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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

Established 1914

NAY PYI TAW, 27 Dec—PrimeMinister of the Union of MyanmarGeneral Thein Sein received Am-bassador of the People’s Republic ofChina to the Union of Myanmar Mr.Guan Mu, who had completed histour of duty, at Zeyathiri Beikmanon Konmyinttha in Yangon at 3 p.m.yesterday.

Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein receives

Chinese Ambassador

Also present at the call wereDeputy Minister for Foreign AffairsU Kyaw Thu, Director-General ColThant Shin of the Government Of-fice and Director-General U KyawKyaw of the Protocol Departmentunder the Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs.

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Prime Minister General

Thein Sein receives Chinese

Ambassador Mr. Guan Mu,

who has completed his tour

of duty, at Zeyathiri

Beikman on Konmyinttha.

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Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein shakes handswith Chinese Ambassador

Mr. Guan Mu, who hascompleted his tour of duty,at Zeyathiri Beikman on

Konmyinttha.MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 28 December, 2008

Sunday, 28 December, 2008

The Graduation Parade of the 10th Intake ofDefence Services Medical Academy took place atthe parade ground of DSMA in Yangon the otherday, with an address by Commander-in-Chief ofDefence Services Senior General Than Shwe.

In his speech, the Senior General said, “I wouldlike to urge you to try your best to become reliableand responsible medical officers with mental andphysical prowess; to make a constant study ofmodern wars from military and medical points ofviews and to improve your military skills to bealways ready to carry out national defence duties ifnecessary; and to consolidate national cohesion bydoing your bit with heart and soul in public healthcare in the regions where you are posted.”

Being members of medical corps, the newly-graduated officers will have to take disease controlmeasures and give educative talks apart frommedical service in order to help every servicemankeep healthy and fit and be ready to engage incombats.

It is also compulsory for them to provide healthcare not only to servicemen and their families butalso to local people of the regions where they are inservice. In particular, they have to show greatgoodwill and kindness in giving treatment to localpeople in rural areas who make up the majority ofthe nation’s population in order that the latter canlead a healthy life.

Not to mention, newly-graduated medicalofficers are duty-bound to play whatever role theyare in national defence duties as they are alsoservicemen of Defence Services. They have to stayin touch with advancements in warfare, andeffectiveness of sophisticated weapons such aschemical and biological ones. Only then will it bepossible for them to avoid with military awarenessthe causes that are likely to sustain injuries andharm health and fitness of combat soldiers.

It is, therefore, believed that the newly-qualifiedmedical officers will be able to dedicate their livesto national defence duties and public health care,while undergoing constant training to improvephysical and mental calibres in conformity with thefine traditions of the Tatmadaw for they are medicaldoctors as well as triumphant elites.

Participate in public healthcare with might and main

* 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

Talks on Blue OceanStrategy 1 Jan

YANGON, 27 Dec—Myanmar HoteliersAssociation will organize the educative talks with thesponsorship of Silver View Resort (Ngwe Saung Beach)at Yuzana Hotel (Shwegondine), here, on 1 January2009.

Professor Dr. Aung Tun Thet will give talks onBlue Ocean Strategy. Anyone may attend the talks.The MHA will organize the talks on every Thursday inthe first week of month.—MNA

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Respects paid to 104teachers

YANGON, 27 Dec—Old students of YangonInstitute of Education Practising School who hadpassed matriculation examination in 1998 held aceremony to pay respects to the teachers at the schoolin Kamayut Township this morning.

Headmaster Dr. Nanda Tun gave a speech. Onbehalf of the teachers, Daw Khin May Yi and DawKhin Nwe Tint gave advice. Later, the old studentspaid respects to 104 teachers.—MNA

Mass walk inNay Pyi Taw

NAY PYI TAW, 27 Dec– A mass walk took place aspart of December masssports activities here thismorning. On behalf ofChairman of MyanmarOlympic CommitteeMinister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint,Deputy Director-General UThein Aung of Sports andPhysical EducationDepartment, officers andother ranks of ministriesconcerned and their familiesand local people totaling8257 took part in the walk.

They walked fromthe gathering point of NayPyi Taw Myoma Marketto Thabyaegonroundabout alongT a u n g d w i n g y i -Taungnyo-Nay Pyi Taw

Pyinmana Road and thenthey went back to thegathering point.

Next, they tookphysical exercisesvolumes I and II togetherwith staff of SPED.

Staff families of theMinistry of Sports and A1 Co served themrefreshments. – MNA

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Staff of the ministries, teachers, students andtownselders take part in mass walk.

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Co Ltd.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 28 December, 2008 3

Suicide bomber hits foreignforces in Afghanistan

HERAT (Afghanistan), 27 Dec — A suicide car bomber targeted a convoyof foreign troops on Friday in Afghanistan’s western Herat Province,wounding one US soldier and two Afghan civilians, a provincial officialsaid.

Violence has surged sharply this year in Afghanistan, the bloodiestperiod since the Taleban’s ouster in 2001, sparking fear the country mayslide back into anarchy despite the increasing numbers of foreign troops.

The attack hit the convoy as it was coming out of Herat’s airport, saidsecurity officer Qadir Agha, adding two vehicles in the convoy weredamaged.

Both NATO and the US-led troops operate in Herat which has faced anumber of attacks by the Taleban this year.

One Afghan woman was also wounded in the leg during the operation, itadded. The Taleban could not be reached for comment.

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An Afghan policeman stands next to a destroyed vehicle after a suicide car attackin Herat Province on 26 Dec, 2008. A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy offoreign troops on Friday in Afghanistan’s western Herat Province, wounding one US soldier and two Afghan civilians, a provincial official said.—INTERNET

Seventeen killed andseven injured in IraqBAGHDAD, 27 Dec—Seventeen Iraqis were killed

and seven injured Friday in continuing violence inIraq. In Ramadi, 14 people were dead after al-Qaedamilitants launched a pre-dawn breakout from a policestation in the city, triggering a shoot-out. Meanwhile,three were killed and three injured when a bombexploded in the Baladruz district in Baquba.

The Ramadi prison breakout attempt caused policeto impose a curfew in the city.

During an exchange of fire between prisoners tryingto escape and police officers in the station, sevenpolicemen and seven prisoners were killed, al-Arabiyanews channel quoted provincial police chief Tareq al-Dulaimi as saying.

Three prisoners managed to flee. However, one wasre-arrested, al- Dulaimi said.

He added that another four policemen were woundedin the shoot-out in the centre of Ramadi.

The predominantly Sunni Arab city of Ramadi,capital of Anbar Province, was a safe haven for al-Qaeda insurgents in Iraq following the US-led invasionof the country in 2003 and the toppling of former leaderSaddam Hussein. But since 2006, local Sunni tribesmen,backed by the US military, have fought al-Qaeda andmanaged to push them out of the region.—Internet

An Iraqi man inspects a damaged restaurantafter car bomb explosion in Shula, Baghdad,Iraq, on 25 Dec, 2008. The bombing outsidea restaurant frequented by police killed fourpeople and wounded 25 others in the Shiite

neighborhood of Shula.—INTERNET

Roadside bomb kills Canadiansoldier in Afghanistan

Army surgeon from NJ killedin Iraq

TRENTON (NJ), 27 Dec —The Department ofDefence reports a New Jersey doctor, who was a well-known trauma surgeon at the Hospital of the Universityof Pennsylvania , has been killed in Iraq.

In a statement issued Friday night, the DoD said42-year-old Maj John P Pryor of Moorestown diedChristmas Day when a mortar round hit near his livingquarters. He was serving with a forward surgical teamwith the Army’s 1st Medical Detachment, based inFort Totten, NY.

Pryor’s colleagues say they’re devastated by theloss of the New York City native, who was a marriedfather of three.

Pryor wrote of his experiences as a surgeonconfronting violence in Iraq and inner-city Philadelphiain articles published in The Philadelphia Inquirer andThe Washington Post.—Internet

US coalition says it kills11 Taleban in operationKABUL, 27 Dec — The US coalition said Friday its

forces killed 11 Taleban militants, including the leaderof a bomb-making cell, during an operation in southernAfghanistan.

The raid in Kandahar Province on Thursday targeteda bomb-maker responsible for roadside bomb attacksthat killed NATO soldiers, a coalition statement said.

Militants barricaded themselves inside a homeduring the raid and opened fire on the coalition forces.After giving time to allow women and children toleave, the coalition forces fired on the militants withguns and grenades, it said.

One woman who remained in the building waswounded in the leg. She was evacuated to a coalitionmedical facility, it said.

Coalition forces found dozens of land mines,grenades, AK-47s and bomb-making materials in thehome, the coalition said.

Overnight raids by elite Special Forces troops havebeen a sore point with some Afghans, includingPresident Hamid Karzai. Afghan officials say innocentcivilians are often wounded or killed during the riskyoperations.

Karzai last week attended a memorial ceremony forthree Afghans killed in an overnight raid in KhostProvince. Afghan officials said the three were innocentcivilians; the US coalition said they were militants orlinked to the insurgency.

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Residents gather at the site of a bomb attack inBaghdad's Shula district on 25 Dec, 2008.—INTERNET

OTTAWA, 27 Dec — ACanadian soldier waskilled and three otherswounded in Afghanistan’sKandahar region, bringingto 104 Canada’s death tollsince its military missionbegan there in 2002, theDefence Ministry saidFriday.

