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Volume XVIII, Number 88 7th Waxing of Second Waso 1372 ME Sunday, 18 July, 2010

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of

technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitu-

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Prime Minister U Thein Sein accepts cash donations for Myanmar Borderand Hilly Regions Theravada Buddhist Sasana Nuggaha Association

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—Prime Minister U TheinSein attended the first cash donation ceremony ofMyanmar Border and Hilly Regions Theravada Bud-dhist Sasana Nuggaha Association at Myanmar Inter-national Convention Centre, here, this afternoon.

Also present on the occasion were ministers,deputy ministers, departmental heads, the centralexecutive committee chairman of the association,responsible persons of State and Division branchesand wellwishers.

The ceremony was opened with three-timerecitation of Namo Tassa.

Patron of the association Minister for ReligiousAffairs Thura U Myint Maung reported on the purposeof forming the association.

The Prime Minister accepted cash donationsand presented certificates of honour to the wellwishers.

The ministers and the deputy ministers alsoaccepted cash donations and gave certificates of hon-our to the wellwishers.

Chairman of the Central Executive Committeeof the association Dr Khin Shwe spoke words ofthanks.

The ceremony ended with three-time recitationof Buddha Sasanam Ciram Titthatu.

At the first cash donation ceremony,a total of 35 wellwishers donated K 1439.6 million

(See page 6)

Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung Road bringsnational brethren closer together

Article: Kayan Soe Myint:Photos: Construction & Moe Myint Hlaing

It was a day of the rainy season. I noticed rainshowers in July. I saw blue mountain ranges in theeast. As the car passed lush and green paddy fieldsand crops plantations were left behind.

It was 2 July 2010, one day before opening ofthe asphalt Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung(Kintha-Koegway) road section. The car carryingus, the news crew, left Nay Pyi Taw Airport andturned from Yangon-Mandalay Union Highway atmile post 271/4 and headed to Shan mountain rangesin the east. Under the arrangements of Deputy ChiefEngineer U Thein Zaw of Road Construction Group

(See page 8)

PrimeMinisterU Thein

Seinaccepts

cashdonationfrom a

wellwisherfor

MyanmarBorder

and HillyRegions

TheravadaBuddhistSasana

NuggahaAsso-

ciation.MNA

Part of Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-PinlaungAsphalt Road (Kintha-Koegway section).

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 18 July, 2010

Sunday, 18 July, 2010

PERSPECTIVES* 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 Desire

Agriculture is a traditional business inMyanmar blessed with favourable weatherand fertile soil. By applying modern cultiva-tion methods and using quality strains ofcrops, we can satisfy domestic demand andexport the surplus.

Giving priority to enhancement of agri-culture sector, the government has built over200 dams plus river water pumping stationsand provided quality high yield paddy strainsto the farmers. Thanks to contributions of theState, sown acreage has increased to over 53million. Over 1500 million baskets of paddyare produced annually. All-out efforts arebeing made to produce over 1600 millionbaskets of paddy this cultivation season.

Likewise, over 10 million acres of farm-lands produces over 4.9 million tons of beansand pulses. Therefore, Myanmar secures thetop position in exporting beans and pulses.Moreover, cultivation of marketable beansnamely green gram, mung bean and pigeonpea are being extended. In addition, the culti-vable lands are being covered with rubber, oilpalm, sugarcane and long staple cotton,groundnut, sesame, sunflower, mustard andniger plantations.

Agriculture sector secures the largerportion in economic growth of the State. Boost-ing production of agricultural produce willimprove the State’s economy and uplift liveli-hoods of the rural people.

Nowadays, the government is render-ing assistance for the farmers with adequatesupply of water for agricultural purpose, qual-ity strains of crops for high yield. As a result,the irrigated areas get larger and larger. Dueto harmonious efforts of the agricultural en-trepreneurs, farmers and agriculturalists,greater progress of growing and producingmultiple crops can be seen on the farmlands ofMyanmar.

Successful crops production onMyanma farmlands

Government, Information Ministry renderingassistance to motion picture and video producers to be

able to create better works for public entertainmentand broadening their horizons

Myanma Motion Picture Enterprise marks40th anniversary

YANGON, 17 July—The 40th Anniversary ofMyanma Motion Picture Enterprise under theMinistry of Information took place at the hall ofCentral Press of Printing and Publishing Enterpriseon Theinbyu Street in Botahtaung Township herethis morning, with an address by Minister forInformation U Kyaw Hsan.

