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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Economic councils formed by ACMECScountries to encourage private sector

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends opening ceremony of 3rd

Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy Summit

The common projects and bilateral projects

included in ACMECS cooperation strategy are

to be assessed in order to contribute to ensuring

long-term development of the region in the

future and not to lose common objectives.

NAY PYI TAW, 9Nov—Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein of theUnion of Myanmar at-tended the opening cer-emony of the 3rd

A y e y a w a d y - C h a oPhraya-Mekong Eco-nomic Cooperation Strat-egy Summit (ACMECS)held at the Room -241 ofNational Convention Cen-

tre in Hanoi of the Social-ist Republic of Vietnam at9 a.m on 7 November.

Present on the occa-sion were CambodianPrime Minister SamdechHun Sen, Laotian PrimeMinister Mr BouasoneBouphavanh, Prime Min-ister of the Union ofMyanmar General TheinSein, Thai Prime Minis-

ter Mr SomchaiWongsawat, VietnamesePrime Minister MrNguyen Tan Dung, Min-ister for Foreign AffairsU Nyan Win, Minister forNational Planning andEconomic DevelopmentU Soe Tha, MyanmarAmbassador to VietnamU Aung Thein, Director-General of Government

Office Col Thant Shin andheads of departmentsMinisters for ForeignAffairs of Cambodia,Laos, Thailand and Viet-nam and high- ranking of-ficials, ambassadors offoreign embassies in Vi-etnam, business commu-nities of ACMECS mem-ber countries and spe-cially invited guests.

At the outset, minis-ters, high-ranking officials,invited guests fromACMECS member coun-tries arrived at the NationalConvention Centre start-ing 8 a.m. VietnamesePrime Minister Mr NguyenTan Dung welcomedPrime Minister

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein delivers an address at the opening ceremony of the 3rd

Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy Summit.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein beingwelcomed by Vietnamese PM Mr Nguyen Tan

Dung at the opening ceremony of the 3rd

Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong EconomicCooperation Strategy Summit.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 10 November, 2008

Monday, 10 November, 2008

Nowadays, there occurs environmentaldeterioration resulting in global warming andworld climate change. Cooperative efforts arebeing made region-wise for food sufficiencyand energy security as the climate changes areconcerned with all the nations. Prime Minister of the Union of MyanmarGeneral Thein Sein attended the 4th Cambodia,Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) Summitand the 3rd Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-MekongEconomic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS)Summit held in Hanoi, the Socialist Republicof Vietnam between 5 and 7 November. The 4th summit was also attended by PrimeMinisters from Cambodia, the Lao People'sDemocratic Republic and the Socialist Republicof Vietnam, ASEAN Under Secretary-General,Ministers for Foreign Affairs and businessmen. At the opening of 4th Cambodia, Laos,Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) Summit inHanoi, Vietnam, on 6 November, PrimeMinister General Thein Sein stressed the needto make efforts for success of the projects beingjointly undertaken by the four nations. Nowfood insecurity and the problem of energysecurity call for special emphasis on theagricultural and energy sectors. CLMV nations are implementing theprojects in accord with the VientianeDeclaration laid down four years ago and theyare making progress. They are also seekingways and means to effectively carry out thefuture work programmes. We firmly believe that the summit willcontinue to promote traditional goodwillrelations among the nations and spirit ofintegration in order to produce fruitfulresults in economic and social fields in thesub-region.

Cooperation of fournations for economicand social progress

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

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

YANGON, 9 Nov —T h a i - M y a n m a rFriendship Associationand wellwishers madecash donations toNational Museum ofArchaeology, NationalMuseum and LibraryDepartment under theMinistry of Culture at themuseum on Pyay Roadhere today.

Karaweik Gardens WorldTazaungdine Fun fair and

Market FestivalYANGON, 9 Nov— With the sponsorship of

Karaweik Gardens World and with the assistanceof Dagon Brewery Co Ltd, the Karaweik GardensWorld Tazaungdine Fun fair and Market Festivalare being held from 8 to 12 November.

Vocalists are presenting free entertainmentto the audience from 6 to 8 pm daily.

At the market festival are U Pe Theinelectronics, Bon Bon Bakery “09” mobile phone andaccessories, Swanahshin Lubrication, SSSconfectionery, ‘C’ CARE Skin Care products, HuggiesBaby Diapers, Kleenex Facial Tissues, Scott facialTissues, Fancy 96 Collection, Zizawa Book Shop,Uni Teak Furniture, Mini Kids child collection, DearFace Korea cosmetics, CP products, Mars mosquitoesrepellents, Wax King, My Collection, Dagon Breweryproducts, Kangaroo footwear, Shoe gallery, HappyCow condensed milk, Mortain Shieldtox, Khao Shongcoffee and others.—MNA

YANGON, 9 Nov—Minister for Education DrChan Nyein visitedYangon University,Dagon University,Yangon East Universityand National ManagementCollege in BotahtaungTownship this morning.During his inspection tour,the minister met therectors, the principals andfaculty members of theuniversities and gaveinstructions on academicand management matters.

On 8 Novembermorning, the minister wentto Yangon University ofForeign Languages,Yangon University ofDistance Education,Yangon Institute ofEducation, Yangon

Education Minister visits universities in Yangon

Institute of Economics(Kamayut) and YangonWest University where heheard reports on salient

points of the higherlearning institutionspresented by prorectorsand professors. After

hearing the reports, heattended to the needs andviewed learning ofstudents.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Nov—Minister for Immigrationand Population Maj-Gen Saw Lwin on 4 Novembermet staff of MraukU Township Immigration andNational Registration Department and inspected

Immigration task inspected in MraukU, Maungtaw Districtsystematic keeping of records and files at the office.

On 5 November, the minister met with officialsat Border Region Immigration Inspection Headquartersin Kyeeganbyin of Maungtaw Township. He inspectedsystematic keeping of facts and data of local populationand families at the office.

At Nay Myo Hall, the minister met staff of theheadquarters and Maungtaw District INRD and viewedthe jetty of No. 1 check point in Maungtaw.

MNA

Cash donations forNational Museum

At the ceremony,Ambassador of Thailandto Myanmar Mr BansarnBunnag explained thepurpose of the donations,and Director Daw Nu MraZan of the museum spokewords of thanks.

Next, Chairman ofT h a i - M y a n m a rFriendship AssociationGeneral (Retd) LertratRatana Vanich handedover cash presented byThai Embassy, Thai-Myanmar FriendshipAssociation, KandawgyiRoyal Palace Hotel andorganizations, Thaibusiness men in Myanmarto the director of themuseum.

The donationtotaled US$ 16,000 whichwill be spent on renovationof booths of the four-storey museum.

MNA

Minister Dr Chan Nyein views learning of UDE students at YangonWest University.—EDUCATION

Director Daw Nu Mra Zan accepts cash

donations from General (Retd) Lertrat

Ratana Vanich and wellwishers.MNA

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Russia says fresh US proposals onmissile shield unsatisfactory

WASHINGTON, 9 Nov — At least 4,192 members ofthe US military have died in the Iraq war since it be-gan in March 2003.

The figure includes eight military civilians killedin action. At least 3,388 military personnel died as aresult of hostile action, according to the military’snumbers.

The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy,33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11;Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latviaand Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailandand Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary,Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each.—Internet

Cambodians marchalongside a car

decorated as a dovein front of the royalpalace during theIndependence Day

celebration in PhnomPenh on 9 November,

2008. Cambodiacelebrates its 55th

anniversary ofindependence from

France on 9 Novem-ber. —INTERNET

A man stands next to his relative, a policeman whowas wounded in a bomb attack, in a hospital in

Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad on 8Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

Residents inspect the

site where a roadside

bomb went off, in

Sulaikh neigh-

bourhood, northeast-

ern Baghdad, Iraq,

on 8 Nov, 2008,

killing a civilian and

injuring seven others

included a police

officer, police said.

INTERNET

Boat breaks Gaza Stripblockade, sails into portGAZA CITY, 9 Nov — A group of European law-

makers sailed from Cyprus into Gaza on Saturday,defying an internationally backed blockade of theHamas-run territory with activists promising to sendmore visitors and goods to end the coastal strip’s iso-lation.

Israel’s navy did not try to block the vessel, Dig-nity, which made its third run from Cyprus to Gazasince August. The 23 passengers included 13 mem-bers of various European parliaments and an Israelijournalist, who will stay until Tuesday.

“We came on a boat. Many more boats can come.Let’s have dozens of boats and then we can open upthe siege,” said Clare Short, a former member of theBritish Cabinet.

Parliamentarians and activists say they are not seek-ing to legitimize Hamas’ rule of Gaza, which it seizedlast year after pushing out security forces loyal to Fatah.Hamas’ takeover prompted Israel and Egypt to seal itsborders with Gaza, only allowing in humanitarian aidand a trickle of commercial goods.—Internet

Stolen UN vehicle raisessecurity worries in Kabul

KABUL, 9 Nov —Authorities searched for a UnitedNations vehicle stolen from the Kabul airport on Sat-urday, amid concerns militants could use the SUV asa car bomb or to ferry attackers close to sensitive sites.

UN personnel, Western security officials and Af-ghan police were looking for the white Toyota LandCruiser with the UN agency’s name painted in blueletters, a security official said.

The main UN compound in Kabul is on the roadto the presidential palace. The road is secured by agate and armed guards, but UN vehicles are usuallywaved quickly through check points.

One police official said the missing vehicle wasbeing treated as a highly sensitive issue, and that po-lice commanders had been instructed to not speak pub-licly about it. He spoke on condition of anonymity forthat reason.

It was not known if the vehicle had been stolen bythieves or if it was an inside job by a UN staff mem-ber or relative.