The soldier was killedwhen an improvisedexplosive device blew upclose to their vehicle inthe Zhari district, 24kilometres (15 miles) westof Kandahar city insouthern Afghanistan.

“The injured soldierswere evacuated byhelicopter to the Kandaharmilitary hospital and theyare reported to be in goodcondition,” armyspokesman Major Greg

Poehlmann told AFP.Three other Canadian

soldiers were killed inKandahar’s Arghandabdistrict on 13 December,also following a roadsidebomb.

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A worker injured by molten manganese receivestreatments in Renmin Hospital of Chengkou County,southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality on 26Dec, 2008. A molten manganese spilled out of anelectric furnace at the Taizheng ManganeseCompany in Chengkou County, killing 6 workers

and injuring other 12. —XINHUA

Pakistan redeploying troopsto Indian border

Suspiciouspowder sent to USembassy harmless

SEOUL, 27 Dec—Anofficial says a suspiciouswhite powder sent to theUS Embassy in the SouthKorean capital has beenfound to be harmless.

The embassy in Seoulreceived a packagecontaining the whitepowder earlier this week.

Hwang Hyun-soon ofthe Korea Centers forDisease Control andPrevention said Friday thattests showed the powderwas starch.

The FBI said last weekthat eight US embassiesin Europe received letterscontaining a white powderin what the agency calleda hoax. It said governorsin more than 40 US stateshad received similar lettersrecently.

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Workers assemble cars at the Lifan auto plant insouthwestern China’s municipality of Chongqing.China plans to offer incentives for car owners toscrap their old models in favour of new ones, in abid to lift the auto industry as it enters a period of

crisis, according to state media.—INTERNET

Workers are seen on the construction site of theWest Changjiang Road Tunnel in Shanghai, eastChina, on 26 Dec, 2008. The construction of theHuangpu-River-crossing tunnel started Friday.Designed to connect Shanghai’s Baoshan and

Pudong Districts, the principal part of the4912-metre-long (2803 meters for the tunnel itself)

and 6-track project will be completedby the end of 2011.—XINHUA

Palestinian rocket misfires,kills two girls in Gaza

Gazprom warns Europeon gas deliveries

MOSCOW, 27 Dec—Russian energy giant Gazpromwarned European clients Friday that its gas conflictwith Ukraine, conduit for European-bound gas fromRussia, could affect deliveries to Europe.

The warning came in a letter from Gazprom chiefAlexei Miller to the company’s European clients.

“Gazprom is doing everything possible to avoidany disruption of gas deliveries to Europe,” saidMiller in the letter cited by Interfax news agency.

“However, if events develop along an unfavourablescenario, the problem of Ukrainian transit will be acommon problem for Russia and Europe,” Millersaid.

Gazprom and Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftogazhave for the last weeks failed to agree a solution overunpaid debts in a conflict that comes amid increasingdiplomatic tensions between Moscow and Kiev.

“We consider that it’s our duty to warn (Europe)that we cannot be sure that transit obligations will berespected, seeing that Naftogaz is systematicallyslowing its contractual obligations,” Miller said inhis letter.—Internet

Malaysia ready to help economy further

ISLAMABAD, 27 Dec—Pakistan began movingthousands of troops from theAfghan border toward India,officials and witnesses saidFriday, raising tensionsbetween the nuclear-armedneighbours and possiblyundermining the US-backedcampaign against al-Qaeda

and the Taleban.The country also

announced that it wascanceling all military leavein the aftermath of lastmonth’s terror attack onthe Indian financial capitalof Mumbai.

India has blamedPakistani militants for the

terrifying three-day siege;Pakistan has demandedthat India back this up withbetter evidence.

Pakistan’s latest moveswere seen as a warning thatit would retaliate if Indialaunches air or missilestrikes against militanttargets on Pakistani soil —rather than as an indicationthat a fourth war wasimminent between the twocountries.

The United States hasbeen trying to ease theburgeoning crisis whilealso pressing Pakistan tocrack down on militantsWashington says werelikely responsible for theMumbai attack. The siegeleft 164 people dead aftergunmen targeted 10 sitesincluding two five-starhotels and a Jewish centre.

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GAZA CITY, 27 Dec—Acrude rocket fired byPalestinian militants fellshort of its target in Israelon Friday, striking a housein the northern GazaStrip and killing twoschoolgirls.

The attack came asIsrael sent mixed signalsover its plans to respondto continuing Palestinianrocket fire. Israeli defenceofficials say politicianshave approved a large-scale incursion into the

territory once rainyconditions clear.

But at the same time,Israel appeared receptiveto international pressureagainst an invasion,opening the Gaza borderFriday to allow indeliveries of humanitarianaid.

None of Gaza’s militantfactions claimed re-sponsibility for the deadlyattack on the house in BeitLahiya. Gaza HealthMinistry official DrMoiaya Hassanain said thetwo victims, ages 5 and12, were cousins. Threeother children werewounded, he said.

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KUALA LUMPUR, 27Dec—Malaysia is notexpected to sink intorecession and thegovernment is ready tofurther pump-prime theeconomy if conditionsworsen, a local news-paper quoted DeputyPrime Minister andFinance Minister NajibRazak as saying.

“Malaysia willexperience a slowdown interms of economicgrowth, but we are notexpected to slip intorecession or even atechnical recession,”Najib, who will becomeprime minister in March,

said in an interview withthe Edge Weekly onSaturday.

“I am not adverse toputting in place anotherfiscal stimulus plan,” hesaid.

“If the budget deficitgoes up to more than 5percent, it is still tolerableas long as it is for onlyone or two years.”

Malaysia’s economy isforecast to grow 3.5percent next year, itsslowest pace since 2001,from 5 percent projectedfor 2008, according togovernment forecasts.

The governmentalready announced thismonth a 7 billion ringgit($2.01 billion) stimuluspackage.—Internet

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China marks 115th birthday offormer leader Mao Zedong

The statue of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong is illuminated by lights andfireworks at Shaoshan, the hometown of Mao in central China’s Hunan

Province on 26 Dec, 2008, to mark the 115th birthday of the former Chineseleader.—XINHUA

SHAOSHAN, (Hunan),27 Dec — The newly in-augurated Mao ZedongSquare in his hometownof central Hunan Prov-ince was crowded withpeople Friday to mark the115th birthday of theformer Chinese leader.

Thousands of peoplegathered at the squarenear Mao’s birth place,Shaoshan Village, aftermidnight to cherish thememory of the “GreatHelmsman” who led thenation to found NewChina in 1949 and served

as top leader until he diedin 1976.

People paid tribute infront of Mao’s 10.1-me-ter-tall bronze statue —many presented bou-quets and some broughtbirthday cakes. Mostpeople hummed alongwhen “The East is Red”,a song in tribute of Mao,was played.

Mao’s grandson, MaoXinyu, was also in thecrowd to pay his tribute.

Nearly every Shao-shan villager had noo-dles for breakfast Friday,

a traditional Chinesefood to celebrate birth-days as people believelong noodles bring longlives.

“Chairman Mao is al-ways alive in our heartsand we eat his birthdaynoodles every year,” saidvillage official MaoYushi.

The local governmentset up six huge pots and20 tables outside its of-fice building Fridaymorning, offering freenoodles to passersby.

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Chinese FM talks with Indian,Pakistani counterparts over phone

Photo taken on 26 Dec, 2008 shows a huge construction site of the expansionproject of the two million-kw generating units in the Qinshan Nuclear Power

Plant in Haiyan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. The two new generatingunits are scheduled to be completed and put into operation by the year of

2013 and 2014 respectively. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 27 Dec —Chinese Foreign Minis-ter Yang Jiechi held tel-ephone conversations onThursday and Fridaywith his Indian and Pa-kistani counterparts,Pranab Mukherjee andShah MahmoodQureshi, respectively,pledging to push for-ward relations with thetwo South Asianneighbors in 2009.

During the conversa-tions, Yang and the twoministers spoke highlyof the sound develop-

ment of China-India andChina-Pakistan relationsin the outgoing year andvowed to make con-certed efforts in 2009 toscore new achievementsin bilateral relations.

The Chinese foreignminister also exchangedviews with Mukherjeeand Qureshi on lastmonth’s Mumbai terrorattacks and the securitysituation in South Asia.

Yang reiterated Chi-na’s strong condemna-tion of the attacks, not-ing that both India and

Pakistan have voicedtheir determination tocombat terrorism.

China hopes that Indiaand Pakistan, both im-portant neighbours ofChina, would bear inmind regional peace andstability, properly handlerelated issues throughdialogue and consulta-tions, and continue toimprove their relationsand to push forward thepeace process betweenthe two countries, Yangsaid.

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Israel reopens crossings to allowtruckloads of humanitarian supplies into Gaza

Pakistani President saysBhutto’s ideas still alive

A Palestinian worker

unloads fuel from

trucks at the Karni

crossing, south east of

Gaza City on the

border between Israel

and the Gaza Strip, on

26 Dec, 2008.

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JERUSALEM, 27 Dec —Israel reopened the bordercrossings with the GazaStrip on Friday, allowingtens of truckloads of hu-manitarian supplies intothe impoverished area, re-ported local news serviceYnet.The move, whichseems unusual as Israelnormally keeps the bordershut down as long as thebarrage continues, isprobably a tactical deci-sion, said Ynet.

