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NAY PYI TAW, 3 July— U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. AlexanderLukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus, on the occasion of the IndependenceDay of the Republic of Belarus, which falls on 3 July 2012.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 July— U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. MikhailMyansnikovich, Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus, on the occasion of theIndependence Day of the Republic of Belarus, whichs falls on 3 July 2012.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttawand Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint receivedChairman of the New Era People’s Party U Tun Aung Kyawat No. 20 Committee Hall of Hluttaw Complex, here, at 3 pmtoday.

At the call, the speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw andAmyotha Hluttaw responsed to the questions related toHluttaw affairs asked by the chairman of the New EraPeople’s Party.—MNA

Speaker of PyidaungsuHluttaw and Amyotha

Hluttaw receivesChairman of New Era

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AmyothaHluttawU KhinAungMyint

receivesChairman

of NewEra

People’sPartyU TunAungKyaw.

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NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—The Ministry of Sports is holdingInter-Region/State Champion Challenge Cup (2012) with28 sports events with the aim of achieving success in theXXVII SEA Games, of turning out athletes of internationalstandard, and of emerging of new generation sportsmen.

As the third batch, it held the 20-kilometre walkingrace in front of the marathon event control office thismorning, attended by Chairman of Myanmar NationalSports Committee Union Minister for Sports U Tint Hsan.

Ministry of Sports holds 20-kilometre walking raceNext, the Union minister met with sportsmen and

stressed the need for marathoners to try hard to securemedals.

This was followed by a prize-presentation ceremony.The Deputy Directors-General, Director-General U ThaungHtaik of Sports and Physical Eduation Department andDeputy Minister for Sports U Aye Myint Kyu presentedprizes to winners in walking and marathon events.

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LONDON, 2 July — Four-timechampion Serena Williams survived agruelling examination from YaroslavaShvedova to reach the Wimbledonquarter-finals with a 6-1, 2-6, 7-5 victoryon Monday.

Serena looked set to cruise throughas she took the first set in emphaticfashion, but Kazakh wildcard Shvedova

Serena battles intoWimbledon last eight

has been in superb form, winning all24 points and dropping none in aGolden Set against Sara Errani in theprevious round, and she hit backimpressively to force the American toa final set.

Williams, also taken to three setsby Zheng Jie in the previous round,showed why she is a 13-time GrandSlam champion as she finally subduedher gritty opponent to set up a lasteight clash with defending championPetra Kvitova or former French Openwinner Francesca Schiavone.

“Drama again! I love the drama.”Serena said. “I knew the whole time Icould play better, but I feel fine. I’mnot tired.

“I feel it’s going good. The bottomline is I can play so much better thanI am. If I couldn’t do better that wouldbe a problem. You know me, I’m neversatisfied.”

Serena hasn’t won a Grand Slamsince her fourth Wimbledon triumph in2010 and her first round exit from theFrench Open against Virginie Razzanolast month ranked as her worst everresult at a major.

But she clearly still has the appetitefor more success, even if she might needto up her game to pass the even sternertests that lie ahead.

Once again Serena was scheduledout on Court Two while several playerswho have won far less than her 13 GrandSlams enjoyed the more glamourousconfines of Centre Court and CourtOne.

Williams has never hidden herunhappiness about her frequent trips toWimbledon’s shadowlands and thesixth seed started as if determined tospend as little time as possible on thecourt.

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Spain routs Italy 4-0 in Euro 2012soccer championship

Spain’s playerscelebrate withtrophy after

defeating Italyto win Euro2012 final

soccer match atthe OlympicStadium in

Kiev, on 1 July.

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National win

Blake beats Bolt again to secureJamaican sprint double

Yohan Blake (C)crosses the finishline during theirmen’s 200 meters

final at theJamaican Olympictrials in Kingston

city on 1 July, 2012.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 3 July, 2012

PERSPECTIVES

Real men don’t buy girls

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012

Today the country celebrates MyanmarWomen’s Day. To make the most of it, weshould consider how our community couldoutlaw gender discrimination and how far ourwomen empowerment measures have reachedas this gender group is tagged as the vulnerablepopulation.

A number of non-governmentalorganizations and government organized non-governmental organizations have taskedthemselves with helping the women whoconstituted above half of the country’spopulation. They, hand in hand withgovernment institutions, have succeededsomewhat in the fight against humantrafficking.

Despite illegal status of prostitution inMyanmar, massage parlours and beer pubsact as the black market for the flesh trade. Itis unusual in Myanmar where strict moraldisciplines rule daily life of the people that suchimmoral practice is growing.

Provided that we could offer decent jobsand incomes to the girls working in the industry,we could save many reluctant weaker genderfrom falling into the industry. Frequentcrackdown on the industry is not a panacea forthe problem even if it is essential.

We need to create more job opportunitiesthat offer decent salaries to the femaleworkforce. And, last but not least, we alsoneed to distance ourselves away from theindustry as even our modest involvement couldruin lives of many girls who were not offereddecent living.

NAY PYI TAW, 3 July— U Wunna Maung Lwin, UnionMinister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to HisExcellency Mr. Sergei Martynov, Minister of ForeignAffairs of the Republic of Belarus, on the occasion of theIndependence Day of the Republic of Belarus which fallson 3 July 2012.—MNA

Union Foreign Ministerfelicitates Belarusian

counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Union Minister for MinesU Thein Htaik visited rehydration salts workshop of MyanmaSalt and Marine Products Enterprise in Thakayta Townshiphere on 30 June.

He held meeting with personnel and inspected repairingof production equipment and storage of raw materials. Heinspected the functions of warehouse branch No.3 MiningEnterprise on Yangon-Insein Road and attended to theneeds.—MNA

Union Mines Minister visitsrehydration salts workshop

SCG sharing the dream in Myanmarpresents scholarships

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Siam Cement Group grantedscholarships to outstanding students under “SCG sharingthe dream in Myanmar 2012” at International BusinessCentre, Hline Township here this morning, with a speech byYangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe.

The Chief Minister speaking on the occasion said thesustainable development of nation depends on youths offuture generation. The Chief Minister warned the studentsthere not to abuse drugs and to avoid indulgence. Theprogramme of the SCG would promote the friendshipbetween Myanmar and Thailand, expressed the regionchief minister thanking the SCG for its contribution toeducational performance of Myanmar youths.

Thai Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Pisanu Suvanjataand SCG Cement Group Chairman Mr PramoteTechasupatkul made speeches.

The region minister, the Thai ambassador, the regionsocial affairs minister and the SCG chairman presentedscholarships and stationery.

The programme is the first of its kind SCG in Myanmarin commemoration of its 99th anniversary. The group hasselected 99 students who are ambitious and wishing to

continue education from Yangon and Mawlamyine for itsprogramme, among which 50 are from Yangon.

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NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Kyaukse Township ForestDepartment and Myanmar

Kyaukse Township plants saplings as rainyseason activityElephant Cement Plantjointly held the rainy seasontree growing ceremony 2012around the cement plant inTaungtaw region of ThanVillage in KyaukseTownship yesterdaymorning.

Director of MandalayRegion Forest Department

U Aung Than Win reportedon growing of trees in theregion and ManagingDirector of the cement plantU Aung Win Khaingexplained purpose ofholding the ceremony.

Mandalay RegionChief Minister U Ye Myintpresented saplings to three

cements.The Chief Minister and

party viewed cultivation ofsaplings at the designatedplaces.

They planted about2000 saplings. The ForestDepartment has distributed3.2 million saplings todistrict and townshipnurseries for growing themin the rainy season.

MNANAY PYI TAW, 2 July— Deputy Minister

for Construction U Soe Tint on 28 Juneinspected Ayeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon)and attended the coordination meeting forbuilding of Sagaing University. The deputyminister called for land reclamation, timelydrawing of design, implementing theproject as soon as possible and durability ofthe building.

Director-General of Higher EducationDepartment (Upper Myanmar) under theEducation Ministry and officials from the

Dy Construction Minister attends coordinationmeeting for building of Sagaing University

Public Works reported on the tasks beingundertaken to the deputy minister.

The deputy minister inspected the sitechosen for construction of SagaingUniversity and repairing works for staffquarters.

He then inspected along the Sagaing-Monywa Road. Next, he clarified facts aboutthe policies adopted by the State,departmental codes of conduct in meetingwith staff held at superintending engineer’soffice in Monywa.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July— Deputy Ministerfor Education U Ba Shwe received GeneralSecretary of Foundation of InternationalHuman Resources Development ( FIHRD )and party from Thailand this afternoon atthe ministry.

Dy Education Minister meets Thai guestsThey discussed matters related to

conducting training courses to promotetourism industry at Yangon and MandalayUniversities, sending trainees to ThaiUniversities and opening of short-termcourses in Myanmar.—MNA

Mohnyin Tsp holds concluding of CommunityAnimal Health Course

MOHNYIN, 2 July— Theconcluding ceremony of theCommunity Animal HealthWorkers Course, organized

by Mogaung TownshipLivestock and VeterinaryDepartments, was held at theTownship Information and

Public Relations Depart-ment with a concludingaddress by Assistant DirectorDr Khin Maung Myint ofMohnyin District LVD.

Township Staff OfficerDr Zaw Naing presentedcompletion certificates to thetrainees.

It was attended byDeputy Head U Phyo KyawThu of Mogaung TownshipGeneral AdministrationDepartment and ward andvillage administrators. Thecourse lasted five days.

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YANGON, 2 July—Aceremony to presentfurniture, stationery, schooluniforms and cash donationwas held at No 15 BasicEducation Primary Schoolin South OkkalapaTownship on 7 June, withan address by TownshipAdministrator U KhinMaung Htwe.

Yangon RegionHluttaw representatives UAung Kyaw Moe and U MyoMin Aung, TownshipAssistant Education Officer

Furniture, stationery donated to BEPS inSouth Okkalapa Township

U Ye Htut Aung,Headmistress Daw KhinSein Oo, Chairperson ofTownship Maternal andChild Welfare AssociationDaw Khin Thida andChairperson of Township

Women’s AffairsOrganization Daw ThidaAung presented furniture,stationery, school uniformsand cash assistance toschoolchildren.

Myanma Alin

Yangon Region ChiefMinister U Myint Swepresents scholarship

award to a student.—MNA

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MEXICO CITY, 2 July—The party that ruled Mexicofor most of the 20th centuryclaimed victory in apresidential election onSunday as a senior electionofficial said the party’scandidate, Enrique PenaNieto, held an irreversiblelead over his rivals.

The telegenic candidateof the InstitutionalRevolutionary Party (PRI)had about 38 percent supportand a lead of least 6percentage points over hisnearest rival, according to anofficial “quick count” byelection authorities.

A series of exit polls alsogave Pena Nieto a clearvictory.

The election completeda dramatic comeback for thePRI, which ran Mexico as avirtual one-party state for 71years before it was finallyousted in a 2000 election.

“Mexicans have givenour party another chance. Weare going to honor it withresults,” Pena Nieto toldsupporters in the capitalshortly after the quick countwas announced.

“The result isirreversible,” Benito Nacif,

Venezuela’s Chavez, Capriles launchpresidential race

Mexico’s old rulers claim presidentialelection win

Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate of theInstitutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), waves tosupporters before casting his vote in Atlacomulco

on 1July, 2012. —REUTERS

one of the Federal ElectoralInstitute’s board members,told Reuters.

Departing PresidentFelipe Calderon of theconservative NationalAction Party, or PAN,congratulated Pena Nieto onhis victory, but the second-placed leftist challengerAndres Manuel LopezObrador refused to concededefeat.

“The last word has notyet been spoken,” he toldsupporters.

Lopez Obrador couldchoose to challenge the

election, as he did six yearsago when he narrowly lost toCalderon and launchedmonths of protests againstalleged fraud.

He has said in recentweeks that this electioncampaign was plagued withirregularities, raisingconcerns that he might againcall his supporters onto thestreets.

Josefina Vazquez Motaof the PAN trailed in thirdplace in Sunday’s electionwith no more than 26 percentof the vote, the official quickcount said.—Reuters

MARACAY, 2 July—President Hugo Chavezshook off his health problemsto lead a massive rally onSunday while oppositionrival Henrique Capriles tookto remote regions for theformal launch of Venezuela’spresidential race. Unable torepeat the frenetic campaigningof past elections due to hisstruggle with cancer, a fist-pumping Chavez neverthelessmade a rare appearance at a rallyin central Venezuela tounderline he is fit enough forthe 7 October vote.

“The Bolivarianhurricane has begun!” heroared to tens of thousands ofsupporters in the central townof Maracay, referring to hispersonal idol and Venezuela’s

Opposition candidateHenrique Capriles speaks tosupporters during a rally atGuajira, in the western state

of Zulia on 1 July, 2012.President Hugo Chavez

shook off his healthproblems to lead a massive

rally on Sunday whileopposition rival Caprilestook to remote regions for

the formal launch ofVenezuela’s presidential

race. —REUTERS

independence hero, SimonBolivar.

Capriles, a young ex-stategovernor seeking to end 13years of socialist rule in theSouth American OPECmember, flew to two distantspots near the Brazilian andColombian borders tohighlight alleged governmentneglect of remote communities.

“Venezuela is a blessedcountry. We just lack a goodgovernment,” he toldindigenous inhabitants of theremote San Francisco deYuruani hamlet, close to themajestic, flat-toppedRoraima mountain in a barelypopulated region near Brazil.

With three months to theballot, Chavez has a two-digitlead in most polls. Yet there is

a large percentage ofundecided voters and onepollster this week put the pairhead-to-head.

After three operations toremove two malignant tumorsduring a year-long battle withcancer, the ever-upbeatChavez, 57, has in recentweeks declared himself in fullrecovery and his energy levelsappear to be surging just intime for the campaign.

“I want to thank Christthe Redeemer for allowing meto get through this difficultyear,” he said, after riding onthe top of a truck for severalhours through streets linedwith ecstatic supportersagainst a backdrop of lushhills.

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Attacks on Kenyan churches kill 17

Paramedics attend to awoman wounded duringan attack on the African

Inland Church in Kenya’snorthern town of Garissa

on 1 July, 2012. —REUTERS

KABUL, 2 July —A manwearing Afghan policeuniform shot dead three NATOsoldiers in the restive southernAfghanistan on Sunday, astatement issued by themilitary alliance said onMonday morning.

The incident is the latestin the so-called “green-on-blue” attacks when men inAfghan army or police uniformturned their weapons againstforeign troop in theinsurgency-hit country.

Man in Afghan police uniformkills three NATO soldiers

However, the briefstatement issued by theNATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF) did not say whether theattacker was killed or captured,only saying “the incident isunder investigation.”

