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Established 1914

Volume XVI, Number 228 5th Waxing of Nadaw 1370 ME Tuesday, 2 December, 2008

Senior General Than Shwesends message of felicitations

to Laotian PresidentNAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—On the occasion of the 33rd Anniversary of the

Founding of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, which falls on 2December 2008, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peaceand Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message offelicitations to Mr Choummaly Sayasone, President of the Lao People'sDemocratic Republic.— MNA

Senior General Than Shwefelicitates UAE President

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the

State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent

a message of felicitations to His Highness Khalifa Bin Zayid Al Nuhayyan,

President of the United Arab Emirates, on the occasion of the National Day

of the United Arab Emirates which falls on 2 December 2008.

MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Ayesends message of felicitations to

Laotian Vice-PresidentNAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—On the occasion of the 33rd Anniversary of the

Founding of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, which falls on 2December 2008, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Vice-Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has senta message of felicitations to Mr Bounnhang Vorachit, Vice-President of theLao People's Democratic Republic.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Ayesends message of felicitations to

Vice-President of UAENAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Vice-Chair-

man of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar,has sent a message of felicitations to His Highness Muhammad Bin RashidAl Maktum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United ArabEmirates, on the occasion of the National Day of the United Arab Emirates,which falls on 2 December 2008.—MNA

State aims to build up industrialnation based on agricultural sectorPrime Minister addresses meeting on developmentof agricultural sector and boosting of export items

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Dec – A coordi-nation meeting on development of agri-cultural sector and boosting of exportitems took place at the Government Of-fice here this afternoon with an addressby Prime Minister General Thein Sein.

The meeting was attended by min-isters, directors-general of the State Peaceand Development Council Office andthe Government Office, departmentalheads, chairmen and vice-chairmen ofindustrial zones, entrepreneurs from fish-

ery, edible oil palm, bio-ethanol andrubber businesses and officials.

Addressing the meeting, the PrimeMinister said the State has aimed tobuild up an industrialized nation basedon the agricultural sector. Most of therich nations are industrialized ones.Myanmar has a lot of natural resourcesto build up an industrialized nation.Nonetheless, it has not been in a positionto achieve the goal quickly as there is

(See page 8)

Prime Minister

General Thein Sein

addresses the coordi-

nation meeting on

development of

agricultural sector

and boosting of

export items.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 2 December, 2008

Tuesday, 2 December, 2008

Literature is a source of national culture.Being the cultural pillar of each and every citizenliterature highlights the cultural status of theState and the people of a particular nation.

In the course of Myanmar history, men ofletters have had the right to inherit the legacyof Myanmar literature. Thus, they are to handdown the national legacy to the new generationyouths. Meanwhile, they need to exert constantefforts for the development of Myanmarliterature.

While making all-out efforts for thedevelopment of Myanmar literature, thegovernment chooses the masterpieces of literatiand holds a ceremony to present handsomeprizes to the men of letters yearly.

The authorities concerned announced thewinners of the Life-long National LiteraryAward and the National Literary Award theother day. The awards cover novel genre,collected short stories genre, collected poemsgenre, belles-letter genre, literature onMyanmar culture and fine arts genre, childliterature genre, youth literature genre,translation (knowledge) genre, translation(aesthetics) genre, general knowledge (arts)genre and general knowledge (applied science)genre.

It is incumbent upon all the men of lettersto widen the scope of knowledge of the peopleso that they can keep pace with changes anddevelopments. At the same time, they are toequip the people with national outlooks andnationalistic fervour through the might of theirpen.

Today, efforts are being made for thedevelopment of Myanmar literature. At such atime, the onus is on the literati to serve the bestinterest of the State and the people by producingliterature depicting nationalistic spirit andnationalistic fervour.

Fully equip people withnationalistic fervour throughmight of pen

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

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Foreign Minister sendsmessage of felicitations to

UAE counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec — U Nyan Win, Minister

for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, hassent a message of felicitations to Mr Abdallah binZayed Al-Nuhayyan, Minister for Foreign Affairs ofthe United Arab Emirates, on the occasion of theNational Day of the United Arab Emirates, whichfalls on 2 December 2008.

MNA

Foreign Minister sendsmessage of felicitations to

Laotian counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—On the occasion of the

33rd Anniversary of the Founding of the Lao People’sDemocratic Republic, which falls on 2 December2008, U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs ofthe Union of Myanmar, has sent a message offelicitations to Dr Thongloun Sisoulith, Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the LaoPeople’s Democratic Republic.—MNA

YANGON, 1 Dec—Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe on 29 November visited the passengerlounge at Pansodan/Dalla jetty of Inland WaterTransport and inspected sales of tickets, berthing of Z-craft and vessels in Yangon River.

At Lanmadaw Morton jetty, the minister viewedpassengers and loading of commodities onto vesselBandaka that would leave Yangon for Labutta. At theoffice of Delta Division, Managing Director U SoeTint of IWT reported on waterways to AyeyawadyDivision and condition of vessels, salvage of sunkenvessels and repair of ships, Assistant General Manager

Tasks of IWT, Yangon International Airport inspected

U Myo Naing, on running of vessels and income,Managing Director U Thein Htay, on repairing ofjetties.

The minister gave necessary instructions.At Yangon International Airport, the minister

inspected arrival of passengers and checking with theuse of X-ray machine.

In meeting with staff, the minister heard reportson security of the airport by Airport General ManagerU Khin Maung Myint. After giving instructions, theminister inspected the freight division, the groundservice division and the mechanical division.—MNA

YANGON, 1 Dec—Minister for Social Welfare,Relief and ResettlementMaj-Gen Maung MaungSwe visited Women’sDevelopment Centre inKamayut Township on 28November.

At the Women’sDevelopment Centre,Daw Khin Win Nwe, headof the centre, reported tothe minister on teachingvocational subjects forwomen, employment andresettlement. Next,Minister Maj-Gen MaungMaung Swe gaveinstructions, and went

Minister visits disabled adult training schoolweaving workshop,sculpture workshop, salecentre, quarters and themess hall.

The minister went toSocial Welfare TrainingSchool on KyaikwaingPagoda Road inMayangon Townshipwhere Principal U AyeKyaw of the disabled adulttraining school reportedon training courses onelectronic, hair cutting,photography, sewing,lacing and computer,Principal of the disabledyouth training school DawYi Mar Tin on teaching

for disabled youths, andIn-charge of the home fordisabled youth Daw ThanThan Nwe on nursing fordisabled youth.

The ministerinstructed officials to teachadvanced vocationalsubjects and to cooperatewith INGOs and NGOs.

Afterwards, theminister inspected trainingcourses for computer,photography, sewing,lacing, hair cutting, radioand electronic at thetraining school of disabledadult and nursery fordisabled.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe inspects berthing of Z-crafts at Pansodan/Dalla jetty of InlandWater Transport.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe looks intoWomen’sDevelopment Centre.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 2 December, 2008 3

India clears lastMumbai siege site

BAGHDAD, 1 Dec — AnAmerican journalist for Na-tional Public Radio and threeIraqi colleagues escaped in-jury Sunday when a bombattached to their car ex-ploded as it was parkedalong a street in west Bagh-dad.

Ivan Watson, a 33 year-oldreporter for NPR on tempo-rary assignment in Iraq, saidhe had gone to interview peo-ple in a kebab cafe a fewyards from an Iraqi armycheckpoint. Watson, who isnormally based in Istanbul,Turkey, was accompanied byproducer and translator AliHamdani and two driverswho refused to be named forsecurity reasons.—Internet

NPR journalists’car bombedin Baghdad MUMBAI, 1 Dec—Au-

thorities finished remov-ing bodies from the bul-let-and-grenade-scarredTaj Mahal hotel Monday,the final site of theMumbai siege to becleared, and said thedeath toll from the attackstood at 172 killed.

Security forces werescouring the 565 roomhotel for booby traps andbodies, and declared thelandmark buildingcleared two days afterthey killed the last threemilitants holed up insidefollowing a deadly,three-day rampage in In-dia’s financial center.

“We were apprehen-sive about more bodies

being found. But this isnot likely —all rooms inthe Taj have been openedand checked,” saidMahara-shtra state gov-ernment spokesmanBhushan Gagrani.

The army had alreadycleared two other sites,the five-star Oberoi hoteland the headquarters ofan ultra-Orthodox JewishCenter.

The only gunman cap-tured after the 60-hourterrorist siege of Mumbaisaid he belonged to a Pa-kistani militant groupwith links to the disputedHimalayan region ofKashmir, a senior policeofficer said.

Internet

In this on 26 Nov, 2008file photo, a gunmanidentified by police asAjmal Qasab walks atthe Chatrapathi Sivaji

Terminal railwaystation in Mumbai,India.—INTERNET

90,000 civilianskilled since US

invasionBAGHDAD, 1 Dec — The number of civil-

ians killed in Iraq rose last month after a seriesof Baghdad bombings, data showed.

Iraqi government figures showed 296 civil-ians died violent deaths in November, up from238 in October.

Last year’s November civilian death toll was538.

Officials said a series of Baghdad bomb-ings last month aimed at derailing a parlia-mentary vote on a controversial security dealwith Washington, which was approved onThursday.

Since the invasion a total of 4,207 US sol-diers have died in Iraq or in surrounding areaswhere troops are stationed, including those killedby non-hostile causes such as accidents or ill-ness. At least 90,000 civilians have been killed,according to www.iraqbodycount.net.

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Iraq: bombs kill more than 30in Baghdad, Mosul

NATO trucks attacked in Pakistan; bomber kills eight

A man injured in a twin bombing near the

entrance to a police academy is helped out of

hospital, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, 1 Dec,

2008.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 1 Dec — A series of bombs struckUS and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and thenorthern city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least32 people and wounding dozens more, Iraqi offi-cials said.

At least 16 people were killed and 46 woundedin a nearly simultaneous double bombing near a po-lice academy in eastern Baghdad.

In Mosul, a suicide car bomber detonated his ex-plosives as a joint US-Iraqi convoy drove by in acrowded commercial area, a police officer said. Theofficer also declined to be identified for the samereason.

At least 15 people — most civilians — were killed

and 30 wounded in that attack, the officer said. Anofficial at the morgue where the bodies were takenconfirmed the death toll.

Earlier Monday, a senior Defense Ministryofficial was wounded in a roadside bombattack that killed one of his bodyguards, Iraqimilitary spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said.