Israeli sources werecited as saying its objec-tive is to allow some 1.5million Palestinians in thecoastal strip to lay in ba-sic necessities and thusmitigate the humanitariansituation during the pos-sible Israeli incursion.

Meanwhile, a convoyof Egyptian aid offered tothe Palestinians in the be-

sieged Gaza Strip alsoentered the costal enclaveon Friday, the officialMENA news agency re-ported.

The first batch of theaid, which was providedby the Egyptian Red Cres-cent Society, crossed intoGaza via the Israeli-con-trolled Kerem Shalom

crossing.After the arrival of this

batch of aid, includingmedical equipment, theremaining relief materialsare expected to reachGaza in the coming week,head of the societyMamdouh Gabr wasquoted as saying.

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ISLAMABAD, 27 Dec —Pakistani President AsifAli Zardari Saturday saidformer Prime Ministerand chairman of the Peo-ple’s Party BenazirBhutto’s ideas were stillalive.

In a message to the na-tion on the first death an-niversary of Bhutto,Zardari said “the tyrantsand the killers havekilled her but they shallnever be able to kill herideas that drove and in-spired a generation tolofty aims.”

“Benazir Bhutto willalways be rememberedas the leader who gavevoice to the muted turbu-lence of the spirit of a

vanquished people,” saidthe message.

“She gave voice to thevoiceless, strength to theweak and motivation tothe people to strive for agoal higher than life,”Zardari said in the mes-sage.

Zardari pointed outthat the attack on Bhuttowas actually an attack onthe viability of the stateand for undermining theefforts to build demo-cratic structures for fight-ing militancy. He urgeddemocratic forces torededicate themselves tofighting militancy andextremism by strengthen-ing democratic institu-tions.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

This unusual lamp, made out of plasticbottles, went on display at the St NicholasChurch in Wismar in northeasternGermany. Some 45 design students areshowing their works in the church overthe next two weeks. The lamps weredeveloped during a master program calledarchitectural lighting design and are allmade from waste or very cheap products.

Polar bear Wilb?r and his motherCorinna fight over the child-star’sbirthday cake in their enclosure atStuttgart Zoo. The block of ice filledwith fruit, vegetables and fish marksthe young bear’s first year of life.

Man eats 7 pounds of latkes to win NY contestThat’s a lot of latkes. A 23-year-old

mechanical engineering student hasdowned 46 of the potato pancakes in eightminutes to win a contest at a Long Islanddeli.

Pete Czerwinski (sir-WIN’-skee) sayshe'd never eaten a latke (lot-kuh) beforeconsuming about seven pounds of themSunday at Zan’s in Lake Grove. TheToronto bodybuilder says he’s just “apower eater” whose brain never signalsthat he’s full.

Association of IndependentCompetitive Eaters Chairman ArnieChapman says Czerwinski demolishedthe contest’s previous record of 31 latkes,set in 2006. Brooklyn college studentWill Millender took second place Sundaywith 29 latkes.

The pancakes are a traditional treat forHanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festivalof Lights. It started Sunday evening.

Girl charged for attemptedsuicide in Malaysia

A 16-year-old girl was charged in theCourt for Children in northern Malaysiawith attempting to commit suicide, localnewspapers reported on Thursday.

A 2,500 ringgit (about 695 US dollars)bail has been set for the teenager.

The teenager was alleged to havecommitted the offense at the hotelrooftop last month when she wasattempting to jump off the building inthe Terengganu State after a quarrelwith her boyfriend.

This was the first time that one wascharged with attempted suicide over thepast years, the New Straits Time said.

Local police said that the measurewas being taken to prevent suicides fromrising.

Stolen cake sparks bankdata alert in GermanyTwo couriers at a package distribution

centre stole a cake destined for a Germannewspaper and mailed in its place apackage of credit card data, prosecutorssaid Friday. The mix-up triggered analarm over lost bank customer details. Abatch of microfilmed data includingnames, addresses and card transactionsended up at the Frankfurter Rundschaudaily last week instead of the cake.Police advised credit card customers withLandesbank Berlin to check theiraccounts for inconsistencies.

But the incident turned out to be lesssinister than feared. Frankfurtprosecutors said that two couriers stole aStollen, a German-style Christmas cake,at a distribution centre in Mainz.

In an attempt to cover up the theft, themen instead sent one of several packagesof credit card billing details destined forLandesbank Berlin to the newspaper,the cake’s intended recipient.

Doris Moeller-Scheu, a spokesmanfor Frankfurt prosecutors, said thesuspected thieves didn’t open thepackage and “could not know what wasin it,” so no harm came to customers.

She said the two men had admitted tothe theft. Prosecutors did not name thecourier service involved or identify thetwo suspects.

Friendly camels :Camels gather in thedesert of Tozeur, nearthe town of Douz as

the 41th InternationalSahara festival

closed.—INTERNET

Blast in centralChina village

kills at least 13BEIJING, 27 Dec—An

explosion happened in avillage in China’s centralHenan Province early onSaturday, killing at least13 people and injuringfive others, the officialXinhua news agency said.

The blast, in Dong-gancheng village, hap-pened just after 1 am,Xinhua said, citing offi-cials with the local worksafety office.

Initial investigationsshowed that explosivesintended for civilian usehad gone off, Xinhua said.

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Oil above $37 on UAE supply cutand thin trade

Rock-thowing children woundUN peacekeeper in Darfur

Ex-Cambodian King fighting cancerPHNOM PENH, 27 Dec— Cambodia’s former King Norodom Sihanouk is fight-

ing his third bout with cancer but is optimistic he will recover and return to hishomeland from China, according to a message on his Web site.

The 86-year-old Sihanouk, in a statement dated Wednesday, said he was beingtreated by Chinese doctors in Beijing for lymphoma B cancer and would notreturn to Cambodia as planned in February.

Sihanouk, a dominant figure in Cambodian politics for six decades, abdicatedin 2004, citing poor health. He was succeeded by one of his sons, NorodomSihamoni, and has since spent much of his time in China.

In recent years, he has suffered from a number of ailments, including coloncancer, diabetes, hypertension and two strokes.

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NEW YORK, 27 Dec—Oil climbed in thin post-holiday trade on Fridayafter the United ArabEmirates said they willdeepen supply cuts in linewith OPEC’s biggest-everoutput cut announced lastweek and the dollar weak-ened against the euro.

US crude settled at$37.71 a barrel, up $2.36.London Brent rose $1.76to settle at $38.37.

The gains broke a nine-day stretch of losing ses-sions.

“The only positive news(for the market) ... camefrom the UAE,” OlivierJakob of Petromatrixwrote in a report. “For nowat least, Saudi Arabia andthe UAE seem to be fullycomplying with the cuts.”

Abu Dhabi National OilCo (ADNOC), the mainproducer in the UAE, theworld's fifth-largest oil ex-porter, said it would cut

February supplies ofMurban and Upper Zakumby 15 percent and LowerZakum and Umm Shaif by10 percent each.

A source with an Asianrefiner said the ADNOCcuts were more than ex-pected.

“ADNOC had alreadyallocated January vol-umes, but they reversedthe decision, so thatmesses up our schedule,”the source said. “For Feb-ruary, the reduction vol-umes are very large, so wemay need to adjust ourship loadings.”

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KHARTOUM, 27 Dec—Asoldier with the UN-ledpeacekeeping mission inSudan’s Darfur region wascritically wounded in arefugee camp after chil-dren pelted him withstones, the mission said onFriday.

“One soldier was criti-cally injured in theHamidiya near Zalingi inwestern Darfur,” the Afri-can Union-United Nationsmission (UNAMID) saidin a statement.

In November, a Nige-rian soldier was woundedafter gunmen armed with

rocket-propelled grenadesand assault rifles attackedUNAMID soldiers inDarfur. Eleven UNAMIDsoldiers have died sincethe mission launched op-erations on 31 Decemberlast year.

UNAMID is planned tobe the largest UN peace-keeping force in the worldwith an estimated strengthof 26,000. However onlyaround 9,078 soldiers and2,282 police have de-ployed so far. The missionalso still needs 24 helicop-ters so it can patrol the vastregion.—Internet

While others in Germany wereoverwhelmed with snow over theweekend, this kid in Berlin struggledto find enought snow for a decent-sized snowman. While more of thewhite stuff is on the way in the comingdays, temperatures are supposed to rise again by mid-week.

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NAY PYI TAW, 27 Dec – Minister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Saw Tun inspected condition of Kyaybinatdam detour on Shwebo-Myitkyina Road on 22December.

Next, the minister went to the worksite ofconstruction of Zawchaung bridge and attended to theneeds.

On 23 December, the minister looked intomaintenance of Thebyuchaung bridge on Shwebo-Myitkyina Road. Next, the minister inspected roadworks at the border of Kachin State on Shwebo-Myitkyina Road and fulfilled the requirements. – MNA

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YANGON, 27 Dec—The third ceremony to payrespects and get-together for 2008 of old studentswho graduated from Law Department of YangonUniversity from 1982 to 1988/91 was held atUniversities’ Dhammayon in Kamayut Townshipthis morning.

The old students paid respects to 51 old facultymembers.