The statement did notdisclose the nationalities ofthe victims under the ISAFpolicy. Fifty countriescontribute troops to the130,000-strong ISAF inAfghanistan.—Xinhua

churches in a Kenyan townon Sunday, killing at least17 people in the worst attackin the country since Kenyasent troops into Somalia tocrush al Shabaab militants.

More than 60 peoplewere wounded in the attacksin Garissa, the north Kenyatown which has been used asa base for operations againstal Qaeda-linked insurgentsin Somalia. “This is the worstsingle attack since October,when our troops went intoSomalia,” national policespokesman Eric Kiraithe

told Reuters. “It is the worstin terms of the numberskilled, the manner ofexecution, the anger behindit and the anguish it hasaroused as well as thenational impact it has had.”

There was no immediateclaim of responsibility forthe attacks in Garissa, alargely Muslim town of150,000 with a significantethnic Somali population.

Police said theysuspected al Shabaabsympathizers or bandits mayhave been behind the raids,

but it was too early to say. InSomalia, al Shabaabdeclined to comment. WhiteHouse spokesman JayCarney said the UnitedStates “strongly con-demned” the attacks at a timeof transition in the country.Kenya is due to hold anelection next March.

Regional deputy policechief Philip Ndolo toldReuters from Garissa thatseven attackers had hurledgrenades into the CatholicChurch and the AfricanInland Church (AIC) andthen opened fire with assaultrifles.—Reuters

NAIROBI, 2 July—Masked assailants launchedsimultaneous gun andgrenade raids on two

Iraq’s monthly death toll hits131 in June: official figuresBAGHDAD, 2 July—The monthly death toll among Iraqis

from violence in June reached 131 Iraqis, while Xinhua dataand other media-based tallies gave much higher figures tothe month’s toll. Official figures compiled by the Iraqiministries of interior, defense and health showed that a totalof 131 people have been killed by the violence across thecountry in June, including 85 civilians and 46 securitymembers.

The latest official toll is almost the same that of May,when the authorities put the death toll at 132, including 90civilians and 42 security members. They also showed thata total of 269 people were wounded in June, including 111civilians and 158 security members.

Meanwhile, data by Xinhua based on security andmedical sources, showed different figures for June’s deathtoll which has exceeded 300 victims among both civiliansand security members.

Only one of the month’s deadliest attacks that occurredon 13 June, during which up to 78 people were killed and some300 wounded by a wave of coordinated bombings and gunfirestruck the Iraqi cities, mainly targeted Shiite pilgrims andsecurity forces during the days of one of major Shiite religiousrituals.—Xinhua

Northeast India floods kill 79,displace 2 million

NEW DELHI, 2 July–Atleast 79 people have died and2.2 million forced to leavetheir homes over the lastweek as torrential monsoonrains triggered floods acrossIndia’s northeast, officialssaid Monday.

Assam state, whichborders Bhutan and

Bangladesh, has been worsthit with the massiveBrahmaputra river breachingits banks, while extensiveflooding has also hit thestates of Arunachal Pradeshand Manipur.

The Assam stategovernment said 26 of 27districts had endured flash

floods as heavy rainsdestroyed thousands offlimsy homes, blocked roadsand swamped fields.

“So far 79 people havedied in separate incidents ofboat capsize or have drownedwhile trying to escape thegushing waters and also inlandslides,” state authoritiessaid in a statement.

The statement addedthat an estimated 2.2 millionpeople had been displaced,with thousands of homeswrecked and more than500,000 people beingsheltered in relief camps.

“We have openedmakeshift relief camps for thedisplaced, while many morewere forced to take shelteron raised platforms and intarpaulin tents,” Assam’s

health minister HimantaBiswa Sarma told AFP.

Officials said more than70 percent of the KazirangaNational Park, famous for itstigers, one-horned rhinosand elephants, wassubmerged under water.

“The animals are tryingto move to safer areas,” parkwarden Sanjib Bora told AFP.

Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and theCongress party presidentSonia Gandhi visited Assamon Monday to take an aerialsurvey and inspect reliefwork.

In the adjoining states ofArunachal Pradesh andManipur, monsoon rainscaused widespread floodingbut there were no reporteddeaths.—Internet

A villager moves his belongings on a banana raft from hishalf-submerged house at Mayong village in Morigoan district, near Assam state on 28 June.—INTERNET

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & Technology‘Stunted’ pot plants cannot reach full potential

SALZBURG, Austria, 2 July— Plants grown in pots neverreach their full potential,images of their roots show. Amedical imaging techniquecalled magnetic resonanceimaging (MRI) has been usedby researchers to captureplant pot root snapshots. Thepictures reveal that the roots“sense the size of the pot”and restrict the growth of theplant.The findings have beenpresented at the Society forExperimental Biology’sannual meeting in Salzburg,Austria.

Lead researcher HendrikPoorter, from the Julichresearch institute in Germany,told BBC Nature that as soonas he saw the results, he re-potted all of his houseplants.“I thought, you poor guys,what have I done to you?” herecalled. For the imagingstudy the research teamfocused on two species—sugarbeet and barley. DrPoorter’s colleague Dagmarvan Dusschoten producedthe MRI scans. Thetechnique, used widely inmedicine, reveals the watermolecules within the plantroots.

The resulting 3D map ofthe roots’ structure stretchingto the outer limits of the pot

The MRIscans showhow barley(left) andsugarbeet

(right) plantsarrange

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shows, for the first time,exactly how restricted pottedplants are. In their experimentson 80 different species, theteam found that doubling apot’s size caused a plant togrow almost half as big again.“The most surprising thing isthat there seems to be no endto the pot limitation,”explained Dr Poorter.”Forevery plant species we lookedat, pot size was the factorlimiting its growth.”

Within as little as two

weeks of seeds being sown,the scientist explained, aplant’s roots would stretch tothe edge of the pot and then,“the trouble starts”. “Whenthey reach the edge, they sendsome kind of signal to theshoots to say, ‘there’s aproblem—stop growing’.”Each plant appeared to betrying to escape its pot; morethan three quarters of the rootsystem was in the outer halfof the container. “The insideof the pot is hardly used,”explained Dr Poorter.

Research in this subjecthas, in the past, focused onpot size from the perspectiveof how small a container plantscan be grown in, as the aim isto grow as many plants aspossible per square metre in acommercial setting.

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House plant heaven

* House plants, such as flamingo lilies and red-edgeddracaena, are known to remove indoor pollutants that arecontained in paint, detergents and synthetic furnishings.

* The light levels inside a house are similar to those undera tropical or sub-tropical forest canopy from where manyhouse plants evolved.

* If a house plant has grown too large, it is possible to rootprune plants using the bonsai method.

* Plants grown in pots that are too large are susceptible toroot disease because of excess moisture retained in thesoil.

Falling lizards use tail for mid-air twist,inspiring lizard-like ‘RightingBot’

NEW YORK, 2 July — Lizards, just like cats,have a knack for turning right side up andlanding on their feet when they fall. But howdo they do it? Unlike cats, which twist andbend their torsos to turn upright, lizards swingtheir large tails one way to rotate their bodythe other, according to a recent study that willbe presented at the Society for ExperimentalBiology meeting on 29th June in Salzburg,Austria. A lizard-inspired robot, called‘RightingBot’, replicates the feat.

This work, carried out by Ardian Jusufi,Robert Full and colleagues at the Universityof California, Berkeley, explains how large-tailed animals can turn themselves right sideup while falling through the air. It could alsohelp engineers to design air- or land-basedrobots with better stability. “It is notimmediately obvious which mechanism ananimal will use to accomplish aerial rightingand recover from falling in an upside-downposture. Depending on body size, morphologyand mass distribution there are multiplestrategies for animals to execute this behavior,”said Ardian Jusufi, lead author of the study.

Despite its simple design, RightingBotrights itself in mid-air with a swing of itstail just like the lizards that inspired it.

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Lizards in their natural environmentencounter various situations where they couldfall. For instance, they could fall while fightingover territory, seeking food, or even mating.To avoid injuries, they must have a way toturn themselves during a fall to land safely ontheir feet. For over a century, people havebeen studying if and how cats and othermammals right themselves when they fall.

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Space exploration: staring into the darkLONDON , 2 July — The

European Space Agency—of which, for the time being,the UK remains a fullyengaged member—hasquietly cleared for takeoff aspace mission to address thebiggest question of all: whatis the universe made of?Galaxies, stars, black holes,asteroids, planets and peopletogether add up only to atrifling 4% of all that there is:the remaining 96% ismysterious and very dark. Theagency’s Euclid is an opticaland infrared space telescopethat will be launched in 2020,to spend six years a millionmiles beyond Earth,

New brain scanner helps paralysed people spell wordsLONDON, 2 July — A new

brain scanner has beendeveloped to help people whoare completely paralysedspeak by enabling them tospell words using theirthoughts.It uses functionalmagnetic resonance imaging(fMRI) to help patientschoose between 27 characters—the alphabet and a blankspace.Each characterproduces a different patternof blood flow in the brain, and

fMRI is usually used totrack brain activity bymeasuring blood flow.

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Italian regulator threatensApple with new fines

MILAN, 2 July — Italy’scompetition regulator isthreatening Apple Inc withfurther fines of up to 300,000euros ($381,000) if it does notoffer local customers a freetwo-year warranty asdemanded by Italian law, asource close to the watchdogsaid on Sunday. In Italyconsumers who buyelectronic products and otherdurable goods have the rightto get two years of freeassistance, irrespective ofother warranties offered by amanufacturer. The AGCMcompetition and marketauthority has alreadyimposed fines of 900,000 euroson divisions of Apple, whichoffers a paid technical supportservice, for failing to tellcustomers about their rightsto free assistance.

But months after theprevious fine, Apple has failedto comply with the antitrust

request, the source said. Thecompany currently offers afree one-year guaranteescheme, which can beextended to two years onpayment of a fee. “Theantitrust (authority) hasopened a procedure of non-compliance against Apple,complaining about twounlawful practices,” thesource told Reuters.”If theydo not comply, they risk finesfor up to 300,000 euros,” thesource said.—Reuters

People wait on a street infront of an Apple store as

they await sales of the newiPad in the Apple store in

Munich on 16 March ,2012.— REUTERS

Survey finds more US teens hide onlineactivity from parents

NEW YORK, 2 July —More and more teenagers arehiding their online activityfrom their parents, accordingto a US survey of teen Internetbehavior released recently.The survey, sponsored bythe online security companyMcAfee, found that 70percent of teens had hiddentheir online behavior fromtheir parents in 2012, up from

measuring with subtletechniques and exquisiteprecision the geometry,distribution and accelerationof billions of galaxies acrossdistances that extend 10bnyears back in time.

Modern observationalscience began when Galileoturned a rudimentary pair oflenses on the moon andJupiter. The paradox is thateach great advance since thenhas successively also expos-ed even bigger questionsabout the firmament aboveand the emptiness around us.It was only in the 1960s thatradio astronomers confirmedthat spacetime, radiation and

atomic matter all had theirorigins in a big bang less than20bn years ago. But evenbefore this, observers hadbegun to puzzle about thebehaviour of the galaxies:none of them seemed to haveanything like thegravitational mass impliedby their shape and structure.

That was the point atwhich physicists began topropose a mysteriouscomponent of the universecalled dark matter. Thisstrange stuff does not shineor glow, does not bounce offanything or announce itsexistence in any recognizedway.—Internet

the device interprets thesepatterns. The BritishNeurological Associationcalled the research “exciting”.The study appears in CurrentBiology journal of Cell Press.fMRI is normally used to trackbrain activity by measuringblood flow.

The new technology isbased on earlier applicationsof the technique, which usedfree-letter spelling to allowpeople to answer the

equivalent of multiple-choice questions with just afew possible answers.Britishneuroscientist Adrian Owen,for instance, used fMRI tohelp a man believed to havebeen in a vegetative state forfive years to answer “yes”and “no” questions byinterpreting his brain activity.But the new scanner uses theentire English alphabet andthe blank space.

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45 percent of teens in 2010,when McAfee conducted thesame survey.

“There’s a lot more to doon the Internet today, whichultimately means there’s a lotmore to hide,” said McAfeespokesman Robert Siciliano.Siciliano cited the explosionof social media and the wideravailability of ad-supportedpornography as two factors

that have led teens to hidetheir online habits. Theincreased popularity ofphones with Internetcapabilities also means thatteens have more opportunitiesto hide their online habits, hesaid. “They have full Internetaccess wherever they are atthis point,” Siciliano said.Thesurvey found that 43 percentof teens have accessed

simulated violence online, 36percent have read about sexonline, and 32 percent wentonline to see nude photos orpornography.

The survey reported thatteens use a variety of tacticsto avoid being monitored bytheir parents. Over half ofteens surveyed said that theyhad cleared their browserhistory, while 46 percent hadclosed or minimized browserwindows when a parentwalked into the room.

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & Health

.China banks took 29 pct of

2011 global profitLONDON, 2 July —

Chinese lenders accountedfor almost a third of globalbank profit last year, up from4 percent in 2007, as theygrabbed market share givenup by struggling Europeanpeers, according to TheBanker magazine’s annualrankings.

Three Chinese bankstopped the profit table, led byIndustrial and CommercialBank of China (ICBC) for thesecond successive year, withpretax earnings of $43.2 billion,according to The Banker.

ICBC was followed byChina Construction Bankwhich delivered a $34.8 billionprofit, and Bank of China withearnings of $26.8 billion.JPMorgan was fourth with aprofit of $26.7 billion, whileHSBC was the most profitableEuropean bank, with

earnings of $21.9 billion. Bankof America topped themagazine’s Top 1,000 list forthe second year, which usesTier 1 capital as a measure ofa bank’s ability to lend on alarge scale and endureshocks.

JPMorgan was secondin that table, with four Chinesebanks in the top 10 for the firsttime — ICBC ranked third,CCB was sixth, Bank of Chinaninth and Agricultural Bankof China 10th.

National Bank of Greecereported the biggest loss lastyear — $17.4 billion, followedby Belgian group Dexia.

Euro zone banksaccounted for 6 percent ofglobal profit last year,compared to 46 percent fiveyears ago and their 45 percentshare of global assets, theBanker estimated.

The company logo of the Industrial and CommercialBank of China (ICBC) is seen during a news conference

announcing its annual results in Hong Kong on29 March, 2012. — REUTERS

In contrast, Chinesebanks accounted for 29.3percent of global profit lastyear, the magazine said. Itsaid the Tier 1 capital of Bankof America was $159 billionat the end of 2011, slightlydown from a year before but

$9 billion more thanJPMorgan.