In his address, the minister praised the officersand staff of the enterprise for their performance insuccessfully undertaking 11 tasks adopted for 2009-2010. He said that he noticed the earnest efforts andgoodwill of members of the motion picture andvideo censorship boards for their brilliantperformance in improving motion picture and videoindustry and preserving cultural heritage. He notedthat the government and the Ministry of Informationare rendering necessary assistance to producers tocreate better works of motion picture and video forpublic entertainment and broadening their horizons.He stressed the need for the motion picture and videocensorship boards and motion picture and videoproducers to work more closely for development ofmotion picture and video industry. The ministerpointed out that pirate CDs are impediment toimprovement of film and video industry. He stressedthe need to make concerted efforts for combating theproduction of pirate CDs under laws, rules andregulations by applying modern technology and thoseengaged in film and video industry are toharmoniously participate in combating the pirateCDs. In conclusion, the minister urged the staff toefficiently use the modern film equipment providedby the State for promotion of Myanmar motionpicture standard and keep in touch with ever-developing technology.

The minister awarded outstanding officers andstaff of Myanma Motion Picture Enterprise.

Managing Director U Aung Myo Myint ofMMPE presented prizes to outstanding personnel.

Director-General U Khin Maung Htay ofMyanma Radio and Television gave prizes to YangonDivision Video Industry Supervisory Committee,Mandalay Division Section and Mawlamyine Section.

General Manager U Ye Tint of Printing andPublishing Enterprise presented uniforms to the staffin commemoration of the 40th anniversary of MMPE.

Later, the minister and departmental headsgave gifts to the staff.—MNA

Minister for Information U Kyaw Hsanawards a good public service medal for 2009-2010 to staff Daw Mya That Kyu of Myanma

Motion Picture Enterprise.—MNA

Minister for Information U Kyaw Hsandelivering a speech.—MNA

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BAGHDAD, 17 July — Two roadside bombs hitIraq’s capital city of Baghdad Friday morning,killing at least three people and wounding sixothers, a police source said.

The first blast occurred at 7 am local time(0400 GMT) in Hameed Shihab village in AbuGraib area west of Baghdad, leaving three killedand two wounded, said the source on condition ofanonymity.

After half an hour, another explosion rockedthe east bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad, closeto the Tahrir square, wounding four people, saidthe source, adding several shops and cars nearbywere also damaged. Xinhua reporters in centralBaghdad clearly heard the second explosion.

Recent spate of bombings and waves ofviolence are still ravaging Iraqi cities, includingthe capital, more than four months after the countryheld its landmark parliamentary elections on 7March, raising fears of a return to violence.

Xinhua

PARACHINAR, 17 July— Militants armed withassault rifles ambushed aconvoy of civilianvehicles killing 16 peopleSaturday in northwesternPakistan, the scene ofextensive militaryoperations targettingmilitants.

Several people werealso wounded inSaturday’s attack in CharKhel village in thetroubled tribal region ofKurram.

The travellers wereheading to the mainnorthwestern city ofPeshawar in vehicleswhen they wereambushed.

COPPELL, 17 July— ADallas area mayor whoauthorities believe killedherself and her daughterleft a note saying the twowere still grieving overthe 2008 death of theirhusband and father fromcancer, police saidFriday.

“My sweet, sweetCorinne had growncompletely inconsolable.She had learned to hideher feelings from herfriends. But the two of uswere lost, alone and afraid.Corinne just kept onasking, ‘Why won’t Godlet me die?’ We hadn’tslept at all and neither oneof us could stop cryingwhen we were together,”

HACKENSACK, 17 July —Rescuers were working through the night to find atleast one person who was trapped after a glass canopy attached to a high-risecondominium building fell onto a parking garage two stories below on Friday,partially collapsing the underground structure.

A car was pulled from the rubble at around 11 pm, but there was noimmediate word on whether anyone was inside. Police at the scene declined tocomment.

Using a remote camera and a robot, rescuers could see one victim in a caron the first level down but couldn’t get to the person because they wereconcerned about the possibility of another collapse at the three-storey garage,Hackensack fire Lt Stephen Lindner said. They could not determine thevictim’s condition.

Crews were clearing debris and shoring up the structure before they couldattempt to rescue the victim. Lindner said late Friday night that rescuers heldout hope that the person was still alive.—Internet

KABUL, 17 July —Theinternational force inAfghanistan says aroadside bomb has killedtwo NATO troops in thevolatile south.