Internet

Kidnapped Canadian journalistfreed in Afghanistan

OTTAWA, 9 Nov — Mellissa Fung, a journalist work-ing for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp in Afghani-stan, was freed on Saturday after being kidnapped amonth ago near the capital, Kabul, her employer said.

The CBC said Fung was safe in the Canadian Em-bassy and undergoing a medical checkup after beingreleased to Canadian forces.

Fung was abducted by armed men at a UN refugeecamp on the outskirts of Kabul on 12 October andtaken to the mountains west of the city, the networksaid in a statement.

Afghanistan — one of the most dangerous nationsin the world for reporters — has seen a spike in assas-sinations and kidnappings of foreigners.

“Obviously it was not a random abduction,” Cana-dian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a news con-ference.

He said no ransom had been paid by Ottawa, theCBC or anyone else to free Fung, whom he spoke toafter her release. “She sounded in remarkably goodspirits under the circumstances,” he said.

The CBC said it seemed likely the kidnappers werecriminals rather than members of the Taleban.

Harper said hundreds of Canadian and Afghan of-ficials had been involved in the effort to free Fungand that he called Afghan President Hamid Karzai tothank him.—Internet

US

military

deaths in

Iraq war

at 4,192

MOSCOW, 9 Nov — Russia is not satis-fied with new US proposals aimed at eas-ing Russia’s concern over US missile de-fence plans, a local newspaper reportedon Saturday, citing a Foreign Ministrysource.Russia has not responded to the USproposals on its missile shield yet as theUnited States did not consult with Russiabefore disclosing relevant information tomedia, Deputy Foreign Minister SergeiRyabkov said in an interview withCommersant. The United States proposedallowing Russia’s staff to visit missiledefence facilities deployed in Poland and

the Czech Republic, but this is not the keyto the issue, Ryabkov said.

He said the two sides have to reach con-sensus on the assessment of missile threatand responsive measures in this regard.

The United States is now trying to con-vince Russia that the missile shield is nottargeted on Russia, he said, adding that thenotion would not be accepted.

US Acting Undersecretary of State JohnRood said on Thursday that the UnitedStates had offered Russia new proposalson nuclear arms reduction and missiledefence.—Internet

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People leave their home in search of shelter asHurricane Paloma approaches in Santa Cruz del

Sur, Camaguey Cuba on 8 November, 2008.INTERNET

Local girl is pictured as shelooks after her family’scrop in a field in southernEthiopia. As impoverishedand landlocked Ethiopiawas choked by high oilprices, the government al-located more than 400,000hectares (988,000 acres)for biofuel crops develop-ment as part of a nationalstrategy enacted last year. —INTERNET

China in good position toexpand economy

The two-day meeting of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governorsis opened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 8 Nov, 2008.—XINHUA

SAO PAULO, 9 Nov —World Bank PresidentRobert Zoellick said onSaturday that China is in agood position to have astrong fiscal expansion, away to offset the effects ofthe international financialcrisis. “China is in a very goodposition to have a strongfiscal expansion. The Chi-nese authorities spoke of

that aspect,” he told a pressconference in Sao Paulo,where he participates in aG20 meeting.

Officials from the fi-nance ministries and cen-tral banks of the world’skey developed and emerg-ing countries began a two-day meeting here Saturdayto look at ways to tacklethe global economic crisis. Zoellick compared Chi-

na’s situation in compari-son with other developingcountries which cannotexpand their expendituresso much. Zoellick considered“very wise” China’s deci-sion to make large im-provements in its infra-structure in the last fewyears, adding that it couldbe taken as a model byother countries.—Xinhua

OPEC to hold another extraordinarymeeting to mull output cut

ALGIERS, 9 Nov — The Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC) is to hold an extraordi-nary ministerial meeting on 17 Dec to study world oilmarket outlook, said its current president Chakib Khelil.

The meeting, which comes in the wake of the car-tel’s extraordinary meeting in Vienna on 24 Oct, willbe held in the western Algerian town of Oran and tostudy the market outlook for the first half of 2009,said Khelil, who is also Algeria’s energy minister.

He does not rule out another output cut if crude oilprice remains below 70 US dollars per barrel, sayingthat the cartel’s objective is to have the oil prices rangebetween 70 and 90 dollars a barrel.

If all OPEC members seriously follow the outputcut decision, and the price still does not reach the an-ticipated level, there will probably be another produc-tion cutback, said Khelil.

Ahead of the Oran meeting, the Arab member statesof OPEC, which include Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, SaudiArabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iraq be-sides Algeria, will meet in Cairo on 29 Nov, Khelil added.

At the 24 Oct meeting in Vienna, OPEC ministersagreed to reduce output by 1.5 million barrels per day(bpd) to 27.3 million bpd from 1 Nov to stem the fall-ing of oil prices.—Xinhua

ANKARA, 9 Nov — Turkish security forces arrested 36illegal migrants in northwestern Turkey on Saturday, thesemi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

During a routine traffic control on Bursa-Izmir high-way, the police stopped a truck carrying illegal migrantsof Afghan and Palestinian origin in Karacabey town ofthe northwestern province of Bursa, said the report.

The migrants and driver were detained and the cap-tured migrants would be deported following legal pro-ceedings, it added.

Thousands of immigrants from Asia and Africa haveentered Turkey illegally on their way to European coun-tries in search of jobs and better life.—Xinhua

More than 20 killed in Russiannuclear submarine accident

MOSCOW, 9 Nov— More than 20 people have beenkilled in an accident on a Russian nuclear submarine,local media reported on early Sunday.

“Over 20 people have been killed on 8 Nov, as aresult of accidental activation of the fire extinguish-ing system at a nuclear-powered submarine of the Pa-cific Fleet during sea trials,” Itar-Tass cited a navyspokesman.

The radiation on the submarine is normal as its nu-clear reactor is working at normal status, said IgorDygalo, an aide to the commander-in-chief of theRussian Pacific Fleet.

Among the killed are workers of a shipyard andmilitary servicemen, he said.

The submarine is sailing to a temporary base inRussia’s far east Primorye territory with the escortingof an anti-submarine warship and a rescue vessel toevacuate another 21 injured people, Dygalo said.

There were 208 people aboard the submarine dur-ing the accident and 81 of them were military service-men.—Xinhua

Turkishsecurityforces

arrest 36illegal

migrants

Four Italian tourists killed in Tanzania plane crashNAIROBI, 9 Nov — Four Italian tourists were killed

on Saturday when a Kenyan-registered plane crashedinto Mawenzi peak on Mt Kilimanjaro in northernTanzania.

According to independent Kenyan television, NTV,on Saturday, the Kenyan pilot, however, survived inthe accident which occurred on Saturday morning.

The television said in its hourly news bulletin quot-

ing the Kilimanjaro regional police commander, LucasNg’hoboko, as saying that the six-seater Cessna 206hit the rugged peak at 1100 hrs (0800 GMT).

The plane, Registration No 5YA00, was said tobelong to a Nairobi-based company, the regional po-lice chief said. He said the four tourists died on thespot when the plane went down at an altitude of 4,330metres above sea level.—Xinhua

Palestinian unity dialogue postponeddue to Hamas boycott

CAIRO, 9 Nov — Egypt decided on Saturday to putoff a long-awaited Palestinians national unity dialoguethat is planned to open in Cairo on 10 Nov, after theIslamic Hamas movement announced to boycott thetalks.

“The scheduled talks would be postponed,” said anEgyptian source on condition of anonymity, addingan alternative date to start the dialogue has yet be de-termined.

According to the Egyptian MENA news agency,Egypt has decided to postpone the Palestinian dialogueafter Hamas informed Egyptian mediators that it willnot show up in the meeting.

Xinhua

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The Russian nuclear sumbarine “Vepr” is picturedin 2004. More than 20 people were killed andanother 20 injured when a fire extinguishing

system was inadvertently activated aboard a Rus-sian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean, the

Russian navy said on Sunday.—INTERNET

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Israeli forces and Hamasgunmen exchange fire

GAZA CITY, 9 Nov — The Israeli army and Hamasmilitants say their forces traded fire on Gaza’s border,testing a shaky truce in place since June.

The gunbattle between Israeli forces and Hamasgunmen took place Saturday morning on Gaza’s east-ern border.The Israeli army says its soldiers were deto-nating two explosive devices on the border fence whenHamas gunmen opened fire, prompting the exchange.There were no reports of casualties.

The gunbattle is the latest test to a five-month-oldEgyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Palestin-ian militants.The truce was shaken earlier this weekafter an Israeli incursion, clashes and airstrikes leftseven Palestinian militants dead.—Internet

Hu, Obama discuss China-US relations Medvedev, Obama say need tomeet soon

Chinese PresidentHu Jintao

BEIJING, 9 Nov —Beijing and Washingtonshould “accommodateeach other’s concerns,”

Chinese President HuJintao told US president-elect Barack Obama in aphonecall that stressedgood Sino-US ties, statemedia said Sunday.

Hu and Obama spokeSaturday, with the Chi-nese leader calling for co-operation on issues suchas the current global fi-nancial turmoil but alsourging US respect for Chi-nese positions on touchyissues such as Taiwan,Xinhua news agency said.

The conversation isthought to be the pair’sfirst since Obama’s elec-tion victory last week,with Hu becoming the lat-est world leader to get ac-quainted with the manwhose election has beenwelcomed worldwide.

“Hu pointed out thatsince the establishment ofdiplomatic relations be-tween the two countries30 years ago, bilateral re-lations have generallykept developing despitesetbacks,” the report said.

The report did not sayhow long they spoke foror who initiated the call.However, Obama hasbeen busy calling worldleaders who had sent writ-ten congratulations on hisdefeat of Republican JohnMcCain.

Hu was one of thoseleaders.—Internet

MOSCOW, 9 Nov —The Kremlin said Rus-sian President DmitryMedvedev had agreedwith US President-electBarack Obama in a tel-ephone call Saturday thatthey need to meet soon.