On behalf of the old faculty members,Supreme Court Justice Dr. Tin Aung Aye andmember of Myanmar Academy of Arts and ScienceProfessor (Retd) Daw Than Nwe gave advice.Chairman of the organizing committee U Ba TintSwe spoke words of thanks. Treasurer of thecommittee Staff Officer Daw May Tun Tun Ayeexplained the financial report.

The first respect paying ceremony was heldat Diamond Jubilee Hall of Yangon University inJanuary 2003, the second ceremony at Universities’Dhammayon in January 2006, the third ceremony atthe same venue in December 2008. They decided toset up medical trust-funds for the old facultymembers.

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YANGON, 27 Dec – The 55th MedicalConference of Myanmar Medical Association willbe held at the hall of MMA from 14 to 20 January2009. Those wishing to attend the conference mayregister at MMA, No (249), Theinbyu Road, MingalaTaungnyunt Township during the office hoursstarting from 10 January.

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YANGON, 27 Dec – The 10th respect payingceremony of old students of Taunggyi College washeld at YMCA Hall here this morning.

Firstly, vocalists Nann Win, Hla Myint Win, YiYi Thant and Hnin Yi Thant presented a song writtenby Nann Win to mark the ceremony.

Taunggyi College alumni pay respectsto old teachers

Next, old students paid respects to 71 old teachersand the teachers gave advice.

Old students presented gifts to the teachers andthe ceremony came to an end after speaking words ofthanks by an old student.

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Respect paying ceremony of the old students of Taunggyi College in progress.MNA

All this needs to be known

* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated

* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered

* Do not be softened whenever appeased

Old law students payrespects to faculty

members YANGON, 27 Dec—Myanmar CricketFederation and No. 3Department of BasicEducation jointlyorganized the 3rd Inter-School CricketChallenge Shield 2008 atthe cricket trainingground in BahanTownship yesterdayafternoon.

After the finalmatches, MingalaTaungnyunt BEHS No. 4secured thechampionship shield andK 70,000, Latha BEHSNo. 1 the second prizeand K 40,000 and

Inter-School Cricket ChallengeShield concludes

President of MCF UNyunt Win presents

championship trophyto No.4 BEHS of

Mingala Taungnyunttownship.

MCF

Kyimyindine BEHS No.3 the third prize and K20,000 in the boys’event.

In the girls’ event,

Likewise, AyeNanda Lin of BahanBEHS No. 1 won theBest Bowler Award,Mya Htet Lay of AhlonBEHS No. 4, the BestBatsman Award and LinLin Tun of KyimyindineBEHS No. 3 the BestAll-Rounder Award.They were presented K5,000 each.

President ofMyanmar CricketFederation U NyuntWin, Deputy Director-General U Myo Myintof No. 3 BED andofficials gave prizes tothe winners.—MNA

Ahlon BEHS No. 4clinched the title with K70,000, KyimyindineBEHS No. 3 the secondprize and K 40,000 andBahan BEHS No. 1the third prize and K20,000.

Best BowlerAward went to Zaw MinHtet of KyimyindineBEHS No. 3, BestBatsman Award to MinWai of Latha BEHS No.1 and Best All-RounderAward to Kyaw MinAung of MingalaTaungnyunt BEHS No.4. They were awarded K5,000 each.

Roads and bridges in SagaingDiv, Kachin State inspected

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Conference on 10 Jan

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NAY PYI TAW, 27Dec – Lt-Gen Tha Aye ofthe Ministry of Defence,accompanied byChairman of Mon StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth- East CommandMaj-Gen Thet NaingWin, Chairman of KayinState Peace andDevelopment CouncilBrig-Gen Zaw Min andofficials inspectedagriculture and livestockbreeding tasks inPhayagon Village in Hpa-an Township,maintenance andupgrading of Eindu-Zarthabyin road anddigging of canals forwater supply to farmlandson 23 December. Next, Lt-Gen Tha Ayelooked into constructionof Kyawtywa-Dawlan-Nabu Road and Win Sein-Naungmatok-Minzi road

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects maintenance,upgrading of roads in Kayin State

section near Win Seinvillage and maintenanceof Naungkatokembankment nearNatkyun Village andreclamation of farmlands. Lt-Gen Tha Ayeinspected bridges alongNabu-Dawlan-Kyawtywaroad section, maintenanceof Dawlan bridge andlearning of students atBasic Education HighSchool (Branch) inDawlan Village inHlaingbwe Township. Hemet with teachers andpresented computers andaccessories for the schooland cash assistance to theteachers. Lt-Gen Tha Aye wentto station hospital in NabuVillage in KawkareikTownship and presentedhospital equipment andmedicines, and cashassistance to patients. Lt-Gen Tha Aye

observed sale of goods atWinthuzar shop of theMinistry of Industry-1 inHtokawkoe Village. Hemet with Tatmadawmembers and theirfamilies at Aung Zeya Hallof Kawkareik station andprovided them with food

and cash. He inspected new 100-bed hospital in thetownship. Lt-Gen ThaAye attended collectiveharvesting of monsoonpaddy and cultivation ofwinter crops at thefarmlands of farmer U

Saw Tun Shwe inKyondoe. Next, Lt-Gen Tha Ayelooked into resurfacingof road section betweenmile post No 39 and 40 ofHpa-an-Eindu-Gyaing-Kyondoe road, roadsection linking Kyargalay-

K y o n p h e - Z a t h a b y i nVillages, cultivation ofsummer paddy at thefarmlands of farmer U BaHein in Thanhle Village,construction of gravelroad and KhayapyinBridge.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 27Dec—The Nay Pyi TawTraffic RulesEnforcement SupervisoryCommittee organized theprize presentation for thesecond traffic ruleseducative exhibition andcontest at Nay Pyi TawCity Hall, here, yesterdaymorning, with an addressby Patron of theSupervisory CommitteeCommander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin.

Winners awarded in secondtraffic rules educativeexhibition and contest

Next, Minister forRail Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Min made aspeech.

Deputy Director-General Police Brig-GenZaw Win of MyanmarPolice Force and Director

U Thein Oo of RoadTransport AdministrationDepartment gave lectureson traffic rules.

The commanderaccepted cash donationfrom wellwishers andpresented certificates of

honour to them.Minister Maj-Gen

Aung Min awarded thefirst prize to Major ThantZin (Retd) (TekkathoMaung Thant Zin) in thenovel genre, the first prizeto Daw Yin Myo Khaing(Shwewunyan), thesecond prize to U Aye Ko(Maung Aye Ko-Paungtale) and U WinThein (Kyaungsaya KoKo Win) in the short storygenre.

Deputy MinisterThura U Thaung Lwinpresented first, secondand third prizes to U WinMyint (Ye Yint Thurein-Nay Pyi Taw), Daw KhinWut Yi (Wut Yi Khin-Bago) and U Zaw Lin (YeYe-Pyinmana) in thearticle genre; DeputyMinister U Pe Than, first,second and third prizes toU Aung Tin (Sein YiHlyan), U Maung Than(Maung Thet Hnin-N/Okkalapa) and U MyoHtay (Win Nwe-Forest)in the poem genre; andPolice Brig-Gen ZawWin, U Zaw Min (MinZaw Oo), U Tin Ni Win(Ko Ni-Yankin) and UMyo Min Zaw (Myo Ko

Ko Htet-Pyinmana) in thecartoon genre.

Deputy Com-mander Col Min Zawpresented gifts tomembers of thescrutinizing committee.

The commanderattended the secondtraffic rules educativeexhibition and contest atNay Pyi Taw PyinmanaBEHS No. 1 thismorning and viewedworks of contestants atthe booths.

Next, thecommander and partyvisited the automobilesand cycles manufacturedby industrial zones andthe showrooms.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 27Dec—The mass walkactivity in sports monthof December wasorganized at MyomaGround in DagonTownship this morning.

Chairman ofYangon Division Peaceand Development

Mass walk activity organized in Yangon

Council Commander ofYangon Command Brig-Gen Win Myint andChairman of YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin alsotook part in the masswalk.

After that, the

participants in the masswalk took the physicalexercises collectively.

Next, the com-mander and the mayoropened the repaved 26th

Street in PabedanTownship and strolledalong the street.

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Lt-Gen Tha Aye views ploughing in a

field for cultivation of winter crops.

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Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin visits the second traffic ruleseducative exhibition and contest.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 27Dec—Minister forIndustry-2 Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein inspectedprogress in construction ofschool buildings,workshops, main buildingand assembly hall ofTechnical Training School(Thagaya) and constructionof streets in the trainingschool in ThagayaIndustrial Region inYedashe Township, BagoDivision, this morning.

The minister

Industry-2 Minister inspects ThagayaIndustrial Region

instructed officials tocomplete construction ofthe buildings in January2009.

Next, the ministerviewed completion ofmachine workshop, metalmachining and assemblyworkshop, rivet weldingand punching and heattreatment workshops ofHydropower Turbine andGenerator Factory. He alsolooked into construction ofmachine shop (1), machineshop (2), assembly shop and

heat treatment shop ofMulti-purpose DieselEngine Factory.

At Bulldozer andExcavator Factory, heviewed installation ofmachine parts for the heavymachinery. He gaveinstructions on productionof quality heavy machinery,reducing of imported CKDparts and manufacturing ofnecessary machine parts forother factories, and fulfilledthe requirements.

