special

kind of liquid that canrestore heavily-corrodedbronzeware dating backover 2,000 years.

The liquid could elimi-nate bronze rust onbronzeware surfaces andconvert it into a firm coat-ing to prevent further cor-rosion, said researcherswith the Hebei ProvincialRelics Protection Center.Traditional rust-removalmethods often corrodethe bronzeware andchange its color. The newliquid, a kind of organicsalt, is bronze-friendly.

As most of thebronzeware unearthedare heavily corroded, re-

searchers believe the newinvention is significant inthe archaeological fieldto restore the original lookof ancient bronzeware.The centre has experi-mented by using the liq-uid on scraps ofbronzeware such as grainreceptacles, hooks, andcooking vessels, whichwere believed to be fromthe Warring Sates Period(475-221 B.C.), and therestored effect was satis-factory, they said.

Xinhua

TUSCALOOSA, 8 May—Thousands of volunteersflooded the hard-hit homeof the University ofAlabama with chainsaws,wrecking bars and foodSaturday, offering help andhugs to tornado victimsand causing traffic tie-upsreminiscent of a fallfootball weekend.

A long line of vehiclespiled into a volunteerregistration center whereofficials waived plans tomake workers registerbecause they couldn’tkeep up with the largenumber of people showingup to work.

Groups have had timesince the storms struck 27April to organize trips, andthe turnout appeared farheavier than the firstweekend after the twisters.With sunny weather andlight winds, the governor’soffice asked volunteers tobe patient with the heavytraffic. Many volunteers

Volunteers flood tornado-tossed Tuscaloosa, Alawore Crimson Tidefootball gear, but DebraWilson came more than80 miles to help in anorange T-shirt, celebra-ting the national champi-onship won by ‘Bamaarchrival Auburn Univer-sity. Wilson said teamallegiances don’t matter ata time like this. “I live inAlabama,” said Wilson, ofDixon’s Mills in southwestAlabama. “We just saw

the destruction and felt theneed and we wanted to behere to help.”

Christian organiza-tions including theSalvation Army andSamaritan’s Purse set upoperations to coordinatevolunteers, along withnumerous churches, butmany people simply drovethrough hard-hit neighbor-hoods and got out wherethey saw a need.—Internet

Heavytrafficrolls

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McFarlandBlvd. pasttornado

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Mozambican navy, policeensure safety against Somali

piratesMAPUTO, 8 May—A joint force from the

Mozambican navy and police is working to ensuresafety for the northern coastal district of Moma,against possible attacks by Somali pirates, theMaputo daily paper Noticias said on Sunday.

The Moma locality of Topuito is the site of thedredge mine where the Irish company KenmareResources extracts titanium ores from heavy mineralsands. The joint force has a boat that patrols theTopuito coast.

The minerals extracted from the mine (ilmenite,rutile and zircon) are taken on a conveyor belt to ajetty where they are loaded onto tugs. Further out tosea, the tugs transfer the ores onto the larger shipsthat take them to the importing countries.

The authorities fear that the entire loading andtransfer of the minerals could be vulnerable toattacks by Somali pirates who have occasionallyventured as far south as the Mozambique Channel.

Xinhua

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Costumed man attemptsbank robbery

A man in a monkey suit eluded police in a footchase after he attempted to rob a bank in Gothenburg,Sweden, officials said. The armed man, dressed ineither a monkey or bear costume, attempted to rob abranch office of Swedbank about 6 pm Friday, Swedishnews agency TT reported Saturday.

“A man in a monkey outfit, or similar, may havebeen a bear, too, came running with security guardsbehind him,” a witness said. “I thought it was a jokeat first, a stunt, but then I walked past the bank and sawthe shattered glass.” Police described the man’s attireas an “animal-like costume.”

No shots were fired and no one was injured in theincident. Police said they think the man acted alonebut declined to discuss how he was able to outrun lawenforcement officials. Police were called to investigatea burning vehicle found near the crime scene about anhour later. Police said it is too soon to determine if thecar was related to the robbery attempt.

Baby born at Californiabus stop

A woman gave birthwithout a doctor at aSouth Lake Tahoe, Calif,bus stop while waitingfor help to arrive, SouthLake Tahoe police say.

Maria Ortiz-Coradowas about 10 days fromher due date andenjoying a quiet eveningat home Tuesday whenshe went into labor, The

David Beckham in crash onLA freeway

English midfielderDavid Beckham,

pictured in February2011, was not injured

in a two-crash crash inwhich he was driving a

car that rear-endedanother vehicle on abusy freeway nearLos Angeles, police

said Saturday.INTERNET

the soccer great was nothurt in Friday morning’scrash, but the other car’sdriver was hospitalizedafter complaining of neckpain.