Medvedev congratu-lated Obama on his elec-tion win, and the twoagreed on a need to workon Russia-US ties, aKremlin statement said.Several issues havetested relations betweenMoscow and Washing-

ton, including NATO’spossible eastward expan-sion and US plans forplacing components of amissile-defence systemin Poland and the CzechRepublic.

Moscow has stronglyobjected to the missile-defence plans, and onWednesday — a day af-ter Obama’s election —Medvedev announced hewould respond by sta-tioning short-range mis-siles in Russia’s Balticexclave of Kaliningrad,

on the doorstep of Polandand Czech Republic.

Obama’s plans remainunclear regarding the de-fence system, the dealsfor which were brokeredunder US PresidentGeorge W Bush.

The Kremlin state-ment said Obama andMedvedev agreed in theirphone call on Saturday“to create constructiveand positive interactionfor the good of global sta-bility and development.”

It said they spoke of“the priority of the natureof relations of Russia andthe USA ... the positive de-velopment of which isprincipally important notonly for the people of bothcountries, but for the inter-national community as awhole.”Obama takes overfrom Bush on 20 January.

Internet

Owner of collapsed Haiti school arrested Pilot lost control of planecrashes in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 9 Nov — An official overseeing theinvestigation into a plane crash that killed Mexico’sinterior secretary say the jet was not on fire and didbreak up prior to the crash, and evidence indicatesthe pilot lost control.

Officials say the plane was traveling at almost 300mph (500 kph) when it crashed into cars on a MexicoCity street on Tuesday, killing 14.The plane was sup-posed to be turning east toward the city’s internationalairport, but was traveling almost northward when itcrashed.Investigation head Gilberto Lopez said on Sat-urday that “this clearly proves what we had believed,that there was an abrupt loss of control.”

Lopez did not give a cause. Investigators are look-ing at whether turbulence from another plane playeda role. — Internet

A rescue worker searches at the sceneof the church school that collapsed on

the outskirts of Port-au-Prince on8 Nov, 2008. The death toll in thecollapse of a ramshackle school in

Haiti rose above 90 on Saturday afterrescue workers uncovered a room full

of dead, many of them children,officials said.—INTERNET

Palestinian Bilal Dana, 6, receives treatment in hospital after he wasallegedly attacked by Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron, on 8

Nov, 2008. —INTERNET

PETIONVILLE, 9 Nov — Police arrestedthe owner of a Haitian school that col-lapsed on top of students and teachersduring school hours, killing at least 88people and launching a frantic search for

survivors amid tons of concrete rubble.Fortin Augustin, the preacher who

owns and built College La Promesse insuburban Port-au-Prince, was arrestedlate Saturday and charged with involun-tary manslaughter, said police spokes-man Garry Desrosier.Augustin was be-ing held at a police station in Haiti’s capi-tal as a US rescue crew searched over-night for survivors of Friday’s collapseof the three-story building, which nor-mally holds 500 students and teachers.

In a rare moment of joy in a grim task,Haitian rescuers pulled four childrenalive Saturday from the rubble and cra-dled them in their arms as they ran to-ward ambulances, said UN policespokesman Andre Leclerc.

Leclerc said he did not know the ex-tent of the injuries to the two girls, ages3 and 5, and two boys, a 7-year-old anda teenager. But he added the 3-year-oldhad a cut on her head and seemed to beOK.“She was talking and drinkingjuice,” Leclerc said.—Internet

Moderateearthquake

strikes NorthIsland in New

ZealandWELLINGTON, 9 Nov —

An earthquake measuring5.4 on the Richter Scaleshook the Bay of Plenty inNew Zealand’s North Is-land early Sunday morn-ing, causing no casualtiesor damages.

The quake, which tookplace at 12:57 am localtime (1157 GMT),wascentered 20 km west ofRotorua, at a depth of 200km, New Zealand’s Insti-tute of Geological and Nu-clear Sciences (GNS)reported.The quake waswidely felt in the NorthIsland.—Internet

Police attempt to remove anti-nuclearprotesters who have chained them-

selves to train tracks near the westernGerman town of Berg the day before

the arrival of a train with nuclearwaste from the La Hague re-process-ing plant in north-western France.

INTERNET

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NEWSALBUM

Workers walk near a large pair ofjeans made in a factory in San Juan deLurigancho in Lima. Seamstresses inPeru, hoping to snag a spot in theGuinness Book of World Records,presented what they say is the world’slargest pair of jeans on Thursday,complete with back pockets, buttonsand a belt. Cranes lifted the enormouspair onto a giant metal made to modelthe pants, which measure 40 metres(131 ft) tall, 30 metres (98 ft) wide andweigh more than 2 tonnes. The jeanswere cut from some 3,000 meteres (9,842 feet) of cloth.

Man’s love wakes wife from 30-year comaA woman woke from a 30-year coma

thanks to her husband’s good care andunwavering love in E’zhou, Hubei Province.

Doctors believe the love of ChenDulin, who was recently selected as oneof the province’s model husbands, hashelped Zhao Guihua wake up.

Zhao’s blood pressure and heart andlungs are stable in the wake of a thoroughexamination.

Zhao lapsed into a coma followingan accident three decades ago, but Chennever gave up on his wife and cared forher at home after she had two operations.

Chen has used syringes and softplastic pipes to inject milk, egg custardand other liquid food into Zhao’sstomach ever since.

Now 77, he still talks to the loveof his life every day.

Philippine militants release kidnapped nurseZAMBOANGA (Philippines), 9 Nov — Militants in the southern Philippines

released a kidnapped nurse they had been holding for four months after payment ofa hefty ransom, authorities said on Saturday. Preciosa Feliciano, 24, was turnedover to a local official in the nearby island of Basilan late Friday and brought by themilitary to this southern Philippine city on Saturday.

She was kidnapped on 7 July by suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslimextremist group linked by intelligence agencies to the al-Qaeda terror network.

Feliciano said she had largely been kept alone in a house and had just beenabruptly informed that she was being freed.—Internet

Spectators get a close up view of a hugerecord-breaking pinata in Philadel-phia, Pennsylvania, recently. Breakingthe Guinness Record for the world'slargest pinata, according to an onsiteGuinness adjudicator, the giant mockdonkey measures 28.5 metres long; 7.2metres wide and 18 metres tall and is

filled with 8,000 pounds (3,628kilograms) of candy.

Blinded pilot guidedsafely to ground

A British pilot who was suddenlyblinded by a stroke during a solo flight wastalked safely down by a military pilot, theRoyal Air Force said on Friday.

Jim O’Neill asked for help after he waswent blind 40 minutes into a flight fromScotland to southeastern England lastweek. The BBC reported that O’Neill,flying a small Cessna aircraft, lost his sight5,500 feet in the air.

“It was terrifying,” O’Neill said.“Suddenly, I couldn’t see the dials in frontof me.” The air force said in a news releasethat O’Neill initially believed he’d been“dazzled” by bright sunlight, and made anemergency call for help. He then realizedthat something more serious washappening, and said, “I want to land,ASAP.”

French scientists discovernew species of gecko

French scientists say they hatched anew gecko species from an egg pluckedfrom its nest in a South Pacific islandand carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in abox lined with Kleenex.

France’s National Museum of NaturalHistory said it was the first time a newlizard species has been catalogued basedon an individual raised from an egg.

Given the Latin name Lepido-dactylus buleli, the gecko makes itshome near the tops of the trees thatline the west coast of Espiritu Santo,one of the larger islands of the Vanuatuarchipelago east of Australia, themuseum said.

A 2006 expedition to Espiritu Santoto study the ecosystems of the forestcanopy led to the discovery of the 3-inch-long gecko.

French scientist Ivan Ineichdisplays a never-before-seen species

of gecko, baptised with the latinname Lepidodactylus buleli, at

France’s Natural History Museumin Paris. This gecko was born in

Paris from an egg that was pluckedfrom the canopy of forest on the

west coast of Espiritu Santo, one ofthe larger South Pacific islands of

the archipellago of Vanuatu,east of Australia.

Mideast mediators meet in EgyptConservative former trader winsNew Zealand vote

Mideast mediators have begun meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on 9 Nov, 2008 ,in a bid to preserveIsraeli-Palestinian peace talks despite their loomingfailure to produce a deal by year’s end.—INTERNET

Prime Minister elect John Keycelebrates the National Party’svictory during the New Zealand

General election in Auckland, NewZealand, on 8 Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

New York family opposes end to carefor brain-dead boy

SHARM EL-SHEIK, 9 Nov— Mideast mediators metSunday in a bid to preserveUS-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace talksdespite their loomingfailure to produce a deal byyear’s end.

Israeli Foreign MinisterTzipi Livni and Palestinian

President MahmoudAbbas kicked off themeeting of the Quartet,which includes the UnitedStates, European Union,United Nations and Russia,by standing up and shakinghands.

Before the meetingbegan, Livni told Israeli

Army Radio that she wouldnot be presenting anydramatic reports ofprogress and her goal atthe meeting was to keepthe pressure off Israel aselections approach.

She said she believes thatif mediators see Israel isserious about an agreementwith the Palestinians, theywill not pressure the Jewishstate about deadlines or thespecifics of the negotiationsright now.

Israel is scheduled tohold parliamentaryelections on 10 Feb, andpolls show that Livni, thechief Israeli negotiator, isneck and neck with formerPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu, who opposesnegotiations with thePalestinians at this point.

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WELLINGTON, 9 Nov — NewZealanders chose a wealthy,conservative former financier onSaturday to help navigate the countrythrough the global financial meltdown,handing long-serving left-wing PrimeMinister Helen Clark a crushing electiondefeat. John Key, the 47-year-old leaderof the conservative National Party, swepteasily to power in this South Pacificcountry of 4.1 million people, oustingClark’s Labour Party after nine years inoffice.