MNA

YANGON, 27 Dec—Han Golf Masters Pte Ltdorganized the golf tourney for the readers of GolfMasters magazine at Myanmar Golf Club at 9th mile,here, on 24 December.

After the golf tourney, Chief Editor U Hsan Tunof Golf Masters magazine awarded the first prize toMyint Soe with 69 strokes, the second prize to ZawPhan with 69 strokes, the third prize to Ye Lwin Oowith 69 strokes , the fourth prize to Tin Win with 69strokes and the fifth prize to Aung Kyaw Lin with 70strokes in the handicap 0-16 class.

Director U Ko Ko Lay presented prizes to the

Golf tourney for readers of Golf Mastersmagazine organized

winners in the handicap 17-24 class. Editor-in-chargeU Soe Myint gave prizes to the winners of nearest pinaward, Marketing Executive Daw Cho Cho Khaing ofPahtama Group Ltd, the winner of the longest driveaward. Later, those participants took part in the luckydraw programme.

The golf tourney was sponsored by Han GolfMasters Pte Ltd with co-sponsors Srixon, Cleveland,Cross Creek, XXIO, Pahtama Group Ltd, C-Care,Dagon Brewery Co Ltd, GP Watch, Royal ModernFurniture, and First Image Fashion Shop.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 27 Dec—Chairman of theMyanmar Olympic Committee Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura Aye Myint watched the final matchof the 11th Inter State/Division U-13 FootballTournament in Padetha Sports Ground in SouthOkkalapa Township here this afternoon.

Sagaing Division lifted the trophy, defeatingKayah State 1-0.

Officials presented individual prizes to the prizewinners.

The minister presented the cup, duplicate cupand cash awards to the champions.—MNA

Inter State/Division U-13Football Tourney ends

NAY PYI TAW, 27Dec—Minister forIndustry-1 U AungThaung inspectedKawthoung oil palm farmnear Khamaukkyi inKawthoung District,Taninthayi Division,yesterday.

Managing Director ofthe Myanma Pharma-ceutical Industries U

Crude palm oil mill operating at highcapacity in Kawthoung District

Than Shwe, DeputyGeneral Manager UMyint Wai and in-chargeof the farm U Soe Hanand head of crude palmoil mill reported on thefarm and production ofpalm oil. The ministergave instructions on thefarm and fulfilled therequirements.

The factory general

manager conducted theminister round the farmand the crude palm oilmill.

On arrival at the crudepalm oil mill of GoldenOil Palm Co Ltd, theminister viewed theproduction processes.

He also inspectedWin Thuzar Shop inKawthoung.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 27Dec — Minister forElectric Power No-1 ColZaw Min visited KonCreek HydropowerProject being imple-mented by Construction-3 of Hydro PowerDepartment, on KonCreek, about nine mileswest of Pyu Township,Bago Division on 25December. The minister inspected

Minister for Electric Power No-1 inspectsKon Creek Hydropower Project

earth work, qualitycontrol work, con-struction of spillways andafflux dam. The minister inspecteddigging of the entranceof the intake tunnel,installation of frames forlaying concrete andretaining of earth in thetunnel and preparation forconstruction of powerstation. The 60-megawatt

project is 70 per centcomplete. The ministerwent to Yenwe Dam andpower station andinspected storage ofwater, running ofgenerators in the controlroom and switch yard andpower distribution. The 25-megawattYenwe power stationgenerates 123 millionkilowatt hoursannually.—MNA

Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein visits construction site of TechnicalTraining School (Thagaya).

MNA

Staff of the ministries, teachers, students and townselders take exercisein front of Nay Pyi Taw Myoma Market.(News on page 2)—MNA

SCIENCEDAILY, 27Dec — Chimpanzees

Humans And Chimps Register FacesBy Using Similar Brain Regions

recognize their pals byusing some of the samebrain regions that switchon when humans register afamiliar face, according toa report published onlineon 18th December inCurrent Biology, a CellPress publication. Thestudy—the first to examinebrain activity inchimpanzees after theyattempt to match fellowchimps’ faces—offers new

insight into the origin offace recognition inhumans, the researcherssaid. “We can learn abouthuman origins bystudying our closestrelatives,” said Lisa Parr,a researcher at the YerkesNational PrimateResearch Center, EmoryUniversity. “We candiscover what aspects ofhuman cognition arereally unique and whichare present in otheranimals.”—Internet

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(from page 16)

Since the time many

years before the exist-

ence of Portland cement,

Greeks had used natural

cement by mixing natu-

Natural pozzolan abundant aroundextinct volcano Mt. Popa (1)

Article: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA); Photos: Tun Win Naing (MNA)

Sample of Natural Pozzolan.

Finished natural pozzolan.

Hand-made bricks produced in Myaungshei Village, Popa region. Theycontain natural pozzolan.

Samples of Natural Pozzolan of production process stages.

ral pozzolan, lime and

water. Some edifices

built with the use of natu-

ral pozzolan and lime in

combination in the time

of Roman Period are still

in good condition.

After its invention,

Portland cement started to

take the place of natural

pozzolan due to its advan-

tages such as it can be

produced on a larger scale

and it gains strength in a

shorter time. Natural

pozzolan is used to reduce

the heat, which comes into

existence when cement

reacts with water, in the

concrete production proc-

ess, and to generate resist-

ance to the sulfate of con-

crete.

The extinct volcanoes

in some regions of

Myanmar are deposits of

natural pozzolan. Of them,

the areas around Mt. Popa

that erupted in BC 442 for

the last time and the areas

around the cluster of

vocalnoes downstream the

Natural pozzolan is also used in building roads.

Chindwin River have

greater potential for

sources of natural

pozzolan.

A test showed that

natural pozzolan produced

around Mt. Popa is of high

quality. It is learnt that 66

per cent of the cement used

in constructing Roller

Compacted Concrete

Dam of ongoing Yeywa

Hydropower Project is

natural pozzolan.

The main purpose of

using natural pozzolan is

to avoid unnecessary

cracks in concrete works

by reducing the heat.

Some experts made

comments that natural

pozzolan was unique to

the regions with volca-

noes, and it was rarer than

gold. So, Myanmar peo-

ple can be proud of their

motherland's rich natu-

ral resources.

*****

Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

26-12-2008

A scene of Mt. Popa that erupted in BC 442 for the last time.

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An Iraqi inspects the site of a car bomb attack in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhoodof Baghdad. A massive bomb tore through a crowd gathered near a bus station inthe Shiite neighbourhood, killing at least 22 people and wounding 54.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 27 Dec—A bomb tore through a busy square in Baghdad at middaySaturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 54, the Iraqi Army said.

An Iraqi soldier and two other people were killed in a separate bombing southof the capital, police said.

Police also said a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq fugitive was killed in a gunbattlewith police in the western city of Ramadi. He was one of four suspected al-Qaidain Iraq members who escaped during a jailbreak and ensuing riot at a Ramadipolice station on Friday that left six policemen and seven insurgents dead.

The US military and Iraqi officials said the blast occurred at al-Zahra square,in the northern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah. Associated PressTelevision News footage of the scene showed scorched vehicles peppered withshrapnel and an engine block that was all that remained of the car bomb.—Internet

Firefighters gather at the scene of a house fire insouthwest Philadelphia on 27 Dec, 2008, apparentlycaused by an exploding kerosene heater that killedseven people, most of whom were found huddled

together in the basement, a survivor andfirefighters said. —INTERNET

PHILADELPHIA, 27 Dec—A duplex fire apparentlycaused by fuel spilling from an overfilled keroseneheater killed seven people in a basement that had onlyone exit, a survivor and firefighters said.

That injured survivor described standing in ashower with the water running in a desperate bid toescape the initial flames, then running for his life.

Three of the victims of the Friday night blaze werechildren, including a 1-year-old who was cradled inthe arms of another victim, authorities said. Six ofthem were huddled together, and the seventh wasfound near the exit.

Four people survived the fire at a three-story, brickduplex in a working-class neighborhood close toPhiladelphia International Airport, fire CommissionerLloyd Ayers said.—Internet

Residents make paper-

cuts to mark the

coming Year of Ox in

Chinese lunar

calendar, at Siping

Street Community in

Shenyang, capital of

northeast China's

Liaoning Province, on

27 Dec, 2008.

INTERNET

Iraqi Army: at least 22 die in Baghdad car bomb

SINGAPORE, 27 Dec— A falling container killed acrane operator in Tuas, southwest part of Singapore onSaturday.

According to Channel NewsAsia reports onSaturday night, the 40-year-old man, who was operatingthe crane at the time of the accident, was crushed by a40-foot container and pronounced dead at the scene.

Rescuers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force(SCDF) rushed to the scene and managed to extricatethe body from the wreckage. The police areinvestigating the cause of the accident.

It is one of such accidents that took place in the citystate this year. In February this year, three workerswere killed and two injured when a crane at theconstruction site of the National University of Singaporecollapsed. —Internet

Three kids, four adults killed byPhiladelphia house fire

Suicide bombing kills five, wounds six in S AfghanistanKABUL, 27 Dec— One

suicide bomber Saturdayevening exploded hisexplosive-laden car near apolice checkpoint insouthern Afghan provinceof Kandahar, leaving 5people dead and six otherswounded, a police officialsaid.