Internet

A Pakistani examines burnt trucks caused byinsurgents' attack at the Fasial terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 1 Dec, 2008.—INTERNET

PESHAWAR (Pakistan), 1 Dec — Militants in north-western Pakistan attacked trucks ferrying supplies toNATO and US forces in Afghanistan on Monday, kill-ing two people and destroying a dozen vehicles, wit-nesses and police said.

Meanwhile, a suicide bomber killed eight peopleand wounded 40 others at a military checkpoint in theregion’s Swat Valley, police said.

The attack on the US-led coalition trucks took placeat a terminal in Peshawar, which sits along the supplyroute from Pakistan to Afghanistan. The city has seenan upsurge in violence in recent weeks, including theslaying of an American working on a US-funded aidproject. Several gunmen fired rockets and automaticweapons at the Faisal terminal, killing a driver and aclerk and destroying 12 trucks, said police officerAhsanullah Khan.

Up to 75 percent of the supplies for Western forcesin landlocked Afghanistan pass through Pakistan.Earlier this month, suspected Taliban militants hi-jacked several trucks carrying Humvees near theKhyber Pass.

Al-Qaida and Taliban militants in the northwest-ern border region are blamed for rising attacks in Pa-kistan and also in Afghanistan, where violence is run-ning at its highest level since the U.S.-led invasion in2001.

Meanwhile, shooting and violence continued inparts of Karachi, the largest city and commercial hubof Pakistan, raising the death toll to 32 in three daysof violence.—Internet

Obama rolls outnational security

teamWASHINGTON, 1 Dec — President-elect Barack

Obama on Monday announced Sen Hillary Clintonas his pick for secretary of state, calling her an “Ameri-can of tremendous stature who will have my com-plete confidence.”

Obama also confirmed that he is keeping DefenceSecretary Robert Gates in his current post.

Rounding out his Monday announcements, Obamanamed retired Marine Gen Jim Jones as his nationalsecurity adviser, Eric Holder as attorney general, Ari-zona Gov Janet Napolitano as homeland security sec-retary and Susan Rice as ambassador to the UnitedNations.

All of the selections are people who have beenmentioned often during weeks of fevered speculationabout the likely nominees.

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TEHERAN, 1 Dec — Theglobal oil market is over-supplied by 2 million bar-rels per day (bpd), Iran’soil minister said here Sun-day, a day after the Or-ganization of PetroleumExporting Countries(OPEC) deferred a deci-sion on a new output cut.

“Market assessmentsindicate that the markethas around 2 million bar-rels per day of oversup-ply,” Gholam Hossein

Villagers print the book of the Chen’s family tree with wooden movable typein Wentang village of Qimen county, east China’s Anhui Province,recently.

XINHUA

Children wearing

traditional costumes

attend the folk singing

festival of the Dong

ethnic group in

Congjiang county,

southwest China’s

Guizhou Province, on

28 Nov, 2008. The 5th

China Congjiang Folk

Singing Festival of the

Dong ethnic group was

held in Congjiang

county on 28 Nov.

XINHUA

Iran says oil market oversupplyat two million bpd

Nozari was quoted byIran’s satellite Press TV assaying.

OPEC announced inCairo on Saturday that itwould maintain the cur-rent crude oil output untilnext month’s meeting inAlgeria.

OPEC PresidentChakib Khelil, who is alsoAlgeria’s energy andmines minister, made theremarks after a consulta-tive ministerial meeting ofthe group to discuss waysto shore up the oil prices.

The ministers agreedto take any additional ac-tion to balance supply and

demand and achieve mar-ket stability, Khelil said,adding that the oil cartelwas concerned about thecontinued deterioration ofthe world economy and itsimpact on oil demand.

OPEC, which suppliesabout 40 percent of theglobal oil output, believedoil demand would be af-fected significantly amidconcerns of world eco-nomic recession in thefirst half of next year.

“In the first quarter ofnext year we are probablygoing to have a decline indemand,” Khelil said.

Xinhua

JERUSALEM, 1 Dec —Israeli Prime MinisterEhud Olmert on Sundayharshly condemned theterrorist attacks in India’sMumbai, saying that it wasa “terrible act” that takesJews back to the worst mo-ments in their history.

At least six Israeliswere among the 195killed, with 295 others in-jured during the shockingincident after 10 gunmenstormed luxury hotels,hospitals, train stationsand the Chabad House, aHARBIN, 1 Dec — Rescuers said Monday morning

they had found the bodies of all the 15 miners trappedin Sunday’s colliery blast in Qitaihe City, HeilongjiangProvince.

The explosion occurred at around 4:50 pm Sundaywhen 25 people were working in the coal mine. Tenof them managed to escape, leaving the 15 trappedunderground. The cause of the blast is still under in-vestigation in Changlong coal mine, which has legaloperation license and an annual production capacityof 40,000 tons.—Xinhua

GAZA, 1 Dec — ThreePalestinian militants werewounded early on Sundayin an Israeli strike in cen-tral Gaza Strip,near theborder with Israel,sources said.

The sources added thatthe Israeli artillery shellingfollowed an explosion asIsraeli forces infiltrated for150 meters into the east ofal-Maghazi refugee campin central Gaza Strip.

The Popular ResistanceCommittees (PRC), anarmed group loyal to

TOKYO, 1 Dec — Tokyo stocks tumbled Mondaymorning as investors remained jittery about the futureeconomic climate.

The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Averagelost 166.44 points, or 1.96 percent, from Friday to8,345.83.

The broader Topix index of all First Section issueson the Tokyo Stock Exchange was down 12.05 points,or 1.44 percent, to 822.77.—Xinhua

BOGOTA, 1 Dec — The second raining season inColombia this year has left at least 57 people deadand some 67,000 houses destroyed since mid-Septem-ber, the director of Colombia’s Red Cross said on Sun-day.

Carlos Marquez said more than 154,000 familieshave been affected by floods and landslides, especiallyalong the country’s two longest rivers of Magdalenaand Cauca.

The situation on the ground has caused great con-cern as the raining season is expected to last at leastanother 15 days, Marquez said, adding the govern-ment has maintained alert levels given the swollen riv-ers and brooks in the country.

Juan Lozano, Colombia’s minister of environmentand housing, urged mayors of the affected cities tocarry out immediate assessment of possible strikes offlood-related disasters. —Xinhua

Israeli PM condemns Mumbai attackas reminiscent of worst moments

Jewish prayer and studycenter in the Indian eco-nomical capital for thepast three days.

The images from theChabad House, includingpictures of the murderedvictims wrapped in prayershawls, “are shocking andtake us back to events thatwe pray never recur,” lo-cal daily Ha’aretz quotedOlmert as saying at a cabi-net meeting. “The hatredof Jews, the State of Israeland Jewish symbols arestill a factor that spurs andencourages such murder-ous acts,” Olmert said.

Olmert, meanwhile,toned down criticismvoiced by some Israeli se-curity experts who blamedsome of the casualties onIndian military’s mishan-dling of the standoff.

Xinhua

Raining season in Colombiakills at least 57 people

15 miners confirmed deadin China coalmine blast

Nikkeitumbles onlingeringeconomicworries

Israeli missile wounds three militants in GazaHamas, said the woundedgunmen were from itsmembers and that they setoff a bomb, targeting theinvading troops, before theIsraeli tanks attacked them.

The incidents tookplace around midnight.

Israeli soldiers andPalestinian militants havefrequently engaged eachother near the border be-tween Gaza and Israelsince 4 Nov when Israel

launched a sudden incur-sion into Gaza, rocking aJune ceasefire that Egyptbrokered in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

The ceasefire calls onIsrael to halt its militaryoperations into Gaza andease the blockade on theterritory in exchange forstopping Palestinianrocket-fire that targets Is-raeli border towns.

Xinhua

All items from Xinhua NewsAgency

Students queen up at the job fair held inChangchun, capital of northeast China’s Jilin

Province, on 29 Nov, 2008. Around 40,000 gradu-ated students from 28 schools in the three prov-

inces in northeast China and north China’s InnerMongolia Autonomous Region came to the job fair

held in Changchun.—XINHUA

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TEHERAN, 1 Dec — TheInternational Atomic En-ergy Organization (IAEA)representative to IranChrister Viktorsson saidon Sunday that IAEAmonitors the safety ofIran’s Bushehr nuclearpower plant, in Iran’ssouthern Bushehr prov-ince, the official IRNAnews agency reported.

“Cooperation betweenIAEA and Iran on the se-curity and safety ofBushehr nuclear power

An artist’s conception shows what NASA’s MarsReconnaissance Orbiter has revealed, vast

Martian glaciers of water ice under protectiveblankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes

than any ice previously identified on the RedPlanet. —XINHUA

Photo taken on 29 Nov, 2008 shows the rime scene in Maizhokunggar Countyof Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. —XINHUA

LOS ANGELES, 1 Dec —US space shuttle Endeav-our landed safely in Cali-fornia Sunday afternoonafter a 16-day trip, asunfavorable weather con-ditions in Florida pre-vented the shuttle fromlanding in its home base

IAEA monitors safety of Iran’sBushehr nuclear power plant

plant is in line with exist-ing protocols and agree-ments,” IRNA quotedViktorsson as saying,adding that “Iran is nowfully cooperating withIAEA to maintain safetyof Bushehr nuclear powerplant.”

He made the remarksin the First InternationalSeminar on NuclearPower Plant, Environ-ment and Sustainable De-velopment which wasopened in Teheran Sun-

day morning in the pres-ence of Iranian Parliament(Majlis) Speaker AliLarijani. Referring toIAEA’s due obligations,he added that “IAEArenders any services tomeet safety demands dur-ing setting up of new nu-clear power plants,” andtechnical points should beobserved by the countriesin the construction of thenuclear power plants.

Internet

GAZA, 1 Dec — Turkey will send an aid ship to theGaza Strip as the Palestinians expect a similar Libyanboat to dock in Gaza harbour, deposed Hamas gov-ernment said Sunday.

“The Turkish ship will be carrying pro-Palestiniancampaigners and medicine,” said a Hamas press re-lease. “The new voyage comes as part of the revolu-tion of ships that try to overcome (Israeli) siege on theGaza Strip.” The statement did not reveal the time ofthe Turkish voyage, but it said the Libyan boat whichcarries 3,000 tons of aid is expected to enter Gaza terri-torial waters on Monday if Israel did not intercept thejourney.