“Today, New Zealand has spoken, intheir hundreds of thousands, they havevoted for change,” Key told supportersat a packed victory celebration in thecountry’s largest city, Auckland.

New Zealand’s farming export-dependent economy fell into recessionearly this year, and Key said the

worldwide downturn is the mostimmediate problem for the country.

Key has promised a more right-leaninggovernment than Clark’s, which foralmost a decade made global warming akey policy issue.—Internet

NEW YORK, 9 Nov — AWashington hospital hasasked a judge forpermission to stop treatinga brain-dead 12-year-oldcancer patient, eventhough his ultra-religiousNew York parents want tokeep him on life support.

Motl Brody of

Brooklyn was pronounceddead this week after a half-year fight against a braintumor, and doctors atChildren’s NationalMedical Center inWashington say theseventh-grader’s brain hasceased functioningentirely.

But for the past fewdays, a machine hascontinued to inflate anddeflate his lungs. As oflate Friday afternoon, hisheart was still beating withthe help of a cocktail ofintravenous drugs andadrenaline.

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YANGON, 9 Nov — The fights ofMyanmar-Thai Boxing Challengeswere held at National Indoor Stadium –1 in Thuwunna, here, yesterday.

Chairman of Myanmar OlympicCommittee Minister for Sports Brig-GenThura Aye Myint attended the competitions.

Also present on the occasion wereofficials of the ministry, the Chairpersonof Central Working Committee forMyanmar Women’s Sports Federation,Chairman of Thai-Myanmar Friendship

Maj-Gen Khin Zaw of Ministry of Defence inspects construction of railroad along Thayet-Pwintbyu road section.—MNA

Lon Chaw fighting with Htun Htaung in Myanmar-Thai BoxingChallenges.—NLM

Minister Maj-GenMaung Oo speaks at

concluding of theon-job training

course No. 1/2008for clerks of

Nationalities YouthResource

Development DegreeCollege.

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Kyangin-Pwintbyu (Thayet-Pwintbyu)railroad section inspected

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Nov—Maj-Gen Khin Zawof the Ministry of Defence, accompanied byChairman of Magway Division Peace andDevelopment Council Col Phone Maw Shwe, heardreports on construction of earth work of Thayet-Pwintbyu railroad section and future tasks presentedby Assistant General Manager (Civil) U Than Htayof Engineering Section of Myanma Railways at the

briefing hall of Kyangin-Pakokku railroadconstruction project on 6 November.

After giving instructions on timelycompletion of the work, Maj-Gen Khin Zaw viewedconstruction of the railroad with the use of heavymachinery.

On completion of Kyangin-Pakokku railroad,local people can travel from Pathein to Pakokku directly

and they can proceed from Pakokku to Gangaw andKalay, ChaungU, Monywa, YeU, KhinU andMyitkyina.

During the tour, Maj-Gen Khin Zaw lookedinto thriving cotton plantation in Natmauk Township.Later, they went back to Nay Pyi Taw through Natmauk-Pyawbwe road to Yangon-Mandalay Highway.

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YANGON, 9 Nov —Organized byGeneral Administration Department ofthe Ministry of Home Affairs, an on-jobtraining course No. 1/2008 for clerks ofGeneral Administration Departmentwho had completed their study fromNationalities Youth ResourceDevelopment Degree College

On-job training for GAD clerks concludesconcluded at AdministrationDevelopment Training School inMingaladon Township this morning.

Minister for Home Affairs Maj-Gen Maung Oo made a closing speech onthe occasion.

A total of 50 trainees attended theeight-week course.—MNA

Myanmar-Thai Boxing ChallengesAssociation General (Retd) LertratRatana Vanich, Thai Ambassador MrBansarn Bunnag and staff of the embassyand President of Myanmar TraditionalSports Federation U Win Myint.

In the competitions, seven 5-roundmatches for local and two 5- roundmatches for international were competed.

After the competitions, MinisterBrig-Gen Thura Aye Myint and PresidentU Win Myint presented rewards andprizes to the winners.—MNA

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends opening …(from page 1)

General Thein Sein of theUnion of Myanmar uponhis arrival at the NationalConvention Centre of Ha-noi at 8.55 a.m.

Similarly, the Viet-namese Prime Ministerwelcomed CambodianPrime Minister SanadechHun Sen, Laotian PrimeMinister Mr BouasoneBouphavanh and ThaiPrime Minister SomchaiWongsawat.

Next, Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein of theUnion of Myanmar posedfor a documentary phototogether with CambodianPrime Minister SamdechHun Sen, Laotian PrimeMinister Mr BouasoneBouphavanh, Thai PrimeMinister Somchai

The leaders from Cam-bodia, Laos, Myanmarand Thailand signed theBagan Declaration. Unityamong the ACMECSmember countries, mu-tual respect and friend-ship, good neighborlinessand active cooperation areexpressed in the BaganDeclaration. The mainaims of economic coop-eration strategy startedfrom the Bagan Declara-tion are to raise competi-tiveness among membercountries, to ensure de-velopment in border ar-eas, to develop in agri-culture and industry sec-tors, to create more jobopportunities, to reduceof income gap, and to takemeasures for peace, sta-bility and prosperity in

human resources that arefive areas included inACMECS, commonprojects and bilateralprojects had been drawnand are being imple-mented.

As the private sectorplays an important rolein ACMECS economiccooperation, economiccouncils were formed bythe countries concernedin order to encourage theprivate sector, he said.He acknowledged the ac-tive participation of eco-nomic councils in theACMECS work pro-grammes.

At present, Myanmaris taking part in 33 com-mon projects and bilateral67 projects that include inACMECS cooperationstrategy.

The common projectsand bilateral projects in-cluded in ACMECS co-operation strategy are tobe assessed in order to con-tribute to ensuring long-term development of theregion in future and not tolose common objectives.Only then, will the effec-tive and efficient coopera-tion be possible.

The topics discussedin the third summit are the

Prime Minister General Thein Seinback from Hanoi of Vietnam

Wongsawat and Vietnam-ese Prime Minister MrNguyen Tan Dung.

Afterwards, the open-ing ceremony of the 3rd

A y e y a w a d y - C h a oPhraya-Mekong Eco-nomic Cooperation Strat-egy Summit (ACMECS)commenced with an open-ing address by Vietnam-ese Prime Minister MrNguyen Tan Dung. Cam-bodian Prime MinisterSamdech Hun Sen andLaotian Prime MinisterMr BouasoneBouphavanh also madespeeches.

Next, Prime Minis-ter General Thein Seinmade a speech on the oc-casion, saying that thefirst ACMECS summitwas hosted in Myanmar.

the region. He also saidthat with the aim of en-suring smooth flow tradeand investment, coopera-tion in agriculture and in-dustries, transportationlinks, tourism coopera-tion and development of

ones related to challengesmany nations are facingand the important sectorsthat are indispensable forregional integration.

As ACMECS nationsmainly rely on agriculture,cooperation in the agri-culture sector is to be madefor ensuring food security,he stressed.

In the meantime, theyare to step up cooperationin seeking ways and meansfor exploration of alterna-tive-fuel as well as for pro-duction of bio-fuel.

Individual or in group,nations are to redoubletheir efforts to fulfill therequirement of ACMECSnations and to successfulyimplement the ACMECSwork programmes, he dis-closed.

Under the influence ofclimate changes there haveoccurred natural disasterssuch as storms, floods andearthquakes. Therefore, allthe nations in the regionare required to strive to-gether in the event of suchnatural disasters.

Next, the Thai PrimeMinister made a speechon the occasion and thenthe opening ceremony ofthe ACMECS summitcame to a close.—MNA

As ACMECS nations mainly rely on agricul-

ture, cooperation in the agriculture sector is to

be made for ensuring food security.

NAY PYI TAW, 9Nov—Accompanied byMinister for Foreign Af-fairs U Nyan Win, Minis-ter for National Planningand Economic Develop-ment U Soe Tha, Direc-tor-General Col ThantShin of the GovernmentOffice, departmentalheads, Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein left

Hanoi Daewoo Hotel inHanoi for Noiboi Interna-tional Airport at 2.30 p.mVST yesterday.

The Prime Ministerwas seen off at the airportby Myanmar AmbassadorU Aung Thein and wife,Military Attaché Brig-Gen Than Aung and wife,Military Attaché Col TinTun Aye and wife, em-

bassy families and Viet-namese Minister of Infor-mation and Communica-tions Mr Le Doam Hop.

A Vietnamese girl pre-sented bouquet to the PrimeMinister. The special air-craft carrying the Prime Min-ister and party left NoiboiInternational Airport at 2.30pm VST and arrived backhere at 3.50 pm.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein and prime ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand andVietnam pose for documentary photo at the opening ceremony of the 3rd Ayeyawady-Chao

Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy Summit.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein being seen off by VietnameseMinister of Information and Communications Mr Le Doam Hop at

Noiboi International Airport.—MNA

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends the 3rd Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation StrategySummit at National Convention Centre in Hanoi.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein visits feedstuff factory of National Institute of Animal Sciences in Hanoi.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9Nov—Prime Minister ofthe Union of MyanmarGeneral Thein Seinattended the 3rd Summitof Ayeyawady-ChaoP h r a y a - M e k o n gEconomic CooperationStrategy (ACMECS) atRoom 339 of NationalConvention Centre inHanoi of Vietnam at 9.45a.m on 7 November.

Also present at thesummit were CambodianPrime Minister SamdechHun Sen, LaotianPrime Minister MrBouasone Bouphavanh,Thai Prime Minister MrSomchai Wongsawat,Vietnamese Prime MinisterMr Nguyen Tan Dung,Minister for Foreign AffairsU Nyan Win, Minister forNational Planning andEconomic Development USoe Tha, Director-GeneralCol Thant Shin of theGovernment Office,departmental heads,ministers and high rankingofficials of Cambodia,Laos, Thailand andVietnam.