�The police officerMohammad Akbar told

Xinhua on the spot thatthe incident took place ataround 5:45 pm local time(1315 GMT) when asuicide attacker drove acar and blew himself offat one police checkpointon Kandahar-Herathighway, some 20kilometers west ofKandahar city. �“The blastkilled three policemen and

two civilians at thecheckpoint while fourmore policemen and twoother civilians wereinjured,” Akbar said.

��The police officialsaid Canadian troops andAfghan police forces werelooking over suspectedvehicles on the highwaywhen the bombing hit thecheckpoint.—Internet

Falling container kills craneoperator in Singapore

200 killed, 750 wounded in Israelistrikes against Gaza

A wounded Pales-

tinian is rushed to

the hospital after

Israeli air force

attacked Gaza City

on 27 Dec, 2008.

INTERNET

GAZA, 27 Dec—Twohundred Palestinianswere killed and 750 oth-ers wounded on Saturdayin a series of rapid andintensive Israeli air strikeson the Hamas-ruled GazaStrip, Palestinian officialssaid.

“The number of mar-tyrs reached 200 and thewounded people are 750,including a number of ci-vilian women and chil-dren,” said Mu’ awiaHassanien, chief of emer-gency and ambulanceservices in the Palestinian

health ministry.Israel launched air

strikes against the GazaStrip from 11:30 am localtime (0930 GMT), hittingmore than 30 targets,most of them securitycompounds run by theHamas movement.

“It was like an earth-quake. Within a few min-utes hundreds were killedand injured and dozens ofbuildings and cars werecompletely destroyed,”said Gaza storekeeperAhmed Ghannam.

The bodies of the

killed were piled in the al-Shifa hospital’s corridorsbecause the morgue couldnot contain the largenumber of corpses.

According toHassanien, the number ofthe dead is the highestever to be recorded in asingle day since the 1967six-day war in which Is-rael occupied the GazaStrip and West Bank. Pal-estinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas con-demned the attacks andcalled on Israel to stopthem.—Internet

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Marriage AnnouncementMaung Lu Moe,

The Son of [U Wan Kaung]+ Shout May,residing at No.58, Shan Zu North Quarter,

Myitkyina married to

Ohn Ohn Khin (a) Ei Ei KhaingThe daughter of U Huang Chun Sein +

Daw Wan Thee, residing at No.164, Shan ZuNorth Quarter, Myitkyina on 20.11.2008 byentering marriage Agreement before Manda-

lay Division Court and their weddingceremony was held successfully on 7.12.2008

at Myo Daw Restaurant, Myitkyina.

Parents of both sidesMaung Lu Moe, Ei Ei Khaing

Financial crisis bites for dogs too

Paw anddestitute... a dogwaits for

food at thecanine

equivalentof a soupkitchen.INTERNET

Conjoined twin dies in hospitalLONDON, 27 Dec—Conjoined twin Faith Williams

died on 25 December, 23 days after the death of hersister. Faith and sister Hope were joined at the chestwhen they were born on 26 November. Hope died inan operation to separate them on 2 December.

Faith’s mother Laura, 18, from Shrewsbury, Shrop-shire, and father Aled, from Anglesey, were at her bed-side when she died. Great Ormond Street Hospital saidit was a sad but not unexpected outcome. A hospitalspokesman said: “We were always clear that Faith wasvery sick.”

Faith underwent surgery earlier this month to assistwith her circulation. A spokeswoman for the hospitalsaid: “The aim was to ensure more blood flowed toher body and less through her lungs.”

Mrs Williams is believed to be the youngest motherof conjoined twins in Britain. She and her husbandfound out about their children’s condition at a routine12-week scan. She underwent a Caesarean section atUniversity College Hospital, London.

When Faith and Hope were born they weighed 4.8kg(10.5lb). They were joined from the breastbone to thetop of the navel and had a shared liver but separatehearts. Hope died because her lungs were too small tosupport her breathing.—Internet

Faith (left) died 23 days after her sister Hope.INTERNET

Cruise passenger reportedoverboard near Cancun

MEXICO CITY, 27 Dec—Three Mexican Navy boatsand a helicopter were searching the waters off theCaribbean resort of Cancun on Friday for an Ameri-can woman who reportedly fell from a cruise ship,authorities said.

A US Coast Guard search-and-rescue crew using aFalcon jet halted its efforts to find 36-year-old JenniferFeitz late Friday, but will resume Saturday morningusing a larger C-130 aircraft, said Petty Officer ThirdClass Nick Ameen. Feitz’s husband reported her miss-ing from the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship just before5 am EST Friday. Her hometown was not available.

Mexico’s Fifth Naval Regional Command said in astatement that by late Friday it had found no sign ofFeitz and was having to deal with “adverse conditions”and strong waves in the search taking place just over17 miles (27 kilometres) east of Cancun.

“The search is being carried out for an Americanwoman who fell into the sea from a cruise ship east ofIsla Mujeres,” an island just off the coast from Cancun,the statement said. Norwegian Cruise Line says theship left Sunday from Miami for a seven-day westernCaribbean cruise.—Internet

The Norwegian Pearl is on a seven-day Caribbeancruise.—INTERNET

Year-end visitors walk through Nakamise alley,under a battledore-shaped wooden plaque at

Asakusa Sensoji temple in Tokyo on 27 Dec, 2008.With five days left for the year of 2009, Japanesestarted preparation for the celebration of the new

year’s holiday season.—INTERNET

Dead baby found near HK airportHoNG KONG, 27 Dec—Police in Hong Kong on Fri-

day appealed for help to identify a baby boy founddead near Hong Kong International Airport on 25 De-cember. The clothed body of the boy, aged around onemonth, was found lying on a rock on coastline by awalker in Chek Lap Kok near the city’s busy airporton Thursday afternoon.

A police spokesperson said there were no obviousinjuries on the body of the infant who was 52cm longand wearing a white top patterned with stars. A post-mortem is due to be conducted Monday.

Dead bodies from neighbouring mainland Chinasometimes wash up in Hong Kong waters after drown-ing or being dumped in southern China’s densely popu-lated Pearl River region.—Internet

Boy killed by hand grenadeJOHANNESBURG, 27

Dec—A 10-year-old boywas killed by a hand gre-nade he found outside hishome in Hlalanikahle nearWitbank, Mpumalangapolice said on Friday.

“He saw a bucket out-side the yard and foundsomething like an avo-cado inside, which hetook into the yard wherehe and his friends beganplaying with it,” said Cap-tain Leonard Hlathi.

While playing with iton his own on Wednesdayevening he pulled the pin.

It exploded, killing him. A14-year-old boy standingnearby was slightly in-jured.

Police were still inves-tigating were the grenadecame from. No arrests hadbeen made.—Internet

BERLIN, 27 Dec—In asign of the times in Eu-rope’s biggest economy,poodles, pinschers, terri-ers and sheep dogs arequeuing up for rations atBerlin’s first soup kitchenfor pets.

The venue is a disusednight school in the formercommunist east Berlin

where the smell of straw,dry food and wet dog lin-gers in the air as a JackRussell in a chequeredcoat waddles past on itsway to the kibbles line forbiscuits.Pensioners andthose on the dole qualifyfor the free pet food buf-fet, which opened in thedistrict of Treptow in mid-

October, allowing thosewith no disposable in-come the chance to holdon to their beloved dogsand cats.

“We’ve already signedup nearly 400 people andour stocks are dwindlingfast. Today cat owners arejust getting a single tineach,” said Julia Raasch,who heads the capital’ssole animal soup kitchen,run by Tiertafel (AnimalDining Table), a pet wel-fare association.Berlin,where unemploymenthovers around 13 per cent,has some 100,000 regis-tered dogs, many of themowned by pensioners.

Internet

India’s Reliance startsworld’s biggest refinery hub

NEW DELHI, 27 Dec—India’s Reliance Petro-leum has started process-ing crude oil at its new re-finery in western India,creating the world’s big-gest refining complex.

The company openedits 580,000 barrel a dayrefinery in Jamnagar in

the western state ofGujarat on Friday, Reli-ance Petroleum Limited(RPL) said in a statement.

Combined with an ad-jacent 660,000 barrel a dayrefinery, the new unit willmake the Jamnagar com-plex the world’s largest,with a capacity of 1.24

million barrels a day. “Wewill leverage our competi-tive advantages of scale,complexity and capabilityto process a wide range ofcrude oils and flexibility toproduce high quality trans-portation fuels,” companychairman Mukesh Ambanisaid.—Internet

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Coral springs back from tsunami

Cancer drug aids transplantsCHICAGO , 27 Dec — A drug used to treat cancer has proven effective at stopping

the body from rejecting a transplanted organ when other treatments failed, a studypublished on Saturday found.

US researchers administered the drug, bortezomib, to six patients whose immunesystems were attacking transplanted kidneys and who did not respond to traditionalanti-rejection treatments. In each case, the drug promptly reversed the rejection,improved organ function, provided prolonged reductions in antibody levels andsuppressed recurrent rejection for at least five months.

“This has significant implications for transplantation and auto immune disease,”said study co-author Steve Woodle, chief of transplant surgery at the University ofCincinnati in Ohio. Woodle’s team is currently conducting four clinical trials toexpand upon these preliminary findings.

The drug’s side effects proved to be both predictable and manageable andtoxicity levels were much less than those associated with other anti-cancer agents,the study found. “We are pleased to see its toxicities are similar in transplantrecipients suffering from treatment-resistant mixed organ rejection,” said study co-author Jason Everly, an oncology pharmacist at the University of Cincinnati.