The patrol says Be-ckham’s Cadillac strucka Mitsubishi stalled in thecarpool lane of the 405Freeway in Torrance.

The other driver, a 40-year-old Los Angelesman, was taken to ahospital as a precautionarymeasure. His name wasnot released.

Beckham was notcited. The 35-year-oldBeckham joined MajorLeague Soccer club LosAngeles Galaxy in2007.

Before that, heplayed in Europe forManchester United andReal Madrid and wascaptain of England’snational team from 2000to 2006.

Internet

TORRANCE, 8 May—Authorities say DavidBeckham was behind thewheel of a car that rear-ended another vehicle ona Southern Californiafreeway.

The California High-way Patrol said Saturday

Charges to be dropped in Bieber NY mall frenzyGARDEN CITY, 8 May—Justin

Bieber has agreed to record a publicservice announcement on cyberb-ullying in order to resolve criminalcharges filed against his managerand a record executive after a frenzyat a New York mall.

The case stemmed from an incidentin 2009, when thousands of unrulygirls turned up at a Long Islandclothing store to see the teen pop starsign autographs. Police hadn’t beenexpecting the crowd, and ordered theevent cancelled.

Def Jam Records executive JamesRoppo was arrested after police saidhe refused to help disperse the crowd.Months later, police also pressed child

Pop star Justin Biebergives a Press Conferencein Singapore. Teen popsinger Justin Bieber hasagreed to record a public

service announcementon cyberbullying in orderto resolve misdemeanor

charges filed against oneof his managers and arecord executive after afrenzy at a Long Island

mall.—INTERNET

endangerment charges againstBieber’s manager, Scott Braun.

Braun hadn’t been at the mall, butpolice said that when reached by phonehe initially refused an order to sendout a Twitter message to Bieber’s fanstelling them the singer wouldn’tappear.

Prosecutors told a judge Fridaythat they are dropping charges againstboth men. The record company and amanagement company pleaded guiltyto fire code violations.

In an interview with Newsday,Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Ricesaid she was happy with the outcomeof the case.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 8 May—At 70 years old, he climbs ladders,rolls on the ground and his voice shakes the room: PlacidoDomingo is Oreste in “Iphigenie en Tauride,” a performance-style farewell to the Washington National Opera, which theSpanish tenor has led for 15 years.

Visibly tired but delighted, Placido Domingo earned a longovation Friday night on the stage of the Washington NationalOpera (WNO). He steps down as general director on 30 June.

To mark the occasion, the tenor gives eight performancesin the role of Oreste in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera thatpremiered in Paris in 1779. It’s the same role he performed inMadrid on his 70th birthday in January, at the Teatro Real opera

Spanish tenor Domingo singsfarewell to Washington

house. Alternately, he leadsDonizetti’s opera “Don Pasquale,” asconductor until 27 May.—Internet

Visibly tired but delighted, PlacidoDomingo, pictured here in March

2011, earned a long ovation Fridaynight on the stage of the WashingtonNational Opera (WNO).—INTERNET

Sacramento Bee repo-rted.

Her husband, Jona-tan, called a taxi to takethem to a hospital andwhile they waited at abus stop for the cab toarrive, Ortiz-Coradowent into labor.

Jonatan calledSouth Lake Tahoepolice around 12:38 amPDT Wednesday. Dis-patchers Jill Broadfootand Linda Clark sentpolice and fire depart-ment medical person-nelto the scene andcoached Jonatan thro-ugh the birthing process,the Bee said.

Officers AngieKallstrom and ChrisWebber and Sgt. BradWilliams arrived as 6-pound, 3 ounce, DavidCorado was born —cold but healthy.

91-year-old NZ crimefighter told tostay home

A 91-year-old New Zealand war veteran says he has beenforced to put his new career as a modern-day Batman on holdbecause he is not allowed to be out fighting crime alone at night.

John Bray considers he is more than qualified to deal withthe evildoers in the North Island town of Waipawa, havingserved with the Long Range Desert Group, a reconnaissance andraiding unit in north Africa in World War II.

So he enlisted as a member of the local community patrol, anorganisation which acts as “the eyes and ears” of the police,cruising the streets at night, reporting any suspicious activity.

