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Volume XVII, Number 183 13th Waning of Thadingyut 1371 ME Friday, 16 October, 2009

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic sys-tem

* 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 of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preser-

vation and safeguarding of cultural heritage andnational character

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

the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tranquil-lity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in accord

with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectivesLt-Gen Myint Swe of

Ministry of Defence attendsMyanmar ICT Exhibition

YANGON, 15 Oct—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence this morning attended the openingof Myanmar Information and CommunicationsTechnology Exhibition 2009 at Tatmadaw ConventionHall on U Wisara Road in Dagon Township, here.

At the opening ceremony held in front of thehall, the President of Myanmar Computer Federationexplained the purpose of holding the exhibition.

Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and

Development Council Commander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen Win Myint, the President of MCFand the Chairman of Myanmar Computer EntrepreneursAssociation formally opened the exhibition.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe, the commander, MayorBrig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, the Vice-Chairman ofMyanmar e-National Task Force and party,ambassadors, diplomats and officials visited theexhibition.—MNA

Kyaukse, famous town for elephant festival

Byline: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)

Photos: Tha Nyan (MNA)

White elephant statues at the entrance to Kyaukse.

Town Hall and clock tower in Kyaukse.

Kyaukse islocated on Yangon-Mandalay Highwayabout 32 miles south ofMandalay. Singaing liesin the north of the town,Myittha in the south,TadaU in the west,PyinOoLwin, Ywanganand Yaksawk Town-ships of Shan State in

the east. It has an area of725.28 square miles.

At the entrance toKyaukse, we can seesplendid white elephantstatues welcoming theguests. The termsKyaukse and whiteelephant cannot beseperated . White elephantis designated as the

symbol of the town as thefact that the whiteelephant took a rest onS h w e t h a l y a u n gMountain where Kyaukseis located whileconveying tooth relic ofBuddha by white elephantin the time of KingAnawratha of Bagan. Upto now, elephant dancing

contest are held on a grandscale.

Senior Engineer UKyon Lyan Boi ofTownship DevelopmentAffairs Committeeexplained to our newscrew, “We are striving forkeeping Kyaukse cleanand beautiful. In addition,continued efforts arebeing made for bettertransport and supply ofclean water in ruralareas.”

With respect tosupply of clean water, thewhole township could use

clean water since 2003 andit has completed on 26April 2009 for the districtas a whole. Since 2003,four wards in the west ofthe township are beingsupplied 360,000 gallonsof clean water daily fromZeedaw and Zawgyi waterpumping stations.

In the eastern partof the town, 500,000

gallons of clean water isdistributed with gravityflow system through60,000- and 20,000-gallon-capacity watertanks on Waibu Hill bypumping water fromZawgyi River. In order tosupply more clean water,efforts are being made for2009-2010 financial year.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 16 October, 2009

Friday, 16 October, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Develop agriculture and livestockbreeding industries to ensure foodsecurity

Food and Agriculture Organizationdesignated 16 October as World Food Day,aiming at food security, the most essentialrequirement for people to live.

Myanmar, as a member nation of theorganization, has observed the day everyyear. Food security is a major challenge thewhole world faces today and so the 1996World Food Summit passed a resolution totry to halve the impoverished and under-nourished population by the year 2015.

Health problems, shorter lifespan, de-cline in working capacity and limited ac-cess to education resulting from povertyand hunger can harm not only the presentgeneration but also future generation.

Myanmar has been striving for devel-opment of agriculture and rural economyas agriculture, livestock breeding and for-estry are the main industries of the seventyper cent of the nation’s population.

Out of basic necessities, food is themost essential requirement for life. Thisbeing so, it is necessary to constantly in-crease agricultural production for the grow-ing population. Myanmar, with excellentpotential for extending the cultivation ofcrops, has been trying to boost productionin the agriculture and livestock breedingsectors with the application of modern tech-niques.

According to the motto of this year’sWorld Food Day : Achieving food securityin times of crisis, the entire people ofMyanmar, we believe, will work in concertto ensure abundant supply of food bymaking the best use of the nation’s favour-able aquatic, terrestrial and climatic con-ditions.

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct —The Education andTraining Department of Ministry of Progress ofBorder Areas and National Races and DevelopmentAffairs opened the vocational training basic courseNo.2 and the carpentry, mason and iron works basiccourse No.2 on 12 October in Pyapon.

The ceremony to open the courses was held atThirianawa Hall in Pyapon and Member of theNational Disaster Preparedness Central CommitteeMinister for Hotels and Tourism Maj-Gen Soe Naingdelivered an address at the ceremony.

Deputy Minister for PBANRDA Col Tin Ngwedelivered an opening address of the courses. After-wards, the deputy minister went to Bogale and alsodelivered key note address at the opening of thevocational training basic course No.2 and the car-pentry, mason and iron works basic course No.2 inBogale.

The deputy minister also attended the openingceremony of the two courses in Mawlamyinegyun.

A total of 60 trainees each are participating ineach vocational training basic course No.2 and 50participating in each carpentry, mason and ironworks basic course No.2. Each course will last 5weeks. — MNA

Basic vocational trainingcourses opened in

Ayeyawady DivisionNAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct— The State Peace and

Development Council has appointed the following per-sons as heads of service organizations shown againsteach on probation from the date they assume charge oftheir duties.

Name Appointment(a) U Aung Than Oo Managing Director

Chief Engineer Myanma Electric PowerPower System EnterpriseDepartment Ministry of ElectricMyanma Electric Power No. 2Power EnterpriseMinistry of ElectricPower No. 2

(b) Professor RectorDr Daw Mya Thu University of NursingProfessor/Head of (Yangon)Department Medical ScienceBio-chemistry DepartmentDepartment Ministry of HealthUniversity ofMedicine (Mandalay)Medical ScienceDepartmentMinistry of Health

(c) Dr Than Win PrincipalDeputy Principal Bago Degree CollegeBago Degree College Higher EducationHigher Education Department (LowerDepartment Myanmar)(Lower Myanmar) Ministry of EducationMinistry of Education. MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTE

deputy minister went to500-ton No. 5 FertilizerFactory constructionproject site (Pathein) un-dertaken by MOGE inKangyidaunt Township,

Energy Dy Minister inspects Shwepyitha oil-field

Ayeyawady Division. Theofficials reported to thedeputy minister on com-pleted and ongoing tasksbefore he left necessaryinstructions. The deputy

minister later presentedfruit basket to foreign ex-perts working at the site.

Next, the deputy min-ister looked around thesite.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15Oct—Deputy Minister forEnergy Brig-GenThan Htay on 11 Octoberinspected production ofpetroleum and natural gasat Shwepyitha oil-field inMyanaung underMyanmar Oil and Gas En-terprise.

At the briefing hall,the deputy minister ful-filled the requirementsafter hearing the reportspresented by the generalmanager on production,arrangements for new oilwells.

On 12 October, the

YANGON, 15 Oct—The respect-paying ceremonyof EMBA Programme 2009 of Yangon Institute ofEconomics will be held at Sedona Hotel here on 23October.

The students from the 1st to 8th batch may attend theceremony. For detailed information, dial 09 5144623,09 5108287, 09 5000699, 09 5173368, 09 5110892, 095118861 and 09 5114536 of the students from the 7th

Batch and contact the ECs of respective classes, notlater than 19 October.—MNA

Respect-paying ceremony ofEMBA on 23 October

DeputyMinisterBrig-Gen

Than Htayinspects

constructionproject site of500-ton No. 5

FertilizerFactory.ENERGY

Deputy MinisterCol Tin Ngwe

delivers openingspeech.—MNA

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File photo shows the first zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled public water taxiin San Francisco. A Japanese shipmaker has said it plans to launch theworld’s first large electric ferry—the latest innovation aimed at reducing

greenhouse gas emissions.—INTERNET

Iraqis inspect the site of a bomb explosion in Karbala, south of Baghdad.Eleven people were killed and 60 others wounded in attacks in Baghdad, the

northern city of Mosul and Karbala on Wednesday, police and ministryofficials said.—INTERNET

Taleban commander killed, threearrested in N Afghanistan

KABUL, 15 Oct—A Taleban militant commanderwas killed and three others detained in Takhar prov-ince, north of Afghanistan as they came in contact withpolice Wednesday night, the provincial police chiefsaid on Thursday. “A group of armed militants attackedpolice forces in Dasht-e-Qala and police returned fire,as a result militants’ group commander Jamal waskilled and three others detained,” Ziauddin Mahmooditold Xinhua. Jamal was believed to be responsible forproviding and transferring weapons to militants.