Cambodian PrimeMinister Samdech HunSen and Prime Minister

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends 3rd Summit of ACMECS

Mr BouasoneBouphavanh of Lao PDRdiscussed progress ofcooperation betweenACMECS membercountries and future tasks.

Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Seinparticipated in discussionson reviewing thecooperation of ACMECSand future tasks.

Thai Prime Minister

Mr Somchai Wongsawatdiscussed improvementof cooperation and futureprospects of ACMECScooperation.

At the summit,Vietnamese PrimeMinister Mr Nguyen TanDung and Prime Ministersof ACMECS membercountries focused on therole of private sector foreffective implementation

of ACMECS membercountries’ cooperation,uplift of the role ofACMECS EconomicCouncil, establishment ofthe Working Group onenvironmental cooper-ation, participation ofACMECS in trade andinvestment at borderregions, cooperation inagriculture, industry,energy, transport, human

resources, tourism, publichealth and vital part ofenvironmental con-servation. They exchangedviews on organizing the 4th

Summit of the ACMECS.They approved thedeclaration of the 3rd

Summit of the ACMECS.Next, they approvedCambodia to host the 4th

ACMECS Summit in2010.

The 3rd Summit ofAyeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong EconomicCooperation Strategy(ACMECS) concluded at11 a.m with an address byVietnamese Prime MinisterMr Nguyen Tan Dung.

Later, the PrimeMinisters had lunchtogether at Room 243 ofthe National ConventionCentre.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9Nov—Prime Minister ofthe Union of MyanmarGeneral Thein Sein,together with Ministerfor Foreign Affairs UNyan Win, Minister forNational Planning andEconomic Development

Prime Minister General Thein Sein visits National Institute of Animal Sciences in HanoiU Soe Tha, Director-General Col Thant Shinof the GovernmentOffice, departmentalheads, MyanmarAmbassador to VietnamU Aung Thein andofficials, arrived at theNational Institute of

Animal Sciences in TuLiem District of Hanoi,Vietnam, at 8 a.myesterday.

At the hall of theinstitute, DeputyMinister of Agricultureand Rural RegionDevelopment Mr Vu Van

Tam extended greetings.Principal Dr Hoang

Van Tieu reported on thehistory and sections ofthe institute, livestockbreeding and ruraldevelopment tasks.

The Prime Ministerspoke words of thanks.

The principal replied tothe queries of the PrimeMinister on academic,management andresearch matters of theinstitute.

The VietnameseDeputy Ministerpresented books

published by the instituteto the Prime Minister.

Next, Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein andparty visited theFeedstuff Factory, theThuy Thuong PigResearch Centre and thepoultry farms.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 Nov—Vietnamese Prime MinisterMr Nguyen Tan Dung hosted a dinner in honour ofMyanmar delegation led by Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein together with ACMECS leaders and del-egation members at the Dinning Hall (109) of NationalConvention Centre in Hanoi at 7 p.m on 7 November.

NAY PYI TAW, 9Nov—Minister for For-eign Affairs U Nyan Win,who accompanied PrimeMinister General TheinSein, attended the Work-ing Dinner hosted to min-isters of foreign affairsfrom the ACMECS coun-tries at Hanoi DaewooHotel at 7 p.m on 5 No-

Prime Minister General Thein Seinattends dinner hosted by Vietnamese PM

There are lots of trade, investment and tourism…

It was also attended by Cambodian Prime MinisterSamdech Hun Sen, Laotian Prime Minister MrBouasone Bouphavanh, Prime Minister General TheinSein, Thai Prime Minister Mr Somchai Wongsawat,ministers, Myanmar Ambassador U Aung Thein, de-partmental heads and senior officers.

At the dinner, the Vietnamese Prime Ministerextended greetings and the Thai Prime Minister deliv-ered an address. During the dinner, Vietnamese cul-tural troupe entertained them with traditional songs.

Next, the Myanmar delegation led by the PrimeMinister went back to Hanoi Daewoo Hotel.—MNA

(from page 16)sector usually work to-gether to overcome diffi-culties and enjoy benefits,he noted.

In reviewing the situ-ation of trade and invest-ments among theACMECS countries andthe presentations ofACMECS business com-munities, Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein saidaccording to the presenta-tions of the private sectorin which efforts forsmooth flow of cross bor-der trade should be madein accord with the provi-sions included inASEAN-Mekong Sub-re-gion Frame Work andacross border trade agree-ment are found to be ap-propriate.

Responsible persons

nomic Corridor and estab-lishment of special eco-nomic zones along Thai-Myanmar Highway fortrade, investment and tour-ism in border regions ofACMECS countries arefound to be appropriate.However, as it is the mat-ter of great investment, themember countries need tocoordinate with eachother.

For the developmentof human resources, an ef-ficiency enhancementplan is to be drawn to con-duct vocational trainingcourses for those from theState and private sectors.As the matter of establish-ing a central unit for ex-tending foodstuff produc-tion businesses in order tofulfill the requirements offoodstuff production busi-

taken with a view to serv-ing long-term bilateral in-terest in accord with theACMECS economic strat-egy. The Prime Ministeradded that there are lots ofopportunities for trade,investment and tourismamong the ACMECSmember countries.

In the efforts for de-velopment of trade and in-vestments in the region,member countries are totake remedial measures ona coordinated basis for im-plementing the provisionsof AFTA and AEC in ac-cord with their existinglaws, rules and proce-dures.

He spoke of the needto promote cooperation inother priority sectors in-cluding trade and invest-ment among ACMECSmember nations and toprevent those nations fromputting pressure and con-trol of some nations ofeconomic power with

of two countries each areto coordinate matters tosign a banking systemagreement necessary forthe development of crossborder trade in the tradeand investment sector. Thematter of improving basiccultural tourism and bilat-eral cross border tourismservices is also found tobe appropriate. The factthat the tourists of the thirdcountry need a visa onlyto travel to ACMECScountries is right in termsof principle but there stillneed time and coordinatedefforts to practically im-plement the task.

The Prime Ministerwent on to say that thepresentations regardingthe importance of build-ing infrastructures, espe-cially East-West Eco-

nesses of the ACMECSregion is a necessary is-sue, there needs coordina-tion between the membernations.

Signing agreementson building of sister citiesin ACMECS countrieswill contribute to eco-nomic cooperation andborder region develop-ment. Out of the commonprojects to be imple-mented according toACMECS economic co-operation strategy, somecan be implemented si-multaneously by membernations. But it is not yetready for some projects tobe implemented simulta-neously by member na-tions concerned. So theprivate sector needs toknow that there are stillsome projects that are tobe undertaken by a nationby taking time. Bilateralprojects are to be under-

awareness.He said food suffi-

ciency and stability of foodprices is now a priorityissue in the region. Ex-change of technology,technical cooperation andmutual assistance are tobe undertaken throughunderstanding among thenations under theACMECS.

The summit will pro-mote trade and increaseinvestment, he said. theprivate sector on its part isto learn the government'spolicies and future tasksand the government canprovide requirements andsolve the difficulties.

Next, Prime Ministerof Thailand Mr SomchaiWongsawat spoke on thetasks of ACMECS eco-nomic forum.

Vietnamese PrimeMinister Mr Nguyen TanDung delivered a conclud-ing speech. The summitended at 4 p.m.—MNA

CLMV, ACMECS Foreign Ministers meetvember.

On 6 Novembermorning, Minister U NyanWin joined the CLMVForeign Affairs MinsitersMeeting and ACMECSForeign Affairs MinistersMeeting at National Con-vention Centre.

At the meetings, Min-isters for Foreign Affairs

reviewed the implemen-tation of the CLMV andACMECS cooperationplans and future tasks.

They approved thereports submitted from theCLMV and ACMECShigh-ranking officialsmeetings and the joint-declarations to be issuedat the summits.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein together with ACMECS leaders and delegation members attend the dinner hosted byVietnamese Prime Minister Mr Nguyen Tan Dung.—MNA

Minister U Nyan Win attends ACMECS Foreign Ministers Meeting atNational Convention Centre.—MNA

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BEIJING, 9 Nov— The World Health Organization(WHO) here on Saturday called for further promotionof traditional medicine and its integration into healthcare systems. WHO issued a “Beijing Declaration” atthe end of its congress on traditional medicine onSaturday, which recognized traditional medicine as“one of the resources of primary health care services toincrease availability and affordability”.

According to the declaration, “traditionalmedicine” covers a wide variety of therapies andpractices varying greatly from region to region.

It might also be referred to as “alternative orcomplementary medicine”.It said governments shouldformulate regulations and standards to ensureappropriate, safe and effective use of traditionalmedicine. “The knowledge of traditional medicine,treatments and practices should be respected, preserved,promoted and communicated widely and appropriatelybased on the circumstances in each country,” said thedeclaration.— MNA/Xinhua

Deutsche Post to shed thousands of US jobs

Deutsche Post deliverybikes are parked in

Hamburg, April 2008.German logistics giantDeutsche Post will onMonday announce

thousands of job losses inthe United States in thewake of heavy losses.

BERLIN, 9 Nov—German logistics giantDeutsche Post will onMonday announcethousands of job losses inthe United States in thewake of heavy losses, aGerman newspaperreported.

In its edition to appearMonday the FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung(FAZ) says that groupchief executive officerFrank Appel “cannot doother than announcemassive job cuts” whenhe presents third quarterresults that day.”

According to the FAZ,

“40,000 jobs are underthreat in the UnitedStates,” of which “20,000are directly linked toDeutsche Post and asmany again to the USpartners.”The paper saidthat within the group therewas talk of a “bloodbath”.