Like Batman, he started out with a partner but decided to gosolo when his Robin equivalent, a man in his late 80s, keptfalling asleep on duty.

Picture taken on May 6, 2011 shows apanoramic view of a smiling facecomprised of 768 participants at a

square in Croatian capital Zagreb, on6 May, 2011. The Guiness World

Records organization has approved itas the largest human smiley.

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales,bottom left, delivers a speechduring a traditional Andean

Indigenous mass wedding in LaPaz, Bolivia, on 7 May, 2011.

Some 350 couples participated inthis event, having the possibility to

choose the wedding godfather,according to an ancient tradition,

who this time was Morales.

350 Indian couples wed in mass ceremony in BoliviaAbout 350 couples in Bolivia

have been married according toIndian customs and traditions in acolorful Andean mass wedding withPresident Evo Morales presiding asbest man.

Saturday’s ceremony was held ata colosseum in La Paz, the capital,that was adorned with large whiteflowers and indigenous banners.Several bands serenaded the couples.

Indian religious leaders presidedover the wedding as did symbolicallyPachamana — the earth deity of theAymara and Quechua races ofBolivia’s highlands Indians.

And Morales gave a speech tothe couples, who crowded the arena’sfloor wearing multicoloured nativeponchos and hats.

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Pinotti in pink as HTC winGiro team time-trial

Byrd is the word atWells Fargo

Holyfield beats Nielsen

Four-goal Ronaldo keeps Realclinging on

AC Milan claim 18th Serie A title

AC Milan's forwardZlatan Ibrahimovic cel-ebrates in Rome's Olym-pic Stadium.—INTERNET

ROME, 8 May — ACMilan claimed an 18thSerie A title following a0-0 draw at Roma on Sat-urday that gave them anunassailable lead at thetop of the table with twogames to go. Milan cameinto the game knowingthey needed only a drawto be sure of winning thescudetto crown and theynever looked in dangerof failing to do so.

The draw pushed theirlead over second-placedInter Milan, who still havethree to play, to ninepoints but with a betterhead-to-head record, therosssoneri cannot now beovertaken. And the title isall the sweeter for Milanwho have put an end totheir arch rivals Inter's runof five straight leaguecrowns.

Coach MassmilianoAllegri was understand-ably delighted at havinglanded the title in his firstseason at the club andeven claimed that clubpresident and Italy PrimeMinister Silvio Berlusconihad promised him newsignings in the summer.

Internet

Denmark's BrianNielsen, right, receivesa punch from EvanderHolyfield of the US dur-ing their heavyweightboxing match in DRByen Koncerthuset inCopenhagen, on Satur- day.—INTERNET

COPENHAGEN, 8 May —Former heavyweightchampion EvanderHolyfield stopped Den-mark's Brian Nielsen ona technical knockout inthe 10th round on Satur-day night. In the 10thround, the 48-year-oldHolyfield pressedNielson in the corner andthe bout was halted afterHolyfield landed severaljabs in the corner and theDane spat out someblood. Nielsen said afterthe bout he was hit byHolyfield's headbutts.

"My goal still is to bethe undisputed heavy-weight champion of theworld," Holyfield said."This fight showed otherchampions what I amable to do, but it alsotaught me I got to bebetter. The most

important is that I didn'tquit. I am not quitter."Despite Nielsen beingpressed and a swolleneye, Nielsen kept onclowning to provokeHolyfield throughout thebout, prompting histrainer, Paul Duvill, tobeg him to stop foolingaround and focus onHolyfield.— Internet

Real Madrid's forwardCristiano Ronaldo

BARCELONA, 8 May—Cristiano Ronaldo grabbedfour goals to take his sea-son's tally to 33 as RealMadrid crushed Sevilla 6-2 on Saturday to keep theirslim hopes of beating Bar-celona to the La Liga titlealive. The gap at the top ofthe table is now down tofive points but after Barce-lona play Espanyol in theCatalan derby on Sunday,there will only be threegames to play.

Real faced Sevilla onthe back of tumultuousdouble header with Bar-

celona in the ChampionsLeague semi-final wherethey were beaten by theirbitter rivals. Looking torestore pride, coach JoseMourinho played a fullstrength side against aSevilla team in the fightfor a place in the EuropaLeague.— Internet

Mancini backs City to sealChampions League spot

LIVERPOOL, 8 May — Roberto Mancini backed hisManchester City players to hold their nerve in therace to clinch a Champions League place after theirhopes suffered a setback with a 2-1 defeat againstEverton. Mancini's side showed a few signs of nervesas they surrendered a first-half lead at Goodison Parkon Saturday to give Tottenham a chance to close thegap ahead of their crucial visit to Eastland in midweek.