“Some 35 RPG rocket propel, a machine gun, over200 AK-47 bullets were also seized by police,” theofficial added. No causalities were reported on police,Mahmoodi further said.–Xinhua

Obama and aides debate optionsfor Afghanistan

VA to ease way for vets toget stress disability

US missile hits Pakistanborder; civilians flee

DERA ISMAIL KHAN,15 Oct—Streams of civiliansjammed into cars and trucks to flee the militant strong-hold of South Waziristan as the government pounded thearea with air strikes ahead of an expected groundoffensive against the Taleban along Pakistan’s borderwith Afghanistan. Early Thursday, a suspected US mis-sile strike hit neighboring North Waziristan,killing four alleged militants as the Americans, too, keptup pressure on insurgents in Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt,intelligence officials said. Separately, an explosionoutside a police station rocked a district near the tribalregions, killing at least 10 people.—Internet

Baghdad gold market hit in attackBAGHDAD, 15 Oct — At least eight people have been

killed and a number of others wounded in attacks on amarket in a mainly Shia neighbourhood of north-westBaghdad. A number of explosions shook the Shula dis-trict, after which gunmen raided shops in the gold market.

Witnesses said the gunmen stole amounts of gold beforethey escaped, shooting wildly and throwing hand grenades.InKarbala, south of the capital, three bombings near shrines inthe city killed one person and injured 30.Security officialssay there is a link between criminal gangs and the still-active anti-US and anti-government insurgency.

A hospital official in Baghdad is quoted by Reutersnews agency confirming that eight people died andanother nine were injured at the market.Political and sec-tarian violence has diminished in Iraq since 2005-07levels, but lawlessness remains a problem, and therehas been a recent spike in violent incidents. —Internet

Central Europe hitby heavy snow,

high windsWARSAW, 15 Oct— Po-

land deployed troops andsnow ploughs on Wednes-day after snow and pow-erful winds cut off powersupplies to as many as700,000 people in stormswhich swept Central Eu-rope. Tens of thousands ofUkrainians were alsowithout electricity aswind and snow damagedpower lines and genera-tors, the emergencies min-istry in Kiev said.

High winds whippedup huge waves alongPoland’s Baltic coast,damaging the pier at theseaside resort of Sopot andforcing the evacuationof families from a river is-land threatened by risingwater levels.” The snowis continuing to fall all thetime. The situation isfast-moving. All our bri-gades are out in the field,trying to deal with the situ-ation,” Katarzyna Burda-Mazurek, a spokeswomanfor Poland’s PGE powercompany, told the PAPstate news agency.

Internet

A recent spike inviolence has shaken

confidence in the Iraqicapital.—INTERNET

There have been frequent drone attacks in recentmonths.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 15 Oct—President BarackObama held three hoursof talks with top adviserson a new strategy forAfghanistan on Wednes-day, with some aidesemphasizing the mainthreat to US interests is alQaeda, not the Taleban.

The administration’sanalysis of the threatposed by the Talebancould play a role in

whether Obama acceptspart or all of US ArmyGeneral Stanley Mc-Chrystal’s request for40,000 or more extra UStroops for Afghanistan.Some of Obama’s fellowDemocrats in the US Con-gress oppose sendingmore troops, while Re-publicans favour deploy-ing more and believeObama should go aheadand make up his mind.

As US and NATOcasualties have soared,

public support for theeight-year-old war haseroded.Obama gatheredin the White House Situ-ation Room with VicePresident Joe Biden andother senior aides for afifth session about Af-ghanistan with anotherscheduled for next week,as the president takes histime in deciding the futureUS course there. A deci-sion could be weeks away,officials say.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 15 Oct— Female soldiers andothers serving in danger-ous roles behind the frontlines in Iraq and Afghani-stan have long com-plained it was hardto prove their combat ex-perience when applyingfor disability for post-traumatic stress disorder.That could soon change.

The Veterans AffairsDepartment has proposedreducing the paperworkrequired for veterans toshow their experience

caused combat-relatedstress. Even just the fearof hostile action would besufficient, as long as a VApsychologist or psychia-trist agreed.

The VA says thechange would streamlineclaims and recognizethe “inherently stressfulnature” of war service.The agency is acceptingcomment until 23 Oct.

Veterans Affairs Secre-tary Eric Shinseki toldlawmakers on Wednesdayhe’s committed toimproving trust in theclaims process betweenveterans and the VA, andto helping veterans re-ceive benefits they are en-titled to.”We will changethe culture,” Shinsekisaid. “I will assure you ofthat.”

Sen Patty Murray, D-Wash, called it a signifi-cant shift in policy.

Internet

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Following is the text of UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon’s message for World Food Day, to be

observed on 16 October:Food and nutritional security are the foundations

of a decent life, a sound education and, indeed, theachievement of all the Millennium DevelopmentGoals. Over the past two years, volatile food prices,the economic crisis, climate change and conflict haveled to a dramatic and unacceptable rise in the numberof people who cannot rely on getting the food theyneed to live, work and thrive. For the first time inhistory, more than 1 billion people are hungry.

Throughout the developing world, food prices re-main stubbornly high. We must respond to the needsof the hungry, first by ensuring adequate political andfinancial support for emergency food assistance.“Achieving food security in times of crisis” is thetheme for this year’s World Food Day and for theTeleFood campaign of the Food and AgriculturalOrganization of the United Nations. It emphasizesthe need for even greater efforts to respect the dig-nity of those affected by poverty and hunger, and tosupport the committed women and men who oftenrisk their lives to deliver help.

Second, we must invest in food production anddistribution. Last year, I set up a High-level TaskForce on the Global Food Security Crisis. Its Com-prehensive Framework for Action outlines a strategyto provide safety nets and assistance for smallholderfarmers and to support longer-term agricultural pro-ductivity and resilience, social protection schemes,market access and fair trade.

Nations are mobilizing for action. In July, 26countries and 14 multilateral organizations agreed towork together under the umbrella of the L’Aquila ini-tiative on food security. Next month’s World Sum-mit on Food Security in Rome is a further opportu-nity to focus on country-led and regional strategies,country-level partnerships and increased levels of as-sistance.

The challenges of food security demand multilat-eral commitment, creativity and leadership. At thistime of crisis, I encourage all nations to pursue coor-dinated and comprehensive strategies for agriculturaldevelopment and effective social protection so thatvulnerable people—women and children—in particu-lar can get the food they need for nutritional securityand well-being.

UNIC

Visitors view the pavilion models at the 2010Shanghai World Expo and the World Expos history

exhibition in Shanghai, east China,on 13 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

BEIJING, 15 Oct — Shanghai’s city airport authori-ties are all systems go ahead of the 2010 ShanghaiWorld Expo.Officials said yesterday that they wouldstep up check-in procedures and improve informationflow on flight delays.

Both the city’s airports — Pudong International andHongqiao International— are confident of handlingthe flood of passengers during the event.

“We will try our best to ensure passengers have amore efficient and pleasant service,” said WangGuangdi, vice president of the Shanghai AirportAuthority.

During the six-month Expo, the city’s two airportsare expected to receive between 11.55 million and16.80 million more passengers. Average daily turno-ver will increase to nearly 250,000 from the present158,000.

Wang said the expected Expo turnover was com-parable to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, thesecond busiest in the world.—Xinhua

CARACAS , 15 Oct —Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez has orderedthe obligatory acquisitionof a Hilton-run hotel onthe resort island ofMargarita, it has emerged.

The move was orderedjust weeks after the hotelhoused Libyan leaderMuammar Gaddafi andZimbabwe’s RobertMugabe during the Africa-South America Summit.

UN Secretary-General’smessage on World Food Day

“Achieving foodsecurity in times of crisis”

16 October 2009

Airports in Shanghai setfor Expo upgrades

Balloon dragon : Thai

visitors look at a

dragon made of

balloons on display at

the 2009 Balloon Art

World challenge event

in Bangkok.

INTERNET

NEW DELHI, 15 Oct—The Indian governmenthas agreed to help keep theailing national carrier, AirIndia, flying with an injec-

MEXICO CITY, 15 Oct—Mexico and Belize haveinked a deal to boost tradecooperation between thetwo sides, southeasternMexican state QuintanaRoo said on Wednesday ina statement.

In a deal signed lateon Tuesday in QuintanaRoo’s capital Chetumal,both sides agreed to en-hance cooperation ontourism and agriculture,mainstays of both Belize’sand Quintana Roo’seconomy.

The two sides have re-cently set up a ferry serv-ice linking towns in north-ern Belize and southernMexico across the Carib-bean. — Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 15 Oct — US retail sales saw theirbiggest decline of the year in September as auto saleswere dented by the end of government trade-in incen-tives, official data showed on Wednesday.

Sales fell 1.5 percent following a revised 2.2 per-cent jump in August. The figure was not as weak as a2.1 percent drop expected by most analysts.

The September contraction, the biggest since De-cember 2008, was attributed to tumbling auto sales afterthe government ended a rebate program in which carowners swap-ped old vehicles for new, more fuel-effi-cient models.

Auto sales fell dramatically by 10.4 percent, reflect-ing the end in August of the “cash-for-clunkers” pro-gramme.—Internet

Mexico, Belize agreeto cooperate on

trade

US retail sales dragged down by auto sales

Bailout to keep Air India flyingtion of more than £689m($1.1bn). The large finan-cial aid package would bepaid out in phases, Avia-tion Minister Praful Patelsaid. In return the airlinemust agree to restructurethe company.

It will have to boost itsrevenues with cost cutsthat total £407m ($650m)spread over the next twoyears, the minister added.

The airline reported aloss of $875m in the fis-cal year ending in March.