One of the servicemembers killed Fridaywas American. Thenationality of the otherwas not released. TheNATO-led force did notgive details of theexplosion.

Roadside bombsplanted by militants areone of the leading killersof both internationaltroops and civilians inAfghanistan.

Last month was thedeadliest of the nearly 9-year-old war forinternational troops, with103 killed. So far in July,at least 49 internationaltroops have died ascoalition forces step uppatrols and move into newareas of the Taleban-dominated south.

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Two blasts kill three,wound six in Iraq

Militants kill 16 passengers in northwestPakistan

Pakistani rescuers push a stretcher carrying aninjured blast victim at a hospital in Peshawar. Abomb blast ripped through a busy car market inPakistan’s infamous tribal District of Khyber,

killing ten civilians including children, officialssaid.—INTERNET

Kurram has witness-ed scores of such attacks,robberies and kidnappings

Blast kills twoNATO troops in

southernAfghanistan

Texas mayor who killed self hadfinancial troubles

This undated photoprovided by the City ofCoppell, Texas showsMayor Jayne Peters.The mayor and her

teenage daughter havebeen found shot to

death at their home, cityofficials said on 14

July, 2010.INTERNET

read a typed note thatpolice found in thekitchen.

The note, which alsogave instructions on howto care for the family’stwo dogs and four cats,was among four thatpolice found Tuesdaywhen they discovered thebodies of Coppell MayorJayne Peters, 55, and her19-year-old daughter,Corinne.

Both women hadbeen shot in the head. TheDallas County MedicalExaminers Office hasruled the elder Peters’death a suicide and thedaughter’s death ahomicide.

Internet

Iraqi security forces inspected the scene of a car bomb attack in SaddamHussein’s hometown of Tikrit, Iraq, on 15 July, 2010. Police officials saybombs have killed eight people in Iraq, including six in Saddam Hussein’s

hometown. The attacks took place on the day US forces are to transfer controlof the last prison they run to Iraqi authorities.

INTERNET

NJ parking garage collapses; at least 1 trapped

A woman reacts as she is taken away to

receive medical attention after a parking

garage collapse in Hackensack, New Jersey,

on 16 July, 2010. The underground garage

is located between the two apartment

buildings in the background.

INTERNET

for ransom in the past threeyears.

Internet

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NASA’s WISE mission tocomplete sky survey

LOS ANGELES, 17 July— NASA’s Wide-fieldInfrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete itsfirst survey of the entire sky on Saturday, the JetPropulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced on Friday.

The mission has generated more than one millionimages so far, of everything from asteroids to distantgalaxies, according to the JPL in Pasadena near LosAngeles.

“Like a globe-trotting shutterbug, WISE hascompleted a world tour with 1.3 million slides coveringthe whole sky,” said Edward Wright, the principalinvestigator of the mission at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles.

Internet

BP says well integrity test goes well so faroil well in the Gulf of Mexico went sofar so good and a company officialsaid Friday pressure within the newwell cap was steadily rising.

Since the BP well was shut-in as of2:25 pm local time Thursday, pressurewithin the 75-ton capping stack hasbeen rising steadily and now was up to6,700 pounds per square, BP SeniorVice President Kent Wells said Friday.

Higher pressure readings arepositive because it means the well iscontaining the oil , while lowerpressure means new leaks may haveappeared after BP choked off the flowof oil from the top of the well.

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The new containment cap is seenduring the “well integrity testing” inthe image grabbed from the BP’s livevideo feed in the Gulf of Mexico, 15

July, 2010.—INTERNET

Science team to study data fromChina’s first lunar probe

BEIJING, 17 July—China’s space agency hasset up a committee of 123leading scientists toconsider how the countrymight apply the vastamount of data acquiredby China’s first lunarprobe.

The project had

HOUSTON, 17 July— British oilcompany BP’s test on the ruptured

resulted in data about thedistribution and contentof important elements onthe moon, such asuranium, thorium,potassium, aluminum,silicon, iron and titanium,said the StateAdministration ofScience, Technology and

Industry for NationalDefence Friday.

China launched itsfirst lunar probe Chang’e-1, named after China’smythical Moon Goddess,on 24 Oct, 2007 insouthwestern SichuanProvince. The probeended its 16-monthmission on March 1,2009, when it hit the lunarsurface.