Bank of America alsotopped The Banker’s first Top1,000 list 42 years ago, whenit was based on assets ratherthan capital.

Reuters

Asian stocks inch higher on Europe optimism

World has 5 mn test tubepeople: estimate

PARIS, 2 July — In-vitrofertilization (IVF) has giventhe world about five millionnew people since the first testtube baby was born in England34 years ago, according to anestimate released on Monday.As the initial controversy overman’s scientific manipulationof nature has faded, about350,000 babies conceived inpetri dishes are now born everyyear, said the European Societyof Human Reproduction andEmbryology (ESHRE). Thatrepresents about 0.3 percent ofthe 130-million-odd babiesadded to the world populationannually.

Committee for MonitoringAssisted ReproductiveTechnologies (ICMART).IVF, which involves placingan egg and sperm together ina petri dish for conception,and a sub-category known asICSI (intracytoplasmic sperminjection) where the sperm isinserted with a micro-needledirectly into the egg, havebecome commonplace.But ithas proven controversial overthe years, with some fearingit paved the way for so-calleddesigner babies whosecharacteristics are chosen byparents.

The Vatican considers it

SINGAPORE, 2 July —Asian stock markets inchedhigher Monday amidcontinued optimism overEurope’s moves to ease its debtcrisis and economic malaise.Japan’s Nikkei 225 index rose0.2 percent to 9,020.93 andSouth Korea’s Kospi gained0.2 percent to 1,857.26.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200index added 1.1 percent to 4,140.China’s Shanghai Compositeindex shed 0.3 percent to2,218.14. Markets in HongKong were closed on Mondayto commemorate the hand-over

of the territory to China in1997.

Leaders of the 27European Union countries saidafter a meeting on Friday thatthey would seek to centralizeregulation of European banksand, if necessary, bail them outdirectly, instead of funnelingloans through governmentsthat already have too muchdebt.

The EU said it also plansto ease borrowing costs forItaly and Spain, the euroregion’s third- and fourth-largest economies, stop

mandating painful budget cutsto every country in need ofemergency financial aid andtie their budgets, currency andgovernments more tightly.

Investors will be closelywatching as EU financeministers hash out the detailsof these plans over the nexttwo weeks. Some analystsexpect the European CentralBank and the Bank of Englandto cut lending rates this weekin a bid to spur economicgrowth. “We look this weekfor renewed easing by theECB and BoE in an

environment of very softbusiness confidence,”Barclays said in a report. “Theprimary factor behind weakglobal confidence is weaknessin EU demand.”Tradingvolume in the US will likelybe light this week amid theIndependence Day holidayon Wednesday.

Global stock andcommodity markets soaredon Friday amid EU optimism.The Dow Jones industrialaverage closed up 2.2 percentat 12,880.09. The Standard& Poor’s 500 index rose 2.5percent to 1,362.16.

Internet

Breathalyzer tests compulsory on all vehiclesin France

PARIS, 2 July — Allvehicles travelling on Frenchroads must carry a chemicalor electronic breathalyzer testbeginning Sunday, undernew rules aimed at reducingalcohol-driven accidents.“Alcohol has been the maincause of mortality on roadssince 2006,” according toroad security authorities.

About a third of fatalitieson French roads is due todrink driving, a rate that farsurpasses the 17 percentrecorded in Britain or 10

A woman uses abreathalyser (Ethylotest)in the French western cityof Quimper. All vehicles

travelling on Frenchroads must carry a

chemical or electronicbreathalyzer test

beginning on Sunday,under new rules aimed atreducing alcohol-driven

accidents. INTERNET

Photo illustration shows newborn babies at a hospital inGermany. In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) has given the world

about five million new people since the first test tubebaby was born in England 34 years ago, according to an

estimate released on Monday. — INTERNET

“Millions of familieswith children have beencreated, thereby reducing theburden of infertility,” saidDavid Adamson, chairmanof the International

immoral because of thewastage of a large number ofembryos, and the procedurehas been criticised for allowingwomen to have children untila much older age.—Internet

Airbus workers seek jobs guarantee over US moveTOULOUSE, 2 July —

French aerospace unionspressed Airbus on Sunday toprovide guarantees over jobsand production as it preparesto unveil plans for a newassembly plant in the UnitedStates. The world’s largestcommercial jetmaker isexpected to announce onMonday a $600 millionassembly line for its best-selling A320 short-haul aircraft,starting at four planes a monthfrom 2017. With Airbus alreadyassembling some aircraft inChina, analysts expect a moremuted labour reaction to thestructural move than in 2006,when job cuts on the A380

superjumbo led to streetdemonstrations and a fracas inthe French parliament.

But labour leaders saidthey would insist that anyincrease in production to meetrising demand would not comeat the expense of output whichstands at record levels inEurope. “We will be vigilantto make sure they are notrobbing Europe to pay theUnited States,” said Gilbert Plo,a CFTC union delegate to thecompany’s central workscouncil. While final assemblyis prestigious and visible itonly represents some 5 percentof the cost of production,according to Airbus

executives. They are likely toargue that each Alabama jobwill create up to 10 in Europebecause that is where the high-value systems and fuselageparts will continue to be built.

Unions will howeverwant those promises writtenin stone. “We want guaranteesthey won’t be touching theproduction rates in Europe - atHamburg and Toulouse,” saidFrancoise Vallin, a seniorofficial at the CFE-CGCunion which representssupervisors and somemanagers in the Toulouse-based group. “We also wantguarantees that there will bemore employment in Europefor the intermediary sections,”she added. Airbus builds largeaircraft sections in its fourfounding nations — Britain,France, Germany and Spain.These are shipped, trucked orflown by Beluga, its giantbulbous-nosed transportplane, to final assembly linesin Toulouse, France orHamburg, Germany.

Internet

Cockpit windows of theEmirates Airline’s

Airbus A380 jet arepictured after its maidenflight at John F KennedyInternational Airport in

New York, on 1 Aug,2008.— REUTERS

percent in Germany.According to a surveypublished Sunday, just overhalf of respondents — 57percent — said they have yetto equip their vehicles withbreathalyzer tests. Those whofail to do so risk a fine of 11euros ($14) from 1 Nov, 2012,when the penalty comes intoforce.

Drivers are split over themeasure. “I find it absurd to bebooked for that. But it’s thelaw, so I’ll be subject to it,” saidHamou Louachiche, 38, who

still does not have a test in hiscar. He believes that such testswould be more useful in bars ornightclubs. Others howeverwelcome the measure, sayingit would reduce drinkdriving.— Internet

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People return to charred citiesafter Colorado wildfires

COLORADO SPRINGS, 2 July—Residents began returningto charred areas of Colorado Springs on Sunday after the mostdestructive wildfire in Colorado’s history forced tens ofthousands of people from their homes and left the landscapea blackened wasteland.

Bears and burglars posed further danger to home ownerswho headed back to towns and cities after the fire, which killedtwo people. The so-called Waldo Canyon Fire has scorched17,659 acres, burned 346 homes and devastated communitiesaround Colorado Springs, the state’s second-largest city,since it began eight days ago. Governor John Hickenloopersaid he believed the worst was over and almost all of the blazesaround Colorado were under control.

“Now we’re beginning to look at how do we rebuild andbegin the recovery. But we also know that Mother Nature canbe pretty fickle out there, so we’re keeping ourselves veryalert,” Hickenlooper told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Two more houses were looted overnight in the ColoradoSprings area for a total of 24 during the disaster that forced anestimated 32,000 residents to evacuate, authorities said.

To maintain order, 165 National Guard troops were on theground under orders from President Barack Obama, whotoured the area on Friday.

A helicopter hovers over a hilltop after dropping waterto combat the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs,

Colorado on 1 July, 2012.—REUTERS

Many of those allowed to stay home remained withoutpower. Colorado Springs residents from the MountainShadows neighbourhood, where many homes were destroyed,were being allowed back to view their properties during theday on Sunday, but were being required to clear the area by6 p m. Mandatory evacuation orders were being lifted for someother parts of the city effective on Sunday night and byevening dozens of vehicles could be seen winding their wayup roads that had been closed for days.

About 3,000 residents remained forced out of their homeson Sunday afternoon, officials said, adding that among areasthat were reopening to the public were the Pike’s Peakhighway and Garden of the Gods park.—Reuters

30 insurgents killed inAfghanistan

KABUL, 2 July — Up to 30 Taleban insurgents have beenkilled and 14 others arrested in operations carried out byAfghan forces and NATO-led coalition troops in differentprovinces in the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministrysaid on Monday.

“Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan army and NATO-led coalition troops launched four joint cleanup operations inKabul, Helmand, Wardak and Ghazni provinces, killing 30armed Taleban insurgents and detaining 14 others over thepast 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement providing dailyoperational updates.

Two other insurgents have been injured during theabove raids, the statement added, without saying if there wereany casualties on the side of security forces.

“The ANP also discovered and confiscated 12 AK-47guns, two rocket launchers, three PK-M machine guns, 12different types of mines, seven hand grenades, 2,010 kilogramsof opium, six magazines, one vehicle and a motorcycle duringthe above raids,” the statement added.

According to figures released by Interior Ministry, morethan 1, 420 insurgents have been killed and over 1,950 othersdetained since the beginning of this year.

Xinhua

Bombs kill four, judge shot as Iraq attacks grind onBAGHDAD, 2 July—Bombers killed four

people in two Iraqi cities and gunmenassassinated a judge, officials said on Sunday,as al-Qaeda’s affiliate ramped up attacks sixmonths after the last US troops withdrew.

Three coordinated bomb attacks withinminutes of each other Sunday morning hit thecentral city of Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles)north of Baghdad, a provincial official said. Acivilian walking by was killed and two otherswere wounded.

The bombs went off near a middle schoolwhere students were taking exams, butauthorities said none of the students washurt. Further south, three policemen diedwhen a suicide car bomb and three roadsidebombs exploded at a security checkpoint onSaturday night in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60miles) north of Baghdad, a police official said.

The bombing on Saturday night raisedthe death toll for June to at least 237, thesecond-bloodiest month since US troopswithdrew from Iraq in mid-December.

In the northern city of Mosul, gunmenkilled criminal court judge Abdul-LatifMohammed in a drive-by shooting as he wasreturning home from work, police said. Theofficials spoke on condition of anonymitybecause they were not authorized to releasethe information. Government officials andsecurity forces are among the chief targets ofal-Qaeda-affiliated insurgents, who expertssay have been emboldened by political feudingthat has paralyzed the government and arehoping to reignite fighting among thecountry’s ethnic and sectarian factions.

More significant than the numbers wasthe fact that insurgents appeared able tosustain the level of violence over a longerperiod than before. There was a major bombingor shooting rampage almost every three daysin June, many targeting Shiite pilgrims on theirway to the annual Baghdad commemorationof a revered imam. Shiites are also often targetedby the extremist Sunni insurgency.—Internet

In this 29 June, 2012, file photo, ZainabAbbas inspects her destroyed house a dayafter a car bomb attack in the Washashneighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq.—INTERNET

A man in ahomemade

Canada themedcostume walks ona street during the

Canada Daycelebrations on

1 July, 2012.Canada

celebrated the145th Canada

Day on Sunday.XINHUA

US state of Texas faces doctor, nurse shortagesHOUSTON, 2 July— The

southern US state of Texaswill be in need of 71,000 morenurses, plus 39,000 additionalfamily physicians by the yearof 2020, said a local mediareport Sunday.

The forecasts werecarried in The Fort WorthStar-Telegram, the localnewspaper.

The US Supreme Courtruled Thursday that PresidentObama’s healthcare overhaul,including its “individualmandate” requirement thatmost Americans obtain healthinsurance by 2014 or face a

penalty, is constitutional.The Supreme Court’s

decision to uphold the corepart of President BarackObama’s healthcare overhaulcould give millions ofuninsured Texans access tohealthcare, but that accesswill mean little if there areinsufficient medical personnelto deliver healthcare, said thenews report, claiming that theshortages of doctors andnurses are a problem for Texasand the country as a whole.

The law, which reachesfull strength in 2019, shiftsthe healthcare focus toward

prevention, making primary-care workers even moreimportant as it highlightsworkforce deficiencies, saidthe report.

Texas, which hasstruggled in the past decadeto increase working primary-care doctors and nurses, hasmet roadblocks, including fewresidency slots available forfirst-year medical schoolgraduates and the low amountof money that doctors arereimbursed by Medicare andMedicaid, according to thenewspaper.

Xinhua

Arctic drilling creeps forward now, and in 5 yearsANCHORAGE, 2 July—In choppy water under blue sky off

Bellingham, Wash, a Shell Oil crew on Monday lowered a“capping stack” 200 feet in the water and put it throughmaneuvers with underwater robots connected by cable tooperators on the surface, a test that fulfilled one of the finalsteps required for permission to drill exploratory wells inArctic waters.

The capping stack looks like a giant spark plug and isdesigned to kill an undersea oil well blowout by providing ametal-to-metal seal on a malfunctioning blowout preventer.

Shell is sending the capping stack, skimmers, boom anda containment dome on board a flotilla accompanying drillships to Alaska’s northern shores as part of a spill responseplan that has the blessing of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.Shell expects final approvals within weeks and drilling by latethis month.

But environmental groups contend the government hasit wrong. Despite reforms put in place after the DeepwaterHorizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, their basic objectionsremain. Shell has vastly overstated its ability to respond to aworst-case scenario spill in open water, said attorney HollyHarris of Earthjustice, and no oil company has demonstrated

In this phototaken 25 June,

2012 nearBellingham,Wash, and

released by ShellAlaska, members

of Shell’s welldelivery group,

along withrepresentatives

from the Bureauof Safety and

EnvironmentalEnforcementwitnessed the

deployment of thecapping stackthat will join

Shell’s Alaskadrilling fleet. Thedevice looks like

a giant sparkplug.—INTERNET

it can clean up a spill that lingers into the Arctic’s eight monthsof sea ice.

A spill will threaten whales, polar bears, ice seals andwalrus plus the Alaska Native subsistence communities thatdepend on the ocean’s bounty, according to environmentalgroups.

The federal government requires a spill response plan toshow how the drilling company will clean up a worst-casedischarge in adverse weather. Shell’s worst case for drillingin the Chukchi and Beaufort seas is a spill of 25,000 barrels perday. Environmental groups have seized on the phrase that forplanning the onshore response, “the worst case dischargescenario assumes that 10 percent of the 25,000 barrels per daydischarge escapes the primary offshore recovery effort at theblowout.”