Internet

Venezuela takes over Hilton hotelThe hotel is on

the resort

island of

Margarita in

Nueva Esparta

state.

INTERNET

The hotel would helpdevelop tourism projectsin a “socialist frame-work”, a decree signed byMr Chavez said. HiltonWorldwide, which man-ages the hotel, said it wasanalyzing the move.

The hotel “remains amember of the Hilton sys-tem of hotels, and wel-comes guests with thesame level of service theyhave come to enjoy,”

spokeswoman KarlaVisconti said in a state-ment from Miami,Florida.

The hotel complex, onthe Caribbean resort is-land of Margarita inNueva Esparta state, in-cludes more than 450rooms and suites, a ca-sino, restaurants, shopsand offices, as well as anadjoining marina.

Internet

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All items from XinhuaNews Agency

A luxurious residentialbuilding named ‘Con-duit Road 39 ‘is seen

from the Peak in HongKong on 14 Oct, 2009.A five-bedroom duplex

suite located in thebuilding with as much

as 6,158 square feet wassold on Wednesday toan unidentified buyerfrom mainland China,

said the developer,Henderson Land Devel-opment, a major Hong

Kong property com-pany. It claims the

apartment is the mostexpensive in Asia by

square foot.—XINHUA

Luxury flat in Hong Kong setsnew world price record

HONG KONG, 15 Oct—A luxury flat in Hong Konghas set the new world record by fetching a price ofabout 767,000 HK dollars (113,900 US dollars) persquare meter, local media reported on Thursday.

The luxury duplex located on the 68th floor, whichhas five bedrooms and a total floor area of 572 squaremeters (6,158 square feet), was sold for 439 millionHK dollars (56.3 million US dollars), developerHenderson Land said on Wednesday.

In terms of salable area, the price was about 121,000US dollars per square meter, the South China Morn-ing Post reported. A luxury flat in London had set theprevious world record at 6,000 pounds for each squarefoot of salable area (105,090 US dollars per squaremeter). Luxury flats in the same project in West Mid-Levels, Hong Kong, have been fetching stunning pricesin recent days. Another flat on the same floor with afloor area of 571 square meters went for 397millionHK dollars (50.9 million US dollars).

The real estate prices in Hong Kong was now backat their mid- 2008 level after a brief period correctionamid the global economic downturn, but they werestill below the peak prices recorded in 1997. Luxuryflats, however, were more expensive.—Xinhua

Four health aidworkers freed byAfghan securityforces in North

KABUL, 15 Oct—AfghanNational Security Forceson Wednesday rescued fourhealth workers who wereheld hostage by a group ofarmed militants in Afghani-stan’s northern Sar-e-PulProvince, provincial policechief said on Thursday.

“After searching an areain Kohistanat district,known to be used by agroup of militants who be-lieved to be responsible forkidnapping of health work-ers, hostages were releasedsafely on Wednesdaynoon,” Gen Balal Niramtold Xinhua.

He also said that a mili-tant was killed in the opera-tion while militants’ groupcommander Allah Brut wasdetained with his AK-47assault rifles. — Xinhua

Nationwide A/H1N1 outbreak could devastate US businessesHOUSTON, 15 Oct—A

nationwide outbreak of A/H1N1 flu could devastatean already weakened USeconomy and leave under-staffed companies in evenmore difficulties, accord-ing to news released onWednesday by Challenger,Gray & Christmas, the old-est US outplacement firm.

“For an employer thathas recently gone througha downsizing and alreadystretched thin in terms of

staffing, 40 percent absen-teeism in a given monthcould be devastating,” saidJohn A Challenger, CEOof the Chicago-based con-sultant firm. Challengerpointed out that a recentsurvey by the HarvardSchool of Public Healthfound that only a third ofUS companies indicatedthat they could sustain theirbusiness with severe opera-tional problems if half oftheir workforce was sud-

denly absent for two weeksdue to the A/H1N1 flu.

Only 20 percent of com-panies felt they could keepoperations running if theywere staffed at 50 percentfor a month, according tothe survey. Earlier this year,the US Department ofHomeland Security indi-cated that worker absentee-ism rates could reach 30 to50 percent if a pandemic in-fluenza broke out across thecountry.—Xinhua

Black Eagleunmanned helicopterrobotic observation

system for military andcivilian missions is

displayed at the IsraelDefence Exhibition in

Tel Aviv on 14 Oct,2009. — XINHUA

A visitor takes photo of Haibao, the mascot ofShanghai World Expo, at the 2010 Shanghai World

Expo and the World Expos history exhibition inShanghai, east China, on 13 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

Malaysia launchesnew DiplomaticIdentity Card

KUALA LUMPUR, 15 Oct— Malaysian ForeignMinistry launched newDiplomatic Identity Cardhere on Thursday formembers of foreign Dip-lomatic Missions and In-ternational Organizationsbased in Malaysia.

According to a Pressrelease released by theForeign Ministry onThursday, the new card isan extension of the I-Kadsystem currently used bythe Department of Immi-gration of Malaysiawhich has adequate secu-rity features and is em-bedded with micro-chipswhich contain the per-sonal data of the cardholder.

Xinhua

Apple’s iPhone 3G to debut on Chinesemainland market on 30 Oct

China, Afghanistan vowto promote practical

cooperationBEIJING, 15 Oct—China will continue to support Af-

ghanistan’s reconstruction, and make efforts to expandbilateral cooperation, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao saidon Thursday.

Meeting with Afghan Vice President MohammadKarim Khalili, who attended Wednesday’s eighthprime ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Coopera-tion Organization (SCO) member states as guest ofhost country China, Wen said China would continueto encourage qualified and reputable companies toinvest in Afghanistan, and to strengthen bilateral prac-tical cooperation in fields such as trade, economy andagriculture.

Wen said the mutually beneficial cooperation wouldnot only serve the fundamental interests of the twopeoples, but also be conducive to the regional peaceand stability. Wen said China hoped Afghanistan couldrealize peace, stability and development soon. Chinaalways respected Afghanistan’s sovereignty, independ-ence and territorial integrity, he said.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 15 Oct—Apple’s iPhone 3Gwill make its debut on the Chinese main-land market on 30 October as scheduledand aspiring users will have to sign atwo-year contract with China Unicom,the country’s No 2 telco said on yester-day. Getting users to sign a contract isone way for China Unicom to lure sub-scribers to its network and is a competi-tive edge in the battle with its bigger ri-

val, China Mobile, in the keenly-foughtmobile phone market, analysts said.

“The iPhone is expected to help ChinaUnicom grab market share in the high-end segment from rivals, especiallyChina Mobile,” said Wu Wenzhao, atelecommunications analyst at AnalysysInternational, a Beijing-based ITconsulting firm.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Palestinian tailors work on hand-knitted pieces to create the largest

traditional Palestinian dress in orderto attempt to enter in the Guiness

Book of World Records in the WestBank city of Hebron.

ND woman’s 7-foot-long dog could be record holder

In this photo, Boomer, a 180-poundLandseer Newfoundland dog, drinkswater from the kitchen sink at CarynWeber’s home south of Casselton, ND.

Lung stolen from Perucadaver exhibition returned

The manager of a traveling exhi-bition of human cadavers says a lungstolen from the show has been re-turned.

Susan Hoefken said late on Thurs-day that her Lima-based productioncompany found the lung in a plastic bagoutside the exhibition after being tippedoff by an anonymous phone call.

The caller did not attempt to claimthe $2,000 reward the company offeredfor the lung’s return.

The lung was taken in Peru from“Bodies: The Exhibition.” The US-owned show has traveled the globe dis-playing cadavers preserved through aprocess that replaces water in biologi-cal tissues with polymers.

The exhibition travels next to Co-lombia.

A giant flag of Jerusalem’s municipalityis unfolded at Teddy stadium inJerusalem on 17 September, 2009.According to the organizers of the event,the 43,404 square metres (467,196square ft.) flag was certified as theworld’s largest flag by the GuinnessWorld Records on 10 April, 2009 whenit was first unfurled in the Philippines.

Boomer may be a buster: Measuring3 feet tall at the shoulders and 7 feetlong from nose to destructive waggingtail, he might be the world’s tallestliving dog. Owner Caryn Weber saysher 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundlandkeeps all four paws on the floor whenhe drinks from the kitchen faucet in herfamily’s eastern North Dakota farmhouse.

Boomer stares into car windows eyeto eye with drivers. A 20-pound bag ofdry dog food lasts the 180-pound caninea couple of weeks.

Weber says her furry black and whitedog “comes into the house and his tailis so high everything gets knockedaround.”

Weber plans to send Boomer’s

measurements to Guinness WorldRecords. The previous record holder wasa nearly 4-foot-tall Great Dane that diedthis summer.

Chief Egypt archaeologist defends Louvre cut moveEgypt’s decision to cut ties with the

Louvre museum had nothing to do withthe loss last month in the country’s bidto head the Paris-based UNESCO, thecountry’s chief archaeologist said Thurs-day.

Zahi Hawass of the Supreme Coun-cil of Antiquities said the spat with theLouvre started eight months ago, whenthe Paris museum refused to returnpainted wall fragments of a 3,200-year-old tomb from near the ancient temple

city of Luxor.Hawass has been pushing to reclaim

what he says are antiquities stolen fromthe country and purchased by some ofthe world’s leading museums.