Deutsche Post hadalready revised down-wards its objectives for2008 and “assesses forthis year alone at 1.3billion dollars, or fivemillion dollars a day, theloss recorded in theUnited States,” the FAZsaid.

It said Appel “wants to

pull out of all thecommitments where hethinks the risks can nolonger be calculated andcosts no longercontrolled.”

His predecessor KlausZumwinkel had investedheavily in the UnitedStates but, said the FAZ,“the transatlanticadventure has failed.”

The group has beenhard hit by the economicslowdown in the USwhere it is represented by,among other activities, theexpress courier serviceDHL.

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WHO calls for further promotion oftraditional medicine

The photo taken recently, 2008 shows theKawadgarbo Peak, the highest peak of theMeili Snow Mountain with an altitude of6,740 meters in Deqin, southwest China’s

Yunnan Province.—INTERNET

Therapy helps some kick habit after heart attack

Rebels and pro-government militia

clashed for a secondsuccessive day in the

Democratic Republic ofCongo. Some 65,000

people have beendisplaced due to the

conflict, an estimatedtwo thirds of whom are

children.—INTERNET

KABUL, 9 Nov— Asuicid bomber on Sundayafternoon explodedhimself near a NATOconvoy patrolling inwestern Afghan provinceof Herat, killing twoSpainish soldiers on thespot, police spokesman inthe western region AbdulRauf Ahmadi said.

“It was around 12:30am local time(GMT 0800)when a suicide attacker

Suicide bombing hits NATO convoy,killing two in W Afghanistan

NEW YORK, 9 Nov—Cognitive behavioraltherapy (CBT) appears tohelp people who aredepressed after sufferinga heart attack to avoidsmoking cigarettes, butonly if they believe theyhave adequate socialsupport, new researchshows.

The findings suggestthat most smokers willneed more than CBT aloneto give up the habit after aheart attack, but they alsounderscore the value ofthis therapy in treatingdepression in people withheart disease, Dr MickeyTrockel of the StanfordUniversity School of

Medicine and colleaguesreport.

After a heart attack,smokers can substantiallyreduce their risk of dyingif they quit, the researchersnote in their study,published in the journalPsychosomatic Medicine.But people with heartdisease frequently suffer

from depression, whichcan make kicking the habitmore difficult.

Overall, the researchersfound, patients who hadCBT were no less likely toreport smoking than thosewho didnot receivetherapy.

But when they limitedtheir analysis to patientswho believed they hadadequate levels of socialsupport, therapy cut theirlikelihood of smoking by32 per cent.

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ZHUHAI (GUANGDONG),9 Nov— The 7th ChinaInternational Aviation andAerospace Exhibition,also known as AirshowChina, concluded hereSunday with deals of 102aircraft inked, theorganizer said.

Some 4 billion USdollars worth of deals weresigned at the six-day eventheld in the coastal city ofZhuhai in south China’sGuangdong Province, aspokesman with AirshowChina’s Organizing

China air show concludes with deals of102 aircraft inked

Committee said. Among the deals, the

Commercial AircraftCorp. of China (COMAC)will sell 25 ARJ21-700regional jets to GECommercial AviationServices of the UnitedStates. The deal is valuedat 5 billion yuan (733million U.S. dollars). Thefirst jet will be deliveredin 2013, with one permonth thereafter.

COMAC BoardChairman Zhang Qingweisaid it was the first time

Chinese-developed andmanufactured regional jetshave entered Westernairline markets.

Some 600 aviationbusinesses from 35countries and regionsattended the largest showof its kind in China, withmore than 60aircraft beingexhibited.

The event marked themaiden show of China’shome-built J-10 fighterand FBC-1 fighterbomber.

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driving an explosive-ladencar blew it up next to aconvoy of Spanish troopsin Qalai Rustam village ofAzizabad district killingtwo soldiers andwounding four othersincluding three soldiersand a passerby,” Ahmaditold Xinhua.

Earlier, AkramudinYamal, police chief ofwestern region, toldXinhua that the suicide

bombing left two Italiansoldiers dead and fourmore wounded.

“Three civilian nearbywere also wounded,” headded.

However, nocomment from ISAF isavailable so far while somemedia reports quotedSpanish Defence Ministryas saying that two soldiersfrom Spain martyred in theattack.—Internet

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Bank HolidayAll Banks will be

closed on 12th November(Wednesday) 2008, beingpublic holiday under theNegotiable InstrumentsAct.Central Bank of Myanmar

A youth playing a video game at an

arcade. A nine-year-old Japanese

boy drove a car alone for three

kilometres (two miles) to see his

grandmother, saying he was confi-

dent at the wheel after playing

video games, police said

on Friday.—INTERNET

A trishaw rider takes a nap in front of a giant Christ-mas tree outside a shopping mall in Singapore on 7Nov, 2008. Christmas may be more than a monthaway, but retailers in Singapore have already startedpreparing for the festive decorations.—INTERNET

Robot plays theflute better

than humansTOKYO, 9 Nov — Ro-

bots could soon be takingover the orchestra if thischap is anything to go by,and if they do they will bewearing snazzy hats too.

The robot flautist, orWF4IV as he likes to becalled (you know whatthese musical types arelike) is the latest creationfrom Waseda University.

He is able to play com-plex musical scores per-fectly and is even able toengage with the audiencegiving him what his crea-tors say is a human-likequality .—Internet

Early exposure to peanutsmay prevent allergy

NEW YORK, 9 Nov — Contrary to widespread rec-ommendations, the consumption of peanuts in infancyis associated with a low prevalence of peanut allergy,the results of a new study suggest.

“Our study findings raise the question of whetherearly introduction rather than avoidance of peanut ininfancy is the better strategy for the prevention of pea-nut allergy,” write researchers in the Journal of Al-lergy and Clinical Immunology.

In the UK, Australia and, until recently, the UnitedStates, guidelines have recommended that womenavoid peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding, andshould not introduce peanuts into their children’s di-ets during infancy, note Dr George Du Toit of King’sCollege London and colleagues.

The researchers analyzed the prevalence of peanutallergy and diet histories for 5,171 Jewish childrenfrom the UK and 5,615 Jewish children from Israel.

They found that children from the UK had a preva-lence of peanut allergy that was 10-fold higher thanthat of children from Israel — 1.85 percent versus 0.17percent.

“This difference is not accounted for by differencesin atopy,” the investigators write. Atopy is the inher-ited tendency to develop common allergic diseasessuch as eczema, hay fever or asthma.—Internet

Cod swim at a fish farm. Nine

fishermen were found guilty in a

Swedish court on Wednesday of

illegally fishing more than 100 tons

of cod in the Scandinavian country’s

largest ever poaching case.

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The aerial view photo taken on 6 Nov, 2008 shows the roads andvegetation are devastated by the landslides and mud-flows inChuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China’s YunnanProvince. Chuxiong is one of the worst-hit areas in the rain-trig-gered disasters that are known to have killed 40 people so far. Somevillages in Chuxiong were completely isolated after roads were cutoff by the landslides and mud-flows over the past 10 days.—INTERNET

UAE’S low-cost airline records34% growth in net profit

ABU DHABI, 9 Nov — Air Arabia, a low-cost air-line of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announcedon Saturday a net profit of 374 million dirhams (102million US dollars) for the first three quarters of2008, representing a growth of 34 per cent over thesame period last year.

According to a statement by Air Arabia, the air-line registered a turnover of 1.495 billion dirhamsin the first three quarters of this year, surging by68 per cent over 889 million dirhams in the 2007period.

In the first nine months of 2008, the airline alsorecorded a growth of 33 per cent in the number ofpassengers it served, which reached 2.6 million pas-sengers.

Launched in October 2003 and modeled afterleading American and European low-cost carriers,the Sharjah-based Air Arabia is the first and largestlow-cost carrier in the Middle East and NorthAfrica.

The airline is now carrying out an expansionstrategy to capitalize on the potential in NorthAfrica and Southern Europe.—MNA/Xinhua

Former Afghan presidentwarns of cultural invasion

New Yorkerstrying to save

historicTin Pan Alley

NEW YORK, 9 Nov —A group of New Yorkersis fighting to save TinPan Alley, the half-dozenrow houses where iconicAmerican songs wereborn.

The four-story, 19th-century buildings onManhattan’s West 28thStreet were home to pub-lishers of some of thecatchiest American tunesand lyrics — from “GodBless America” and“Take Me Out To TheBallgame” to “Give MyRegards to Broadway.”

The music of IrvingBerlin, Scott Joplin, FatsWaller, George M Cohanand other greats wasborn on Tin PanAlley.

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KABUL, 9 Nov — Aformer Afghan presidentBurhanudin Rabbani onSaturday expressed con-cern over what he de-scribed “ cultural inva-sion” in the conservativecountry and cautioned hiscountrymen against it.

The soft-spokenRabbani who owned Af-ghanistan seat at UN from1992 till the collapse ofTaleban regime in late2001, called on Afghans,particularly the youth,“not to allow any one toinvade your religious andnational values”.

“Our young generationare facing cultural inva-sion. They are invadedculturally to be deprived

of their religious and na-tional identity,” Rabbanitold a gathering of hun-dreds of people in Afghancapital of Kabul.

In the post-Taleban Af-ghanistan, media has beendeveloping rapidly asmore than 90 radios andover a dozen private tel-evision channels and ca-ble TVs are operationaland airing western filmsand Indian soap operas.

Religious leaders of-ten criticize governmentfor airing Indian serialsand western movies, say-ing the governmentbroadcasting such pro-grammes would promotevulgarity.

MNA/Xinhua

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Cash found in Ohio house’s wallsbecomes nightmare

Bionic hand makes inventions list

Local residents enjoy the traditional malecon (seafront) in Havana, asHurricane Paloma approaches the centre-east region of the country.