Said Harris, “If you base a spill plan on the assumptionthat 90 percent of it is going to be recovered in the open water,and only, quote, 10 percent of the daily discharge is going toescape those cleanup efforts, then you don’t have to have asmany spill response assets near shore protecting things likecoastlines, lagoons and the near-shore environment.”

Internet

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Endowed with bountiful biodiversity and mineralresources Myanmar has many traditions of nature and maninteraction. Added to these nature’s gifts are the beliefsystems of which Buddhism dominates, are the catalyststhat cause creation of several religious objects since thedays of yore. Bells of different sizes and weights were madeand are being made, are the producers of religious music aswell as the announcers of the performance of noble deedsto all sentient beings to share with by simply uttering theword of appreciation three times “Sadu” (welldone!).

Across the country in Myanmar bells are found in theprecincts of pagodas and religious buildings or hanging onthe hti canopy of the stupas sending out the message of theDhamma in the soft breeze. In Myanmar language they arecalled “Swe-lei” “Donation of sound to religion brings tothe donor good voice, good health and good fortune” isstrongly believed by Myanmar Buddhists.

Myanmar people had known metallurgy since theearly date of civilization. Gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead andother metals are found in the country and so Myanmar bellsare alloy. Pyinsa Loha in Pali, meaning five metalscompounded. Blacksmithy, alloy smithy and gold and silversmithy are included in the list of Ten Myanmar Traditionalarts and crafts that are alive till today.

Tales of Myanmar bells are told in legends, recordedin history and mentioned in travelogues by foreign visitors.The two historic bells on the Shwedagon Pagoda platformnamely the Singu Min’s Bell and King Thayawaddy’s Bell atthe north-west and north-east corners respectively are mostoutstanding because of their historical backgrounds. TheSingu Min’s Bell was salvaged from the river when it wasdropped and sunk in the process of being ferried to the seaship by the British. At the defeat of Myanmar in the FirstAnglo-Myanmar War of 1824-26 the Bell was pulled downfrom the Pagoda hill to be taken to London as their war trophy.Myanmars used their traditional technique of salvaging theBell and restoring it to its original place. The Bell at the north-east corner was dedicated by King Thayawaddy tocommemorate his pilgrimage and visit to lower Myanmar thathad already become “British Burmah”. Inscriptions on thesebells record the contemporary events. The largest ringing Bellin the world today is at Mingun a village across the Ayeyawady

The Dhammazedi Bell: a landmark in Myanmar campanology

River, opposite to Mandalay. It was dedicated by KingBodawpaya to the largest unfinished pyramid like brick stupathere. It weighs 90 tons, still producing sound if struck with abillet. Inscriptions on the two King Bayint Naung’s bells in thecompound of the Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan record hisbrilliant career and military conquests.

The most senior in age and size was King Dhammazedi’sBell cast in the reign of King Dhammazedi of HamsavadiKingdom (1472-92 AD) weighing 270 tons. It was the largestever in the history of bells and indeed a landmark in Myanmarcampanology. History tells us that King Dhammazedi dedicatedthe Bell to Shwedagon Pagoda and that it was in 1613 AD thatPhilip de Brito (wellknown to Myanmar as Na Sin Ga) who wasthe leader of Portuguese freebooters and the then governor ofthe seaport town Thanlyin (Syriam) that brought down the Bellfor using its alloy metals in casting weapons and cannons. Hebecame over powerful, committing crimes and sacrileges—piracy, robbery, forced conversion to Christianity, vandalizingBuddhist shrines and pagodas. In his attempt to ferry acrossthe river to his stronghold in Thanlyin, the big bell broke theship and went down into the river. Since then the bell had beenin its watery grave. Because the exact location of the shipwreckcould not be identified salvages in the past ended in failures.Beside after over four centuries of its drop, topographical,hydrological and marine conditions have changed extensively.Is the Bell still in the water or the water where it dropped hadbecome land considering the enormous amounts of sand andsilt that the rivers had brought the last 400 years? But it isimpossible to suppose that the Bell had been washed away intothe high seas as its weight was 270 tons and Myanmarcoastlines were pretty intact.

Browsing old records and chronicles it is found thatoriginally King Dhammazedi did not intend to cast a bell todonate it to Shwedagon Pagoda. It just happened that hisreign was peaceful. There was no war within and without hisdomains. In those days, revenues and taxes were paid inkind—local products—field and farm products crops, forestproducts teak, timber, bamboo and cane, mineral products—metals, precious and semiprecious stones. Normally metalswere used for making tools and weapons. As there was longpeace in his time the king consulted his ministers what to dowith metals accumulated in the royal storages. They advised

the king to cast a bell to dedicate it to Shwedagon Pagodawhich was the favourite place of his mother-in-law’spilgrimage—Queen Shin Saw Pu (1453-72 AD). So the bellwas cast near the Pagoda Hill.

Today a generous donor emerged from Singapore Mr.Dean Lim, the Chief Executive Officer of SD Mark InternationalLLP who through the good office of Myanmar HistoricalCommission had talked with the Union Minister U Kyaw Hsanof Ministry of Information and Ministry of Culture. He offeredgenerously an initial sum of US $ 10 million for the project ofthe salvage of the Bell and he was willing to extend his financialsupport till the Bell was found and restored to ShwedagonPagoda. He expected nothing for it or out of this project exceptthe honour for his patronage if Myanmar Governmentconferred. He had a good friend Captain Michael “Mike”Hatcher a successful marine archaeologist who had salvagedthe wreck of Dutch submarine KXVII and also the VOC shipGelder-malsen (known as the Nanking cargo)—whichcontained large quantities of Chinese porcelains laterauctioned by Christies in Amsterdam in 1986. In 1999 hediscovered Tek Sing Shipwreck and retrieved 360,000 piecesof blue and white porcelain.

“Mike” with that experience and successful career asthe salvager or even a marine archaeologist was very muchinterested in bringing up the historic Dhammazedi Bell andrestoring it to Shwedagon Pagoda. He has neither money normaterial motive. His only interest is to write a book about thisBell to add to a list of his books already published and widelyknown.

We are lucky and pleased and happy to have thesetwo gentlemen with us in our search for that piece of ourcultural heritage. The Seminar at Chatrium Hotel held on30-6-2012 was well attended by top authorities dignitaries,and academics. Presentations were informative encouragingand inspiring. So also were the floor speakers and discussantsvery pertinent and thought provoking. But it was only abeginning on paper. A practical work has yet to start. Aproject of such type and nature can take years or evendecades. We have the example of the salvage of the Titanic.But with the united efforts of men, money, machinca andbrain nothing is impossible.

*****

Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja, Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt

YANGON, 2 July—YangonNorth District Maternal andChild Welfare SupervisoryCommittee organized thetalks on health knowledgeand the cash donationceremony at TB Hospital inAung San Ward of InseinTownship on 28 June.

Chairperson of YangonNorth District MCWSC DawSein Sein Soe made a speech.Next, Dr Khin Aye Myint

TOUNGOO, 2 July—Toungoo Township WritersAssociation held theceremony to recountexperiences in the FirstConference of MyanmarWriters Association at thehall of Toungoo TownshipInformation and PublicRelations Department on 30June.

DISTRICT NEWS

Experiences of WritersConference recounted in

Toungoo

MAUBIN, 2 July—Maubin TownshipCooperative Syndicate heldthe annual general meetingfor 2011-2012 fiscal year atits office on 24 June.

It was attended by StaffOfficer U Thet Naing ofTownship CooperativeDepartment andcommissioner members,Chairman of TownshipCooperative Syndicate USoe Myint and members of

Maubin Township CooperativeSyndicate holds AGM

Patron of theassociation U Kyaw Hla(journalist) made a speech.Toungoo Township WritersAssociation Chairman UAye Shwe (Aye Shwe-Ketumadi) recounted hisexperiences from the FirstConference of MyanmarWriters Association.

Myanma Alin

Health knowledge given inInsein Township

gave knowledge on TBdisease.

After that, theChairperson of DistrictMCWSC and party donatedK 200,000 to the hospitalthrough Medical Super-intendent Dr Daw ThandaHmun.

Later, they presentedrefreshments worth K320,000 to patients.

Health

the Board of Directors, auditteam and representatives ofbasic cooperative society.

Chairman of thesyndicate U Soe Myint andStaff Officer U Thet Naingmade speeches. ManagingDirector U Than Tun read thefinancial report, and leaderof the audit team Daw Le YinAye the auditing report.

Those present took partin the discussions.

Township Cooperative

Bank erosion causes trouble tovillagers

YESAGYO, 2 July—Chindwin River passing throughYesagyo Township of Pakokku District overflows its nearbyvillages.

Floods from the river flow along Shiteintan Village ofYesagyo Township and it erodes banks.

A total of 13 houses located on the bank erosion areawere evacuated to the safe place as of 26 June and some ofthem were rebuilt and some were piled. A total of 20 morehouses will be evacuated to safe place, said U Kyaw Seinof Shiteintan Village.

The village is formed with about 200 houses and it ishome to 273 people. As of 1997, the banks of the villagehave been eroded. So, the area of the village is smaller andsmaller.

The remaining area of the village is not enough forreconstruction of the houses. While causing flood andbank erosion, the local people of Shiteintan Village arefacing much difficulties at present.—Ei Mon Swe

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NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Course on GoodGovernance in PoliticalTransition of the Ministry ofRail Transportation wasopened at the meeting hallof the ministry this morning.

Making a speech on theoccasion, Union Minister UAung Min said that effortsare to be made to enlist thestrength of the people inState building and Nationbuilding, adding serious

Course on good governance in politicaltransition conducted

steps should be taken in thatregard. As service personnelplay a pivotal role in theprocess, they are to makestrenuous efforts to realizethe objectives.

The course will coverthe role of the people,especially the role of womenin peace making, the Statebuilding, the Nationbuilding, the role of the Stateconstitution, the CivilMilitary relations,

experiences of ASEANnations as to State building,Nation building, politicaleconomics and nationalraces politics which areinstrumental in politicaltransition, he noted.

Also present on theoccasion were Unionministers, deputy ministers,heads of department,trainees, course instructorsand others.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission issued astatement today. The full text of the statement is as follows:-

The Statement of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission

1. The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission welcomes the signing ofthe Plan of Action for Prevention against Recruitment of the Under-AgedChildren for Military Service between the Government of the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar and the United Nations on 27 June 2012 in Nay Pyi Taw.

2. The Committee on Prevention of the Recruitment of the Under-Aged Childrenfor Military Service was established in 2004 to prevent the recruitment of theunder-aged children. In this regard, the Committee had also established theWorking Group on Monitoring and Reporting and the Working Group onReintegration and Rehabilitation and has been engaged in cooperation withthe United Nations Agencies in Myanmar.

3. It is known that, with the objective of making its actions transparent, theCommittee had frequently made arrangements for the chiefs and representativesof the United Nations Agencies, the Embassies and the Offices of the MilitaryAttachés in Yangon to visit the recruitment and training centers.

4. The commission believes that the signing of a Plan of Action in carrying out theactivities for preventing the recruitment of the under-aged children for militaryservice in Myanmar is tantamount to the manifestation of the political will of theGovernment to effectively cooperate with the United Nations.

5. Since the prevention of the recruitment of the under-aged children for militaryservice is a task that enhances the images of the country in the United Nationsas well as in the international community, the Commission hopes that the Planof Action will be successfully implemented by the organizations concerned,including the United Nations.

Myanmar National Human Rights Commission

Date-2 July, 2012Yangon.

Myanmar National Human Rights Commissionwelcomes signing of Plan of Action forPrevention against Recruitment of the

Under-Aged Children for Military Service

Distinction winners honouredin Myanaung Tsp

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Honouring ceremony foroutstanding students in2011-2012 matriculationexamination was held atAungzeya Hall of Myanaungyesterday.

Union Minister forEnergy U Than Htay andAyeyawady Region ChiefMinister U Thein Aung madespeeches.

Next the Union Ministerpresented prizes toschoolheads from the bestpass rate awards winningschools and stipends for themember of war veterians. TheRegion Chief Minister andofficials gave prizes tooutstanding students.

In 2011-2012 academic

year, Myanaung Townshipbrought 171 distinctionwinners. The Union Ministerinspected dredging of lakein Myo ShwekyaungParahita Shcool inMyanaung and pressed thebottom to open the stoneinscription. He then planteda commemorative sapling.

Next he attended thedonation ceremony of booksand stationery in YoksonDhammayon in thecompound of ParahitaSchool.

The Union ministerdonated stationery for 140students to the Chairman ofTownship Sangha MahaNayaka CommitteeSayadaw.— MNA

YANGON, 2 July—Jointly organized by theRepublic of the Union ofMyanmar Federations ofChambers of Commerce andIndustry and JapanInternational CooperationAgency (JICA), a JointSeminar of the Project forCapacity Development ofBusiness Personnel washeld at UMFCCI officetower, on Min Ye Kyaw SwaRoad in LanmadawTownship, here, thismorning. At the workshop,Vice-President of UMFCCIU Thaung Tin and JapaneseAmbassador to MyanmarMr Takashi Saito extendedgreetings. Next DirectorGeneral Ms KyokoKuwajima of JICA explainedfacts about the workshop.

During the workshop,Advisor to development ofprivate sector of JICA Mr

Myanmar-Japan Joint Seminar held

Toru Homma madediscussion on assisting ofhuman resources develop-ment on industrial sectorand Scholars of JICA MrTetsuo Fukuyama

KAIZEN.Next, Joint Secretary

of UMFCCI Daw KhaingKhaing Nwe discussedassisting ways forimproving of work place

and assessment onMyanmar Textile garmentsand so did on five importantfactors to promote qualityand clean in work place CECDr Aung Thein.—MNA

Those present pose for documentary photo at Joint Seminar of Project forCapacity Development of Business Personnel jointly held by UMFCCI

and JICA.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Aceremony to assign duties of projectsfor 2012-2013 fiscal year was held atthe meeting hall of Township GeneralAdministration Department in Falamof Chin State on 29 June morning.

At the ceremony, FalamTownship AdministratorU Myo Naing assigned those in-charge in respective sectors withduties of projects.—MNA

Duties assigned inFalam Township

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—A ceremony to put up signboard tomark the Myanmar Women’s Day was held in front of the cityhall in Monywa of Sagaing Region on 30 June morning.

At the ceremony, Patron of the Region Women’s AffairsOrganization Daw San San Yi and Chairperson of RegionWomen’s Affairs Organization Daw Khin Swan Yi cut theribbon to open the signboard.