On Wednesday, he announced hiscouncil would no longer work with theLouvre, threatening the Paris museum’swork in Egypt. The Louvre’s excavationin the massive necropolis of Saqqara,near Cairo, was immediately suspended,and a lecture in Egypt by a former cura-tor of the museum was canceled.

Within hours of the announcement,the Louvre said a national committeewould take up the matter to decidewhether to return the artifacts.

Elaborating on his decision, Hawasson Thursday issued a statement sayingthe severance of ties with the Louvre wasunrelated to the failure of Egyptian Cul-ture Minister Farouk Hosny to get thetop post at the United Nation’s cultureagency.

MUMBAI, 15 Oct —Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadiumwill stage the final of the 2011 Cricket World Cup,which is being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bang-ladesh. The Indian board has announced the eight ven-ues for the 29 matches it is hosting — includingMohali, which will stage one of the semi-finals.

Eden Gardens in Kolkata, which has not hosted aone-day international since 2007, will stage four games.The other venues are Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Chennai,Bangalore and Nagpur. Sri Lanka will host 12 games,while Bangladesh will stage eight matches, as well asthe opening ceremony in Dhaka on 18 February.

Original co-hosts Pakistan were stripped of theirscheduled games by the International Cricket Councilearlier this year because of security problems in thecountry. The full schedule for the tournament is dueto be announced in Mumbai on 9 November, whilethe two groups of seven teams were recently an-nounced in a revised format following criticism of the2007 World Cup in the West Indies. —Internet

JERUSALEM , 15 Oct —Israel’s president saysHezbollah has turnedLebanon into a “powderkeg”, after an explosion ata member of the group’shouse near Tyre onMonday.Shimon Peressaid the Shia Islamistgroup was preventing thecountry making peacewith Israel and possiblybecoming “the Switzer-

The Wankhede Stadium, pictured in 2001, is beingrenovated for the Cup.—INTERNET

STOCKHOLM , 15 Oct —Forget bunny boilingjealous rages and rapa-cious butchers.

The biggest threats toPeter Rabbit’s Swedishcousins are the cold, thecull and their flammablecadavers.

The city of Stockholmshoots thousands of wildrabbits spread across thegreen spaces of the Swed-ish capital and sends theirbodies to be burned asheating fuel, a practicewhich has enraged ani-mal rights groups.

City official Mats

Community clinics have keyrole in health reform

SAN JOAQUIN,15 Oct— Francisco Lupercio has in-surance for his house, his truck and the store he runswith his wife. But he can’t afford health insurance, sohe joined dozens of other people lining up for examsat a community clinic.

As the recession grinds on, more and more peopleare relying on taxpayer-supported health centers thatoffer care on a sliding fee scale. If Congress passes alaw giving more Americans access to health insurance,the clinics will also be a critical element to rampingup capacity to care for millions of new patients.

“There is going to be a wave of chronically ill peo-ple,” said Tanir Ami, executive director of the Com-munity Clinic Consortium for Contra Costa and Solanocounties, east of San Francisco. “We’re well positionedto care for them.” This year, federally qualified clinicsare on track to handle more than 20 million patients— 2 million more than last year. Visits by uninsuredpatients jumped 21 percent from 2008 to 2009.

Internet

Mumbai lands 2011World Cup final

Burning bunnies helps keeppeople warm and cozy

Freij said Stockholmkilled 6,000 wild rabbitslast year and has culled3,000 so far this year, butsaid a subcontractor de-cided to use the cadaversas fuel.”

One should put this inthe perspective that we(humans) are actuallycremated ourselves andthat generates a com-pletely different reac-tion,” Freij said in re-sponse to criticism.

Animal Rights Swe-den spokeswoman Lise-Lott Alsenius questionedwhether the practice was

humane or ethical andsuggested neutering themale rabbits as an alter-native method of holdingdown the population.”

One at least has toevaluate what the alterna-tives are to just simplyshooting them,” she said.

Internet

Israel warns of Hezbollah threatland of the Middle East”.

Earlier, Israel’s armyreleased a video purport-edly showing munitionsbeing removed from thehouse after the blast.BothHezbollah and the Leba-nese army have said oneperson was wounded.

The army and UNpeacekeepers in southernLebanon are investigatingwhether the building

might have been used tostore weapons in violationof UN Resolution 1701,which ended the war be-tween Israel andHezbollah in the summerof 2006. More than 1,200Lebanese, mostly civil-ians, were killed duringthe 34-day conflict, aswell as 160 Israelis, mostof whom were soldiers.

Internet

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PHNOM PENH, 15 Oct—Cambodian NationalAssembly on Wednesday approved the law of non-proliferation of nuclear weapon, bio-chemical weapon,radioactive weapons and chemical weapon. “This lawbans on producing, recycling, transferring, transportingthe kinds of these weapons in the country, and we willcreate authority for controlling and investigating thechemical substances as well as a laboratory forobserving these substances in the country,” said TeaBanh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of NationalDefence. “We do not want to see these substancesdestroying our people’s heath and lives,” he added.

“We have purpose to set up a region of ASEANwithout the nuclear weapon,” said Cheap Yeam,chairman of the audition, banking and finance. “Whenwe have this kind of law, we will show other countries,United Nations, and IEAE (International Energy Agency)that we do not produce these weapons.”

“We also show them that we are not the threat ofregional security and the war monger,” he said, addingthat “our country is poor; we need the help from donorand other friend countries to develop the country andwe do not have abilities to produce this kind ofweapons.”—MNA/Xinhua

Cambodia aproves Law ofNPN, Chemical Weapon

NEW DELHI, 15 Oct—India and ArgentinaWednesday signed anagreement in civil nuclearcooperation and nine otherpacts with a desire toestablish strategicpartnership. The agreementswere signed after wide-ranging talks betweenIndian Prime MinisterManmohan Singh andArgentine President CristinaFernando de Kirchner herein Indian national capitalNew Delhi.

The Agreement for

India signs N-Pact with Argentina,7 th since NSG Waiver

ROME, 15 Oct—Thefood crisis in poor countriescoupled with the globaleconomic crisis had causeda spike in world hunger,with more than one billionpeople undernourished in2009, the UN’s foodagencies said in this year’sreport on global foodsecurity issued onWednesday.

The annual reportwas jointly produced bythe Food and AgricultureOrganizat-ion (FAO) andthe World FoodProgramme (WFP). “Nonation is immune and, asusual, it is the poorestcountries and the poorestpeople that are sufferingthe most,” said FAO chiefJacques Diouf and WFPhead Josette Shee-

Food, Eco. crises leave 1.02 blnpeople in hunger in 2009 US

Cooperation in thePeaceful Uses of NuclearEnergy was signed byVivek Katju, Secretary(West) in the Ministry ofExternal Affairs andArgentine ForeignMinister Jorge Talana.Argentina became theseventh country withwhich India has signed acivil nuclear agreementafter the 45-nation NuclearSuppliers Group lifted a34-year-old ban on nuclearcommerce in Septemberlast year.

India has alreadysigned similar pacts withthe US, France, Russia,Kazakhstan, Namibia andMongolia. A jointstatement issued after thetalks said India andArgentina will make useof the synergies betweenthe two countries and thevast experience of theirnuclear scientists andtechnologists.

“Taking into accounttheir respective capa-bilities and experience inthe peaceful uses of nuclearenergy, both India andArgentina have agreed toencourage and supportscientific technical andcommercial cooperationfor mutual benefit in thisfield”, it said.

MNA/Reuters

Gnomes showing theHitler salute are seen inthe installation ‘Dance

with the Devil’ ofGerman artist OttmarHoerl at a square inStraubing, southern

Germany, onWednesday, on 14 Oct,2009. The exhibition

with 1.250 gnomes willopen on Thursday, 15

Oct, 2009.INTERNET

Egypt, SaudiArabia sign2 security

pactsSHARM EL-SHEIKH

(EGYPT), 15 Oct—Egyptand Saudi Arabia signedon Wednesday twosecurity pacts aboutprisoners swap andfighting drug trafficking.Egypt's Interior MinisterHabib Ibrahim el-Adli andhis Saudi counterpartNayef bin Abdul-Azizsigned the pacts in theframe of cooperationbetween the two countries.

After the signingceremony, el-Adli toldreporters that the two pactskeep pace withinternational and regionalefforts to fight differentkinds of crimes.

The first pact isconcerned withcooperation between thetwo governments infighting drug trafficking ontheir territories inaccordance with laws andrules applied in bothcountries while the secondpact is to arrange prisonersexchange between the twocountries.