The attempts to break Gaza siege were first suc-ceeded in August when the US-based private Free GazaMovement ferried international peace and humanrights activists to Gaza.

In October and November, another two boats arrivedhere with international activists and European lawmak-ers. Israel first threatened to prevent the ships from get-ting to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip but retreatedthe threats in order not to give the campaigners the pub-licity they sought if they were denied entry, accordingto the Israeli Foreign Ministry. —Internet

BEIJING, 1 Dec—Beijing achieved its an-nual target of low pollu-tion days one month earlydue in part to Olympicsmeasures, but repeatingthe success next year willbe a big challenge, statemedia said Monday.

China’s capital on

Turkey to send aid boatto Gaza

US space shuttle Endeavour landsin California after mission

The US space shuttle Endeavour deploys a para-chute after touching down at Edwards Air ForceBase in California on 30 Nov, 2008. —INTERNET

in Cape Canaveral.Residents across

Southern California heardtwo sonic booms around1:20 pm local time (2120GMT), when Endeavourbroke the sound barrierunder the sunny sky as itwas gliding into local air-

space en route to EdwardsAir Force Base, more than150 kilometers north ofLos Angeles.

At least one explosioncall was received by theLos Angeles Fire Depart-ment, when people re-acted to the twin sonicbooms created by thespace shuttle as it flewover the city.

Fire crews were sentto an apartment buildingnear Studio City north ofdowntown Los Angelesand checked out the apart-ment complex, but con-cluded that residents hadheard the shuttle, accord-ing to the Los AngelesFire Department.

Internet

Beijing meets pollution target

The sun rises over eastern Beijing’s developingskyline amid a murky layer of pollutants.

INTERNET

Sunday experienced its256th so-called “blue skyday”, when air pollutionfalls below 100 on the lo-cal index, the state-runChina Daily reported,quoting the municipal en-vironmental protectionbureau.

This was due in part to

two months of strict pol-lution controls for theBeijing Olympics in Au-gust, such as restrictingvehicle traffic and shut-ting down factories.

The measures, as wellas long-term policiestaken since 1998, sawBeijing reduce pollutionby over 60 percent duringthe Olympic and Paraly-mpic Games, the reportquoted Du Shaozhong,deputy director of the bu-reau, as saying.

Du warned that achiev-ing a similar target in 2009would be a “big chal-lenge” but promised thatauthorities would con-tinue to fight air pollution,according to the ChinaDaily.

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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec — Six people died and threeothers were seriously injured as two vehicles collidedon Pretoriaroad in Kempton Park on Sunday,Ekurhuleni Metro police confirmed.

Local police spokesman Kobeli Mokheseng said amaroon Ford Ikonsedan, believed to be transportingstaff from East Rand Mall in Boksburg to Tembisa,collided with a Volkswagen Touran station wagon at1:15 am (23:15 GMT Saturday).

“Six people, including a 10 year-old-boy died andthree sustained serious injuries.

A 45-year old male, whom we assume was thedriver of the Volkswagen Touran, was rushed to Arwyphospital for medical treatment due to serious injurieshe suffered,” said Mokheseng.

Two men and a woman between the ages of 38and 40 also sustained serious injuries and were takento the Tembisa hospital.

“We are not sure at this stage who the driver of theFord Ikon is,” he said.

Internet

Six killed, three injured in

South Africa’s head-on

collision

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NEWS ALBUM

Eiffel Tower staircase fragmentfetches half a million euros

An employee of Sotheby’s AuctionHouse stands next to a portion of theoriginal staircase of the Eiffel Tower,during its auction sale in Paris. The270 cm-high section, which weighs

750 kilos, fetched 553,000 euros(710,000 dollars), 10 times its

estimated price.

A piece of the original staircase ofthe Eiffel Tower fetched 553,000 euros(710,000 dollars), 10 times its estimatedprice, in a Paris auction on Wednesday.

The 2.7-metre (nine-foot) highchunk, the third of its kind sold in ayear, went to private US buyer after atense battle between him and anotherinterested party who both placed bidsby phone, said Sotheby’s auctioneers.

The spiral section was part of theflight leading from the second to thethird levels of the tower. It was scaledby Gustav Eiffel himself at theinauguration in 1889, when the lift wasnot yet in service.

Some descendents of Eiffel werepresent at Wednesday’s auction.

“What we are selling is a symbol,”said Cecile Verdier of Sotheby’s Paris.“It’s more than an object, it’s a piece ofParis - of the Eiffel Tower and that’s thestuff of dreams.”

This handout image shows an artist’simpression of an ancestral turtle from theTriassic Period found in GuizhouProvince, China. A stunningly intact 220-million-year-old fossil found insouthwestern China appears to havesettled a long-simmering debate overreptile evolution: how did turtles get their shell?

GPS guides Norwegiantourists into trouble in Rio

Three Norwegian tourists came underfire and one was shot after the satellitenavigation system in their car guided themstraight into one of Rio de Janeiro’s mostdangerous slums.

The three men cut short their vacationin Brazil and headed home Monday afterTrygve Killingtveit, 24, was shot in theshoulder by suspected drug traffickersfrom one of the gangs that controlhundreds of shantytowns in Rio.

The tourists were returning from thebeach resort of Buzios about three hoursnorth of Rio Saturday when they gotlost, Brazil’s Globo TV and severalnewspapers reported.

A diver wearing a

Santa Claus costume

feeds a beluga, or white

whale, in a large fish

tank during a

Christmas show at the

Hakkeijima Sea

Paradise aquarium in

Yokohama, suburban

Tokyo.—INTERNET

South Korea’s Hyundai Motors Co employees work at the assembly line thecompany’s factory in Wanju, South Korea, on 1 Dec, 2008.Hyundai Motor

said on Monday it had decided there was no need for overtime work andweekend shifts in December.—INTERNET

CANBERRA, 1 Dec —Australian police saidMonday they have sma-shed a multi-national drugcartel and seized up to 16million Austrian dollars(10.4 million US dollars)of cocaine and threeMexican nationals beingcharged.

Australian FederalPolice (AFP) believed theMexicans were only partof the operation and hope

BASRA, 1 Dec —For thefirst time since 2003, Iranand Iraq have exchangedthe remains of soldierskilled in the war betweenthe two countries.

The bodies of 241soldiers, most of themIraqis, were handed overat a border crossing nearBasra.

It is the first timeremains were exchangedsince the fall of SaddamHussein in 2003.

It is also the first everdirect contact betweenTehran and Baghdad tosecure the release of theirwar dead.

Previously they haddone this via third partiesor diplomatic channels.

At the Shalamjah

Iraq-Iran war dead are exchanged

GAZA CITY, 1 Dec — Israeli and Palestinian officialssay a Libyan ship carrying 3,000 tons of supplies forthe Gaza Strip has turned back before reaching thecoast.

The change of course ended the highest-profileattempt yet to break the blockade of Hamas-ruled Gazaby Israel and Egypt. A smaller vessel carrying activistshas made three successful runs from Cyprus to Gazathis year.

It was not clear why the Libyan ship changedcourse.

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border post coffins drapedin the Iranian and Iraqiflags were carried in asolemn procession at thehandover ceremony.

For the relatives of thefallen soldiers it was anemotional moment.

Many women broke

down in tears after waitingfor more than 20 years tobe reunited with theremains of their brothers,fathers ands sons.

The eight-year Iran-Iraq war claimed the livesof close to a million men.

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Libyan ship carrying Gazasupplies turns back

Three Mexicans face court in Australiaover cocaine swoop

their arrests would lead tothe local arm of asophisticated drug ring.

“We believe thecocaine originated inSouth America and hashad to transit through theUS into Australia, so quitea degree of planninginvolved in this attempt,”AFP Assistant Commis-sioner Tim Morris said.

“We suspect there’s alocal end to this syndicate.

Those investigations arecontinuing, so we're notgoing to speculate aboutwho or when action mightbe taken, other than to saywe expect substantiallymore investigations tohappen over the nextweeks or months and evenmore arrests,” theAustralian AssociatedPress quoted Morris assaying in Melbourne.

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Health Tip: Hide orget rid of excess hairIn women, factors such as hormonal

changes, diet, illness, or use of certainmedications can trigger the growth ofexcess or unwanted hair.

To remove or minimize its appearance,the US National Library of Medicineoffers these suggestions:

* Bleach the hair so that it is lessvisible.

* Shave, wax, pluck or chemicallyremove the hair.

* Use electrolysis, a procedure inwhich an electric current is used toprevent hair from growing. But severaltreatments may be required.

* Remove hair with laser treatments.* Lose weight. This can affect hormone

levels, and in turn, reduce hair growth.

A staff member of the diocese of Erfurttalks to journalists in the Mariendom,Cathedral of Mary, in Erfurt, Germany.Specialists will restore the medievalpainted glass, during the next 19 years.

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Thriving prawn farms of Rakhine StateArticle: Reporter Singu Soe Win; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

(from page 16)A female tiger prawn

lays about 800,000 eggsthe first time. After beingprocessed by the Fisher-ies Department, she lays600,000 eggs in the sec-ond time and 500,000eggs in the third and lasttime,

The mother tigerprawn grew up in the sea.So, tiger shrimps can beraised only on a sea shoreline.

Tiger shrimps arekept in seawater with the

PPT rate between 28 and30 in the dark for 45 days.After the 45-day period,a shrimp has grown asbig as a match stick. Theyare sold to private prawnbreeders at the price of 6to 6.5 kyats a fry, account-ing for over 1 millionkyats in the first time, andover 1.5 million kyats inthe second and thirdtimes. So, by making aninvestment of 25,000kyats, a breeder can makea healthy profit of over2.5 million kyats from atiger prawn.

However, the proc-ess is easier said thandone. It is, indeed, a de-manding task. The wholebusiness is paused in therainy season when thereis no customer. But, thepower generator is kepton operating round theclock. Babies and themother tiger prawn arenot resistant to the light atall.

“We produce150,000 shrimps once

A female tiger prawn that holds her eggs onher back

Female workers processing prawns.