Patron of the Organization Daw Wai Wai Khaing unveiledthe signboard and presented cash awards to the band andpom-pom dance troupe.

MNA

Signboard to mark MyanmarWomen’s Day put up in Monywa

Union

Minister

for Rail

Tran-

sportation

U Aung

Min

addressing

the

opening of

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in Political

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Citizenship cards presented to studentsYANGON, 2 July—Staff of

Bahan TownshipImmigration and NationalRegistration Departmentissued citizenship scrutinycards to eligible citizens atBasic Education HighSchool No 2 in BahanTownship on 27 Juneafternoon.

The head of YangonRegion Immigration andNational RegistrationDepartment presentedcitizenship scrutiny cards tothe students.

Township Immigration

NAUNGTAYA, 2 July—Aceremony to commissionPhayabyu concrete bridgeinto service was held onNyanbin-Hsaungpaung-Phayabyu-Pattaw-KhanweRoad across Bilu Creek inPhayabyu Township ofPawin Village in NaungtayaSub-Township in TaunggyiDistrict of Shan State (South)on 20 June morning.

At the ceremony, Sub-Township Administrator UKhun Kyaw Moe, Pawin

New concrete bridge put into service inNaungtaya Sub-Township

Village-tract AdministratorU Khun Tun Shwe andPhayabyu Village villageelder U Khun Tin Theinformally opened the bridge.

Administrator ofNaungtaya Sub-TownshipU Khun Kyaw Moe made a

speech. Townselder U KhunTin Thein reported onconstruction of the bridge.

The bridge is ofreinforced concrete and it is50 feet long, 18 feet wideand 30 feet high.

Myanma Alin

Citizenship scrutiny cardsissued in Pabedan BEHS No 2

YANGON, 2 July—Staff members of Pabedan TownshipImmigration and National Registration Department ofYangon West District issued citizenship scrutiny cards tostudents of No 2 Basic Education High School onShwebontha Street on 25 June morning as part of efforts toimplement Moe Pwint-3 Plan.

Pabedan Township Pyithu Hluttaw representative UAung Hsan, departmental officials and ward administratorsprovided necessary assistance to the work process of staffmembers.—Township INRD

Rainy season tree growingceremony held in Mongphyat

MONGPHYAT, 2 July—The rainy season tree growingceremony was held at the place in Zaydan Ward of Mongphyatof Mongphyat District on 24 June morning.

At the ceremony, Col Ko Lay of local station andDeputy Commissioner U Soe Lin of District GeneralAdministration Department presented saplings to regimentsand units, departmental personnel and social organizations.

Next, the Hluttaw representatives, local regiments andunits, district and township level departmental personnel,members of social organizations and local peopleparticipated in tree growing ceremony. They planted 100saplings on the occasion.—Myanma Alin

Outstanding students in matriculationexamination honoured in Dedaye

YANGON, 2 July—Theannual general meeting ofKokkine Swimming Clubfor 2011-2012 fiscal yearwas held at its hall on SayaSan Road in Bahan

DEDAYE, 2 July—DedayeTownship Pass Rate RaisingCommittee and Old StudentEducation SupportingCommittee jointly organizedthe ceremony to present prizesto outstanding students inmatriculation examination

2011-2012 academic year atthe hall of Township GeneralAdministration Departmenton 17 June.

At the ceremony,Township Administrator UTin Shwe made a speech.

Next, officials presented

prizes to outstandingstudents, stipends to needystudents and top pass rateaward to the respective schooland medicines and cashassistance to retired teachersof above 75 years old.

Township GAD

Executive committee of Kokkine Swimming Club meets

Township yesterdaymorning. At first, Patron ofKokkine Swimming Club UKyi Nyunt made a speech.Secretary of the ExecutiveCommittee U Cho Maung

read the executivecommittee report andfinancial report for 2011-2012 fiscal year.

Next, the new executivecommittee was elected.They elected U Han TunMaung (Sein Hlyan) asChairman, U Cho Maung asSecretary and newexecutives for 2012-2013fiscal year.

After that, the newchairman made a speech andPatron U Kyi Nyunt made aconcluding remark.

Kokkine SwimmingClub was established in1094.

Nyi Nyi Soe NyuntAlms, day meals offered to over 100members of the Sangha

PATHEIN, 2 July—Speaker of Ayeyawawdy RegionHluttaw Thayay Sithu U Hsan Hsint, wife Daw Khin Ma Layand family together with wellwishers donated day meals tothe Chairman Sayadaw of Kyonpyaw Township SanghaNayaka Committee and 110 members of the Sangha fromthe monasteries at Pyilonpaw Phayagyi Monastery inKyonpyaw Township of Pathein District recently.

Moreover, they served over 200,000 people with lunch.Likewise, they donated meals to over 100,000 at themonastery in Kyachaung Village of Yekyi Township.

Myanma Alin

Outstanding studentshonoured in Twantay

YANGON, 2 July—A ceremony to honour outstandingstudents who passed the matriculation examination for2011-2012 academic year with flying colours was held atthe administrative office of East Ohbo Ward in TwantayTownship on 24 June evening.

Region Hluttaw representative Dr Ohn Kywe, WardAdministrator U Than Aye and officials presented prizes tothe outstanding students.—Myanma Alin

Sanitation carriedout for properflow of drainsYANGON, 2 July—With

the aim of ensuring properflow of water at drains, localpeople and members ofsocial organizationscarried out dredging ofdrains, silt and sanitationat No 6 Park in Ward 18 ofShwepyitha Township on30 June.

Yangon RegionHluttaw representative UMaung Maung Win ofShwepyitha Township andTownship Administrator UAung Moe Oo inspectedsanitation works andattended to the needs.

The tasks to be properflow of water at drains arecarried out in ShwepyithaTownship as mass activityevery Saturday.

Myanma Alin

MONGPHYAT, 2 July—Mongphyat TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee presented

School uniforms provided to studentsin Mongphyat

Plan to facilitate school,dispensary to Pannel Village

of Tachilek TownshipTACHILEK, 2 July—Arrangements are being made to

build schools and dispensaries for development of educationand health standards of the rural people in Pannel Villageof Tachilek Township.

Shan State Lahu National Race Minister U Sha MwayLashen, Amyotha Hluttaw representative U Wilson Moe,State Hluttaw representative Daw Tin May Tun anddepartmental officials made field trip to Pannel Village ofMonghe Village-tract and met local people. They explainedplans to carry out development tasks of the village to them.

The Lahu National Race Minister of the State discussedthe plan to upgrade self-reliant Basic Education PrimarySchool to the State-owned BEPS and to build the ruraldispensary for the local national races and replied to queriesraised by the local people.

After that, the Lahu National Race Minister and partyinspected the site for construction of the BEPS. They chosethe land there both the school building and the sportsground can be constructed. Later, the Amyotha Hluttawrepresentative donated 500 bags of cement for constructionof the new school building.—Myanma Alin

DISTRICT NEWS

school uniforms to studentsof vendors at BayintnaungHall of Mongphyat on 27June.

Executive Officer UWin Naing Oo of TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee presenteduniforms to the students.

Myanma Alin

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YANGON, 2 July—Yangon North District AllPrivate Bus-line ControlCommittee honoured theoutstanding students whopassed the matriculationexamination with flying

Talks on threat of narcoticdrugs given in Tamway

YANGON, 2 July—Aneducative talk to markInternational Day againstDug Abuse and Illicit

Trafficking 2012 was heldin conjunction with the prizepresentation ceremony atBasic Education HighSchool No 1 in Tamway on26 June.

According to theagenda, TownshipAdministrator U Thein Winread the message sent by theUnion Minister for HomeAffairs and Vice-Chairmanof Myanmar Anti-NarcoticsAssociation U Tha Tun(International Relations)made a speech.

Police StationCommander IP Soe Win ofTownship Police Force andSchool Health Officer DrKhin San Lwin gave talks ondangers of narcotic drugs.

After awarding the prizewinning students, Chairmanof the Township ANA U HlaWin explained the futuretasks.—Myanma Alin

WINNERS AWARDED: A ceremony to honouroutstanding students and distinction winning students

in matriculation examination was held at SasanaBeikman in Tatkon of Nay Pyi Taw Council Area on 1

June. Public Affairs Management CommitteeChairman Pyithu Hluttaw representative U Maung Oopresents a necklace and K 300,000 to five distinction

winner Ma Kyi Kyi Naing.—MYANMA ALIN

Students inMyeik get

knowledge ontraffic rules

MYEIK, 2 July—Head ofMyeik District Directorateof Road Administrationgave a talk on traffic rules toabout 500 students of BasicEducation High School No3 in Myeik of TaninthayiRegion recently.

In-charge of TrafficPolice Force SIP Kyaw Winand Township Law OfficerDaw Zin Mar Win talkedabout penalty for breakingtraffic rules.—District DRA

Cash donated to MyanmarFire Brigade

YANGON, 2 July—The reception and book launching tomark the birthday ceremony of film actor Moe Yan Zun washeld at Padamya Hall of Central Hotel, here, on 25 June.

At the ceremony, film actor Moe Yan Zun explainedthat he will donate proceeds from sales of his owned cratedbook to people of Rakhine State and explained the purposeof donations to Myanmar Fire Brigade.

Next, the actor presented K 500,000 to five members ofFire Brigade who died in action of fighting fire in explosionsin Mingala Taungnyunt Township through Head of YangonRegion Fire Services Department U Kyi Win.—Kyemon

Equestrian Contest marksInternational Olympic DayYANGON, 2 July—The International Olympic Day

commemorative Equestrian Contest 2012, organized byMyanmar Equestrian Federation, was held at the ground ofMEF in Dagon Myothit (North) Township on 24 June.

Selected athletes of the federation demonstrated theirbrilliant skills.

In the show jamping event, Nanda (horse Ein) securedthe first prize, May Oo (horse Chitsanoe) the second andZarni (horse Ngwesala May) the third.

After that, Zarni stood first, May Oo, second and Stellathird in the bracel race. In the horse football event, Group(B) won the first prize, Group (C) the second and Group (A)the third. Officials presented prizes to the winners.

Myanma Alin

Kya-in-Seikkyi Township disbursesagricultural loans to farmers

KYA-IN-SEIKKYI, 2 July—Kya-in-Seikkyi TownshipMyanma Agricultural Development Bank Branch held aceremony to disburse loans for cultivation of monsoonpaddy in 2012 at its office on 24 June.

At the ceremony, Township Administrator U Soe Winmade a speech. Township Manager of the bank branch UMyo Aung disbursed K 41 million for 820 acres of paddyfarms to 144 farmers.

This year, the bank plans to disburse K 320.64 millionto the local farmers.—MADB

Outstanding students honoured in Insein Township

colours and presentedstipends to the students for2012-2013 academic year

at the hall of Insein TownshipGeneral AdministrationDepartment on 30 Junemorning.

Region Minister forTransport U Aung Khinmade a speech.

After that, officialspresented K 870,000 to 13outstanding students andK 5.065 million as cashassistance to 145 students.

APBCC

Trees planted inDaikU as rainyseason activities

DAIKU, 2 July—DaikUTownship ForestDepartment held the rainyseason tree growingceremony 2012 at junctionof Dayemee-Okshitkon nearmile post No 72/4 ofYangon-Mandalay Ex-pressway on 24 Junemorning.

At the ceremony,Township Administrator UKyaw Swa Aung and StaffOfficer U Thein Naing Kyweof Township ForestDepartment, staff,departmental personnel,members of socialorganizations, wardadministrators and studentstogether with local peopletotaling over 500 attendedthe ceremony.

They planted 708saplings at the ceremony.

Township IPRD

DUTIES ASSIGNED: A ceremony to assign duties ofprojects for 2012-2013 fiscal year was held at the hall

of Kyauktada Township General AdministrationDepartment on 26 June. Township Administrator U

Aung Kyaw Zeya presents letters of assignment to Ward9 Administrator U Than Sein.—MYANMA ALIN

CSC ISSUED: SinguTownship Immigration

and NationalRegistration Department

issued citizenshipscrutiny cards to local

people at BasicEducation High Schoolin Letpanhla Village ofSingu Township on 24

June. Head of TownshipINRD U Win Myint Htoohands over the cards tovillage administrator

U Shwe Oo andHeadmistress Daw Tin

Tin Hlaing.MYANMA ALIN

Trees grown as monsoonactivity in Nattalin Township

MONGHSAT, 2 July—Therainy season tree growingceremony was held nearBayintnaung Golf Coursein Monghsat Township ofShan State on 23 June.

Responsible persons

NATTALIN, 2 July—Therainy season tree growingceremony was held at BasicEducation Middle Schoolin Kyaukkhwet Village of

Nattalin Township on 25June morning.

At the ceremony,Township Administrator UZaw Lwin, township leveldepartmental officials,teachers, Sein Nyo MyaingEnvironmental Conser-vation Team members,townselders, Staff Officer UKhin Maung Kyaw of ForestDepartment and staff grew500 teak and eucalyptusplants.—Myanma Alin

Monghsat grows saplings as environmental conservationof local station anddepartments concerned,officials of TownshipForest Department andsocial organizationsparticipated in thecultivation season.

At first, Col Aung ThuOo of the local station,Deputy Commissioner UThaung Tin Htwe of DistrictGeneral AdministrationDepartment and Head ofTownship ForestDepartment U Kyaw KyawAung presented saplings tothe regiments and units,departments concerned andsocial organizations.

Later, they planted over500 saplings on theoccasion.

Township Forest

MarketableSeintalon

mangoplantations

extendedYEDASHE, 2 July—

Seintalon mangoplantations are being grownat the lands of forest reservealong the both sides ofexpressway passing YedasheTownship of Bago Region.

To be able to extend theplantations of Seintalonmango, land preparations arebeing made by reclaimingthe croplands.

Seintalon mango fruitsare being exported to Chinavia Muse. Due to highdemand, the cultivation ofplants are being extended.

Kyemon

DISTRICT

NEWS

Township WVO holds coord meetingMYINGYAN, 2 July—Myingyan Township War Veterans

Organization of Myingyan District held the coordinationmeeting and the ceremony to present cash assistance for2012-2013 academic year at its office on 25 June morning.

Chairman of the Township WVO Captain Aye Myint(Rtd) made a speech. The chairman presented K 425,000 ascash assistance for 70 offspring students of war veteransthrough a WVO member parent.

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MADRID, 2 July—Twoforest fires in the Spanishautonomous community ofValencia on Sunday continuedto flame after burning a total of45,000 hectares, said localgovernment.