MNA/Xinhua

This undated photo provided Wednesday on 14 Oct,2009 by Lumiere Technology in Paris shows a painting

that art experts believe they have identified a newLeonardo da Vinci. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-basedforensic art expert, said Tuesday that a fingerprint on

what was presumed to be a 19th-century Germanpainting of a young woman has convinced art experts

that it’s actually a da Vinc.—INTERNET

ran.However, the globalfinancial turmoil hasworsened an already gravesituation. “Even before thefood crisis and theeconomic crisis outbreakthe number of hungrypeople had been increasingslowly but steadily, butwith the onset of thesecrises world famine hasincreased sharply,” theRome-based agenciesreported. The FAOestimates that 1.02 billionpeople are currentlyundernourished, thehighest since 1970. Thelargest population of theundernourished is in theAsia- Pacific Region (642million people), followedby Sub-Saharan Africa(265 million), LatinAmerica (53 million) andthe Middle East and NorthAfrica (42 million). Some15 million people sufferfrom hunger in thedeveloped world.

MNA/Xinhua

Santa O Clause from Australia runs in bare feet in theheats of the 80-84 year-old class of the men’s 100

meters during the Masters Games, in Sydney,Australia, recently.—INTERNET

SINGAPORE, 15 Oct—Singapore, Indonesia andMalaysia joined hands onWednesday to enhancesafety in the Straits ofMalacca and Singapore.

The three countriesconcluded a JointTechnical Arrangement(JTA) with theInternational MaritimeOrganization (IMO) toinstitutionalize an IMOTrust Fund that supportscooper-ation among stake-holders towards enhancingmarine environm-entprotection, a statementfrom the Maritime and PortAuthority of Singaporesaid.The Fund benefitsfrom an initial contributionof one million US dollars

S’pore, Indoneasia, Malaysia topromote Malacca Straits safety

from Greece and marks yetanother major step forwardin oper-ationalizing the UNConvention on the Law ofthe Sea (UNCLOS)provision for internationalcooperation in themaintenance of straits usedfor international navigationsince the establishment ofthe historic CooperativeMechanism in 2007.

The JTA was signedby the heads of themaritime administrationsof the three littoral Statesand the Director ofMaritime Safety Divisionof the IMO during theopening of the 2ndCooperative Forum hostedby Singapore.

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(from page 1)As regards better

transport of rural areas,29 roads in the township--tarred road (24/6.5)miles, gravel road (23/0.98) miles and earthroad (14/1) miles—havebeen constructed withDAC's funds during2008-2009 financialyear. In addition, fourroads were opened onself-reliant basis. As forrural roads, village-to-village road (4/4) milesthat links to Ashaenge-toe, Shwedar, Yebawgyiand Thbyaywon villageshave been constructed.With the emergence ofdistrict-to-district roadsin the east and village-to-village roads in thewest, the living standardsof local people haveimproved, he added.

Kyaukse, famous town for elephant festivalByline: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)

Photos: Tha Nyan (MNA)

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of

Ministry of Defence

views the booths on

display at Myanmar

Information and

Communication

Technology

Exhibition 2009.

(News on page 1)

MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct—Shwe Lamin Nagar Co,the sole agent of Acer inMyanmar, sells Acer e-machines pc, notebook,netbook, Timeline series,Gateway Notebook, Pro-jector and LCD Monitor

Shwe Lamin Nagar opens booth atMyanmar ICT Exhibition

at Myanmar ICT Exhibi-tion 2009.

For its customers,Shwe Lamin Nagar Cowill organize the luckydraw programme on one23-inch Acer LCD moni-tor on 18 October. Moreo-

ver, the company presentsgifts to its customers atthe exhibition daily.

The showroom ofthe company is opened atthe corner of Strand Roadand Lanthit street inLanmadaw Township andthe service centre at 376on Mahabandoola Streetbetween 37th and 38th

streets in KyauktadaTownship.—MNA

Being a coredistrict, Kyaukse isabundant with modernbuildings and good fortrading.

In Kyaukse, thereare two major markets

namely Myoma andAyemyakyilin markets.Myoma is a crowdedmarket. Ayemyakyilinmarket was built in 2005.The town was named forKyaukse due to Minye

dam was built with stonesat a time when dams werebuilt only with toddy-palms. Nowadays,Kyaukse has gaineddevelopment momentum.

Being a district

region included in 24special regions, the townhas been epuipped with200-bed hospital and

universities like Yangonand Mandalay.

Translation: MTMyanma Alin (12-10-2009)

Zeedaw waterpurifying station in

Kyaukse.

Acer booth’s displayed items in MyanmarICT Exhibition 2009 in progress.

MNA

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YANGON, 15 Oct—The Indian goodwill del-egation led by Chairmanof Chiefs of Staff Com-mittee and Chief of ArmyStaff of Indian Army Gen-eral Deepak Kapoor,PVSM, AVSM, SM,VSM, ADC and wife, whowere in Mandalay, Man-dalay Division, accompa-nied by Indian MilitaryAttaché to Myanmar Col.Manoj Mukund Naravaneleft Mandalay by car andarrived in PyinOoLwin at

Indian goodwill delegationconcludes visit

10.30 a.m. on 14 October.They visited De-

fence Services Academy,Defence Services Techno-logical Academy and Na-tional Kandawgyi Gardens.

In the afternoon, theRector of DSA hostedluncheon in honour of theChairman of Chiefs ofStaff Committee andChief of Army Staff ofIndian Army and wife anddelegation members.

Next, the Indiandelegation members left

Mandalay InternationalAirport by Tatmadaw air-craft and arrived inYangon in the evening.

The Chairman ofChiefs of Staff Committeeand Chief of Army Staff ofIndian Army and wife andparty visited Common-wealth War Cemetery atHtaukkyant here this morn-ing. Then they left here byair. They were seen off atYangon International Air-port by senior military of-ficers.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15Oct—Minister for Elec-tric Power No. 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintreceived Managing Direc-

Electric Power No. 2 Minister meets Thai guesttor Mr Jean Francois Belinof A.F Colenco (Thailand)Lt at the ministry here yes-terday.

Also present at the

call were Deputy Minis-ter Brig-Gen Win Myintand departmental offi-cials.

MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct—TV Guide, Volume 1,No. 15 comes out on 16October.

It carries the newson broadcasting ofESPNEWS TV channelto be presented atMRTV-4 InternationalTV channel, matters re-lated to Scream Queens

TV Guide in circulationof MTV, songs and lidfeof Beyonce who stoodfifth in V Countdown, FIAF1 Championship,ASEAN BasketballLeague, forecasts onmatches of EPL, pro-grammes on 1000 Placesto see before you die: In-dia, interview with singer-cum-actress Tun Eindra

Bo and the various pro-grammes for a week.

The guide is avail-able for K 500 per copy atCity Marts, Sein Gay HarCentres, Shopping Cen-tres and bookstores. TVGuide is being publishedby Novel Light Express(Tel: 391186 and 243893)on every Friday.—MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct—An educa-tive talks on Global Warming &World Climate Change sponsoredby Tun Foundation Bank will beheld at No. 2, Myanmar Banks As-sociation building on Sibin Road,

Tun Foundation Bank to hold talks on 24 OctYankin Township, here, at 2 p.m.on 24 October. Retired Ambassa-dor U Hla Maung (Eco) will givelecture. Those interested may at-tend the talks.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14 Oct—With the permission ofthe government of the Union of Myanmar, the Min-istry of Forestry allowed 95 entrepreneurs to estab-lish 245,429 acres of teak plantations starting from2005.

The ministry will conduct a workshop andeducative course at its training school in HmawbyTownship in Yangon Division from 26 to 29 October2009 so as to keep teak plantations thriving.—MNA

Ministry of Forestry toconduct educative course

and workshop

YANGON, 15 Oct —Myitta Centre Associationdonated K3.5 million toeye patients in YesagyoTownship through Minis-try of Religious Affairs on12 October.

Minister for Reli-

Cash donated to eyepatients in Yesagyo

YANGON, 15 Oct—Organized by MyanmarGolf Federation andmainly sponsored by AirBagan Ltd, the openingceremony of Air BaganOpen Golf Championswhich is the second roundof Myanmar Golf Tour2009-2010, took place atBagan Resort Golf Clubin NyaungU Townshipthis morning.

Vice-President UAung Kyi of MGF, Direc-tor U Min Thein of AirBagan Ltd and Vice-Chairman U Ko Ko Lay ofMyanmar PGA opened thegolf tournament.

In professionalgolfers’ event, Khin ZawWin (CEPSA) and TheinZaw Myint (KM GolfCentre) lead the event

Air Bagan Open Golf Championships kicks offwith 69 stokes each, fol-lowed by Min Naing(Srixon) with 71 stokes.In men’s amateur event,Bo Bo stood first with 67stokes, Linthe secondwith 72 stokes and AungKyaw Thu third with 72stokes.

Air Bagan is mainsponsor and InternationalBeverages Trading Co(IBTC), KBZ bank Ltd,Hotel Yangon, KM GolfCentre, HAN Golf Mas-ter Pte Ltd, MyanmarThiha Trading Co Ltd,Bay of Bengal Resort

(BOB), (INAX, T-Home), CEPSA Lubri-cant, ACCEL Interna-tional Co Ltd (Canon),Impearl Jade PurifiedDrinking Water, LifelineCo Ltd and GP watch areco-sponsors.