Some seawater tiger prawns seen at an incubation farm in Kyaukpyu.

every 45 days. If there isno customer, we lose allour investments. In thisregion, there are manyprivate-owned naturalprawn breeding ponds.Baby prawns get intothose ponds naturally. So,they do not buy shrimpsfrom us. Last year, an en-trepreneur broughtshrimps from us to breed,and made a good profitfrom his farm. We learntthat some entrepreneurswill get shrimps from usthis season” said the in-

charge of the farm.Prawn farm owners do

not guess how manyshrimps get into their farmnaturally. Mostly, the pro-duction goes downward ifshrimps do not get intotheir ponds as many asexpected. Kyaukpyu’s pri-vate prawn farming is ex-pected to make an eco-nomic boom due to thefact that local entrepre-neurs have come to real-ize the benefits of know-ing exact number of theshrimps they breed.

Kyaukpyu has twocold storages, two entre-preneurs, 18 purchasingcentres, 300 offshoretrawlers, 800 deep seatrawlers, 25 sales centresand two processing cen-tres.

NCR 100-ton ice fac-tory and cold storage ofPeace Makers Ltd is alsosituated in Zetiya Village.It has 96 workers, whosemonthly salaries rangefrom 20,000 to 70,000kyats. Byproducts are pro-

vided for the workers free.In addition to salaries,they get kilo bonus, over-time wages and bonus fornon-absenteeism.

U Zaw Aung of ASIAGolden Shrimp Ltd(AGS) told the MyanmaAlin Daily, “Our factoryhas 214 monthly wagesand daily wages workers.They get kilo bonus, over-time wages and leave bo-nus apart from their sala-ries. So, they get 50,000to 200,000 kyats a month.And we provide them with

prawn byproducts at fairprices.”

AGS was launched on1 July 1998 at a cost of261,600 US$ with a re-volving investment of 500million kyats. An averagecost of the factory is

140,000 kyats a day.The two factories ship

about 70 tons of prawns toYangon a month and ex-port via Yangon.

Proprietor of ASMfish and prawn purchas-ing centre U Aung HsanMyint said that he got 100viss of fish and 50 viss ofprawn from fishermendaily; that he transportedthe products to SanpyaMarket of Yangon; andthat local entrepreneurswere doing well in theirbusinesses due to smoothtransport.

He said, “I have madean investment of about 30million kyats. I transportfish and prawn to Yangonevery two days. Trucks arenot allowed to drive onYangon-Sittway Road inthe rainy season. So, I sendfish and prawn containersby ship to Yangon. It takesme only a day for me if Itransport my goods toYangon through SittwayRoad. If so, I can mini-mize losses and wastage.It takes me four days if Itransport by ship, so it costmore with more loss andwastage. I earn more than500,000 kyats a month.”

We also visited lob-ster processing factory ofU Myint Aung. He ex-plained that he got lobstersat the price of 20,000 kyats

a viss; that the weight of aviss represents seven to 10lobsters; that lobsters werekept in three tanks, a tank aday, and they fell asleep inthe last tank; that the lob-sters that had fallen asleepwere wrapped up in piecesof newspaper and packed;that 200 viss of lobsterswere transported to Yangonby air and purchasing cen-tres of Yangon exportedthem; and that he got lob-sters at the prices of 50,000to 80,000 kyats a viss.

Lobsters that fallasleep after being kept innatural water three times,a day, and wake up whenthey are touched withnatural water are uniqueto Rakhine State. It isexpensive and market-able. So, Rakhine Stateis expected to play agreater role in the na-tion’s fish and prawnfarming.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

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State aims to build up industrial…

Agriculture is an investment as well as a legacy

Myanmar has inherited from nature.

There is no economic effect on the country as the

government is building infrastructures on self-reliance

basis.

The agricultural sector alone requires millions of

workers.

Millions of workers are required in the rubber indus-

try in order to produce latex and raw rubber materials

and to establish new rubber plantations.

(from page 1)not adequate expertise and capital to tap such naturalresources. There need lots of intellectuals and intel-ligentsia, resources and capital to establish an indus-trial nation. For human resource development, basiceducation schools, universities and colleges havebeen opened throughout the nation for pursuing ba-sic, high and higher education. Likewise, seekinggreat investments must be based on the agriculturalsector, said the Prime Minister.

Agriculture is an investment as well as a legacyMyanmar has inherited from nature. The country isblessed with temperate climate with favorable condi-tions. Agricultural sector contributes most to thenational economy in terms of proportion and thevolume of agricultural produce in exportation is fargreater than any other export items. This is why it isnecessary to boost agricultural production year byyear for domestic consumption and exports.

Similarly, cultivation of crops such as paddy,beans and pulses, corn and sesame is to be boosted toensure local self-sufficiency and more exports. Forexample, rice is a major crop in the country as well asa marketable item in the world market.

The Prime Minister went on to say that in 1988only more than 11 million acres could be put underpaddy and 630 million baskets of paddy produced.

But the previous year saw over 19 million acres ofpaddy, and over 1500 million baskets of paddy wereproduced. However, only about 20000 tons of ricewas exported. Up to October this year, over 170,000tons of rice has been exported. Although the export ofrice was limited due to the cyclone Nargis, more riceis to be exported as new harvests have taken place.

Although Myanmar’s rice production has in-creased, it can be found that she has not been capableof producing more rice than the nations that aresmaller and have fewer farmlands than Myanmar.Today, Thailand exports seven million tons of qual-ity rice and Vietnam 4.5 million tons. So Myanmarneeds greater effort for exporting more rice. Myanmarhas enough cultivable land to boost paddy produc-tion. Out of 43.7 million acres of cultivable land, only28.8 million acres of paddy (65.9%) could be grown.Myanmar has land as well as water resources. Eventhe Central Myanmar with scarcity of water has seenclusters of dams, embankments and river water pump-ing stations, noted the Prime Minister.

It is necessary for Myanmar to have quality high-yield paddy strains and quality fertilizers. In addi-tion, harvesting and winnowing should be carried outsystematically and carefully in order not to causewastage and damage due to the weather. The Minis-try of Agriculture and Irrigation on its part is plan-ning to produce high yield paddy strains and the Stateis also establishing two more fertilizer plants. At thetime of paddy becoming ripe, the system of harvest-

ing, reaping and collecting loss and wastage have tobe minized. Small harvesters and winnowers havebeen produced for every household of farmers to seeto it.

Myanmar is to strive for ensuring local self-sufficiency in rice and export about 3 million tons ofrice annually.

It is also necessary to keep boosting exportitems. Up to October 2008, more and more cropssuch as rice, corn and sesame could be produced. Butexport volume of beans and pulses fell by 5.4 percentand that of rubber by 0.7 percent.

He said the export volume of animal product was

up by 25.4% compared to the previous year. Inmarine product group the export volume was downby 6.1%. The export volumes of fish and prawn weredown by 1.7% and 4.2% respectively. Similarly, theexport volumes of forest products and industrialfinished products were down by 0.6% and 15.9%respectively. The export volume of gas was down by18.2%.

He spoke of the need to review the reason for thefall in export volume.

He said most of the countries are facing difficul-ties due to the financial crisis. It is necessary for thecountry that exports consumer goods to boost pro-duction because every nation always needs com-modities.

The financial crisis that began in a big westernnation spread rapidly in a short time to other countriesand caused damages them. European countries andsome nations in Asia are feeling the effects of the

economic problem.There are economic difficulties in most of the

countries such as decline in their currencies andexport items on account of less demand, decline inproduction, unemployment because of the close-downof some factories, decline in tourism industry andbankruptcy of banks, he said.

Unlike other nations, there are significant situa-tions in the country. Regarding the banks, the CentralBank constantly supervises the State-run banks andprivate banks in accord with laws and rules and regu-lations and the people can trust in the banks, he said.

The main export markets of the country are neigh-

bouring countries in Asia and the main export itemsare foodstuff – rice, beans and pulses and meat andfish. The crisis does not affect the demand andproducts can be exported as much as it can produce.

Moreover, he said, the country has no contactwith west bloc banks, western bloc monetary organi-zations. In monetary sector, there will be no loss asthe foreign loans are few compared with other coun-tries.

There is no economic effect on the country asthe government is building infrastructures on self-reliance basis with her own technology and ownmoney and the economy is growing.

There is sufficiency of rice, the main food of thecountry, beans and pulses and meat and fish. There is

no need to worry about the food as the country exportsits surplus food.

As extended cultivation of the high yield cottonis being carried out with the emergence of moretextile mills the nation will be in no way short ofclothing in time of emergency. For shelters also, rawmaterials for sheltering buildings such as timber,bamboo, cement, bricks, sand, marble, etc are inabundance in the nation where there is favorableweather. This being the case, there is no problems forshelters.

All in all, there are many job opportunities inMyanmar as it is rich in natural resources, therebyresulting in satisfying the food, clothing and shel-ter needs of the people. But what is important isthat the entire people are to work hard. Thegovernment, on its part, is to render all necessaryassistance to the people paying serious attention tothe national interest.

There are only 46,057 Myanmar workers work-ing abroad legally out of those working abroadlegally and illegally. According to the statistics ofsome countries it is estimated that there may beover 2 million Myanmar workers who are work-ing abroad illegally.

Out of over 2 million workers, the number ofworkers who would arrive back home will not

exceed 500,000 should the nations concerned cutthe jobs or close factories and mills.

The agricultural sector alone requires mil-lions of workers. Taninthayi Division has alreadyput 249,274 acres under oil palm against the targetof 500,000 acres. At present, as there are 17974workers only, many more workers will be neededso that the division can continue growing oil palmto meet the target as well as to harvest fruits of oilpalm and run the crude palm oil factory. It isobvious that employers of the oil palm companyare providing employees with all necessary re-quirements including education health, housingand other social matters.

Likewise, as 939700 acres of rubber has beengrown millions of workers are required in therubber industry in order to produce latex and rawrubber materials and to establish new rubberplantations. At present, there are about 200,000workers.

(See page 9)

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(from page 8)As workers are still in demand in teak planta-

tions, timber extraction, fisheries and salt industry,jobs are ready for Myanmar nationals who will comeback home when they are out of work abroad.

The impact of global financial crisis on Myanmaris insignificant. More jobs will emerge if the entirenational people make concerted efforts in all serious-ness, and this will undeniably fulfill the food, cloth-ing and shelter needs of the people. As the nation hasbeen able to make progress on the basis of ownstrength, own capital and own education and knowl-edge even though it has been subject to economicsanctions imposed by western nations, it will in noway ignore the interest of the national people.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry ofLabour and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irriga-tion are ready to extend help to those who come backhome on account of losing their jobs abroad, andthey are to contact the ministries concerned.