The fires which brokeout on Thursday in theregions of Cortes de Pallasand Andilla, in the east coastof Spain, have affected 18municipalities, and sixvillages have had to beevacuated.

Despite the lowertemperatures and some rainsand showers, the fires“continue to advance,” saidauthorities. Around 2,000firefighters have beenmobilized to extinguish thefires, with the support of 30aircraft and helicopters.

Of the 2,000 firefighters,

France lowers 2012 growth forecast ahead ofbudget revision

PARIS, 2 July — Francewill lower its economicgrowth forecasts for this yearas part of a revised budget thegovernment will present laterthis week to meet its publicdeficit targets, FinanceMinister Pierre Moscovicisaid on Sunday.

The country’s nationalaudit office is expected toreveal a shortfall of about 8billion euros ($10.15 billion)on Monday when it publishesthe results of an officialreview of public finances thatnew President FrancoisHollande ordered, theJournal du Dimanche (JDD)newspaper earlier said.

In an interview with LeFigaro newspaper, Mos-covici said the governmentwould reduce its 2012 growthforecast to at least 0.4 percent

from 0.7 percent when itsrevised budget is presentedto the cabinet on Wednesday.

“As for 2013, everybodyknows that we won’t reach1.7 percent. (So) betting on arange between 1 percent to1.3 percent ... seems more

credible,” he said.Without citing sources,

the newspaper said thegovernment would need tofill a gap of between 7.5billion and 8 billion euros tomeet its deficit target of 4.5percent of gross domestic

product this year from 5.2percent in 2011.

“We will have to adjustimmediately the 2012 budgetbecause the one put togetherby the last government wouldnot enable us to reach the 4.5percent deficit by year-end,”Moscovici said.

“The audit office shouldconfirm that certain measuresto the tune of 1.5 billion euroswere not financed.” PrimeMinister Jean-Marc Ayraultwill outline the government’sstrategy for restoring thehealth of the public financesin a speech on Tuesday.

A government sourceconfirmed to Reuters last weekthe budget revisions wouldcontain about 7.5 billion eurosin new tax measures, includingan increase in wealth tax, theabolition of a tax exemptionfor overtime, and new levieson banks, oil product stocksand company dividends.

Reuters

French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici leaves a newsconference at the Bercy Ministry building in Paris

on 13 June, 2012.— REUTERS

Forest fires continue to hangover Spanish cities

1,100 are working in the areaof Cortes de Pallas, where30,000 hectares have beenburned since the emergencybegan, while 15,000 hectareshave been devastated aroundAndilla.

Spain’s MilitaryEmergency Unit alsodeployed some 900 membersto collaborate in thefirefighting task and the Unitconfirms this is the largest fireto have affected the area in thepast 20 years, with changeablewinds and high temperaturescomplicating their work.

Spain has been sufferingfrom wildfires following adry spring and recent hightemperatures, which areexpected to climb again toover 30 degree centigradeby the middle of the comingweek.—Xinhua

US House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)pauses at a news conference on President

Barack Obama’s signature healthcarelaw on Capitol Hill in Washington

28 June, 2012.— REUTERS

Top Republicans press healthcare law repeal effortWASHINGTON, 2 July—The two top

Republicans in Congress vowed on Sundayto push ahead with efforts to repeal PresidentBarack Obama’s healthcare law despite theSupreme Court upholding it, but the WhiteHouse said it is time to stop fighting and startimplementing it.

“This has to be ripped out by its roots,”House of Representatives Speaker JohnBoehner, the top Republican in Congress,said of the 2010 law on the CBS programme“Face the Nation.” Boehner added: “We willnot flinch from our resolve to make sure thislaw is repealed in its entirety.”

The House, controlled by Republicans,has scheduled a vote on 11 July to repeal thelaw. The Democratic-led Senate, as it hasdone in the past, is certain to block anyrepeal legislation.

The US Supreme Court on Thursdayupheld the law, Obama’s signature domesticpolicy achievement and the most sweepingoverhaul since the 1960s of the unwieldy UShealthcare system. The ruling was written byconservative Chief Justice John Robertsand joined by the court’s four liberals.

“I think the thing that the Americanpeople want is for the divisive debate onhealthcare to stop,” White House Chief ofStaff Jack Lew said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I think that what we need to do is get

on with the implementation now, and that’swhat we intend to do,” Lew added.

The healthcare law battle promises to figureprominently in the 6 November election inwhich Obama is challenged by RepublicanMitt Romney, who as Massachusetts governorpushed through a state healthcare overhaulwith provisions similar to Obama’s plan. AReuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday showedpublic support for the law rising to 48 percentafter the ruling from 43 percent before thecourt’s decision.

The US system, unlike other rich countries,is a patchwork of private insurance and restrictivegovernment programmes.—Reuters

Apple pays $60 m for iPad trademark in China

GUANGZHOU, 2 July—Apple Inc has agreed to pay60 million US dollars toProview technology(Shenzhen) to settle thedispute over the iPadtrademark, the HigherPeople’s Court of GuangdongProvince announcedMonday.

Apple has transferred themoney to the account design-ated by the Guangdong highercourt, and the IntermediateCourt of Shenzhen on Mondaynotified the State Adminis-tration for Industry andCommerce to transfer iPad’strademark to Apple, the highercourt said.

The court said thesettlement agreement wentinto effect on 25 June.

Proview Shenzhen, aShenzhen-based maker ofcomputer screens and LEDlights, claimed it had therights to use the iPad trade-mark commonly associated

with Apple’s popular tabletcomputer. Proview says theTaipei subsidiary of its HongKong-based parent company,Proview InternationalHoldings Limited, registeredthe iPad trademark in anumber of countries andregions as early as 2000.

Though Apple boughtthe rights to use the iPadtrademark from ProviewTaipei in 2009, Proview says

it reserves the right to use thetrademark it registered on theChinese mainland in 2001.The two sides have since beenentangled in a drawn-outlegal battle. Guangdong’shigher court heard the case inFebruary as Apple and itsproxy for the trademarkpurchase appealed a previouscourt ruling by Shenzhenintermediate court in favourof Proview.—Xinhua

Pedestrians walk past an Apple store advertising theiPad. The US technology giant has paid $60 million to a

Chinese firm to settle a long-running dispute over the iPadtrademark in China, a court said on Monday.—INTERNET

“Green Fleet” sails, meets stiff headwinds in Congress

A member of the US Navy watches the USS Roosevelt asit passes the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour,

while arriving for the 25th annual Fleet Weekcelebration in New York, on 23 May, 2012. —REUTERS

WASHINGTON, 2 July—AUS Navy oiler slipped awayfrom a fuel depot on the PugetSound in Washington stateone recent day, headed

New Zealand to put Pacificcase for strong UN treaty on

illegal arms tradeWELLINGTON, 2 July—New Zealand will present a Pacific-

wide appeal for a comprehensive United Nations treaty to stopthe illegal arms trade, the government announced on Monday.As current Pacific Islands Forum Chair, New Zealand wouldpresent the common regional position on the treaty duringnegotiations at the United Nations in New York this week,Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said in a statement.

“These weapons often end up in the hands of terrorists,criminals and human rights abusers,” McCully said.

“Illegally traded arms have a devastating impact on thesecurity and development prospects of communitiesworldwide. This is of serious concern to the New Zealandgovernment, and why we have been a leading advocate of astrong and comprehensive Arms Trade Treaty.”

New Zealand was one of more than 150 governmentssupporting better regulation of the global trade inconventional weapons loosely defined as anything frombullets to battleships, he said. The Arms Trade Treatynegotiations stem from a 2009 UN resolution.—Xinhua

toward the central Pacific andinto the storm over thePentagon’s controversialgreen fuels initiative.

In its tanks, the USNS

Henry J Kaiser carried nearly900,000 gallons of biofuelblended with petroleum topower the cruisers, destroyersand fighter jets of what theNavy has taken to calling the“Great Green Fleet,” the firstcarrier strike group to bepowered largely byalternative fuels.

Conventionally power-ed ships and aircraft in thestrike group will burn theblend in an operationalsetting for the first time thismonth during the 20-nationRim of the Pacific exercise,the largest annualinternational maritimewarfare maneuvers. The six-week exercise began on

Friday.The Pentagon hopes it

can prove the Navy looks asimpressive burning fuelsqueezed from seeds, algaeand chicken fat as it doesusing petroleum.

But the demonstration,years in the making, may bea Pyrrhic victory.

Some Republicanlawmakers have seized onthe fuel’s $26-a-gallon price,compared to $3.60 forconventional fuel.

They paint the progra-mme as a waste of preciousfunds at a time when the USgovernment’s budgetremains severely strained, thePentagon is facing cuts andenergy companies arefinding big quantities of oiland gas in the United States.

Reuters

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THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMARMINISTRY OF ENERGY

MYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTERPRISENO.44, COMPLEX, NAY PYI TAW

MYANMARFAX : 067-411125/411178

INVITATION FOR BIDS1. BIDS are invited by the MYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTER-PRISE, NO.44, COMPLEX, NAY PYI TAW, MYANMAR forthe supply of

IFB NO.1 (T) MCY-MOGE/EXP (2012-2013) CAP Natural Gas Pipe Line Booster Compressor Unit - (2)NAP

2. Bidding documents shall be available commencing from4th July, 2012 up to 24th July, 2012 at the Finance Department,Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, No.44, Complex, Nay Pyi Taw,Myanmar during office hour by payment to the order of MyanmaForeign Trade Bank attesting remittance of US$ 100 (US Dollars:One Hundred Only) in favour of Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise(or) FEC 100 (FEC : One Hundred Only) to the above office foreach set of document.3. Bids shall be accepted only from the bidders who officiallypurchased the bidding document and for each entry quotation isneeded to refer each set of original bidding document.4. The quotation must be addressed to the Managing Director andto be delivered into the TENDER BOX located at the above addressnot later than 13:00 hours on 31st July, 2012.

Managing DirectorMyanma Oil and Gas Enterprise

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SN HARMONY VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SN HAR-MONY VOY NO ( ) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 2.7.2012 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie atthe consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm 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 SEANET SHIPPING COLTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV POSITIVE STAR VOY NO (73)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV POSITIVESTAR VOY NO (73) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 3.7.2012 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie atthe consignee’s r™isk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.


No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.


AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINER S’POREPTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV TURTLE BAY VOY NO (101)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV TURTLEBAY VOY NO (101) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 3.7.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where itwill lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses andsubject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port ofYangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final dischargeof cargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.


AGENT FOR: M/S SAMUDERA SHIPPINGLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

A surgeon from the Tianjin Medical University GeneralHospital conducts a minimally invasive operation on acataract patient in north China’s Tianjin Municipality,

on 29 June, 2012. The hospital’s application of aminimally invasive technique in cataract surgeries has

made patients’ recovery less risky.XINHUA

Chinese police patrol a street in Urumqi, the capital ofthe restive Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities say crewand passengers travelling on a plane that had just taken

off from a restive city in China’s far-western Xinjiangregion have thwarted a hijack attempt by six Uighurs.

INTERNET

US gymnastKayla Ross

performs on thefloor at the US

Olympicgymnastics trials

in San Jose,California

on 29 June, 2012.REUTERS

Missing Wimbledon hawkreturned

LONDON, 2 July—Thehighly-trained hawk used toscare pigeons away from thepristine grass courts ofWimbledon was returned toits owners after being stolenduring the first week of thetennis tournament.

Rufus, a Harris Hawk,was off-duty in his cage whenhe was snatched by thieveslate Thursday but is now homeafter being handed intooffices of The Royal Societyfor the Prevention of Crueltyto Animals, police saidSunday.

Rufus’ Twitter account,written by his owners, said:“We can confirm the news istrue RUFUS HAS BEENFOUND safe and well andreunited with family!! Thankyou so much for your support#FindRufus”.

Visitors to the world’smost famous tennistournament often stop to havetheir picture taken with thefour-and-a-half year old,which was reared by thefamily-run business AvianEnvironmental Consultants.

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BIENDONG TRADER VOY NO (1226)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BIENDONGTRADER VOY NO (1226) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 3.7.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING (MA-LAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV TU SON VOY NO (-)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV TU SON VOYNO (-) are hereby notified that the vessel will bearriving on 2.7.2012 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of H.P.T where it will lie at the consignee’srisk and expenses and subject to the byelaws and condi-tions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S RK SHIPPING & TRADINGPTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV HOANG ANH 05 VOY NO (-)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV HOANG ANH05 VOY NO (-) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 2.7.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of B.S.W(1) where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S G.LINK EXPRESSPTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

NEW YORK, 2 July —Bristol-Myers Squibb Cowill buy biotechnologycompany AmylinPharmaceuticals Inc forabout $5.3 billion in cash,helping Bristol-Myersextend its portfolio ofdiabetes treatments with theaddition of drugs Byetta andBydureon. Bristol-Myerssaid late on Friday it had alsoreached a follow-on deal withUK-based AstraZeneca Plcto collaborate on developingAmylin’s products once thebuyout is completed,expanding upon an existingpartnership between the twopharmaceutical makers indiabetes treatments.

AstraZeneca will pay$3.4 billion in cash for these

ALGIERS, 2 July—Algerian officials say agendarme died and threemore were wounded whenan explosive-laden car wasdriven into their commandpost in the southern city ofOuargla. A statement issuedby the military did not saywhether the driver died inFriday’s pre-dawn attack,which partially collapsedthe post, or if the driver wascaught or fled.

There was no immediateclaim of responsibility forthe attack in the city, some800 kilometres (500 miles)south of Algiers.

A similar attack inMarch wounded 23 peopleat a command post inTamanrasset, near the borderwith Mali. The attack wasclaimed by the Islamistextremist group MUJAO,which is among rebelfactions that have taken overnorthern Mali.— Internet

Bristol-Myers to buy Amylin for about$5.3 billion

Blast atAlgerian armypost kills one,wounds three

Women dressed in traditional costume propose toast tovisitors during the 5th Manas International TourismFestival in Akto, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur

Autonomous Region, on 29 June, 2012.—XINHUA

Russian in plane crash killingdelayed in Germany

BERLIN, 2 July—A Russian man who was convicted ofkilling an air traffic controller he blamed for a plane crash inwhich his wife and children died was held for several hours ashe tried to enter Germany to mark the accident’s anniversary.

Vitaly Kaloyev was convicted in Switzerland in 2005 andreleased in 2007.

German federal police spokesman Albert Poerschke saidhe arrived at Munich airport Saturday morning but was heldbecause he’s barred from entering Switzerland. Germany andSwitzerland belong to Europe’s passport-free travel zone.