MGF

Indian goodwill delegation led by Chairman of Chiefs of StaffCommittee and Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army General Deepak

Kapoor, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC and wife visit CommonwealthWar Cemetery.—MNA

MinisterMaj-Gen

KhinMaungMyint

receivesManagingDirectorMr JeanFrancoisBelin of

A.FColenco

(Thailand)Ltd.—EP-2

Director U

Min Thein

of Air

Bagan Ltd

tees off

golf tour-

ney.

NLM

gious Affairs Brig-GenThura Myint Maung ac-cepted the donation pre-sented by Donor U WinPe at the office of the min-istry here and presentedthe certificate of honourto the donor.—MNA

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(from page 16)Afterwards, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing inspected

undertakings of road work of Nay Pyi Taw-Pinlaungroad section and approach road work of Laneli Bridge(on Pyinmana side).

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and Chairman of ShanState Peace and Development Council Commander ofEastern Command Maj-Gen Yar Pyae inspected Lanilibridge construction project site in Nay Pyi Taw-Pinlaung road section from observation tower.

After that, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing inspectedconstruction of suspension structure in Laneli Bridgeconstruction project, approach Bridge of Laneli Bridge(on Pinlaung side) and approach road.

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing inspects …

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing inspects approachroad of Laneli Bridge on Pyinmana

side.—MNA

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing inspected maintenanceof Nay Pyi Taw-Pinlaung road section.

MNA

Environmental Conservation and Sanitation Departmentof YCDC accelerating sanitation of Yangon

Article & Photos: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)(from page 16)

plays an important role inkeeping Yangon neat andtidy to preserve the char-acteristics of a city.

An official of theEnvironmental Conser-vation and Sanitation De-partment of YCDC ex-plained, “The term par-ticipation and coopera-tion does not mean towork together with thesanitation workers but tofollow the prescribed dis-ciplines.”

To build Yangon asthe clean, beautiful andhygienic environment inaccord with the towncharacteristics, the Envi-ronmental Conservationand Sanitation Depart-ment of YCDC is under-taking 10 tasks includingthe preventive measuresagainst environmentalpollution around Yangon,the systematic disposal of

lected over 3800 tons ofgarbage from 240 backlanes.

While giving thesesanitation services with

might and main, the de-partment levies the fair taxfor sanitation from thedwellers less than the taxnorms of internationalmetropolis.

The departmentquarly collects the sanita-tion tax from the resi-dences. In six downtowntownships, the departmentlevies K 10 for each dayfrom every residence orapartment, K 7.5 for ninerelated downtown town-ships and K 5 for the re-maining townships.

For the collection ofcommercial garbage, K300 in minimum and hun-dreds of thousands kyatsare collected from shops,licensed shops, hospitalsand clinics based on thelicence rate. Tax thus col-lected is being spent onsanitation service in

Yangon.As part of efforts to

recycle the discarded plas-tic items, the YCDC man-ages to produce plastic pel-lets to be produced as rub-bish bags and buckets inAhlon Township. Under thearrangements of YangonDivision Peace and Devel-opment Council, a total of30.89 tons of polythenebags handed over by vari-ous townships were incin-erated in previous years. Asa private factory fromHlinethaya Industrial Zoneplans to produce FOthrough the polythene bags,the department has sent17.55 tons of polythenebags.

At present, the YCDCis holding discussions withforeign companies to gen-erate electricity throughmethane gas from the gar-

bage.The committee

bought 12-ton 10-wheelNissan garbage truckworth US$ 75,000 with aview to keeping Yangonclean and pleasant and cre-ating the hygienic envi-rons. Moreover, the com-mittee has placed an orderof three similar vehiclesfrom abroad to accelerateits tasks.

That is why the dwell-ers of the economic hubshould uplift their prestigeas good citizens by fol-lowing the disciplines re-lated to environmentalconservation and sanita-tion without throwing gar-bage into the back lanes,drains, pavements andpublic areas of the city.

*****Translation: TTAKyemon: 8-10-2009

Nissan garbage truck carrying out sanitation task on 32nd Street in Pabedan Township.

garbage, the carrying outof the tasks of cemeteriesand cremation, and thecontrol of the tasks of toi-lets and laundry.

To be able to do so,the department undertakesits tasks with 3000 sanita-tion workers and with theuse of 234 garbage trucks,eight heavy machineryand 26 tractors daily.

The residences ofYangonites daily producevarious kinds of garbagenamely kitchen garbage,commercial garbage, resi-dence garbage, factorygarbage and constructiongarbage.

The residents may dis-pose of garbage in Yangonthrough various garbagecollection systems.

In Lanmadaw, Latha,Pabedan, Kyauktada,Botahtaung andPazundaung townships,the garbage truck col-

Photo shows cleaned back lanes in one of the six downtown townships.

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Small bridges hanging from ropes were used indifferent cultures for centuries, and the firstsuspension bridge was built in England with a woodenpathway hanging from iron chains in 1741. Throughthe first half of 1800s, many suspended bridges wereconstructed, but several of them collapsed becausethe principles of this new type of construction werenot well-understood.In 1845, John Roebling firstapplied his knowledge of structure theories to aseries of four large suspension bridges in the easternUnited States.

The whole new level of understandingsuspension bridges was shown in his report on theproposed Brooklyn Bridge, formerly known as EastRiver Bridge, in 1867. He knew that it would be verydifficult to design a bridge strong enough to span theEast River. But the requirements for such a bridgewere daunting. The bridge had to stretch more than3,000 feet from shore to shore. It had to be highenough to allow tall sailing ships to pass under, andstrong enough to withstand the winds that whippedalong the river during storms.

Roebling’s practical development of theconstruction of wire cables for suspension bridgehelped him design the Brooklyn Bridge successfully.Three methods were used in the design—the normalcables with vertical wireropes, the inclined ropesradiating from the towers and the deep heavystiffening girder. Roebling’s design called for twomassive stone support towers, over 268 feet tall andweighing 67,850 tons, set deep into the river bottom.He also explained that the system of diagonals stayswould assure stability of the bridge as a partner tothe main cables: “If the cables were removed, theBridge would sink in the centre, but would not fall.”And he also stressed the fact that steel, never usedbefore in suspension bridges, would increase theoverall strength of the structure.

Many people believed that the bridge with sucha daring span could never be built. Roebling wasconfident. “As a work of art, and a successfulspecimen of advanced bridge engineering, thisstructure will forever testify to the energy, enterprise,and wealth of that community which shall secure itserection,” Roebling assured everyone.But,unfortunately, while surveying the bridge route, hisfoot, caught between pilings, was crushed, and hedied of tetanus in a few weeks. Colonel WashingtonRoebling later took up his father’s job as the chiefengineer of the East River Bridge. At the time of hisdeath, John Roebling had worked out the generalspecifications for his great East River Bridge, andwhen completed, it would look almost exactly likehis drawing. But, Washington Roebling designatedevery single detail of structure, calculated everystress, and invented new techniques for itsconstruction on such a vast scale.

Roebling first built pneumatic caissons toanchor the huge support towers beneath the riverbedas well as to provide solid footing resting on theriver bottom. Each caisson, a shallow box, wasconstructed on shore by shipbuilders and launchedinto the East River. Each was towed to its bridgesite like an immense barge and sunk to the riverbed.The caisson was then filled with compressed airgenerated by steam engine, forcing out the waterand providing an air-space in which men couldwork. The stone towers were built on their tops. Asstones were added, the caissons were pushed intothe riverbed. At the same time, compressed air waspumped into the caisson, to keep water out and

An Engineering Feat of the 19th Century

allow workers inside to scoop out the mud and rocksat the bottom of the river.

Although it seemed simple in theory, each caissonwas actually a complex structure. Thick side-wallstapered to a narrow lip covered in iron to act like theedge of a shovel, and the roof was constructed ofmany layers of solid timbers to support the stoneworkabove. The roof was pierced by shafts of varioussizes: small air shafts for lowering supplies, largeshafts for hauling out the debris, and air locks for thecrew to come and go. All was carefully calculated formaintaining the air pressure inside the caisson so thatthe river would not rush in and drown the workmen.

Roebling supervised a method for removing therock and dirt from the river bottom upward throughthe caissons. But the progress was slow since thework inside the caisson was grueling and time-consuming. Workers broke the boulders by usingsteel bars and sledge-hammers to unblock the descentof the caisson. At one time, there were many largerboulders and the descent was too slow to reach a firmfooting. Roebling came up with an idea of usingexplosives which had never been used in caisson andno one was sure of how the pressurized atmospherewould react to a blast.At last, Roebling decided toconduct experiments alone inside the caisson. Hedetermined to put small charges inside the caissonwhich finally worked.

Workers worked around the clock under terriblydangerous conditions. Damp air and high temperature,which never fell below 80 degrees Fahrenheit,endangered the health of workers. For instance, inDecember 1870, workers found out that fire wassmoldering deep in the roof timbers of the Brooklyncaisson. To put it out, they had to flood the structureand pump the water out again. The whole thingdelayed the work for two days. It also took threemonths to repair the damage to the roof. Finally, onlyin March 1871, the entire structure was filled withconcrete.