Next, Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo made clarifications on cultivation ofpaddy with the use of high yield strains, fulfillment offertilizer, implementations of dam and water pumpingprojects using underground water, extended cultiva-

State aims to build up industrial…tion of industrial crops, production and exports ofvalue-added industrial crops, reduction of difficultiesin investment of peasants and assistance to be providedfor the emergence of the correct market of the produce.

Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung madeclarifications on production of various farm support-ing machines and arrangements for the stable marketof the produce.

Afterwards, Minister for Industry-2 Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein made clarifications on manufacturing anddistribution of farm implements, production of rubberand arrangements to be made for manufacturing offarm implements if they are ordered.

Similarly, Minister for National Planning and Eco-nomic Development U Soe Tha made clarifications onplans for implementing projects in the sectors of agri-culture, industry, energy and forestry and present pro-ductivity in the various sectors, world economic crisisand situation of export items.

Later, Minister for Commerce Brig-Gen Tin NaingThein reported on ways and means sought to guardagainst the impact on export services due to the globaleconomy crisis, arrangements to be made to extendmarkets for different export items and requirementsfor speedy flow of export items to the markets.

Next, Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swemade clarifications on conditions of domestic flightservices, run of vessels and transportation of exportitems.

Afterwards, Minister for Mines Brig-Gen OhnMyint explained gem mining, mineral exploration,extension of export items and job opportunities.

Similarly, Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen TheinAung made clarifications on export of State-ownedand private-owned forest products and market oppor-tunities.

Palm oil and entrepreneurs and representatives ofvarious industrial zones presented reports on sector-wise production and export conditions, production anddistribution of ethanol, boosting production of farmimplements from industrial zones, condition of indus-trial goods and job opportunities.

In response to the reports, the Prime Minister madearrangements to fulfill the requirements and gave con-cluding remarks. In his concluding remarks he said theglobal economic crisis did not impact directly on thecountry but can do indirectly on it. Moreover, thecountry may see instability of markets due to the eco-nomic crisis. Unlike other countries, Myanmar is blessedwith basis needs and thus it is required to placeemphasis on boosting production, savings in productioncosts and minimizing loss and wastage.—MNA

YANGON, 1 Dec—Myanmar Fisher-ies Federation, Myanmar Fish FarmersAssociation, Myanmar Aquafeed Asso-ciation and Myanmar Freshwater Fish-eries Association held the annual gen-eral meeting at the hall of the federationin Insein this morning, with an addressby Patron of the federation Minister forLivestock and Fisheries Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein.

President of the federation U HtayMyint and Chairman of the MyanmarAquafeed Association U Ohn Lwin ex-tended greetings.

Secretary of the Myanmar AquafeedAssociation U Myint Oo read the third

YANGON, 1 Dec— The 26th ceremonyto pay respects to the teachers, organ-ized by Women Chapter of MyanmarMedical Association (Yangon) will beheld at Myanmar Medical Association

YANGON, 1 Dec —The final eventsand prize presentation of 8th MyanmarTrack and Field President’s Cup YouthTrack and Field Championship were heldat the youth training camp (Thuwunna)here yesterday.

YANGON, 1 Dec —�The 3rd respectpaying ceremony of old students spe-cialised in Law (1974-1979) will beheld at M3 Food Centre in Bahan Town-ship on 10 January, 2009.

Those wishing to fund the ceremony

YANGON, 1 Dec—The 15th anniver-sary of the establishment of Today Groupof Companies, which was founded in1993 was held at Parkroyal Hotel inAlanpya Phaya Street here on 29 No-vember.

Dr Tha Tun Oo, chairman of TodayGroup of Companies made a speech andexpressed gratitude, presenting gifts to

AGMs of associations underMyanmar Fisheries Federation held

annual report and financial statementand sought the approval of the meeting.

At the second annual general meet-ing of Myanmar Fish Farmers Associa-tion, Chairman U Nyein Myaing ex-tended greetings. Joint-Secretary of theassociation U Saw Myint Swe read theannual reported and financial statement.

At the fourth AGM of MyanmarFreshwater Fisheries Association, Chair-man U Than Lwin extended greetings.Joint Secretary U Nay Soe read the an-nual report and financial statement.

Later, the minister and officials re-plied to the queries raised by thosepresent.—MNA

Alumni of law to hold respectpaying ceremony on 10 Jan

may contact U Mya Han (09 5139576),Dr Daw Tin May Tun ( 09 5020543),Daw Ohnma Has ( 09 514451), Daw SanSan Myint ( 09 5002950), Daw NweNwe Win ( 09 5187850), and Daw ThinThin Myaing (09 5155917).—NLM

Final events, prize presentation of YouthTrack and Field Championship held

After the final events, officials pre-sented prizes to winners in the men’s andwomen’s 400 metre relays event, firstprize, two championship shields to menand women teams and winners who brokerecord in discus event.— MNA

MMA get-together on 14 DecHall at No. 249 on Theinbyu Road inMingla Taungnyunt Township here on14 December morning. Member doc-tors are invited to attend the ceremonywithout fail.— MNA

Today Group of Companiesmarks 15th Anniversary

the staff. Today Group of Companiescompries Today Publishing House Ltd,Today Advertising Ltd, Premium Mar-keting Co Ltd, Today Printing Co Ltd,Today Book Store, Myanmar Silk RoadTravel Ltd and Today Media & Infor-mation Ltd and is running with over 120staff.

MNA

Minister for Livestock

and Fisheries Brig-

Gen Maung Maung

Thein addresses AGM

of associations under

MFF.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 1 Dec—Myanma Railways of the Ministry of Rail Transporta-tion announced new train schedules for railroad sections for the convenience of thetravelling public. The new schedules for railroad sections will come into effectbeginning 1 December 2008.

No. 7 Up-train leaves Yangon Railways Station at 11.00 a.m. and arrives atNay Pyi Taw Pyinmana at 7.45 p.m. The train stops at Bago and Toungoo stationsfor three minutes. No. 29 Up-train leaves Yangon Railways Station at 12.15 p.m.and arrives in Mandalay at 4 a.m. the following day. It stops over at Bago, Toungoo,Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana and Thazi stations. No. 9 Up-train leaves YangonRailways Station at 8.30 a.m. and reaches Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana at 9.30 p.m. No.25 Up-train leaves Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana station at 9.30 p.m. and arrives inMandalay at 5.30 a.m. the following day. No. 1 Up-train leaves Yangon RailwaysStation as usual and reaches Mandalay at 6.10 a.m. the following day. No 10 Down-train leaves Pyinmana station at 4.30 a.m. and arrives in Yangon at 5.45 p.m.

New Pyawbwe-Phayangazu railroad section will be opened on 30 November.Trains will run on Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Shwenyaung-Loikaw Railroad section.No. 147 Up-train leaves Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana station at 10.30 p.m. and reachesLoikaw at 8.15 p.m. the following day. No. 140 Up-train leaves Nay Pyi TawPyinmana station at 11 p.m. and arrives at Shwenyaung station at 1.35 p.m. thefollowing day. No. 142 Down-train leaves Shwenyaung at 11.30 a.m. and arrivesat Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana station at 3 a.m. the following the day. No. 148 Down-train leaves Loikaw at 5.45 a.m. and arrives at Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana station at3.30 a.m. the following the day. No. 143 Up-train leaves Thazi station at 5 a.m. andarrives at Yaksawk station at 7.15 p.m. No. 144 Down-train leaves Yaksawkstation at 5.30 a.m. and arrives at Thazi station at 8.45 p.m.

The schedules will also be posted at the respective stations in states anddivisions.—MNA

New train schedules come into effect beginning 1 Dec

YANGON, 1 Dec— Aceremony to donate cashand kind to self-reliantlibraries in YangonDivision was held at SabaiHall of Sangyoung No-2Basic Education HighSchool here today.

It was attended byChairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint, Minister forInformation Brig-GenKyaw Hsan, departmentalheads, departmentalofficials from divisions,districts and townships,

Cash and kind donated to self-reliant libraries in Yangon Division

members of socialorganizations, wellwishersand guests.

Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint said establishmentof self-reliant rural librariescontributes towards theimprovement of knowledgeof the rural people. He saidofficials concerned are tomake efforts for perpetualexistence of the rurallibraries.

He thanked thewellwishers for donation ofcash and kind.

In his address, MinisterBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsan saidtoday is the knowledge age.Self-reliant rural librarieswere established with theaim of cultivating readingamong the rural people andkeeping abreast of thedevelopment of inter-

national communities, inaccord with the guidanceof the Head of State.Departmental officials andthe people are to makeendeavours forperpetuation of theestablished libraries as anational duty, he said.

Yangon CityDevelopment Committeedonated K 100,000,Myanmar War VeteransOrganization (Head-quarters) K 200,000,Yangon Division USDA K300,000, Yangon DivisionAll Private Bus LinesControl Committee K500,000 and books and

journals worth K 70,000,UMFCCI K 500,000 andbooks and journals worthK 420,000, Myanmar RiceMillers EntrepreneursAssociation and Wun-yankha Company K200,000 and books worthK 400,000, Myanmar RiceDealers Association K100,000, Daido LifeFoundation books worth K3.48 million, Dr Tin TunOo (Swesone MediaGroup) books worth K 1.1million and Htoo TradingCompany K 1 million.

The Commanderaccepted cash anddonations and presentedcertificates of honour to thewellwishers.

Afterwards, Phwint-phyoaung Company ofYankin Township donatedthe buildings worth K 3million, U Than Maung-Daw Thi Thi Khin(Pandaing Bookstore)

books worth K 1,096,350,Dr Tha Tun Oo (TodayPublishing House) booksworth K 1,050,000, Super-visory Committee forKaungkinkyay Library inKasin Village of HlinethayaTownship the buildingsworth K 2.5 million, WorldVision the buildings worthK 2.4 million, Brick Entre-preneurs Association ofShantegyi Village of DagonMyothit (East) the buildingsworth K 2.1 million,knowledge Bank LibraryCommittee ofThingangyun Township thebuildings worthK 2,053,930, U Khin

Maung Win ofNyaungthonbin Village ofThanlyin Twonship thebuildings worth K 2 million,U Tin Shwe of NgapaVillage of ThanlyinTownship the buildingsworth K 1.5 million andShwe Hein Htet Company1 million, Chairman ofYangon Division Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint K 1 million andYangon Command K 1million.

Minister for In-formation Brig-Gen KyawHsan also accepted cash andkinds and presentedcertificates of honours tothe wellwishers.