“We hope it will be a viable therapeutic treatment option in this patient group.”Previous studies had found that B-cells play a large role in organ rejection bymaking immune proteins that attack transplants.

Internet

Dr Christopher Stremme (R), project manager of the Veterinary Society forSumatran Wildlife Conservation (VESSWIC), carries a Sumatran tiger

before returning it to its habitat in Banda Aceh, Aceh Province on 26 Dec,2008. The two-year-old male tiger was snared in a trap set by villagers sixweeks ago after it had been seen wandering around the village. – INTERNET

Divers have been helping restore Indonesia’scoral reefs.—INTERNET

JAKARTA , 27 Dec —Scientists have reported arapid recovery in some ofthe coral reefs that weredamaged by the IndianOcean tsunami four yearsago. It had been fearedthat some of the reefs offthe coast of Indonesiacould take a decade torecover. The New York-

based Wildlife Conser-vation Society (WCS)found evidence of rapidgrowth of young corals inbadly-hit areas. A spokes-man said reefs damagedbefore the tsunami werealso recovering.

Some communitieswere abandoning de-structive fishing tech-

niques and even trans-planting corals intodamaged areas, the WCSsaid. “This is a great storyof ecosystem resilienceand recovery,” said StuartCampbell, co-ordinator ofthe WCS’s IndonesiaMarine Programme.

“These findings pro-vide new insights intocoral recovery processesthat can help us managecoral reefs in the face ofclimate change.”

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,a reef expert from theUniversity of Queenslandin Australia who did nottake part in the study, saidthe findings were notsurprising since coralstypically recovered if notaffected by fishing andcoastal development.

Internet

First drug to promote eyelashgrowth OK’d

WASHINGTON, 27 Dec — Latisse — the first drug to promote the growth ofeyelashes — has been approved for use in the United States.

Latisse, made by Allergan, is to be available by prescription in early 2009,WebMD reported on Friday.Latisse, approved for use by the US Food and DrugAdministration, contains the active ingredient of the glaucoma drug Lumigan, alsomade by Allergan.

Eyelash growth is a side effect of Lumigan, an eyedrop. Latisse is meant to bedabbed on the lash line on the upper eyelids, Allergan said, noting Latisse users canexpect “longer, fuller, and darker eyelashes in as little as eight weeks.”

Latisse may cause increased brown pigmentation of the eyelid skin and thecolored part of the eye, Allergan said, suggesting Latisse will be particularlybeneficial to cancer patients who lose eyelashes through chemotherapy.—Internet

An air and sea search has been launched for a swimmer believed to havebeen seized by a shark in the sea off an Australian beach, according to policeand reports. The 51-year-old man was snorkelling with his 24-year-old son at

a popular Port Kennedy beach south of the West Australian capital Perthearly in the morning when he disappeared.—INTERNET

Child ADHD linked to mom’s medical care

Rural areas have muchhigher injury rate

MORGANTOWN, ( W.Va.), 27 Dec — Country lifemay provide scenic tableaus but a US study foundinjuries requiring hospitalization occur at much higherrates in rural areas than elsewhere.

West Virginia University researchers analyzed allreported injuries of people who were admitted to UShospitals for treatment in 2004. They foundhospitalization rates for injuries were 35 percent higherin sparsely populated rural counties and 27 percenthigher in more populated rural counties.

“The perception is that life in rural areas is peaceful,tranquil, serene,” Dr Jeffrey H Coben said in astatement. “If you just look at violence — personagainst person — the rates are higher in urban areas.But for virtually every other cause of trauma, the risksare substantially greater in rural areas.”

The study, published in the American Journal ofPreventive Medicine, found that as population densitydecreases, the risk continues to increase.—Internet

OAKLAND, 27 Dec — Achild’s diagnosis ofattention deficithyperactivity disorder islinked to his or hermother’s use of healthservices, US researcherssaid.

“The diagnoses andhealth care utilization thata mother receives prior tohaving her child is

predictive of having achild who is diagnosedwith ADHD,” lead authorG Thomas Ray of KaiserPermanente in NorthernCalifornia said in astatement.

Using records from aNorthern CaliforniaKaiser Permanentedatabase, the researchersidentified three groups —

mothers of children withADHD, mothers ofchildren without ADHDand mothers of childrenwith asthma.

The study, published inthe January issue of thejournal Medical Care,found mothers of childrenwith ADHD spent about$1,000 more on healthcarein the year before and inthe two years followingthe birth of their child,compared to mothers whodid not have children withADHD, and they had moreillnesses than mothers ofchildren with asthma did.

“The mothers ofchildren who arediagnosed with ADHD aremore likely to bediagnosed with healthconditions such asdepression and anxietydisorder and use morehealth services in the yearprior to, and the two yearsafter, the birth of theirchild, than mothers ofchildren without ADHDor the mothers of childrenwith asthma,” Ray said ina statement.

Internet

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S P O R T S

ACROSS 1 Skin blemish 3 Open insults 9 Mountain range10 Loss of memory11 Monetary unit of Japan13 Disguised14 Aerated-water bottle16 Seemly18 Submarine weapons20 Proverb22 Life’s hectic routine scramble (3,4)23 Concise25 Mistrusts26 Move by slow degrees

DOWN 1 Very tired 2 Disencumber 4 European country 5 Revoke at cards 6 Unpleasant quality 7 Esparto (anag.) 8 Italian wine12 Inflammation of kidneys14 Stitiches15 Daunt by arousing respect17 Very short time19 Waist-band21 Observe closely24 Possess

CROSSWORDS PUZZLE

Wenger risks FA probeafter Villa setback

BIRMINGHAM, 27 Dec—Arsene Wenger may be fac-ing a request from the Football Association (FA) toexplain his comments following Arsenal’s 2-2 drawwith Aston Villa after he effectively accused officialsfrom the home club of influencing referee Lee Masonduring the half-time interval.

The French manager and his counterpart MartinO’Neill were also involved in an angry verbal ex-change across the technical areas during the second-half at Villa Park here Friday.

They had to be separated by the fourth officialalthough neither manager received any punishment.

Internet

Arsenal’s midfielder Denilson (right) scores a goalduring their Premier League match against Aston

Villa at Villa Park, in Birmingham. The matchended in a 2-2 draw.—INTERNET

Lee insists Reds always Keaneon Robbie

LIVERPOOL, 27 Dec —Robbie Keane faces Newcas-tle United at St James’ Park on Sunday having ban-

Keane kept Liverpoolon top of the PremierLeague with two sec-ond-half goals asRafael Benitez’s mensealed a 3-0 victoryagainst Bolton Wan-derers at Anfield hereon Friday.—INTERNET

Rangers see chance to closegap in clash with Celtic

GLASGOW, 27 Dec—Rangers and Celtic lock hornsfor the second time this season on Saturday at Ibrox for

Wilkins revels in Chelsea formLONDON, 27 Dec—Ray Wilkins expects Chelsea to

see in 2009 in style after watching them dispatch WestBromwich Albion 2-0.

Victory left the Blues just a point behind PremierLeague leaders Liverpool and they could end the yeartop of the table if they beat west London rivals Fulhamon Sunday and the Reds slip up against Newcastle.

Chelsea hardly had to break sweat in sweeping asideTony Mowbray’s bottom-of-the-table team, cruisingto victory here at Stamford Bridge on Friday thanksto an early strike from Didier Drogba and FrankLampard’s effort in first-half injury time.

A polished performance suggested Chelsea havebanished the doubts which have bedevilled them atStamford Bridge for much of the campaign.

Wilkins, the Blues assistant manager, has warnedthe club’s title rivals to expect more of the same in theNew Year, when Chelsea hope to welcome back sev-eral key players.—Internet

Chelsea’s Didier Drogba (2ndL) celebrates scoringagainst West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge.

Drogba ensured Chelsea enjoyed an unusuallytrouble-free afternoon at Stamford Bridge by

setting up a 2-0 win over West Bromwich Albionhere on Friday.—INTERNET

Cahill winner at sorry Boromoves Toffees up to sixth

A Glasgow Rangersfootball fan wears a T-

Shirt with team managerWalter Smith.

INTERNET

Ferdinand injury a worry for United

Manchester United’sCarlos Tevez (right)clashes with Stoke City’sAndy Wilkinson. Tevez’slate winner saw Manches-ter United put the exertionsof winning the Club WorldCup in Japan behind themas they maintained theirPremier League title bidwith a 1-0 win away toStoke City.—INTERNET

Robinho eases pressure on Hughesas five-star City destroy Hull

an Old Firm Christmascracker. The Ibrox clubtriumphed 4-2 when theclubs first met in Augustto go top of the ScottishPremier League. Butsince then Celtic haveovertaken their rivalsand go into Saturday’sgame four points ahead.

Rangers gaffer WalterSmith knows a win is vi-tal to revive his side’sbid to stop Celtic mak-ing it four league titles ina row.

Internet

Tim Cahill

MIDDLESBROUGH, 27 Dec—Tim Cahill made sure Evertonmaintained their impressiveaway record in the PremierLeague by scoring the game’sonly goal in a precious 1-0 awaywin at Middlesbrough on Friday.