Kaloyev was let into Germany Saturday afternoon onpapers valid only for that country. On 1 July, 2002, a planeoperated by Russia’s Bashkirian Airlines collided with a DHLcargo jet in Swiss-controlled airspace over southern Germany.The crash killed 71 people.—Internet

JOS, (Nigeria), 2 July—Two bombs planted bysuspected terrorists were onSaturday detonated in Jos,capital of Nigeria’s centralnorth Plateau State, policeauthorities have said.

State police spokes-person Abu Emmanuelconfirmed this to reporters,saying the bombs wereplanted on the bridge linkingGol- Hoss and Riyom, some40 kilometers from Jos, capitalof the restive northern state.

“Following a tip-off, apolice anti-bomb squad wentto the scene and were able todetonate and evacuate thebombs,” he said.

Botswana worker trapped in collapseddiamond mine hopeful of being found Sunday

GABORONE, 2 July—Aworker trapped during aseries of wall collapse inJwaneng diamond mine insouth-central Botswana, isexpected to be found onSunday as the collapsestopped by Saturdaymorning and rescue teamsteps up in moving soil.

In an interview withXinhua on Saturday,Debswana’s spokespersonEaster Kanaimba-Senai saidthe mine walls were stillcollapsing at a minimumuntil Saturday morning, andafter the collapse wasstopped, “the Ministry ofMinerals, Energy and WaterResources gave us a go

ahead to carry on with therescue mission.”

“Of current the rescuemission is still moving soiland we expect to be done bytomorrow morning,” she said,“hopefully we will find theremaining person we aresearching for alive.”

Operations at the world’srichest diamond mine byvalue was currently haltedfollowing the collapse of themine walls in the earlymorning of Friday trappinginside 16 workers who wereon night duty.

Rescue workers got towork immediately to try andrescue the trapped miners andmanaged to rescue 15 of them

while the remaining minerwas still trapped by Saturday.

Senai said the 16thworker still trapped was atruck driver whose truck wasburied with heaps of soil whiledriving out of the mine, andthe cause of the collapse wasstill yet to be established.

The 25-year old opencast mine located 120 kmwest of the capital cityGaborone employs over2,000 people. The mine iscurrently operating at a depthover 300 metres and expectedto reach 624 metres by 2017.

This is the seconddiamond mine accident inJune in Botswana.

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Citizens wearing veilsride bicycles in

downtown Zhengzhou,capital of central

China’s Henan Province,on 1 July, 2012.

Zhengzhou suffered alasting scorching

weather in recent days,with the highest

temperature hitting 36degrees Celsius onSunday. —XINHUA

Nigerian police detonate two bombs in restivenorthern state

rights. Bristol-Myers andAstraZeneca alreadycollaborate on severaldiabetes treatmentsincluding Onglyza, and aimto strengthen their positionin a growing, multibillion-dollar market. More than 360million people worldwidehave diabetes, with theoverwhelming majoritysuffering from type 2diabetes, a condition partlyattributable to the rise inobesity in many countries. Ina statement, Bristol-MyersChief Executive LambertoAndreotti described the dealsas a unique way to build onits relationship withAstraZeneca, which“demonstrates Bristol-MyersSquibb’s innovative and

targeted approach topartnerships and businessdevelopment.”

The boards of directorsat Amylin, Bristol andAstraZeneca have approvedthe two transactions, thecompanies said. Amylinbegan approaching potentialbuyers in April after rejectinga previous $3.5 billiontakeover bid from Bristol-Myers, and facing pressurefrom activist investor CarlIcahn.

In all, fivepharmaceutical giantsincluding AstraZeneca,Novartis AG and Sanofi SAwere in the running forAmylin, sources familiar withthe matter told Reuters thisweek.— Reuters

Emmanuel said detona-tion of the bombs was donewithout any damage to thebridge and that no casualtywas recorded during theoperation.

The police spokes-person said no arrest had beenmade in connection with theincident but that investiga-tion had commenced.

He said the situation inthe area and the state at largehad been very calm and urgedall law-abiding citizens to goabout their lawful activitieswithout fear as the police andother security agencies wereon top of the situation.

Riyom has recently

witnessed some bomb blastsand constant rifts betweenBerom and Fulani herdsmenwith many, especially womenand children, murdered in coldblood.

In May, a time-bomb wasreportedly planted in themarket square and was timedto explode by noon at thepeak of the weekly Riyommarket but stopped workingshortly after it was planted.

Also on Wednesday, achieftain of Nigeria’s rulingPeople’s Democratic Party(PDP), John Daring, his wifeand son, were hacked to deathwhile returning home from amarket in the area.—Xinhua

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Spain routs Italy 4-0 in Euro 2012 soccer championshipItaly’s Daniele De Rossi(R) challenges Spain’sAlvaro Arbeloa duringtheir Euro 2012 finalsoccer match at theOlympic stadium in

Kiev, on 1 July, 2012. REUTERS

KIEV, 2 July — MajesticSpain took their place amongthe game’s greats bythrashing Italy 4-0 to retaintheir European title onSunday, the biggest victorymargin in a World Cup orEuro final — and all withouta recognized striker. Theirsuccess rewrote the tacticalhandbook and the recordbooks after goals from DavidSilva, Jordi Alba and latesubstitutes Fernando Torresand Juan Mata gave the worldchampions an ultimatelyeasy victory over an Italianteam down to 10 men throughinjury for the last half-hour.

“It was a great match forour players, they controlledthe game,” Spain coachVicente Del Bosque told

reporters. “But there is notone football, the importantthing is to score goals. Wehave strikers but we decidedto play with players who wentbetter with our style.” Italy

coach Cesare Prandelliadded: “They made historyand deservedly—they havea lot of players who are triedand tested at this level andeven though they don’t playwith a classic striker theycertainly cause you plenty ofproblems.”

While Spain’s brilliantperformance brought them afully deserved success, whatthey achieved needs to beplaced in some historicalperspective, if only becausetheir tiki-taka short-passingstyle has been criticizedduring the tournament. Spainhave become the first nationalside to win three majortournaments in the modernera after their Euro 2008success and World Cup

victory two years ago andhave equaled Germany’srecord of three Europeantitles.

Sunday’s win also beatthe victory margin HelmutSchoen’s West Germany siderecorded for a Euro final withtheir 3-0 win over the SovietUnion in 1972. Two yearslater Schoen led WestGermany to a World Cuptriumph, a unique doublesuccess for a coach until DelBosque matched it onSunday. Torres became thefirst player to score in twoEuro finals and, together withhis Chelsea club mate andfellow scoring substituteMata, became one of ahandful of players to win theChampions League andEuropean Championship inthe same season.

Other records wereeclipsed too as the Spaniardsredefined what it takes to be

Spain’s team players celebrate with the trophy afterdefeating Italy to win the Euro 2012 final soccer match

at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, on 1 July, 2012.REUTERS

successful at the elite level ofthe game in the modern age.Starting without arecognized striker becauseDavid Villa was unfit for thetournament and Torres’s formhas been erratic, Del Bosqueput his faith in midfieldmagicians like CescFabregas, Andres Iniesta,Xavi, Xabi Alonso and theuncompromising SergioBusquets.They created thechances for themselves andthey knew how to take themtoo.

Spain’s second goalcame from left back JordiAlba, who burst through astatic defense like amidfielder, picking up theball from Xavi’s pass likeUsain Bolt collecting a batonin a relay before slotting home.Four-times world championsItaly were in danger of losingfrom as early as the 14thminute when Spain took the

Fans of Spain celebrate Spain’s victory over Italy intheir Euro 2012 final soccer match held in Kiev, at a fan

park in Malaga, southern Spain on late 1 July, 2012.REUTERS

lead through a rare headerfrom the diminutive Silva.

Italy responded beforehalftime with eight goalattempts but, when they wentin trailing 2-0 at the breakand with their striker MarioBalotelli having an off night,the task looked beyond them.Their midfield playmakerAndrea Pirlo, so impressivein the earlier rounds, was alsoeclipsed and looked on intears as Spain collected thetrophy at the end.Cruelly forItaly, their plight was nothelped when their thirdsubstitute Thiago Mottalimped off with a hamstringinjury just four minutes aftercoming on, leaving them withjust 10 men for the last 30minutes.

Italy had morepossession than Spain in theopening half but when they

did have a sniff of goal, IkerCasillas maintained hisastonishing record of notconceding a goal in theknockout stage of atournament for the 10thsuccessive match. The Spaingoalkeeper also reachedanother milestone with arecord 100th win for hiscountry. The only other teamto claim three successivemajor titles was Argentinawho lifted the Copa Americain 1945, 1946 and 1947 whenthe tournament was heldannually.However, that featpales into insignificancecompared to Spain’sachievement such is the paceand the demands of themodern game. SomehowSpain have not only beenable to cope with thosedemands but have risen wayabove them.— Reuters

Woods moves past Nicklauswith AT&T National win

BETHESDA , 2 July —Tiger Woods overtook JackNicklaus in second place onthe all-time PGA Tourwinners list when he capturedthe AT&T Nationaltournament at theCongressional Country Clubon Sunday. The former worldnumber one claimed the 74thPGA Tour event of his careerwhen he shot a final round oftwo-under-par 69 to finish ateight-under 276, two strokesclear of the field. “It feelsfantastic. It feels great to get to74 wins and obviously passJack,” Woods told reporters

after overcoming anovernight one-shot deficit towin.

“I’ve had a pretty goodcareer and to do it at 36, I feellike I have a lot of years aheadof me. I feel like I’ve got a lotmore ahead of me.” Woodshas won three of his last sevenstarts, having claimed theArnold Palmer Invitationaland Memorial Tournamentearlier this season, and whileit has been four years since hislast major victory, the worldnumber four believes the nextone will come soon.

“I remember there was atime when people were sayingI could never win again. Thatwas, I think, what, four monthsago and here we are,” he said.“It was just a matter of time. Icould see the pieces comingtogether.”(Coach) Sean(Foley) and I were working,and we see what’s coming,and we can see theconsistency, and it’s just amatter of time. FellowAmerican and playing partnerBo Van Pelt closed with a 71to finish alone in second, oneshot ahead of Australian AdamScott, who charged up theleaderboard with a final round67.— Reuters

Tiger Woods of the USholds the trophy after

winning the AT&TNational golf tournamentat Congressional Country

Club in Bethesda,Maryland on 1 July,

2012.—REUTERS

Ai Miyazato rallies to win NW Arkansas titleROGERS, Ark , 2 July —

Ai Miyazato’s closing birdieon Sunday provided exactlywhat the Japanese star neededto get over the victory humpat the NW ArkansasChampionship. Miyazatoshot a 6-under 65 to overcomea five-shot deficit and holdoff a crowded leaderboardfor her second LPGA Tourvictory of the year and ninthoverall. Her 5-foot birdie putton No 18 sent Miyazato to12 under for the tournament,and her victory at PinnacleCountry Club was securedone group later when MikaMiyazato missed a 15-footbirdie attempt on No18.

“I knew I needed tomake lots of birdies today,but I didn’t have anyexpectation and I didn’t haveany pressure in the front

nine,” Miyazato said. “Sothat’s why I think I couldfocus my game and have fourbirdies on the front nine.”AiMiyazato had seven birdies

Ai Miyazato, centre, poseswith the championship

trophy as members of theUS Marine Corps stand at

attention behind herduring a ceremony afterMiyazato won the LPGA

NW ArkansasChampionship golf

tournament in Rogers,Ark, on 1 July, 2012.

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and one bogey in the finalround to finish one strokeahead of Mika Miyazato andAzahara Munoz. Ai Miyazatohad finished in the top 10 ofthe tournament in each of thelast four years, including afourth-place finish in 2008and a third-place last year.

Those disappointmentswere fresh on Miyazato’smind following her onlybogey of the day on No 17,but she answered with an up-and-down from off the 18thgreen for her closing birdie. Ithink last year I was prettyclose to winning,” Miyazatosaid. “I think I’m one shotbehind or something and Imade bogey on 17, too. A fewyears ago, I did the same thing,too. ... But like I said to myself,you know, just one bogey sofar during the round, so I think

that’s pretty good. Then if Imade birdie (on 18), I thoughtI still (would) have a chanceto get in a playoff.”

Miyazato, a 15-timewinner on the Japan LPGA,also won the LOTTEChampionship in Hawaii inApril. She’s the third playeron the LPGA Tour to winmultiple events this season,joining top-ranked YaniTseng, also a three-timewinner, and No 2 Stacy Lewis,and she’s projected to risefrom sixth to third in the worldentering the US Women’sOpen next week. MikaMiyazato had a 67, and Munozclosed with a 65.

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Spearmon eases to trials victory in depleted 200mEUGENE, 2 July —

Wallace Spearmon surgeddown the finishing straight towin the US Olympic trials 200meters in a quick but wind-assisted 19.82 seconds onSunday. The victory gaveSpearmon, who missed out ona medal at the Beijing Olympicswhen he was disqualified for alane violation, a chance for

Wallace Spearmon Jr (C)crosses the finish line to winthe men’s 200 meters finalahead of Shawn Crawford(L) and Isiah Young at the

US.— REUTERS

redemption in London. He saidhe planned to make amendseven though that means hewill have to outrun JamaicansYohan Blake and Usain Bolt.

“It (the disqualification)is definitely something thathas been on my mind since2008,” said the 27-year-oldSpearmon, who missed mostof last season with a hamstring

injury. It is hard enough tomake one Olympic team. Togo and make the finals, stepon the line when you thoughtyou had a medal, take about300 meters of the victory lapand then have to live withthat. “If I had not made theteam this year, that would havebeen on my mind for the restof my life.”—Reuters

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(3-7-12 09:30 am ~4-7-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV(3-7-2012) (Tuesday)

Focus Myanmar TV ProgrammeWeather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 3rd July, 2012

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Hilly Region

Missionary Sayadaw- Uppatasanti Paritta

7:40 am 2. Dhamma Puja Song7:50 am 3. Nice and Sweet Song8:00 am 4. Health Programme8:10 am 5. Songs Of Yester Years8:25 am 6. Song in honour of

Myanmar Women’sDay

4:10 pm 7. Musical Programme4:20 pm 8. Teleplay (Traffic)4:45 pm 9. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)-Second Year (Botany)

5:05 pm10. The Mirror Images of

The Musical Oldies5:30 pm11. Sweet Melody5:45 pm12. Song in honour of

Myanmar Women’sDay

6:35 pm13. Sing A Song8:00 pm14. News15. Bakery World16. TV Drama Series17. Fashion Show in

honour of MyanmarWomen’s Day (2012)

* News* Waso, the Month of

Ordination Festival* News* Let’s Grow Trees

Together InMonsoon Season

* News* Pay Homage to

Uppatasanti Pagodawith peaceful-mind

* News* Their Experiences &

Impression (Fashion)* News* Topic on Journal

“SustainableDevelopment ofWetlands”

* News* Memories of Love* News* Spoiled For a long

time; Repaired atonce

* News* Math Challenge

EnhancementWorkshops

* Myanmar Movie“One Precept-2”

NYAUNGLEBIN, 2 July—As monsoon activity, the rainyseason tree growing ceremony 2012 was held at BasicEducation High School No 2 in Nyaunglebin Township on25 June.