Internet

Steve Jobs gives a pressconference in

Cupertino, Californiaregarding the receptionproblems with the new

iPhone 4. Jobs saidonly 1.7 percent of USbuyers had returnedtheir iPhone 4 to US

carrier AT&T, less thana third of the returnrate for the previous

model, the iPhone 3GS.INTERNET

ScienceSmartphones boost Sony

Ericsson Q2, sees more growthInvestors uneasy as

Google costs rise

SAN FRANCISCO, 17 July—Google Inc is pumpinghundreds of millions of dollars into new businesses,but Wall Street is nervous about the ultimate payoff.

Investors sent Google shares down more than 6percent on Friday, a day after the Internet searchleader reported a surge in expenses during the secondquarter that caused it to miss profit estimates.

The miss was a rare stumble for Google, whichhas a track record of exceeding expectations.

Perhaps more worrisome to some is the sense thatGoogle is losing its position as the pace-setter in thetech industry, just as growth in its Internet searchbusiness slows. “There’s clearly uncertainty in theseother businesses,” said Pat Becker Jr, of Becker CapitalManagement, which does not own Google shares.Google has moved to position itself in the two keyparts of the Internet market: Web-connectedsmartphones and social networking services. But thecompany is playing catch-up to Apple Inc andFacebook in each area.—InternetElgato EyeTV app on iPad .—INTERNET

A construction worker walks past a logo next tothe main entrance of the Google building in

Zurich 25May, 2010.—INTERNET

STOCKHOLM, 17 July—Mobile phone maker SonyEricsson pinned its hopes on further growth in thesmartphone segment on Friday as it posted a secondconsecutive quarterly profit, driven by sales of themore expensive gadgets.

Sony Ericsson, owned jointly by Ericsson andSony Corp and which is the world’s fifth-biggesthandset maker, has cut costs and revamped itsportfolio with more phones such as the Xperia X10offering PC-like functions and links to socialnetworking sites.

After a dismal 2009 when consumers cut backon gadgets like new phones, the outlook for theindustry has started to improve and Sony Ericssonreturned to profit this year after reporting sevenstraight quarterly losses. Yet further growth willdepend on more success in the smartphone segment.

However, competition here — especially fromApple Inc’s iPhone — is intense.

Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest handset maker,issued a profit warning in June saying itssmartphones were struggling against the iPhone,while BlackBerry maker Research in Motion hasreported disappointing quarterly shipments.

“We believe the challenging market conditionswill continue in the second half of the year,”company president Bert Nordberg said in aconference call.

Internet

Technology

Apple offers free case toiPhone 4 users

A man tries an iPhone4 at the 5th Avenue

Apple Store inNew York, the United

States, in this file phototaken on 24 June,2010.—INTERNET

Alaskan glacier breaks loose from groundLOS ANGELES, 16

July— An Alaskan glacierhas lost its footing withthe seafloor and is floatingin the ocean, observationsshow. The study ofColumbia Glacier, atidewater glacier, showsthe first detailedobservation of a glacierundergoing a transitionfrom grounded tofloating, according toresearchers at the USGeological Survey(USGS) in Anchorage,Alaska.

“It’s like a bigconveyor belt pushing theice out to the sea,”glaciologist Shad O’Neelof the USGS said inremarks posted byLiveScience.com onFriday. Tidewaterglaciers flow directly intothe ocean, ending at a cliffin the sea, where icebergsare formed. Prior to thisstudy, Alaskan tidewaterglaciers were believed tobe exclusively groundedand unable to float withoutdisintegrating. The

observations haveimplications forpredicting the sea levelrise that could accompanyglobal warming and themelting of glaciers aroundthe world, the reportnoted.—Internet

SAN FRANCISCO, 17July— Apple Inc. onFriday said it will giveiPhone 4 users freepro tec t ive cases toaddress the smar t -phone’s s igna lproblem. Apple CEO

Steve Jobs made theannouncement a t apress conference helda t the company’sheadquarters in Cuper-tino, California.

“Every iPhone useris going to get a case.There will be refundsto people that alreadygot a bumper,” he said.

The p ro tec t ivecase , o r so -ca l l edbumper, now sells at 29US dollars on Apple’swebsite.

The free cases willbe p rov ided to a l liPhone 4 buyersth rough the end o fSeptember.

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Those to-die-for high heels mayalter anatomy

BOSTON, 17 July—High heels may turnheads, but new researchshows the long-termcost of wearing them iseven steeper than thesky-high price tag ofsome coveted brands.