After Yaya Toure's opener, City looked on coursefor a potentially decisive win before two goals inseven minutes from Sylvain Distin and Leon Osmanleft Mancini frustrated. But it wasn't all bad news forMancini as Tottenham could only manage a 1-1 drawagainst Blackpool in Saturday's late game, leavingfourth placed City six points clear of Spurs.—Internet

Roman revenge’ on cards inNadal-Djokovic battle

Italian rider MarcoPinotti

ROME, 8 May — ItalianMarco Pinotti will wearthe first pink jersey of the2011 Giro d'Italia after hisHTC-Highroad team wonthe opening stage teamtime-trial on Saturday.

HTC edged out Ameri-cans Team RadioShackby 10 seconds on the19.3km course fromVenaria Reale to Turin.

Omega Pharma-Lottotook a surprise third place,22 seconds back, justahead of the Liquigas teamof one of the pre-race fa-vourites, Vincenzo Nibali."It's a huge honour to bewearing the pink jersey,"said Pinotti, who was ninthlast year."— Internet

Rafael Nadal

ROME, 8 May — Re-venge is very likely to beon the cards when theRome International beginson Sunday in the last bigevent ahead of the FrenchOpen later this month.Ahead of the Madrid semi-finals on Saturday, worldnumber one Rafael Nadalwas comfortably the manof the moment. He hadwon his last 36 matches onclay, five French Open titlesin the last six years, sevenMonte Carlo Masters titlesin a row, six out of seven inBarcelona and five out ofsix at the Rome Masters.

And yet he has beenovershadowed this yearby the world number two,Serbia's Novak Djokovic.It is Djokovic who claimedthe opening Grand Slam

of the year in Australiaand he followed that upby defeating Nadal in thefinals of both the IndianWells and Miami Masters.What's more, in both hecame back from a set downto upset the world numberone. In fact, Djokovic hasyet to taste the bitter pill ofdefeat this season, going30 matches without loss.That puts him third on theall-time list of unbeatenstarts to a season behindJohn McEnroe (44) andBjorn Borg (33).

Internet

CHARLOTTE, 8 May —The crowd was so big andboisterous on Saturdaythat it made Jonathan Byrda little uncomfortable. See-ing his name atop theleaderboard? Byrd is get-ting used to that.

The guy who only lastOctober was worriedabout keeping his PGATour card ran off a blister-

ing stretch of birdies in theWells Fargo Champion-ship for a 5-under 67,giving him a one-shot leadas he goes for his third winin seven months.

"Twelve months ago, Iwould never have thoughtthat could happen," hesaid.

"But now, the way mygame is, why couldn't ithappen? I'm playingwell. I feel like I have allthe tools to play well.I'm just going to play,and then when it's allover, I'll enjoy whateverI've done."

InternetJonathan Byrd

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Kvitova beats Azarenka forMadrid Open title

MADRID, 8 May—Petra Kvitova won herthird title of the seasonSunday, beating VictoriaAzarenka 7-6 (3), 6-4 inthe Madrid Open final.

The 18th-rankedCzech won the first settiebreaker whenAzarenka netted. Theplayers exchangedbreaks before Kvitovagained the momentum,helped by 40 winners.Kvitova secured her firstMasters series trophywhen her Belorussianopponent returned longon the first championshippoint. Azarenka onlymanaged to convert threeof nine break chances asKvitova defended herserve well despite a shakyservice game.

“I was very nervousand perhaps that was theproblem,” said Kvitova,who will be the sixth Czechplayer to reach the top-10when she jumps to No 10

in the WTA rankingscoming out Monday. “Ithink it’s the best tennisthat I’ve played. I was veryoffensive.” Azarenka hitonly 10 winners to goalong with her 21 unforcederrors. Perhaps sensing themissed opportunity, shebroke down into tears afterthe loss.

Petra Kvitova servesduring the final match

against Victoria Azarenkain the Madrid Open tennis

tournament in Madrid.