Similarly, GoodBrother Company alsodonated 1 million, U KhinMaung Lin- Daw Cherryand Family of DagonMyothit (North) the

buildings worth K 1 million,U Aung Zaw of ShantegyiVillage of Dagon Myothit(East) the buildings worthK 1 million, PyinnyaShwetaung Book Housebooks worth K 1,242,400,Seikku Cho Cho BookHouse books worth K 1million, U Moe MyintMaung-Daw Aye AyeThan and Family ofSanchaung Townshipbooks worth K 955,000,Inforithm-Maze BookHouse books worth K830,000, Kyaung HnitKyaung Book House books

worth K 820,000, U ChoLay of Myayaryoe Villageof Thanlyin Township thebuildings worth K 700,000,All Bus Lines ControlCommittee (High Ways) K500,000, U Khin MaungThan (Zan Zan) of MorningNews Journal books worthK 610,000, U Khin MaungKywe (Kaung Thant) ofKaung Thant Book Housebooks worth K 510,600,Super One Company K500,000, Rector Dr DawMarlar Aung of theUniversity of YangonDistance Education K

300,000 and books andjournals worth K 1,819,800,U Chit Khine and Familyof Edin Group K 500,000and the other wellwishersdonated cash and kinds,accepted by the officialsand presented certificatesof honours to them.

Today, a total of 284wellwishers donated K97,788,230 including K16,785,000 and buildings,media items and books andjournals worth K81,003,230 at theceremony.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan accepts cash from a donor at theceremony to donate cash and kind to self-reliant libraries in Yangon

Division.—MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint accepts cash from a donor at theceremony to donate cash and kind for self-reliant libraries in Yangon

Division.—MNA

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YANGON, 1 Dec —The prize presentationceremony of “Aye ChanKhit Mi Myanmar Pyi”colour photo contestwill be held at Central

NAY PYI TAW, 1Dec—Minister forIndustry-2 Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein receivedAmbassador of theRepublic of India Mr

Industry-2 Minister receivesIndian Ambassador

Aloke Sen at the ministryhere this afternoon.

They cordiallyheld discussion onaccomplishment ofindustrial and commercial

cooperation between thetwo countries next yearand assistance forindustrial development inthe future.

MNA

Prizes to be awarded to colour photocontest winners

Hotel here on 24December, to mark the61st Anniversary ofIndependence Daywhich falls on 4 January,2009.

The judges forprize presentation havechosen the winners. Formore information dial371342.

MNA

YANGON, 1 Dec —Under the arrangement ofNay Pyi Taw Traffic RulesEnforcement Committee,the 2nd exhibition on trafficrules will be held atMingala Market in NayPyi Taw from 26 to 31December.

The exhibition willbe held for the second timeas part of efforts foreducating local people on

YANGON, 1 Dec—A ceremony to honourMyanmar Football teamwhich clinchedchampionship trophy atGrand Royal ChallengeCup 2008 was held atTraders Hotel today,attended by Minister forSports Brig-Gen ThuraAye Myint, director-general and officials of theministry, President ofMyanmar FootballFederation U Zaw Zawand executives, ManagingDirector U Aung Moe

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Dec— Minister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min and DeputyMinister U Pe Thanattended a ceremony to layfoundation for a schoolbuilding in PyawbweTownship yesterday.

YANGON, 1 Dec—Launching of new brandproduct of Myawaddy Trading Ltd was held atSedona Hotel here on 28 November. It was attendedby sale representatives, merchants, shopkeepersand guests.

At the ceremony, Managing Director Col MyintAung (Retd) of Myawaddy Trading introduced the newproduct of Premium Gold to the audience.

The new product of high quality ismanufactured by the factory of international standardof Rothmans of Pall Mall Myanmar Co, joint venturewith the Union of Myanmar Economic HoldingsLtd.—MNA

Minister lays foundation for schoolbuilding in Pyawbwe

The minister,deputy minister andofficials concerned laidfoundations during theceremony at the basiceducation high school(branch) in EastShawphygon Village inPyawbwe Township.

The two-storybuilding will beconstructed at the cost ofK 19.1 million — 11.5million from Ministry ofRail Transportation andK 7.6 million fromdonors.

MNA

Exhibition on traffic rules enforcementon 26-31 Dectheir knowledge on trafficrules, and students canparticipate in quizprogramme during theexhibition which will beheld in conjunction withthe market festival.

Departments willstage booths to disseminateknowledge on traffic rulesand industries will keepopen sales rooms at theexhibition. Visitors will be

entertained with songs anddances during theexhibition.

Those wishing toparticipate in the exhibitionand market festival maycontact the office of theNay Pyi Taw Traffic RulesEnforcement Committee,Ph 032-30042, and HtetMedia & Entertainment CoLtd, Ph 095 108676; 095181809. —MNA

Champion Myanmar Footballteam honoured

Kyaw of InternationalBeverages Trading Co Ltdand staff and wellwishers.

Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myintextended greetings on theoccasion and U Aung MoeKyaw spoke words ofthanks. MFF President UZaw Zaw and wifepresented K 12.5 million,U Aung Moe Kyaw andwife K 10 million,Myanmar OlympicCommittee 5 million,Managing Director U TunMyint Naing of Asia

World Co Ltd K 3 millionand Myanmar Women’sSports Federation K500,000 to the MyanmarFootball Team.

Six teams tookpart in the Grand RoyalChallenge Cup 2008,Myanmar drew withBangladesh and won overIndonesia 2-1 in round-robin matches. Myanmaredged out Malaysia 4-1insemi-final and beatIndonesia 2-1 in FinalMatch.

NLM

Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein receives Ambassador of the Republicof India Mr Aloke Sen.—MNA

A new brand product of Myawaddy Trading Ltd is introduced.—MNA

U Aung Moe Kyaw and wife of International Beverages Trading Co Ltdpresent K 10 million to the Myanmar Football Team. —NLM

Myawaddy Trading Ltdlaunches new brand

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV YONG JIANG VOY NO (225)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV YONG JIANGVOY NO (225) are hereby notified that the vessel hasarrived on 30.11.2008 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at the consign-ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws andconditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S COSCO SHIPPING CO.,LTD

Phone No: 256919/256916/256912

Nine headless bodies foundin Mexican border city

TIJUANA, 1 Dec—The bodies of ninedecapitated men were found in a vacantlot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave ofviolence that claimed at least 23 livesover the weekend in this border cityplagued by warring traffickers, authori-ties said.

The heads were discovered in plasticbags near the bodies in a poorneighborhood of Tijuana, across fromSan Diego, Baja California state policesaid in a statement. Three police identi-fication cards were also found at the site.

The statement gave no motive for thekillings, but they came as Mexico’s drugcartels wage a bloody fight for smug-gling routes and against governmentforces, dumping beheaded bodies ontostreets, carrying out massacres and eventossing grenades into a crowd of Inde-pendence Day revelers —an attack thatkilled eight people in September.

More than 4,000 people have died sofar this year in drug-related violence inMexico. Across Tijuana on Sunday, at-tacks by gunmen killed five people inaddition to the nine beheaded bodies.

State police said nine more peoplewere killed in attacks on Saturday. Inone, gunmen killed a 4-year-old child inan attack on a grocery store.—Internet

A soldier secures the perimeter of acrime scene, background, where ninedecapitated bodies were founded inTijuana, Mexico,on 30 Nov, 2008.

INTERNET

Iran to stage navalmaneuver in DecemberTEHERAN, 1 Dec—Iran’s Navy Force commander

Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that his coun-try will stage a naval drill in and around the Strait ofHormuz next month, Iran's satellite Press TV reportedSunday.The drill will be carried out to test Iran’sdefensmeive power and combat readiness, Sayyari wasquoted as saying.

Dubbing the forthcoming maneuver as “Unity 87,”he said that “every exercise seeks particular objectives,and the ‘Unity 87’ maneuver will focus on designatedobjectives.”

Earlier last week, Sayyari said that “All the move-ments of the enemy in Oman Sea, Persian Gulf andHormuz Strait are under control and the enemy willnever dare to enter Iran’s waters.”

The United States and Israel have consistently re-fused to rule out the possibility of military strikesagainst Iran over its refusal to halt its nuclear program.

The United States and its allies have accused Iranof trying to develop nuclear weapons under the coverof a civilian nuclear program.—Xinhua

Malaysia probes allegedMalaysian link in Mumbai attacks

Dollar trades at lower95-yen level in Tokyo

TOKYO, 1 Dec—The US dollar traded at the lower-95 yen levelearly Monday in Tokyo, little changed from its levels Friday inNew York.

At 9:00 am, the dollar fetched 95.37-42 yen compared with95.45-55 yen in New York and 95.29-32 yen in Tokyo at 5:00pm Friday.

The euro traded at 1.2680-2685 dollars and 120.96-121.01yen versus 1.2689-2699 dollars and 121.22-32 yen in New Yorkand 1.2937-2940 dollars and 123.30-34 yen in Tokyo late Fri-day.—Xinhua

An iceberg drifts at RotheraPoint, Adelaide Island, Ant-arctica. Representativesfrom almost every countryon the planet are set to start12 days of tough talks in Po-land aimed at getting theball rolling for a new glo-bal climate changep a c t . INTERNET

At least oneinjured in USshopping mall

shooting WASHINGTON, 1 Dec

— Shots were heard froma shopping mall in Mi-ami, Florida, leaving atleast one injured, accord-ing to a report on Mon-day.

Xinhua

Containers and trucks loaded withfood and military vehicles forNATO and US-led forces in

Peshawar. Taleban militantsMonday destroyed a dozen trucksin the Pakistani city of Peshawar

containing supplies for NATOtroops in Afghanistan.—INTERNET

KUALA LUMPUR, 1 Dec—Malaysian police were probing ifthere was any link to Malaysia inthe recent terrorist attacks inMumbai, India, local newspapersThe Star reported on Monday.

Malaysian police were ascer-taining if Malaysian travel docu-ments were used to facilitate themovements of the terrorists in theMumbai massacre, the English-language daily said.

Some Foreign reports claimedthat the gunmen who killed 180people in Mumbai attacks weresaid to have had Malaysian ad-dresses, and Malaysian-issued

credit cards were also found there,according to the daily.

Malaysian Home MinisterSyed Hamid Albar denied any linkto Malaysia in the attacks.

He said that the Malaysian au-thorities would assist their Indiancounterparts to investigate theidentities of the gunmen who alleg-edly had Malaysian addresses.