Along with achingfeet and a variety of footdeformities, years ofhigh-heel wearing canactual ly al ter theanatomy of the calfmuscles and tendons,according to a study byresearchers in England,published online July 16in the Journal ofExperimental Biology.

Major fast food chains havereduced trans fats

NE W YO R K, 17July— New researchindicates that majorAmerican fast foodchains havesubstantially cut downon the use of unhealthfultrans fats in theircooking oils.

The finding comesfrom the University ofMinnesota’s School ofPublic Health, and isbeing reported this weekat the National NutrientDatabase conference

Health, money woes may boost bowelcancer deaths in blacks

HOUSTON, 17 July— Being poorerand having co-existing health problemsare among the reasons why blackcolorectal cancer patients have lowersurvival rates than whites or Asians inthe United States, new study findingssuggest.

In the study, researchers analyzeddata from 37,769 Medicare beneficiariesdiagnosed with stages I to III colorectalcancer between 1992 and 2002.Compared with Asians, who had thelowest risk of death, whites had a 26

percent higher risk of death, while blackshad a 56 percent higher risk, the studyauthors found.

Although being poorer and havingother medical conditions(“comorbidities”) partly explained worsesurvival rates among blacks comparedwith whites and Asians, a number ofracial and ethnic differences in colorectalcancer survival persisted and weren’tfully explained by variations in a numberof factors looked at by the researchers.

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being held in GrandForks, ND.

“While it took timefor major fast foodchains to decrease transfats in their foods, I’mpleased to see that theyhave done i t ,” LisaHarnack, director of theuniversity’s NutritionCoordinating Centre,said in a news release.

“I’m also pleased tosee that they haven’traised levels of saturatedfats to replace transfats,” she added. “Thisis good news, as theaverage American getsabout 10 percent ofcalories from fast food.

Internet

The incline of highheels causes the calfmuscles to contract.Over time, this causesthe muscle fibers toshorten and the Achillestendon to thicken, somuch so that somewomen feel pain whenthey try to walk in flatsor sneakers.

“You put on heels,you are going to deformyour body. End ofstory,” said New YorkCity podiatr is t DrJohanna Youner, aspokeswoman for theAmerican Podiatr icMedical Association

who was not involvedwith the research. “Highheels look beautiful, butthe body isn’t meant towear them. There is noway around it.”

For the study, MarcoNarici of ManchesterMetropolitan Universityand colleagues recruited80 women aged 20 to 50who had been wearingheels of at least 2 inchesalmost daily for twoyears or more.

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Health

US stocks erase week’s gain ondisappointing consumer data, revenue

expectation. The University ofMichigan’s index of consumersentiment fell to 66.5 in early July from76, showing consumers were lessoptimistic about the economic recoveryamid high unemployment rate.Meanwhile, results from some majorcompanies cast shadows over themarket. Citigroup settled down 6.25 afterreporting second-quarter results thatshowed profits dropped 38 percent to 2.73billion US dollars, or 9 cents per share.Revenues fell 33 percent, more thananalysts’ average estimates.

Bank of America, the nation’slargest lender by assets, tumbled 9.16percent to end at 13.98 dollars per share,as it disappointed investors with itslackluster performance across nearlyall business lines. —Xinhua

Screens show the stocks index in theNew York Stock Exchange inNew York, the United States,

16 July, 2010.XINHUA

Gold closes at the lowest level in eight weeksCHICAGO, 17 July—

Gold futures on theCOMEX Division of theNew York MercantileExchange ended muchlower on Friday, as USconsumer price extended

NEW YORK, 17 July— Wall Streetfell sharply on Friday, erasing the wholeweek’s gains, after newly released resultsfrom big companies and a gauge ofconsumer sentiment fell short of market

Business

Russia signs key gas agreementwith Bulgaria

SOFIA, 17 July—Russia signed akey a g r e e m e n t S a t u r d a y w i t hBulgaria to speed up work on itsSouth Stream gas pipeline projectas Sofia vied to secure lower pricesfor its gas deliveries, state BTA

Map of northern Europe showing theroute of the planned South Stream

and Nabucco gas pipelines.INTERNET

losses and the consumersentiment index slumped.Silver and platinum bothdropped. The most activegold contract for Augustdelivery plunged 20.1 USdollars, or 1.7 percent, to

finish at 1,188.2 dollars, thelowest settlement pricesince 21 May. US LabourDepartment reported onFriday that the consumerprices dropped 0.1 percentin June, the thirdconsecutive monthly dropfollowing a 0.2 percent fallin May and a 0.1 percentdrop in April, whichdragged down the annual

inflation rate to an eight-month low.