“She played greatthis week, (she) deservedit,” said Azarenka, whowill jump one spot to acareer-high of fourth inthe rankings despitecoming up short in herbid for a third title thisseason.—Internet

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Sunday, 8th May, 2011

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOversea Transmission - (9-5-11 09:30 am ~

10-5-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* The Beauty in the North of Myanmar* News* 9th International Conference on Computer

Application* World Autism Awareness Day 2011* News* Record Album* News* “Youth & Education” Engineering Day

Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* The Beauty in the North of Myanmar* News* 9th International Conference on Computer

Application* World Autism Awareness Day 2011* News* Record Album* News* “Youth & Education” Engineering Day* News* Animated Myanmar Cartoons* Up Against the Tide* News* Superior Diploma in Abhidhamma* Music Gallery* News* Myanmar Movie Impact “Hundred of

Relatives and Ten Siblings”* News* A Visit to Htam Hsan Cave: A Miraculous

Place* Myanmar Movie “The Magician,s Flower”

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Programme Schedule(9-5-2011) (Monday)

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7:00 am 1. Paritta By

Hilly RegionMissionary Sayadaw

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise7:30 am 3. Morning News7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja

Song7:50 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song8:00 am 6. Health Programme8:05 am 7. Song Of National

Races8:10 am 8. Cute Little Dancers8:20 am 9. MyanmarTraditional

Cultural PerformingArts Competitions

8:30 am 10. Teleplay (Health)8:40 am11. International News8:45 am12. Musical Programme3:30 pm 1. Myanmar National

League MNL GrandRoyal Cup2011(Delay)(MagwayFC &KBZFC)

5:00 pm 2. Musical Programme5:10 pm 3. Dance Of Variety5:20 pm 4. Musical Programme

(The Radio

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Chin State, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated Kachin State, scattered in Sagaing, Mandalay,Magway, Bago and Ayeyawady Regions, Shan, Rakhine,Kayin and Mon State, widespread in the remaining Regionsand States with isolated heavyfalls in Lower Sagaing andTaninthayi Regions. Day temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C)below may average trmperatures in Magway, Yangon andTaninthayi Region, (6°C) below May average temperaturesin Mandalay and Bago Region and about May averagetemperatures in the remaining Regions and States. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Kawthaung(3.26) inches, Dawei (2.20) inches, Sagaing (1.85) inches,Kawkareik (1.50) inches, Myeik (1.46) inches, Thaton (1.30)inches, and PyinOoLwin (1.26) inches.

Nay Pyi TawMaximum temperature on 7-5-2011 was 95°F.

Minimum temperature on 8-5-2011 was 75°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-5-2011 was (73%).Rainfall on 8-5-2011 was (Nil).

Nay Pyi Taw (Airport)Maximum temperature on 7-5-2011 was 95°F.

Minimum temperature on 8-5-2011 was 75°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-5-2011 was (65%).Rainfall on 8-5-2011 was (Nil) .

Rainfall on 8-5-2011 was (Nil) at Nay Pyi Taw, (1.15)inches at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) and (1.06) inches atMandalay. Total rainfall since 1-1-2011 was (10.79)

inches at Nay Pyi Taw, (14.02) inches at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) and (8.38) inches at Mandalay. Maximum windspeed at Nay Pyi Taw was (4) mph from North at (06:30)hours MST on 8-5-2011.

Bay Inference: Weather is cloudy in the AndamanSea and South Bay and partly cloudy elsewhere in the Bayof Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 9th May2011: Rain or thundershowers will be scattered to isolatedin Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Regions, Kachin andShan States, fairly widespread in Bago Region, Shan andRakhine States and widespread in the remaining Regionsand States with likelihood of isolated heavyfalls inAyeyawady and Taninthayi Regions and Mon State.Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the Sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and alongMon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed in squalls mayreach (35) to (40) mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere inMyanmar water.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofincrease of rain in Southern Myanmar Areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 9th May 2011: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degreeof cerainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for9th May 2011: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degreeof cerainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for9th May 2011: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcerainty is (80%).

WEATHER

Daw Than Yee(Sittway)Aged 76

Beloved wife of late U Ba Sein, residing atNo. 48, Bandargone 6th Street, Kan/North Ward,Mingala Taungnyunt Township, mother of Dr KyawOo-Daw Khin Kyi Zan (USA), U Thein Hla-DawKhin Mar Yee (SHS 4 Mingalar Taungnyunt), (KoAung Soe), (Ko Soe Win Kyaw), U Aung Moe-DawKhin Phyu Lwin, beloved grandmother of Ko ZanOo Kyaw, Ko Zan Lin Kyaw, Ko Zan Kyaw Kyaw,Ko Hla Myo Oo, Ko Myo Min Hein, Ko Zeyar Oo,Ma Thazin Thinn, Ma Ei Ei Zin, was passed away at12:00 noon on 7.5.2011 (Saturday) at ShinparkuHospital. The remain will be buried at YewayCemetary, 4:00 pm on 11.5.2011 (Wednesday).The buses will leave for the house at 2:30 pm on11.5.2011.