Syed Hamid said thatMalaysian travel documents weremuch sought after in the interna-tional arena and syndicates liked toforge Malaysian travel documents.

Malaysian Consul-General toIndia Wan Zaidi Wan Abdullah hasalso dismissed the allegedMalaysian involvement in the ter-rorist attacks, The Star said.

He said the Times of Indianewspaper could have misreportedthat some of the terrorists hadMalaysian identity cards, addingthat only a fake Mauritius identitycard was found.—Xinhua

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Congo’s war-baby gorillas bring hopefor endangered species

A baby mountain gorilla plays nearanother one and a female adult in a

clearing on the slopes of MountMikeno in the Virunga National

Park on 28 Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

Climate change gathers steam,say scientists

BUKIMA, 1 Dec— High above the war-battered plain, a giant silverback gorillaruminatively strips a plant of its leaveswith green tombstone teeth. Five fe-males nearby suckle their babies. Theworld can celebrate a small miracle ineastern Congo.

Park rangers greeted the primordialscene with hushed astonishment afterhacking for two hours though the ver-dant gloom of the jungle Friday, the onlysound the metallic ring of a machete on

stringy vines and the din of insects.In a clearing on the slopes of Mount

Mikeno, a 4,500 metre (14,000 feet) -high volcano, a young blackback care-fully picked insects and seeds from hisbrother’s shaggy black fur. An impishnew-born clung to her mother’s back,fixing the interlopers with shimmeringdark brown eyes.

Park director Emmanuel de Merodelater described the discovery of five new-borns at the outset of a month-long cen-sus as “quite phenomenal”, given that theendangered gorillas’ habitat has longbeen a war zone.

“They’ve had a growth of about 11percent in 10 years, less than two per-cent a year. To get five births in a groupof 30 is about 15 percent growth. It’squite tremendous and very unusual,” hesaid.The infants are all war-babies, bornin the 15-month period since CNDPrebels wrested control of the eastern go-rilla-sector of Virunga national park fromgovernment forces in September 2007.The rangers they chased away lost allcontact with park, home to 200 of theworld’s last 700 mountain gorillas.

Internet

This image shows Markham Fiord,in August, after the Markham Ice

Shelf broke away. “In the last coupleof years, Arctic Sea ice is at an all-

time low in summer, which has got alot of people very, very concerned,”commented Robert Watson, Chief

Scientific Advisor for Britain’sdepartment for environmental

affairs.—INTERNET

PARIS, 1 Dec — Earth’s climate ap-pears to be changing more quickly anddeeply than a benchmark UN report forpolicymakers predicted, top scientistssaid ahead of international climate talksstarting Monday in Poland.

Evidence published since the Inter-governmental Panel for ClimateChange’s (IPCC) February 2007 reportsuggests that future global warmingmay be driven not just by things overwhich humans have a degree of control,such as burning fossil fuels or destroy-ing forest, a half-dozen climate expertstold AFP.

Even without additional drivers, theIPCC has warned that current rates ofgreenhouse gas emissions, if un-checked, would unleash devastatingdroughts, floods and huge increases inhuman misery by century’s end.

But the new studies, they say, indi-cate that human activity may be trig-gering powerful natural forces thatwould be nearly impossible to reverseand that could push temperatures upeven further.

At the top of the list for virtually all

of the scientists canvassed was the rapidmelting of the Arctic ice cap.

“In the last couple of years, Arctic Seaice is at an all-time low in summer, whichhas got a lot of people very, very con-cerned,” commented Robert Watson,Chief Scientific Advisor for Britain’sdepartment for environmental affairs andchairman of the IPCC’s previous assess-ment in 2001.—Internet

A model presents acheongsam creation de-signed by Li Xiafang ineast China’s ShanghaiMunicipality, on 28Nov, 2008. Li Xiafang’scheongsam show washeld at the OrientalPearl Theatre in Shang-hai on Friday. —XINHUA

Over 135,000 HIV-infected peoplereported in Vietnam

HANOI, 1 Dec — There has been 135,171 HIV positive people reported inVietnam nationwide, the local newspaper New Hanoi reported on Monday.

Of the HIV-accquired cases, 29,134 had full-blown AIDS and 41,418 died ofthe disease in the country so far, the daily quoted the source with the Ministry ofHealth (MoH) as saying.

Local health officials warned that Vietnam is facing the risk of disease’s ex-pansion to young population. HIV-acquired cases aged from 20 to 39 increased to89 percent from 15 percent, according to MoH.

People with HIV live in all of the country’s provinces and cities. Ho ChiMinh City has the highest number of HIV/ AIDS cases, followed by two northernprovinces of Quang Ninh and Hai Phong of Vietnam.

At a meeting held on Sunday in Hanoi on the occasion of the World AIDSDay, which is marked on 1 Dec Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong urgedthe whole nation to redouble efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, with focus onthe changing social behaviors to AIDS victims. —Internet

Mass grave containing33 bodies found in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 1 Dec — Iraqi security forces have founda mass grave containing 33 decomposed bodies in avillage in the volatile province of Diyala, an InteriorMinistry source said on Sunday.

Based on information from local residents, theforces discovered the site of the mass grave on Satur-day in the Albu-Tu’ma village near the town of Khalis,75 km northeast of Baghdad, the source told Xinhuaon condition of anonymity. Bodies of children andwomen were among the bullet-riddled bodies, thesource said, adding that the remains have been buriedfor more than a year.

The forces believe the victims were kidnapped andkilled by the al-Qaida members who were controllingthe area at that time, said the source.—Internet

Pregnant Indians risk passingdiabetes to babies

CHENNAI (India), 1 Dec— Up to 15 per cent ofpregnant women in Indiaare developing diabetes,raising the risk of theirchildren developing thedisease, said experts onSunday, who blamedfactors including

malnutrition.Experts at a diabetes

summit in Chennai insouthern India saidgenetics, a sedentarylifestyle, as well as womensimply beingundernourished and unableto cope with pregnancy,were the main reasons forthe high rate of diabetes inpregnancy.

“If a young girl ishealthy, she produces eggsthat are appropriatelynourished,” ChittaranjanYajnik, director of thediabetes unit at KingEdward MemorialHospital in Pune, India,told Reuters in aninterview.—MNA/Reuters

Tourists look at a topiary sculpture of a samuraiwarrior at the Museum of Contemporary Art in

Sydney on 1 Dec, 2008. The 10-foot-tall (3.48 m)samurai warrior was unveiled by a garden toolsmanufacturer to encourage people to transform

their outside spaces this summer.—INTERNET

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S P O R T SStuttgart seal first win

for new coachBERLIN, 1 Dec — Stuttgart sealed on Sunday the first

win for newly crowned coach Markus Babbel after theybeat Schalke 04 2-0 at home.

Substitute Jan Simak and Mario Gomez handedBabbel a winning start for his new career as a Bundesligacoach. Babbel assumed the Stuttgart job after ArminVeh's sacking last weekend due to poor performance ofthe 2006-2007 Bundesliga champions.

Simak opened the scoring after 79 minutes - justsix minutes after the Czech internation was sent to thefield - before Gomez made it 2-0 against Schalke 04four minutes later.

Schalke drop deeper into mid-table mediocrity withjust one win from their last six Games, Stuttgart endeda winless run of six games.—Internet

Mario Gomez (C) of VfB Stuttgart challengesChristian Pander (L) and Jermaine Jones (R) ofSchalke 04 during their German Bundesliga soccer

match in Stuttgart on 30 Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

Brazil beat Venezuela6-0 in indoor soccer

friendly RIO DE JANEIRO, 1 Dec

— The Brazilian indoorsoccer team beat Ven-ezuela 6-0 on Sunday inthe International Chal-lenge in Araraquara, cityof the state of Sao Paulo.

Both teams will playagain in Campin as City onMonday. The gamesshould have taken place inthe state of Santa Catarinabut were moved to SaoPaulo because of thestrong rains that floodedthe region and left some100 people dead.—Xinhua

China breaks women’s 3,000m relayshort-track speed skating world record

BEIJING, 1 Dec — Chinese short-track speed skat-ers broke the world record in women’s 3,000m relaywith a time of 4:07.804 at an ISU World Cup eventhere on Sunday.

The Chinese team led throughout the final to clinchthe fourth gold for the hosts at the three-day event.South Korea took the silver in 4:08.230, and Italy fin-ished third in 4:13.666. In the men’s 5,000m relay, theUnited States clinched the gold in 6:47.432, followedby Canada in 6:47.484 and China in 6:47.676.

The season's third stop of the six-leg World Cupseries raised its curtain in the Capital Gymnasium onFriday. It attracted 179 skaters from 28 countries andregions, featuring five men and five women’s events.

Xinhua

Players of China celebrate the victory after the finalof women’s 3000m relay during the ISU World CupShort Track 2008/2009 in Beijing, capital of China,on 30 Nov, 2008. The team of China won the cham-pion with 4 minutes and 07.804 seconds.—XINHUA

Barcelona display authorityas Real Madrid lose their way

MADRID, 1 Dec — Barcelona stamped their author-ity on match day 13 of the Primera Liga with a 3-0away win against Sevilla in the Sanchez Pizjuan Sta-dium.

A first half goal from Samuel Eto’o opened the scor-ing before two late strikes from Leo Messi sealed aconvincing win in one of the most difficult grounds inSpain. Barcelona's win was made all the more impor-tant by the fact that Real Madrid slipped to defeat awayto Getafe.

Getafe had proved a week ago that it is a toughteam to break down and against Real Madrid theyplayed positive attacking football.

Two goals from Juan Albin put Getafe two goalsahead after 47 minutes, before Javier Saviola a chanceof taking something from the match when he pulled agoal back seven minutes later.

However, Ikechukwu Uche sealed the points forGetafe six minutes from the final whistle in a gamewhere Getafe also had two clear penalty appeals turneddown.—Internet

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (L) is challenged bySevilla’s Federico Fazio during their Spanish FirstDivision soccer match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan

stadium in Seville on 29 Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

Espanyol sacks coach MarquezMADRID, 1 Dec — Spanish Primera Liga club Espanyol took the decision to

sack their coach Bartolome “Tintin” Marquez late on Sunday night.

Espanyol’s coachBartolome Marquez

Tennis player Victor Hanescuwins national championshipBUCHAREST, 1 Dec — Romanian No.1 tennis player

Victor Hanescu on Sunday won the men's division ofthe First Edition of National Tennis Championship“Masters Romania”.