As the workers dug deeper, they had faced more

dangerous, even life-threatening conditions. The airpressure inside the caisson had to be raised higherand higher because the water pressure was so great.Therefore, when the workers returned to a normalatmosphere, they experienced several pain in theirjoints, terrible headaches, dizziness, and vomiting.They even named it as “caisson disease” or “thebends,” since victims usually doubled over in pain.When the New York caisson was more than 70 feetdown, there were already two workers who had diedof caisson disease. Roebling then made one of hison-the-site impressive decisions. He ordered to stopthe descent at 78 feet, leaving a cushion of sand todistribute the pressure of the New York foundationand tower.

The situation, nevertheless, became worse. EvenRoebling suffered a severe attack of Caisson disease.He became very weak and could not even go to theconstruction site. He still sent his instructions throughhis wife, Emily. At last, he decided to take a leave. Atthe site, three men fell from the tower tops and diedand several others were also killed in other accidentssuch as crushed by falling stones. Despite thesetragic accidents, the towers continued to riseaccording to the plans Roebling had left behind.Granite blocks were carried to the construction site,hoisted one by one, and guided into position. At 119feet, the height of the bridge deck, the solid stoneopened into soaring arches for the roadway. Then thetowers continued to rise up for another 157 feet. TheBrooklyn tower was finished in June 1875, and theManhattan tower in July 1876.

Then the time to join the towers with wire began.First, the rope ends were hauled to the top of theBrooklyn tower, passed through a set of pulleys, andlet down the other side. Then they were attached tothe stern of a scow, which was pushed by tugboats tothe Manhattan tower. Once again the ropes werehauled up and over, and then hauled 900 feet inlandto the Manhattan anchorage.

(To be continued)

The Brooklyn Bridge.

Thet Han Soe

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV ASIA ACE VOY NO (7)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV ASIA ACEVOY NO (7) are here by notified that the vessels will bearriving on 16.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of S.P.W 6 where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN-CAR LINERSINGAPORE PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BANGKAJA VOY NO (53)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BANGKAJAVOY NO (53) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 16.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.



SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RUKUN VOY NO (513)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RUKUNVOY NO (513) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 16.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.



SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY AGENT FOR:

M/S ADVANCE CONTAINER LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

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MYANMA PORT AUTHORITYHOLIDAY NOTICE

As the wharves warehouses and chellan Officesof Yangon Port will be closed on the 17th October2009 (Depavali) Day being the public Holiday.Goods will be received shipped or delivered onpayment of Holiday Fees.

Two swine flu vaccine doses forkids under 10 likely

Patients are seen receiving nasalspray vaccine for the H1N1 virus at a

health center in Silver Spring,Maryland. —INTERNET

WASHINGTON ,15 Oct — Test resultsof its swine flu vaccine suggest that chil-dren under 10 are likely to need twoshots to be fully protected, vaccinemaker Sanofi Pasteur said on Wednes-day. Federal officials said the news isnot surprising, since this age groupneeds two doses of regular seasonal fluvaccine the very first time they ever aregiven a flu vaccine for full immunity to

develop.The new Sanofi results back up what

government tests are showing, said DrAnthony Fauci, director of the NationalInstitute of Allergy and Infectious Dis-eases. For younger children, the protec-tion from one shot is “modest but not suf-ficient to allow for one dose to do thetrick,” he said.Sanofi is the only com-pany licensed in the United States tomake vaccine for children as young as 6months old. The company tested twostrengths of the vaccine, given as twoshots 21 days apart. The vaccine wastested in 474 children ages 6 monthsthrough 9 years old.

Only half of children 6 months to 3years old had enough protection after oneshot of the higher strength vaccine, as didthree-fourths of children 3 to 9 years old,Sanofi reported.For adults, one shot of thehigher strength vaccine appears to beenough, Sanofi reported earlier.—Internet

Diarrhoea is a major killer in thedeveloping world.—INTERNET

Move to cut child diarrhoea deathLONDON ,15 Oct — An international

initiative has been launched to cut thenumber of children who die from diar-rhoea around the world. The World HealthOrganization and UNICEF said urgent ac-tion was needed to combat a diseasewhich kills an estimated 1.5m children ayear.They have drawn up a seven-pointplan to tackle the problem, which is pub-lished in The Lancet.

It includes zinc treatment, promo-tion of breastfeeding and vaccina-tions.Diarrhoea is not a significant cause ofdeath in developed countries, but is amajor problem in the developing world.Itis estimated that one in every five childdeaths worldwide is due to diarrhoea —more than the child death toll from Aids,malaria and measles combined.

Ann Veneman, UNICEF executive di-

rector, said: “It is a tragedy that diarrhoea,which is little more than an inconveniencein the developed world, kills an estimated1.5m children each year.” Inexpensive andeffective treatments for diarrhoea exist, butin developing countries only 39% of chil-dren with diarrhoea receive the recom-mended treatment.”—Internet

Arctic will be ice-free in 20years, new survey predicts

A shop assistant arranges jars containing roots

and herbs at a Chinese medicine shop in

Singapore. —INTERNET

Chinese herbs showpromise for diabetes

preventionNEW YORK, 15 Oct – A number of traditional Chi-

nese herbs may help control blood sugar levels in peo-ple at high risk of diabetes, a new research review sug-gests. The review, which examined 16 clinical trials of15 different herbal formulations, found that the herbsgenerally helped lower blood sugar levels in people with“pre-diabetes” — those with impaired blood-sugar con-trol that can progress to full-blown type 2 diabetes.

When the researchers pooled data from eight of thestudies, they found that adding an herbal remedy tolifestyle changes doubled the likelihood of participants’blood sugar levels returning to normal. What’s more,people using the remedies were two-thirds less likelyto progress to diabetes during the studies, which ranfor an average of nine months.

The findings appear in the Cochrane Library, whichis published by the Cochrane Collaboration, aninternational organization that evaluates medicalresearch. The results, say the researchers, are “quitepromising.” —Internet

EDINBURGH , 15 Oct —The Arctic Ocean willbe an “open sea” almostentirely free from icewithin a decade, thelatest data releasedtoday indicates. Ice coverduring the summer monthswill have entirely disap-peared within 20 years, butmost of the decrease willhappen before 2020, leav-ing the Arctic Ocean clearfor marine transport.

The Catlin ArcticSurvey, completed earlierthis year by a team led byexplorer Pen Hadow, isthe latest research into thecondition of Arctic ice.Drilling and observation

figures obtained duringa 450km traverse of thenorthern part of theBeaufort Sea suggestthe area is almost entirelymade up of young,“first-year” ice. Theregion traditionallyconsists of older, thicker,“multi-year” ice.

Peter Wadhams, profes-sor of ocean physics andhead of the Polar PhysicsGroup, has spearheadedthe team analysing the re-sults. He said: “The sum-mer ice cover in the Arcticwill completely vanish in20 to 30 years time. Therewon’t be any sea ice thereat all.”—Internet

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S P O R T S

HONG KONF , 15 Oct –Andre Agassi says RogerFederer and RafaelNadal’s domination of themen’s game is coming toan end, tipping ScotsmanAndy Murray as the mostlikely successor.” Now wehave possibly the chang-ing of the guard. You havethose top two who are nowlosing ground to the likesof (Novak) Djokovic andMurray and (Juan Martin)del Potro,” Agassi told re-porters in Hong Kong byphone from Las Vegas.

Internet

MONTEVIDEO , 15 Oct — Argentina scraped intothe World Cup with a 1-0 win over Uruguay as DiegoMaradona finally celebrated mission accomplishedafter a stumbling, lacklustre qualifying campaign. Thetwo-time champions needed a goal by substitute MarioBolatti on Wednesday six minutes from time to earnthe three points and secure the fourth and final quali-fying spot from South America.—Internet

Serena, Monfils, Hewitt confirmedfor Sydney ATP/WTA

SYDNEY, 15 Oct—World number one SerenaWilliams, Frenchman Gael Monfils and four-timechampion Lleyton Hewitt have been confirmed to playin the WTA/ATP Sydney International in January, or-ganisers said on Thursday.

Williams, the current Australian Open and Wim-bledon champion, reclaimed the top world ranking lastweek.She will be joined in the women’s draw by de-fending Sydney champion and world number fiveElena Dementieva of Russia and world number eightVictoria Azarenka of Belarus.”Sydney is a good placeto kick off the year,” Williams said in a statement.“It’s a great warm-up for the Australian Open.”

Tournament officials have also secured Frenchshowman Gael Monfils and leading Australian playerLleyton Hewitt in the men’s draw. Ranked 14, Monfilsreached a career-high ranking of nine last March andclaimed his second career ATP World Tour title in Metzlast month. Two-time major winner Hewitt, ranked23, is chasing fifth Sydney title in the 10-16 Januarytournament.—Internet

Tiger Woods hangs out with CowboysIRVING, 15 Oct — Tiger Woods watched the band

and hung out with Cowboys. Woods worked out inthe Dallas Cowboys’ weight room at their Valley Ranchfacility on Tuesday, a day after watching the U2 con-cert at Cowboys Stadium in a suite shared by Cow-boys quarterback Tony Romo and right end JasonWitten.

During the concert Monday night, U2 singer Bonomentioned Woods, Romo and Witten being there.