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5:30 pm 5. Myanmar Idoal6:00 pm 6. Evening News6:15 pm 7. Weather Report6:20 pm 8. Sing & Enjoy7:00 pm 9. TV Drama Series8:00 pm10. News11. International News12. Weather Report13. World,s Stars14. TV Drama Series

Smith takes 1st Sprint Cup victory

Ryan Newman, left, andKasey Kahne, right take

the green flag to start the,NASCAR Sprint Cup

series Showtime Southern500 at Darligton Raceway

on Saturday. INTERNET

his first Sprint Cup victoryon Saturday night.

Smith held off CarlEdwards the final two lapsat Darlington Raceway in arace that turned ugly latewhen Kyle Busch tangledwith Kevin Harvick andClint Bowyer to set up theovertime finish.

After the race, Harvicktracked down Busch's car,stopped in front of Buschon pit road, then got out ofhis car and attempted topunch or grab Busch throughhis window. Busch thenslammed into Harvick'sdriverless car, sending itcrashing in the inside wall.

Harvick and Busch thenstared down each other fromtheir cars as they enteredthe garage before a standoffthat looked as if it might

erupt further.It finally ended when

Busch bumped Harvickseveral times to make spaceto drive off. Both driverswere summoned to theNASCAR hauler. BradKeselowski finished third,pole-sitter Kasey Kahne wasfourth and Ryan Newmanfifth.— Internet

DARLINGTON, 8 May—Regan Smith moved infront on a caution nine laps

from the end and survived agreen-white-checker finishto win the Southern 500 for

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

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

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

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

7th Waxing of Kason 1373 ME Monday, 9 May, 2011

Union Minister for Construction U KhinMaung Myint meets officials of PublicWorks at Shan State Superintending

Engineer’s Office.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8 May— In meeting with officialsof Public Works at Shan State SuperintendingEngineer’s Office in Lashio yesterday, UnionMinister for Construction U Khin Maung Myintheard reports on road works along 48/4 miles longHsipaw-Panglon-Namhsan Road, 37 miles longMangton-Namhsan Road and 78 miles long Kutkai-Tamoenye-Monesi-Tarpa-18th-Mile Junction(Tashwehtan) Road presented by Shan State (North)Superintending Engineer U Sai Kyaw Moe.

The Union Minister inspected the offices ofengineers and staff quarters.

MNA

Public Works upgrading roadsin Shan State (North)

NAY PYI TAW, 8 May— Southwest monsoon will enter southern parts ofMyanmar in the second 10 days of May. A depression can occur at the Bayof Bengal and it will be stronger to be small storm. Weather is cloudy or partlycloudy at the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

Rain or thundershowers will be scattered in upper Sagaing, Mandalay,Yangon, Bago, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi regions, Kachin, Chin, Shan,Kayin and Mon States from 4 to 6 days and the remaining regions and statesin three days.

Lower Sagaing and Magway regions, Kayah and Kayin States will havemore than average temperature in May and the remaining regions and statesthe average temperature of May.

Ayeyawady River will reach above the water level of 120 centimetres(about four feet) at Myitkyina, Bhamo and Katha, above the water level of 90centimetres (about three feet) at Mandalay and Sagaing, above the water levelof 75 centimetres (about 2.5 feet) at Pakokku, NyaungU, Chauk, Minbu,Magway, Aunglan, Pyay, Seiktha, Hinthada and Zalun.

Chindwin River will reach above the water level of 90 centimetres (aboutthree feet) at Khamti and Homalin and 45 centimetres (about 1.5 feet) atMawlaik, Kalewa and Monywa.—MNA

Weather forecasts for second 10-day of May

MANCHESTER, 8May—United need justone more point to sealthe title after they claimeda 2-1 win over Chelseain their huge showdownat Old Trafford.

Javier Hernandeztook just 36 seconds tobreak the deadlock as heseized on a David Luizerror to net his 20th goalof the season.

Skipper NemanjaVidic headed home aRyan Giggs cross in the

ManU move closer to winningtitle after beating Chelsea

23rd minute. Chelseathreatened an unlikelycomeback after Frank

Lampard’s 68th-minuteheader restored visitors'hope.—Internet

Javier Hernandez scores the first goal forManchester United.

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