Hanescu defeated Victor Crivoi 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in agame that lasted one hour and 48 minutes.

Hanescu is the No.1 Romanian player in the ATPrankings, holding the 50th place.

The women’s division was won earlier by MonicaNiculescu, who defeated Irina Begu 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 in amatch that took two hours and 27 minutes.—Xinhua

France beat Nigeria to reach semisof U20 women’s World Cup

SANTIAGO, 1 Dec — France edged Nigeria 3-2 inthe quarterfinals of the FIFA U-20 women's World Cuphere on Sunday.

Other quarterfinals will see England against theUnited States, Japan versus DPR. Korea and Brazilagainst Germany. —Xinhua

Arsenal back in title raceafter stunning Chelsea

LONDON, 1 Dec — Arsenal are back in the EnglishPremier League title race after Robin van Persie’s dou-ble in three minutes helped stun leaders Chelsea 2-1on Sunday.

The defending champions, with a game in hand,are now only five points behind Chelsea and Liver-pool, who could move three points clear at the top ofthe table given a home win over West Ham United onMonday.

Arsenal’s title hopes were thrown into even moreserious doubt when Johan Djourou turned JoseBosingwa’s cross into his own net after 31 minutes atStamford Bridge to give Chelsea the lead.

Xinhua

10-man United tops Cityin derby

LONDON, 1 Dec — Wayne Rooney led 10-man Man-chester United to a 1-0 victory over Manchester Cityin the English Premier League on Sunday in a heated150th derby that saw Cristiano Ronaldo sent off.

The England striker ended a six-week goal droughtto ensure fame prevailed over fortune as the Europeanand English champions took on their neighbor for thefirst time since Abu Dhabi royalty made City thewealthiest club in the world.

Rooney had been determined to show that the RedDevils are the true “Kings of Manchester,” and his42nd-minute goal — his 100th in club football —proved decisive. City goalkeeper Joe Hart spilledMichael Carrick’s shot from a tight angle, and Rooneywas able to tap over into an unguarded net.

United clung onto its slender advantage despitefacing a far-more assertive City in the second half andplaying the last 22 minutes a man down.—Xinhua

The 46-year-old lasted just 13 games as Espanyolfirst team coach after replacing Ernesto Valverde dur-ing the summer. However, despite a positive start tothe season, Espanyol have had a disappointing cam-paign to date.

The Barcelona based side won their opening twoPrimera Liga matches, raising hopes of a push for aplace in Europe, but a dreadful run of just one win inthe last 11 matches has ended those hopes.

This Sunday saw Espanyol lose 1-0 at home to re-cently promoted Sporting Gijon in what had widelybeen reported to be Martin's last chance to save hisjob.

The Espanyol fans booed their players off the pitchand barely four hours later the club President DanielSanchez Llibre announced Marquez’s departure.

Llibre announced he hoped to name Marquez’s re-placement on Wednesday.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin and Rakhine States, Taninthayi Divi-sion and generally fair in the remaining States and Divi-sions. Night temperatures were (3˚C) to (4˚C) aboveNovember average temperatures in Kachin and ChinStates, (5˚C) below November average temperatures inKayah State and upper Sagaing Division, (3˚C) to (4˚C)below November average temperatures in Shan, Rakhineand Kayin States, Magway, Bago, Yangon and TaninthayiDivisions and about November average temperatures inthe remaining States and Divisions. The significant nighttemperatures were Loilem (-3˚C) and Namhsan (0˚C)and Heho (3˚C).

Maximum temperature on 30-11-2008 was 88˚F.Minimum temperature on 1-12-2008 was 58˚F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 1-12-2008 was 66%.Total sunshine hours on 30-11-2008 was (9.8) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 1-12-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (110.31) inches at Mingaladon,(120.95) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (140.94) inches at Central Yangon. Maxi-mum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom East at (6:30) hours MST on 1-12-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and generally fair else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 2nd December 2008:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin, Chin and ShanStates, Taninthayi Division and generally fair in the re-maining areas.

State of the sea: Strong easterly wind with moderateto rough seas are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama,off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speedin strong wind may reach (35-40) mph. Seas will be mod-erate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight decrease of night temperatures in the whole country.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 2-12-2008: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 2-12-2008: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 2-12-2008: Generally fair weather.

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Suicide bomber hits Germanembassy vehicle in Kabul

An Afghan police-man keeps watch next

to the German em-bassy vehicle at the

site of a suicide attackin Kabul, on 30 Nov,

2008.—INTERNET

KABUL, 1 Dec—A sui-cide bomber hit a Germanembassy vehicle in Kabulon Sunday, killing threeAfghan civilians, said thegovernment, an attackclaimed by the Talebanwhich left six wounded.

Violence has escalatedthis year in Afghanistan,the bloodiest period sinceTaleban’s ouster in 2001,raising doubts about theprospects for stability de-spite increasing numbersof foreign troops in the

country.“It was a suicide attack

on the German embassycar,” Ali Shah Paktiawal,a senior Kabul police of-ficial told reporters nearthe scene.

The bomber was onfoot when he attacked theembassy vehicle oppositea high school on the mainroad leading to the parlia-ment building in thesouthwestern part of thecity, he said.

Another police officer

Body of Singaporeanwoman returns

home

said the only occupant ofthe vehicle, its driver,escaped unhurt.—Internet

150 whales die in strandingoff Australian coast

SINGAPORE, 1 Dec— The body of a Singaporewoman hostage killed in the terrorist attacks inMumbai, India, was flown back to the city stateon Sunday night.

According to Channel NewsAsia reports, some50 family members and close friends were amongthe first to pay their respects to the late 28-year-old Lo Hwei Yen, and they were joined byresidents living nearby.

Lo, a lawyer, was in Mumbai for a shortbusiness trip and she had died from wounds toher head and abdomen after being captured bymilitants at the Oberoi-Trident Hotel onThursday.

Both Singapore's President S R Nathan andPrime Minister Lee Hsien Long have extendedtheir deepest condolences to the husband andfamily of Lo Hwei Yen, the first Singaporewoman killed in a terror attack.

MNA/Xinhua

SYDNEY, 1 Dec— At least150 whales have died in amass stranding offTasmania’s west coast,Australian authorities said onSunday, despite the effortsof rescuers who managed toshepherd a small numberback to the ocean.

The state governmentsaid the number of long-finned pilot whales that hadperished had climbed to 150after a body count on Sunday,almost double the earlierestimate of 80.

The stranded whaleswere discovered onSaturday and members ofthe local community andgovernment officialsworked to rescue them, but

the whales had been badlyinjured by the rocks.Department of PrimaryIndustries and Waterspokesman WarwickBrennan was quoted inAustralian media saidrescuers in a boat managedto steer about 30 whalesout of the bay.

Mass strandings ofwhales occur periodicallyin Australia and NewZealand for reasons thatare not entirely under-stood. Theories includedisturbance of echo-location, possibly byinterference from soundproduced by humanactivities at sea.

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5th Waxing of Nadaw 1370 ME Tuesday, 2 December, 2008

Prime Minister General Thein Seinsends message of felicitations to

Laotian counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—On the occasion of the 33rd Anniversary of the

Founding of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, which falls on 2December 2008, General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union ofMyanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to Mr Bouasone Bouphavanh,Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

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Prime Minister General Thein Seinsends message of felicitations to

UAE counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the

Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His HighnessMuhammad Bin Rashid Al Maktum, Vice-President and Prime Minister ofthe United Arab Emirates, on the occasion of the National Day of the UnitedArab Emirates, which falls on 2 December 2008.

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Thriving prawn farms of Rakhine StateArticle: Reporter Singu Soe Win; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Prawn containers are loaded onto ships for local and foreign markets.

Kyaukpyu sea prawn incubation farm is locatedon a 0.77-acre land in Zetiya Village, one mile andthree furlongs from Kyaukpyu. It consists of anoffice room, light-proof buildings, 10 five-ton-ca-pacity shrimp nursery water tanks, four 20-ton ca-pacity shrimp nursery water tanks, two 10-ton-ca-pacity incubation water tanks, two 20-ton-capacityseawater tanks, two 15-ton-capacity pasteurizationtanks, and one filtering tank.

Nine-inch-long grown-up female prawns are bredin a light-proof water tank. Such a prawn costs20,000 kyats. A female prawn holds about 800,000grey-colour eggs on her back, which are visible withnaked eyes.

Female tiger prawns are bred in a light-prooftank. When they hold eggs, they are transferred toanother tank. Newly-laid eggs are invisible withnaked eyes. Tiger prawns hatch and grow up in thedark.

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YANGON, 1 Dec — The Myanmar Board of Ex-aminations under the Ministry of Education todayannounced that the Matriculation Examination for2009 will be held in March according to the followingtimetable.

Students are to sit for the examination from 9 a.m.to 12 noon daily for Myanmar on 11 March 2009(Wednesday), for English on 12 March 2009 (Thurs-

Timetable for 2009 MatriculationExamination announced

day), for Mathematics on 13 March 2009 (Friday),for Chemistry on 14 March 2009 (Saturday), forPhysics on 16 March 2009 (Monday), for Biology/History on 17 March 2009 (Tuesday), for Geographyon 18 March 2009 (Wednesday), for Economics on19 March 2009 (Thursday) and for Optional Myanmaron 20 March 2009 (Friday).

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Ferguson rushes to Ronaldo’s defence

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integ-rity and preservation and safeguard-ing of cultural heritage and nationalcharacter

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

MANCHESTER, 1 Dec—Manchester Unitedboss Sir Alex Fergusonhas jumped to the de-fence of Portuguese In-

ternational CristianoRonaldo after the wingerwas sent off for twobookable offences dur-ing their Premier League

encounter against Man-chester City at theEastlands Stadium onSunday.

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Want sustainable fishing?TORONTO, 1 Dec — Scientists at the University of

Toronto analysed Canadian fisheries data to determinethe effect of the "keep the large ones" policy that istypical of fisheries. What they found is that the effectof this policy is an unsustainable fishery.

In fact, the opposite policy (keep the small youngones and throw back the large old ones) would result ina more sustainable fishery. In short — a big fish in thewater is worth two in the net.—Internet

Large mouth bass in a lake. A fish population willproduce more young — and therefore sustain morefishing — if it is made up of big, old fish.—INTERNET

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