Cowboys coach Wade Phillips says he enjoyed theopportunity to speak with Woods, who “talked aboutbeing a leader.”On Sunday in San Francisco, Woodshelped the United States win the Presidents Cup, be-coming the third player to go 5-0 in the team event.

Internet

LONDON, 15 Oct –Fabio Capello has STOCKHOLM , 15 Oct –

One of Europe’s top stars,Barcelona striker ZlatanIbrahimovic, will not betaking part in the 2010World Cup in South Af-rica after Sweden failed toqualify Wednesday.”When it’s over it’s over.It’s been a great journeyeven though the end is bit-ter,” Sweden coach LarsLagerbaeck said after histeam failed to qualify.

Ibrahimovic, whoscored in each of Barcelo-na’s first five matches thisyear after leading his pre-vious team Inter Milan tothree Serie A crowns, failedto work his magic for thenational squad throughoutthe qualifiers.—Internet

PARMA,15 Oct – Italycoach Marcello Lippi saidthe work begins now forthe team’s defence of theirtitle after finishing theirWorld Cup qualificationcampaign with an unim-pressive 3-2 win over Cy-prus. Italy finished GroupEight undefeated afterAlberto Gilardino scoreda hat-trick in the last 12minutes to turn around a2-0 deficit into an unlikelyvictory.

It means the worldchampions will set off onthe long preparation jour-ney ahead of June’s trip toSouth Africa in buoyantmood. But after changing

Andre Agassi says Federer-Nadalera is ending

Andre Agassi.

INTERNET

Honduras reaches World Cupas Costa Rica stunned

WASHINGTON , 15 Oct – Honduras qualified for theWorld Cup for the first time since 1982 and only thesecond time in history after a 1-0 victory at El Salva-dor and a heartbreaking draw for Costa Rica.

Carlos Pavon scored in the 63rd minute to give theHondurans the triumph over their “Soccer War” ri-vals and join the United States and Mexico from NorthAmerica for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

After civil unrest over a power struggle in Hondu-ras, national team coach Reinaldo Rueda sees theWorld Cup qualification in unifying terms.”It’s a con-tribution toward peace,” he said.Victory alone was notenough and it appeared Costa Rica would cling to thelast spot but Jonathan Bornstein’s header in the fifthminute of stoppage time gave 10-man United States a2-2 draw with the Ticos at Washington to deny them.

Internet

Argentina scrape intoWorld Cup finals

Argentina’s Sebastian Dominguez (left), LionelMessi (centre) and Javier Mascherano celebrate at

the end of their FIFA World Cup South Africa-2010 qualifier match against Uruguay at the

Centenario stadium in Montevideo.—INTERNET

England’s David

Beckham (left) waits to

come on as a sub next

to team manager Fabio

Capello during their

final group 6 World

Cup 2010 qualifying

match against Belarus,

at Wembley Stadium in

London.

INTERNET

Capello tells Becks to startpacking for S Africa

dropped the strongest hintyet that David Beckhamwill be on the plane toSouth Africa for nextyear’s World Cup finals.

Beckham was only onthe pitch for the last halfhour of England’s finalqualifier, a 3-0 win overBelarus at Wembleywhich made it nine winsout of ten for Capello’ssquad in Group Six.

But he made enough ofan impression to collectthe man-of-the-matchaward, prompting Capelloto compare him to BarackObama, who picked upthe Nobel Peace Prize ear-lier this month after justover nine months in of-fice.

Capello was beinglight-hearted with that re-mark but he was seriousin his endorsement ofBeckham’s ability tocome off the bench and in-fluence matches.

Internet

Switzerland make coach’sWorld Cup dream come true

BASEL, Swtizerland , 15 Oct – Switzerlandstepped into the World Cup finals in South Africa andmade German coach Ottmar Hitzfeld’s dream cometrue on Wednesday with a tense 0-0 draw against Is-rael in Basel.—Internet

Switzerland’s forward Eren Derdiyok(L) vies forthe ball with Switzerland’s midfielder Reto Zieglerduring their World Cup 2010 qualifying football

match in Basel.—INTERNET

Ibrahimovic to miss WorldCup as Swedes fail to qualify

Sweden’s Zlatan

Ibrahimovic (L) fights

for the ball with Alba-

nia’s Armend Dallku

during the World Cup

Group 1 qualifying

football match at

Rasunda Stadium in

Stockholm.

INTERNET

Lippi says work begins nowfor World Cup

Italy’s coach MarcelloLippi.

all 11 players from thosewho clinched qualifica-tion — thanks to a lastminute equaliser fromsubstitute Gilardino —with a 2-2 draw in Dublinon Saturday, Lippi saidthere was nothing to belearned from this game.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy in KayahState, lower Sagaing and Taninthayi Division, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Kachin and Kayin States, upper Sagaing andMagway Divisions, scattered in Shan and Mon States, Mandalayand Yangon Divisions, and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were NayPyi Taw (Lewe) (0.28) inch, PyinOoLwin (1.62) inches, Pathein(1.42) inches, Yamethin (0.83) inch, Thandwe (0.75) inch,Thayawady (0.71) inch, Mindat, Maungdaw and Sittway (0.95)inch each and Kyaukpadaung (0.12) inch.

Maximum temperature on 14-10-2009 was 90°F. Minimumtemperature on 15-10-2009 was 71°F. Relative humidity at(09:30) hours MST on 15-10-2009 was 84%. Total sun shinehours on 14-10-2009 was (8.2) hours approx.

Rainfall on 15-10-2009 was Nil at Mingaladon, (0.08) inchat Kaba-Aye and Nil at Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (110.83) inches at Mingaladon, (120.87) inches atKaba-Aye and (127.72) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum windspeed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from Southwest at(17:30) hours MST on 14-10-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is cloudy in the North Bay andpartly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and elsewhere in the Bay ofBengal.

Special Feature: Yesterday, the tropical storm ‘‘PARMA’’over the Gulf of Tonkin China Sea has crossed to North Coast ofVietnam and become unimportant.

Forecast valid until evening of 16th October 2009: Rain orthundershowers will be widespread in Chin and Mon States,Taninthayi Division, fairly widespread in Kachin, Kayin andRakhine States, upper Sagaing, Yangon and Ayeyawady Divisions,scattered in Mandalay and Bago Divisions and isolated in theremaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters.Outlook for subsequent two days: Increase of rain in the

Southern Myanmar areas.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for

16-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for16-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for16-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers. Degreeof certainty is (60%).

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This undated photo released by BuyCostumes.comshowing a dog modeling of the Halloween costumesadvertised on their costume website. Ten yearsago, it was hard to find a Halloween costume fora cat, dog or duck. Today they are everywherefrom the dollar stores to Beverly Hills boutiques.Offline or on, there are costumes galore.—INTERNET

Aquino leading Philippinepresidential race

MANILA, 14 Oct—The son of revered formerPhilippine president Cory Aquino has taken acommanding lead among potential candidates forthe 2010 presidential elections, an opinion pollsaid on Wednesday. The poll by the Social WeatherStations (SWS) showed Senator Benigno “Noynoy”Aquino favoured by 60 per cent of respondents.

Senator Manuel Villar, in the lead in opinionpolls before Aquino announced his candidacy lastmonth, was second with 37 per cent. The electionis due in May and the deadline for filing nominationsis November 30. The polling agency said thesurvey was conducted between September 18-21among 1,800 adults. The margin of error was plus/minus 2.3 per cent.

Former president Joseph Estrada’s support wasmeasured at 18 per cent and Senator FrancisEscudero came in with 15 per cent.—MNA/Reuters

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13th Waning of Thadingyut 1371 ME Friday, 16 October, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

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

troubles

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

and violence

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct— The Government ofthe Union of Myanmar today announced thatDivapali Day, which falls on 17 October 2009(Saturday) (14th Waning of Thadingyut 1371 ME),is a public holiday under section 35 of the Negoti-able Instruments Act.—MNA

Environmental Conservation and SanitationDepartment of YCDC accelerating sanitation of Yangon

Article & Photos: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing inspects upgradingof Nay Pyi Taw-Pinlaung road section

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaingof the Ministry of Defence arrived at the briefing hallof Koegwe waterfall camp in Nay Pyi Taw-Pinlaung

road section yesterday morning. Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing heard reports presented by officials concernedon upgrading of roads. (See page 10)

The 12-ton 10-wheel Nissan garbage truck collects garbage in sixdowntown townships daily.

In my locality, I havenoticed the good charac-ters of a youth who throwsgarbage at the designatedplace and dutifully re-moves rubbish on theroad.

Yangon is home toover 6 million people. Atotal of 33 townships atan area of 292.426 squaremiles of Yangon CityDevelopment Committeedaily threw 1450 tons ofgarbage in March 2005,according to the statisticsin March 2005.

Therefore, it is evi-dent that the active par-ticipation and coopera-tion of the city dwellers

(See page 10)

A set of Elvis Pez dispensers, one of over 200 itemsin The Gary Pepper Collection of Elvis Presley

Memorabillia, is seen at Leslie Hindman Auction-eers , Monday, 12 Oct. 2009 in Chicago. The items

will be up for auction on Sunday, 18 Oct.

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