Head of Nyaunglebin Township Forest Department UKyaw Win Sein, Township Administrator U Thihan Soe anddepartmental officials, teachers, students and staff of ForestDepartment grew 120 saplings on the occasion.

Township Forest

Nyaunglebin Township shows love for mother land

Blake beats Bolt again tosecure Jamaican sprint double

Yohan Blake (C) crosses the finish line during theirmen’s 200 meters final at the Jamaican Olympic trials in

Kingston city on 1 July, 2012.— REUTERS

KINGSTON, (Jamaica), 2 July — Yohan Blake set himselfup as the man to beat in London with a stunning 200 metersvictory, beating world record holder Usain Bolt for a secondtime in three days to bring the Jamaican Olympic trials to anexplosive conclusion on Sunday.Blake, who shocked Boltwith an emphatic win in the 100m on Friday, followed it up withan even more impressive performance in the 200, catching thetriple Olympic gold medalist down the stretch before holdinghim off in the closing metres.

The winner clocked a time 19.80 seconds to a massive roarfrom a frenzied crowd at the National Stadium. Bolt secured hisOlympic spot by taking second in 19.83, grinning as hehugged his training partner in the finish area.“He (Bolt) said,‘Congratulations good run, you won,’” Blake told reporters.“‘You’re the better man on the day,’ and I just gave him thanksbecause he has always motivated.”He told me coming into therace to keep calm and that’s what I did.

Warren Weir earned the third spot on the Jamaican team,taking third in 20.03. Bolt ended the race lying flat on his backon the track grimacing in pain as medical staff rushed to hisside to work on a cramped right thigh.—Internet

Humbled Italy praise best team in the worldKIEV, 2 July — Italy

captain Gianluigi Buffonspoke of his disappointmentat having missed out on theEuro 2012 title but said hecould only congratulatewinners Spain.

The world championswere a cut above on the dayand romped to a 4-0 thrashingthat was accentuated by Italyplaying the last half hour aman down after Thiago Mottalimped off once coach CesarePrandelli had alreadyexhausted his substitutions.By then Italy were already

Del Bosque hails “a great era for Spanish football”KIEV, 2 July — Spain’s

coach Vicente del Bosquehighly praised his side whostood on top of Europe bybeating the 10-man Italy 4-0 inthe final on Sunday night.

“This is a great era forSpanish football,” said theexperienced coach, who wrotehistory as the only secondcoach to win the World Cupand Euro championship.

“We played well, got thefirst goal and though Italyresponded well we reactedwith a second.”

“Our success is historicbut we have to be looking tothe future and qualifying forBrazil,” added by the 61-year-old.

David Silva’s header,Jordi Alba’s cool finish,

Spain’s head coachVicente del Bosque reacts

during the final matchbetween Italy and Spain at

the Euro 2012 footballchampionships in Kiev,

Ukraine, on 1 July,2012.— XINHUA

Fernando Torres and JuanMata’s goal relay in the last 10minutes ensured the reigningworld and Europeanchampions to become the firstteam in football history toclinch three major titles in arow.

“This is a greatgeneration of players. Theyhave roots and know how toplay because they come froma country that knows howto,” said the coach. Spain alsobroke new ground bybecoming the first team to winthe back-to-back Europeanchampionship.

Bosque didn’t forget toshow his praise for hispredecessor Luis Aragones,who led Spain to their firstEuropean crown since 1964 at

the EURO 2008 finals.“After Vienna, Luis

Aragones showed us the way,the direction to go. But thereare challenges ahead forWorld Cup qualification.Representing Europe, wewant to do well.”

The expected classicfinal lost its charm andcompetitiveness with 30minutes left when the thirdsubstitute Thiago Mottaplayed only about fourminutes and was injured,forcing Italy to play with oneman less.

“Italy had a greattournament but had that injurywith Motta. And the gameeffectively ended then. Theyhad one less day of rest. Theyplayed a good tournament,”said the coach.

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two goals down and reducedto virtual spectators,according to midfielderDaniele De Rossi. But forBuffon there was no shame inlosing to the best.

“For many of our squadit was their first final so that’swhy it’s a hugedisappointment,” he said.“But it’s also true that in suchan important match whenthere’s the substantialdifference that you saw, allyou can do is clap your handsand applaud the others.”Buffon said he could only

think of one other occasionwhen he had played in a sideso totally dominated: a 3-0Confederations Cup groupstage defeat to Brazil in 2009.“I had a great view of the redwaves from the first minute tothe last,” said the goalkeeperof Spain’s performance.

“They played with greatknowledge of being strongand of what they wanted andknowing that they had alreadywon a lot so they knew how toachieve this type of result.”And against a team (Italy)that physically was in the red.

“Maybe in theConfederations Cup againstBrazil (it was similar), we lost3-0 and were never in thegame, but this is a littledifferent because it was afinal.” Italy had drawn 1-1 withSpain in their opening groupgame of the tournament in amatch that could have goneeither way.

But by the time theyarrived at the final, they werealways playing a day aftertheir opponents and thereforehad 24 hours less toprepare.And when Spainshifted up the gears, theycouldn’t respond.— Internet

Sr. No.

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 29/84 25/77 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

2 Kayah 28/82 19/66 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

3 Kayin 27/81 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

4 Chin 21/70 16/61 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

5 Upper Sagaing 31/88 24/75 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

6 Lower Sagaing 38/100 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershowers (100%)

7 Taninthayi 30/86 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

8 Bago 30/86 25/77 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

9 Magway 31/88 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

10 Mandalay 38/100 28/82 Isolated rain or thundershowers (100%)

11 Mon 27/81 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

12 Yangon 31/88 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

13 Rakhine 29/84 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

14 Southern Shan 26/79 18/64 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

15 Northern Shan 29/84 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

16 Eastern Shan 29/84 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

17 Ayeyawady 30/86 25/77 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 35/95 24/75 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 31/88 23/73 One or two rain or thundershowers (80%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 38/100 28/82 Likelihood isolated rain or

thundershowers (60%)

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Lower Sagaing and Mandalay Regions, scattered in Kayah State, fairly widespread in Magway and Bago Regions, Kachin and Rakhine States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with isolated heavy falls in Taninthayi Region. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Launglon (4.53) inches, Dawei (2.76) inches, Sittway (2.64) inches, Kyaikmaraw (2.36) inches, Paung (2.09) inches and Hpa-an (1.77) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is moderate in the Andaman Sea and South Bay and strong elsewhere in the Bay of

Bengal.

State of the Sea Occasional squalls with moderate to rough seas will be experienced Deltaic, off and along Rakhine Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (40) mph. Sea will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Strong Monsoon.

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Tuesday, 3 July, 2012Fullmoon Day of First Waso 1374 ME

YANGON, 2 July— Localsin Rakhine State, who losttheir houses and property inthe recent riots, weresupplied with cash and kindat the Fire ServicesDepartment (Head Office) atMaykhala Hall inMayangon Township herethis morning.

At the ceremony, UnionMinister for Information andfor Culture U Kyaw Hsanand wife Daw Kyi Kyi Winfamily donated K 0.3million, the RevenueDepartment of Yangon City

Cash, kind supplied to localCash, kind supplied to localpeople in Rakhine Statepeople in Rakhine State

Development Committeeand AungmingalaExpressway Bus Stationfamily, K 0.6 million andfour bags of rice and twentyone bales of clothes, U MoeKyaw and Daw Khin Ohnfamily, Col Kyaw Zan Hla(Retd) and Daw Sanda Tunfamily and U Myo Wai Linand Daw Tin Mar Kyu(Excellent Restaurant inLewe), K 0. 5 million, U ThanHla and Daw Aye Myintfamily, K 0.3 million, U AungKyaw Htay and Daw TheinThein Win family, U Maung

Aye and Daw San Yi(Aungparsay) family andU Than Maung and Daw HlaWin Kyi family (ThingahaBicycle Shop), K 0.1 millioneach, in memory of the lateparents U Maung Maung andDaw Mya Mya, CaptainAung Than Myint, Ko ThuraWin, Daw Khin Aye Mu,Captain Win Aung, Daw WintMu Aung and U Aye Lwin Ooand Daw Nwe Nwe Winfamily, K 0.1 million each, UKhun Aung Aung and DawNan Khin Nan Aye family,K 0.2 million and two

packages of clothes, DawThan Than, U Maung MaungWin, Daw Ohnma Nwe family,K 0.1 million, U Thura Aungand Daw Khine Khine Htayfamily, one package ofclothes, U Wai Phyo Htut andDaw Aye Sanda Win sonMyat Hein Htut family, onepackage of clothes, TreeDonation Group, K 0.1million and three packagesof clothes, U Sein Win andCommander of the auxiliaryfire brigade company U SeinMaung (Nwe Aye WardDawbon) and U Aung Naingand Daw Nwe Yi family,K 50,000 each, U Hla MyintMaung and Daw Su Su Ti

(Yadana Su Maung JewelleryShop), K 0.1 million and threepackages of clothes,U Nardara (ThandweMonastery), one package ofclothes, Daw May Si andgroup (Yangon RegionAccounts Office), K 20,000each, Thè Thè Family, fourpackages of clothes, U SeinMaung and Daw Aye Lwinfamily, K 10,000, Dr Soe Winand Dr Nyunt Nyunt Waifamily, K 10,000 and twopackages of clothes, U Ba Hoand Daw Amar Khin family,K 30,000, Deputy DirectorDaw Thein Thein Oo(Yangon Region Auditor-General’s Office), two

packages of clothes, U HtweHlaing and Daw Ohnmar Khinfamily, three packages ofclothes, U Min Swe family, K0.1 million and one packageof clothes, U Aung NaingTun and Ma Wit Yi Win andDr Nyi Nyi Win and Dr Lai YiWin, K 30,000 each, MaungWin Htet, K 10,000, Dr DawAye Lai Lai Win, fourpackages of clothes, throughDirector-General U Tin Moeof the Fire ServicesDepartment and officialsconcerned, who spoke wordsof thanks.

The latest amount ofdonation list has reachedK 215,690,296.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Medical servicemen ofDirectorate of MedicalService of the Commander-in-Chief (Army)’s Office andthose from local medicalbattalion in Sittway providemedical services daily tolocal people at the reliefcamps of Rakhine State.

Medical servicemen of Directorate ofMedical Services care for local people

At 10 am today, themedical servicemen mademedical check-ups overlocal people at Mani Yadanamonastery’s relief camp andgave talks on malaria,diarrhoea, denguehemorrhagic fever,dermatitis, water born-diseases that are common in

rainy season. They alsochlorinated wells and lakesand fumigation.

In the afternoon, themedical servicemenproceeded to Yatramonastery where theyprovided medical servicesto local people and gave talkson health activities.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—People in Rakhine Statehave lost their property andhouses recently because ofsituations that occurred inthe State. For the sake ofsaving their lives, a cash andmedicine donationceremony was held at the hallof Rakhine State Hluttawyesterday morning, attendedby Rakhine State ChiefMinister U Hla Maung Tinand region ministers,regional departmentalpersonnel, the Chairman of

Cash, medicines donated for people inRakhine State

Myanmar Motion PictureOrganization and artistes.

At the ceremony, UnionMinister for Border Affairsand for Myanma IndustrialDevelopment Lt-Gen TheinHtay and his wife donatedK 500,000 and DeputyMinister for Border AffairsMaj-Gen Zaw Win and wifeK 100,000 for sufferers inRakine State. Rakhine StateDevelopment AffairsCommittee Director U AungKyaw Min accepted thedonations. The artistes of

Myanmar Motion PictureOrganization also donatedK 90 million and medicinesworth K 50 million to theRakhine State ChiefMinister.

Next, Chairman ofMyanmar Motion PictureOrganization U Zin Waingexplained the purposes ofdonations and Chairman ofFinacial Subcommittee ofRakhine State GovernmentU Soe Aye spoke words ofthanks.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 July—The President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar inaccordance with Section 204 (a) of the State constitution granted a general amnestyfor 46 prisoners—37 men and 9 women—with a view to ensuring the stability of theState and making eternal peace, national reconciliation, enabling all to participate inpolitical process; on humanitarian grounds; and turning them into citizens who couldparticipate in nation-building endeavours in whatever way they can after realizing themagnanimity of the State; and deported 34 foreigner prisoners with a view tomaintaining mutual friendship and friendly ties between the two countries and onsocial grounds starting from the Fullmoon Day of First Waso 1374 ME (3 July 2012)under Section 401 (1) of Code of Criminal Procedure.—MNA

Amnesty granted

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—Jointly organized byMyanmar MedicalAssociation (Central) andUNFPA, MMA (Meiktila)will carry out tasks forreproductive health care invillages of MeiktilaTownship where maternaland child mortality rate is

Field trips planned to provide reproductive health carehigh.

They will give healthcare services for expectantmothers and carry out birth-control health care in 15villages of MeiktilaTownship.

The teams will be set upwith five surgeons fromMMA (Meiktila). Thus, the

training for healthcare services was conductedfor 30 members. Likewise, aclinic is kept open near theadministrative office inNandawgon Ward ofMeiktila to take careof expectant mothersand provide birth-controlhealth.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 July—With the assistance ofMagway RegionGovernment, the midwiferycourse No. 1/2012 wasopened at the meeting hallof Thayet District GeneralAdministration Departmentthis morning.

Deputy CommissionerU Mya Aye of District GAD

Midwifery Course opened in Thayet Districtmade a speech. MedicalSuperintendent of theDistrict People’s Hospital DrKyi Kyi Aye explained thepurpose of opening thecourse.

Magway RegionHluttaw representativeDaw Yin Yin Hla,Chairperson of DistrictMaternal and Child

Welfare SupervisoryCommittee Daw Hla HlaHtay and Chairperson ofTownship MCWA Daw TinAye Myint presentedstationery to the trainees.

Altogether 20 traineesfrom villages of ThayetTownship are attending thesix-month course.

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