Cahill scored in the 51stminute of a match which reallyonly came to life in the secondhalf, the Australian’s winnerkeeping David Moyes’ sidewithin sight of the coveted Eu-ropean places.—Internet

STOKE, 27 Dec—RioFerdinand faces a 10-daylay-off after being forcedto pull out of ManchesterUnited’s victory overStoke City with a recur-rence of a back injury.

The centre-back wasnamed on the team-sheet atthe Britannia Stadium butwas withdrawn minutes be-fore the Boxing Day kick-off when the problem flaredup and he was deemed un-fit to start the game.Ferdinand’s place wastaken by young NorthernIreland defender JonnyEvans and the England in-ternational has now beenruled out of the rest of theChristmas and New Yearprogramme.—Internet

MANCHESTER, 27 Dec—Manchester City eased thepressure on boss MarkHughes as Robinho in-

spired a 5-1 win over Hullon Friday.

Robinho scored twiceand young Ecuador for-ward Felipe Caicedo alsobagged a double atEastlands to help Cityclimb out of the PremierLeague relegation zone.

Caicedo’s first PremierLeague goals for Citywere impressive enoughbut it was his Brazilianstrike-partner Robinhoand midfielder StephenIreland who stole theshow by tearing Hullto pieces.

InternetManchester City’sforward Robinho

ished any doubts over hisLiverpool future with twogoals in a 3-0 win over Bol-ton Wanderers here atAnfield.

The Republic of Irelandstriker, who also netted in the1-1 draw at Arsenal last Sun-day, helped keep RafaBenitez’s team at the top ofthe Premier League by add-ing to Albert Riera’s first-halfvolley with his two second-half goals.

Keane has struggled tomake an impact at Liverpoolsince his 20 million poundsarrival in July fromTottenham Hotspur and therehad even been reports the 28-year-old could be sold byBenitez in January.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, isolated light rain orthundershowers in Kayin and Mon States, upper Sagaingand Mandalay Divisions, weather has been partly cloudyin Kachin and Rakhine States, lower Sagaing, Bago,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair inthe remaining States and Divisions . Night temperatureswere (3˚C) below December average temperatures in ChinState, (3˚C) to (4˚C) above December average tempera-tures in Kachin and Rakhine States, Mandalay, Bago,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions, (5˚C) to (6˚C) aboveDecember average temperatures in Shan, Kayah and MonStates and about December average temperatures in theremaining States and Divisions.The significant night tem-peratures were Hakha (1˚C) and Loilem (4˚C). The note-worthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Homalin andMeikhtila (0.12) inch each and Hpa-an (0.08) inch.

Maximum temperature on 26-12-2008 was 91˚F.Minimum temperature on 27-12-2008 was 64˚F. Rela-tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 27-12-2008 was76%. Total sunshine hours on 26-12-2008 was (6.0) hrsapprox.

Rainfall on 27-12-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (110.31) inches at Mingaladon,(120.95) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (140.94) inches at Central Yangon. Maxi-mum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southeast at (09:30) hours MST on 27-12-2008.

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

Forecast valid until evening of 28th December2008: Possibility of isolated light rain in Kachin, Shan,Mon and Kayin States and Taninthayi Division, weatherwill be partly cloudy in Rakhine and Kayah States, upperSagaing, Mandalay, Bago and Yangon Divisions andgenerally fair in the remaining areas. Degree of certaintyis (40%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight increase of night temperatures in the whole coun-try.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 28-12-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 28-12-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 28-12-2008: Partly cloudy.

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HAVANA, 27 Dec—Cuba is expected to see an unprecedented number of 2.3million foreign visitors in 2008, Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero wasquoted as saying by local media Friday.

�The expected foreign tourist arrivals “reaffirm that neither hurricanes of“Gustav”, “Ike” and “Paloma” nor the world financial crisis could stop the(development of) tourism in this country,” said Marrero.

The minister said high season began in November, attributing the rise toimproved hotel facilities. In 2007, Cuba received 2.1 million foreign tourists,reaping an income of some two million US dollars. Marrero said that Canadacontinues to be Cuba’s main source of tourists, with more than 800,000 visitors,followed by Italy, Spain and Britain.—MNA/Xinhua

HOUSTON, 27 Dec—Dense sea fog was keepingabout 40 ships fromentering or exiting theHouston Ship Channel tothe busiest US petro-chemical port on Fridaymorning, according to theUS Coast Guard. Theshutdown began onThursday morning whenship pilots stopped steeringvessels through the 60-mile waterway to refineriesand petrochemical plantsin Houston and Texas City,Texas, after fog reducedvisibility to unsafe levels,the Coast Guard said.Twenty-one ships werewaiting to enter the shipchannel from the Gulf ofMexico and 19 werewaiting to exit on Fridaymorning. Eight refineriesin Houston and Texas Cityaccount for 12.5 per cent ofUS refining capacity.

MNA/Reuters

About 2.3 million people visitCuba in 2008

Mexico suspends purchases from30 US meat plants

CHICAGO, 27 Dec—Mexico suspended pur-chases from 30 US meatplants due to sanitaryissues, which sent UScattle and hog pricessharply lower on Fridayand prompted speculationthe ban was retaliationagainst a US labeling law.Early on Friday, USanalysts said the bans werelikely because of Mexico'sopposition to a recentlyenacted meat labellinglaw. The law, commonlycalled Country-of-OriginLabelling or COOL,requires that meatpackages in US super-markets carry labelsstating the countries wherethe meat animals wereraised. Mexico and the

US Agriculture Depar-tment both denied theretaliation charge.“Countries would gothrough disputesettlement under either(the North American FreeTrade Agreement) or(World Trade Organ-ization)—not use theaction of plant-by-plantdelistment,” said Amanda

Eamich of USDA FoodSafety and InspectionService.

USDA listed theaffected plants on itswebsite on Friday, but thesuspensions becameeffective on Tuesday. Thelisted plants produce beef,lamb, pork, and poultryand can be found here.

MNA/Reruters

Dense fog haltsHouston Channel

shipping

French bullfighterSalvador Cortez performsa pass to a bull during abullfighting festival at

Canaveralejo bullring inCali on 26 December,

2008.—INTERNET

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2nd Waxing of Pyatho 1370 ME Sunday, 28 December, 2008

YANGON, 27 Dec—The first semifinal matchof the 47th Defence Services Commander-in-Chief’sShield Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) FootballTournament 2008 was held at Youth Training Cen-tre (Thuwunna), here, this afternoon.

In the match, Northern Command team cruisedinto the final with a 3-0 win over Defence Services(Air) team.—MNA

Northern Commandsail to final

Beware ofFire

When we got to the foot of Mt. Popa, a land ofmagnolia, my wristwatch showed 1 p.m.

The scenery of the area in the morning sunshine inthe cold season was found so beautiful and pleasant thatit was like an artistic painting.

Factories and mills throughout the country are seenoperating at full capacity. During the period from 1988to date, the number of State-owned factories has in-creased to 793 from 624, and private-owned factories,to 113,000 from 35,000.

While in Popa region, we seized a good opportu-nity to visit Pozzolan Factory of the Hydropower

Natural pozzolan abundant aroundextinct volcano Mt. Popa (1)

Article: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA); Photos: Tun Win Naing (MNA)

Natural Pozzolan Factory of Hydropower Implementation Department under Ministry of Electric Power No. 1.

Implementation Department under the Ministry of Elec-tric Power No. 1. The visit was very rewarding becausewe gained a lot of knowledge of natural pozzolan.

Natural pozzolan is ash of lava forced out involcanic eruptions. When a volcano is active, hot lavaand ash are forced to get out of it. They becomegradually cold when they touch air outside the vol-cano. After all, they form themselves into crystals.Based on the formation, some volcanoes take a longtime, but some take a short period to become cold aftertheir eruptions, and in this regard, the time gap haseffect on formation and size of lava and ash. If process

is quick, they do not have enough time to formthemselves into crystals, and the size of the particlesare small. Silica and alumina in ashes react well withlime and water when they are still mild. If so, theproduct's characteristics are the same as that ofcement.

Pozzolan was named after Puzzuoli in Italy thatcame under ashes of volcano Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79.

Ash of a volcano is called natural pozzolan, andcoal ash, which take pozzolanic reaction, pozzolanicmaterial.

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New anti-cancer components ofextra-virgin olive oil revealed

SCIENCEDAILY, 27 Dec — Good quality extra-virgin olive oil contains health-relevant chemicals,

‘phytochemicals’, that can trigger cancer cell death.New research sheds more light on the suspectedassociation between olive oil-rich Mediterranean di-ets and reductions in breast cancer risk.

Javier Menendez from the Catalan Institute ofOncology and Antonio Segura-Carretero from theUniversity of Granada in Spain led a team of re-searchers who set out to investigate which parts ofolive oil were most active against cancer. Menendezsaid, “Our findings reveal for the first time that all themajor complex phenols present in extra-virgin oliveoil drastically suppress overexpression of the cancergene HER2 in human breast cancer cells”.

Extra-virgin olive oil is the oil that results frompressing olives without the use of heat or chemicaltreatments. It contains phytochemicals that are other-wise lost in the refining process. Menendez andcolleagues separated the oil into fractions and testedthese against breast cancer cells in lab experiments.All the fractions containing the major extra-virginphytochemical polyphenols (lignans and secoiridoids)were found to effectively inhibit HER2.

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