Dangerous Hurricane Paloma lashed the Cayman Islands on Saturday withwinds near 230 kilometres (145 miles) an hour on a collision course with

Cuba, where half a million people were evacuating.—INTERNET

LONDON, 9 Nov — Theworld’s first commerciallyavailable bionic hand hasbeen recognised as one ofthe top inventions of 2008.

The hand, developed byLivingston companyTouch Bionics, wasnamed alongside theSuper Hadron Collider inTime magazine’s top 50innovations.

It came in at 14th place,beating competition fromthe latest Mars Rover,designed to explore the redplanet.The hand took 20years to develop and hasfive separately workingfingers.

This makes it moreversatile than previoushands, which have oftenbeen hook-like and limitedto simple opening andclosing movements.

The i-limb hand has amuch wider range ofcapabilities. It has a credit-card grip, for taking holdof narrow objects, and apower hold for largerobjects such as mugs.

It is made of high-strength plastics, and thefingers can easily beunscrewed from the hand,making it easy to service.

Other prosthetic handshave to be removed

entirely if they breakmeaning amputees aresometimes left for weekswithout a hand while theywait for a repair.

More than 400 patientshave now been fitted withthe i-limb hand since itslaunch.Touch Bionicschief executive StuartMead hailed the re-cognition as a “tremen-dous achieve-ment”.Hesaid: “We are delighted tohave been identified byTime as one of theinventions of the year, areal honour for anyinnovative company.”

Internet

In this undated handout photo releasedby Bob Kitts, contractor Kitts, left, andhomeowner Amanda Reece pose with

money found at Reece’s home inCleveland. — INTERNET

CLEVEAND, 9 Nov — A contractor whofound $182,000 in Depression-eracurrency hidden in a bathroom wall hasended up with only a few thousanddollars, but he feels some vindication.

The windfall discovery amounted tolittle more than grief for contractor Bob

Kitts, who couldn’t agree on how to splitthe money with homeowner AmandaReece.

It didn’t help Reece much, either. Shetestified in a deposition that she wasconsidering bankruptcy and that a bankrecently foreclosed on one of herproperties.

And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne—the wealthy businessman who stashedthe money that was minted in a time ofbank collapses and joblessness—willeach get a mere fraction of the find.

“If these two individuals had sat downand resolved their disputes and dividedthe money, the heirs would have had noknowledge of it,” said attorney GidMarcinkevicius, who represents theDunne estate. “Because they were notable to sit down and divide it in a rationalway, they both lost.”—Internet

Brain scans show bullies enjoy others’ pain Digital albums now offer liner notes, lyricsDENVER, 9 Nov — CDs

come with booklets filledwith liner notes, lyrics,photos and more. But adigital album or singlecomes with bupkis —an omission that startedat the dawn of down-loadable music.

Now technology hasbrought a solution:downloadable artist-branded applications for

cell phones and handheldmedia players. And thefirst of these work on —not surprisingly —Apple’s iPhone.Beforethe December 16 releaseof Fall Out Boy’s “Foliea Deux,” the band willrelease an iPhone app thatat first blush looks likeits Web site.It’s actuallymore than that — it’sbasically an interactiveCD booklet, one that’sfar more advanced thanthe PDF files that somelabels have included withalbums from iTunes.

The Fall Out Boy appwill contain track listings,photos and lyrics from theband’s entire discographythat can be accesseddirectly from the iPhone,as well as links to buy itssongs from iTunes.

Perhaps best of all,they can be updatedautomatically.Just likeiTunes and InternetExplorer can receiveupdates that addfunctionality, Fall OutBoy will improve its appin the weeks to come.

Internet

CHICAGO , 9 Nov —Bullies may actually enjoythe pain they cause others,a new study using brainscans suggests.

The part of the brainassociated with rewardlights up when anaggressive teen watchesa video of someonehurting another person, butnot when a non-aggres-sive youth watches thesame clip, according to theUniversity of Chicagostudy, published in thecurrent BiologicalPsychology.

“Aggressive ado-lescents showed a specificand very strong activationof the amygdala andventral striatum (an areathat responds to feelingrewarded) when watching

pain inflicted on others,which suggested that theyenjoyed watching pain,”researcher Jean Decety, aprofessor in psychologyand psychiatry at theUniversity of Chicago,said in a university newsrelease.

“Unlike the controlgroup, the youth withconduct disorder did notactivate the area of thebrain involved in self-regulation (the medialprefrontal cortex andthe temporoparietaljunction).”

The study comparedeight 16- to 18-year-oldboys with an aggressiveconduct disorder to agroup that didn’t showunusual signs ofaggression.

All participantsunderwent functionalmagnetic resonanceimaging (FMRI) whilewatching videos in whichpeople endured painaccidentally, such as whena heavy bowl was droppedon their hands, andintentionally, such aswhen a person stepped onanother’s foot.

Internet

File photo shows models on display in a

showroom of Korean Air at its headquarters in

Seoul. South Korea has its first female civil

pilots after two women passed a state test,

officials said on Wednesday.—INTERNET

A woman displaced by fighting sits with her twochildren at a feeding centre in the Don Bosco

Shelter near the city of Goma in eastern Congo,recently, 2008.—INTERNET

Pakistan arrests Forex Co Chief over dollar transferISLAMABAD, 9 Nov—

The Pakistani investi-gation agency on Saturdayarrested the chief of thecountry’s largest foreignexchange company oncharges of illegal transferof billions of US dollarsabroad, a move taken at atime when the country isfacing balance of paymentcrisis.

Munaf Kalia, ChiefExecutive Officer ofKhanani and KaliaInternational (KKI),leading exchange companyin Pakistan, had beenarrested and was beinginterrogated, said TariqPervez, chief of the FederalInvestigation Agency(FIA). Munaf Kalia’s

partner and three otherforeign exchange dealersfrom the port city of Karachiand eastern city of Lahorewere also arrested, the NewsNetwork International

(NNI) news agency said.Pervez said the arrests weremade following aninvestigation conducted byintelligence agencies andthe FIA.—MNA/Xinhua

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United beaten by Arsenal

Arsenal’s striker NicklasBendtner (right) is

challenged by Manches-ter United’s defenderPatrice Evra during a

Premier League matchat the Emirates Stadiumin north London. Arse-nal roared back into the

Premier League titlerace with a 2-1 win.

INTERNET

Sparks fly from the car of Scott Wimmer, top, as hegets passed by Kyle Busch during the NASCAR

Nationwide Series Hefty Odor Block 200 atPhoenix International Raceway on 8 Nov, 2008

in Avondale, Ariz.—INTERNET

Liverpool’s Robbie Keane celebrates after scoringduring their English Premier League matchagainst West Bromwich Albion in Liverpool,

on 8 Nov, 2008. —INTERNET

Wilson takes lead in Shanghaiand heads back out

SHANGHAI, 9 Nov — Britain’s Oliver Wilson held aone-stroke lead after the third round of the HSBCChampions on Sunday before heading straight backout to start his final round at the rain-disrupted tour-nament.

Wilson, who made his Ryder Cup debut this yearbut is still seeking his first European tour title, hit fourbirdies and a bogey in windy conditions for a three-under-par 69 to move to 12 under.

Australian former U.S. Open champion GeoffOgilvy was in second after carding a 70 to move to 11under, a stroke ahead of Sergio Garcia, defendingchampion Phil Mickelson and Swede Henrik Stenson.

After losing all of Friday and three hours of Satur-day to wet weather, the players will play as many holesas possible in their fourth rounds on Sunday afternoonbefore returning to finish the $5 million tournamenton Monday morning.—Internet

Russian tennis playerVera Zvonareva returnsthe ball to compatriotElena Dementieva dur-ing their semi-finals ten-nis match in the season-ending WTA Champion-ships in Doha. Zvona-reva, who has never wona major title, overcameDementieva 7-6, (9/7),3-6, 6-3 - only the secondtime in six attempts thatshe has beaten her better

known compatriot.INTERNET

Venus to face Zvonarevain Doha final

DOHA, 9 Nov — VenusWilliams will play VeraZvonareva in the final ofthe WTA Championshipsafter both women

achieved difficult three-set victories on Saturday.

Wimbledon championWilliams overcame Ser-bian world number oneJelena Jankovic 6-2 2-6 6-3, and Zvonareva beat fel-low Russian ElenaDementieva 7-6 3-6 6-3.

The match betweenWilliams and Jankovicproduced high-qualityrallies as both players de-fended well but attackedat every opportunity.

Jankovic made a slowstart and produced numer-ous errors, while herAmerican opponent’sstrong forehand helpedher to break twice to lead4-1.Jankovic raised hergame and, although it wastoo late to save the firstset, she took the second.

The final set was themost closely contested,with Williams breakingfor 2-1 and then fightingoff five break points tohold for 4-2.

Internet

LONDON, 9 Nov —Frenchman Samir Nasristung champions Man-chester United with twogoals at the Emirates Sta-dium on Saturday as Ar-senal secured a deserved2-1 victory to reignitetheir Premier League titlechallenge.

Arsenal survived anearly storm in a magnifi-cent free-flowing gamebefore the inspired Nasristruck in each half to liftthe Gunners above Unitedinto third place.

Substitute Rafael’s latevolley for United couldnot prevent a secondleague defeat of the sea-son. More worryingly,United have now takenjust one point from their

clashes with title rivals Arsenal, Liverpool and Chel-sea this season.

United remain on 21 points and Arsenal have 23from 12 games, six behind leaders Liverpool who en-joyed a routine 3-0 victory over West BromwichAlbion courtesy of Robbie Keane’s first league goalsfor the club and a late Alvaro Arbeloa strike.—Internet

Aston Villa 1 - 2 MiddlesbroughBlackburn 0 - 2 ChelseaFulham 2 - 1 NewcastleManchester City 1 - 2 Tottenham

Blackburn Rover’s Danny Simpson (L) challengesChelsea’s Alex during their English Premier

League soccer match at Ewood Park in Blackburnon 9 Nov, 2008. —INTERNET

Calzaghe dominates Jones to remainunbeaten in New York boxing showdownNEW YORK, 9 Nov — Undefeated Welshman Joe

Calzaghe recovered from a first-round knockdown andpummeled Roy Jones jnr until the final bell Saturday toearn a a unanimous 12-round decision in a light heavy-weight showdown at Madison Square Garden.

All three judges scored the fight 118-109 in favor ofCalzaghe, who improved to 46-0 with 32 knockouts.

US legend Jones saw his three-fight winning streaksnapped as he fell to 52-5 with 38 wins inside the dis-tance. Jones knocked down Calzaghe in the first roundwith a right hand. But Calzaghe responded to dominateuntil the final bell.—Internet

Welshman Joe Calzaghe stands inside the ringprior to his light heavyweight showdown with RoyJones jnr of the US at Madison Square Garden,

on 8 Nov, in New York.—INTERNET

Ronaldo is worthy heir toBallon d’Or, says Kaka

ROME, 9 Nov — Cristiano Ronaldo deserves to suc-ceed Kaka as the Ballon d’Or winner but he also warnedthe Manchester United winger that he is determined tohelp Brazil beat his Portugal team this month.

Ronaldo is strong favourite to take both the 2008Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awardsafter inspiring Manchester United to the ChampionsLeague and Premier League double last season.

“The match is important for me because we’ll playat a stadium that’s a few paces from where I was born,”the AC Milan playmaker told Saturday’s La Gazzettadello Sport referring to the friendly in Brasilia on 19November.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been fairly widespread in Mon State, isolated inKayin States and Taninthayi Division and weather hasbeen partly cloudy in the remaining States and Divisions.Night temperatures were (3˚C) to (4˚C) below Novemberaverage temperatures in Kachin State, lower Sagaing,Mandalay, Bago and Yangon Divisions, (6˚C)belowNovember average temperatures in Rakhine State,(8˚C) below November average temperatures in ChinState and upper Sagaing Division, (3˚C) above Novem-ber average temperatures in Mon State and about No-vember average temperatures in the remaining areas.Thesignificant night temperatures were Hakha (0˚C). Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Thaton(0.86) inch, Ye (0.39) inch and Myeik (0.20) inch.

Maximum temperature on 8-11-2008 was 93˚F.Minimum temperature on 9-11-2008 was 68˚F. Relativehumidity at (09 :30) hours MST on 9-11-2008 was 84%.Total sunshine hours on 8-11-2008 was (10.2) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 9-11-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (110.31) inches at Mingaladon,(120.95) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (140.94) inches at Central Yangon. Maxi-mum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6) mphfrom North at (9:30) hours MST on 8-11-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is fair in the North Bay andpartly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and elsewhere in theBay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 10th November2008: Rain or thundershowers are likely to be scatteredin Mon State and Taninthayi Division, isolated in KayinState and Yangon Division and weather will be partlycloudy in the remaining States and Divisions. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Strong easterly wind with moderateto rough seas are likely at time Gulf of Mottama, off andalong Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed in strongwind may reach (35) to (40) mph. Seas will be slight tomoderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofrain or thundershowers in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 10-11-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for10-11-2008: Possibility of isolated rain or thundershow-ers. Degree of certainty is (40%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 10-11-2008: Partly cloudy.

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DHAKA, 9 Nov—Every year, about 110,000 childrenunder the age of five die of water borne diseases inBangladesh due to lack of sanitation, leading Englishnewspaper The Daily Star reported on Sunday.

According to official health statistics, 65 millionchildren under five in the country are affected by waterborne diseases because of lack of sanitation annually,the newspaper said.

The UN sources said under the global scenario ofurbanization and population growth are threateningone of the UN’s most ambitious millenniumdevelopment goals.

The UN had hoped to halve the number of peoplewithout access to clean drinking water and sanitationby 2015.

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Some 110,000 children die ofwater borne diseases in B’desh

Obama’s victory shows non-white voters’ growing power

LOS ANGELES, 9 Nov—President-elect BarackObama owed his success to tremendous support fromAfrican Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans,according to CNN’s latest exit polls. While Obamaattracted more support from white voters than didSenator John Kerry in 2004, he garnered just 43 percent of the white vote while drawing almost all blackvoters and two out of three Asian and Latino voters,said the polls, published on Saturday.

The data are still preliminary — and will remain sofor months — but early analysis suggests that theAfrican American share of the electorate grew from 11per cent in 2004 to 13 per cent this year. Over thatperiod, the Latino share grew to 9 per cent from 8 percent — and the number of Latino voters was up by asmuch as a third. Asian Americans’ share of the voteheld steady at just over 2 per cent, but their numberlikely also grew, the polls showed.

MNA/XinhuaIsraeli army detonates

explosive devices in S-GazaJERUSALEM, 9 Nov—Israel Defence Forces (IDF)

operated in southern Gaza early Saturday, detonatingtwo explosive devices on the Palestinian side of theborder fence between Israel and the coastal enclave, anIDF spokeswoman said.

Earlier Saturday, Palestinians said that the IDF,operating in the southern part of the Gaza Strip nearKhan Younis, infiltrated far beyond the border fenceand injured four Palestinians, apparently by shooting,said local daily Yedioth Ahronoth.

The IDF spokeswoman told Xinhua by phone thatthere was no shooting, Israeli troops detonated thedevices in a controlled manner with no reportedcasualties.

During the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, 20explosive devices were uncovered along the borderfence, said Yedioth Ahronoth, adding that nine rocketswere fired at Israeli towns on Friday following an IDFoperation to detonate a tunnel.

MNA/Xinhua

A mother and her children pass by a NationalCongress for People’s Defence (CNDP) fighter as

civilians stream from Kiwanja to Rutshuru toescape what they said were attacks by pro-

government Mai-Mai militiamen in the area,recently, 2008, in the Democratic Republic of

Congo.—INTERNET

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 Nov –Prime Minister of the Un-ion of Myanmar GeneralThein Sein attended ameeting betweenACMECS leaders andbusiness communitiesheld at Room No. 318 ofthe National ConventionCentre in Hanoi at 2 p.mon 7 November.

The meeting was at-tended by Prime Ministerof Cambodia SamdechHun Sen, Prime Ministerof the Lao People’s Demo-cratic Republic MrBouasone Bouphavanh,Prime Minister of Thai-land Mr SomchaiWongsawat, Prime Min-ister of the Socialist Re-public of Vietnam MrNguyen Tan Dung, Min-ister for Foreign Affairsof Myanmar U Nyan Win,Minister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,Myanmar Ambassador toVietnam U Aung Thein,Director-General of theGovernment Office ColThant Shin, departmentalheads, Ministers of For-eign Affairs and high-ranking officials of Cam-bodia, Laos, Thailand andVietnam, private entrepre-neurs led by Vice-Presi-dent of Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambersof Commerce and Indus-try U Win Aung and busi-ness communities ofACMECS member coun-tries.

There are lots of trade, investment and tourismopportunities among ACMECS member countriesPrime Minister General Thein Sein addresses meetingbetween ACMECS leaders and business communities

First, the VietnamesePrime Minister deliveredan opening speech. Vice-Chairman of VietnameseAssociation of Chambersof Commerce and Indus-try Mr Hoang Van Dungand Representatives ofassociations of chambersof commerce and indus-try of Cambodia and Laosdiscussed work pro-grammes of ACMECS

ters related to smooth flowof trade and investment,development of humanresources, development oftrade and trade links byestablishing wholesalemarkets in CLMV coun-tries, establishment ofbanking systems by thegovernments in order toenable traders to carry outtheir work smoothly asthere has been rapid

progress in cross bordertrade, transit trade andborder trade among theACMECS countries,awarding scholarshipsannually and increasingthe number of candidatesfor undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoralcourses and the impor-tance of emergence ofdeep sea ports in coastalareas of Bay of Bengal,western part of East-WestEconomic Corridor.

Next, the representa-tive of Thai Associationof Chambers of Com-

merce and Industry dis-cussed work programmesof ACMECS Business

Forum. The Prime Minis-ters of Cambodia and Laosreviewed the work pro-grammes of ACMECSBusiness Forum.

Regarding the workprogrammes of ACMECSBusiness Forum, PrimeMinister General TheinSein said the meeting be-tween the leaders of mem-ber countries and businesscommunities at theACMECS Summit tookplace for the second timenow. It is an important planfor realizing the objectivesof economic cooperation

strategies laid down at theFirst ACMECS Summitin 2003 and implement-

ing the agreements of theSecond ACMECS Sum-mit in 2005.

The Bagan Declara-tion singed by the leadersof four member countriesat the First ACMECSSummit held in Bagan,Myanmar, in 2003adopted four objectives ofeconomic cooperationstrategies.

The Prime Ministersaid private sectors of thecountries need to contrib-ute towards the success-ful realization of theseobjectives. Now,

ACMECS member coun-tries have formed theirbusiness councils and a

joint business council hasalso been formed.ACMECS BusinessCouncil should work moreclosely together withASEAN for the develop-ment of ASEAN’s eco-nomic sector. As encour-aging the private sector todevelop is key to the de-velopment of a nation,there must be cooperationbetween the State sectorand the private sector. Inan individual country orin the region, the Statesector and the private (See page 10)

As encouraging theprivate sector to develop iskey to the development of anation, there must be coop-eration between the Statesector and the privatesector.

For the development of human re-sources, an efficiency enhancement planis to be drawn to conduct vocational train-ing courses for those from the State andprivate sectors.

business forum. Chairmanof ACMECS BusinessCouncil of Myanmar UWin Aung discussed mat-

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends a meeting between ACMECS leaders and business communities at RoomNo. 318 of National Convention Centre in Hanoi.—MNA

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