The continued declinein consumer pricesworsened investors’ fearthat the strength in USeconomic recovery is notstrong enough, anddeflation may pose a threatfor the struggling USeconomy.

Xinhua

news agency reported.B u l g a r i a n E c o n o m y a n d

Energy Minister Traicho Traikova n d R u s s i a n E n e r g y M i n i s t e rSergey Shmatko signed a “roadm a p ” f o r a c c e l e r a t i n g S o u t hStream in Bulgaria’s Black Searesort of Varna in a ceremony alsoat tended by Bulgar ian PremierBoyko Borisov, BTA said, but didn o t i m m e d i a t e l y p r o v i d e a n yfurther details.

The document was expected tomap out a timetable for preparing thepreliminary feasibility study for theproject to channel an annual 63 billioncubic metres of Russian gas to Europeunder the Black Sea.

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A vendor carries

plastic balls to sell

in a market in the

northern Indian

city of Allahabad

on 17 July , 2010.

INTERNET

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Prime MinisterU Thein Sein…

(from page 1)including K 360 mil-lion each donated bytwo wel lwishers , K120 mil l ion by one

Prime MinisterU Thein Sein accepts

cash donations forMyanmar Border and

Hilly RegionsTheravada Buddhist

Sasana NuggahaAssociation by a

wellwisher.MNA

A wellwisher presents cash donations to thefunds of Myanmar Border and Hilly RegionsTheravada Buddhist Sasana Nuggaha Asso-

ciation through Prime MinisterU Thein Sein.—MNA

Minister U Maung Maung Swe accepts cash donations for MyanmarBorder and Hilly Regions Theravada Buddhist Sasana Nuggaha Asso-

ciation by a wellwisher.—MNA

Deputy MinisterU Tin Ngwe accepts

cash donations forMyanmar Borderand Hilly Regions

Theravada BuddhistSasana NuggahaAssociation by

wellwishers.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17July— Director-General UKyaw Kyaw Win of theState Peace and

SPDC Office plants trees in 2010 rainy season

Development CouncilOffice, officers and staff’sfamilies participated in therainy season tree growing

ceremony 2010 at itsoffice, here, this morning.

The Director-Generalgrew a mahogany saplingand looked intoparticipation of thosepresent in the tree plantingceremony.

The SPDC Officegrew mahogany, teak,ironwood, gum-kinosaplings and vegetables atthe ceremony.

MNA

Director-General U Kyaw Kyaw Win of SPDC Office views active par-ticipation of staff in rainy season tree growing ceremony 2010.—MNA

YANGON, 17 July—Bagan Publ ishingHouse has publishedNga Tungar andbrothers and Magazineshor t novels byHsinbyugyun AungThein, Short Storiesabout Maung SeinThaung and Ma Hnin Yiby Maung Wunna, andHero & Evil’s Head andother articles by Nanda

Bagan publishes Hsinbyugyun AungThein, Maung Wunna, Nanda Win

Win (IM-1).Nga Tungar is Ko

Hsay Yoe’s brother butthe two have nothing incommon. It seems thatthe name Nga Tungarsounds as if it has as t ronger sense oft radi t ion of CentralRegion of Myanmarthan the name Ko HsayYoe. Readers who werefascinated by stories ofKo Hsay Yoe mayembrace traditions andcustoms of people fromCentra l Region ofMyanmar in NgaTungar and brothers.

The second one isselected shorts storiesabout Maung SeinThaung and Ma Hnin Yidescribed in magazinespubl ished between

1980 and 1986 whereasthe las t one i s thecollected short storiesand ar t ic les on theauthor’s socia l andreligious beliefs.

The copies areavailable at Room A 5,Building 4, YankinCentre, Saya San Road,Yankin Township, here,Ph: 095110038 and544321.—MNA

w e l l w i s h e r , K 1 0 0m i l l i o n b y o n ewellwisher, K 50 mil-l i o n e a c h b y f o u rwellwishers, K 41 mil-l i o n b y o n ewellwisher, K 30 mil-l i o n b y o n ewellwisher, 50 com-puters worth K 30 mil-lion by one wellwisherand cash dona t ionsfrom States and Divi-sions.—MNA

MTMA members leave forShanghai World Expo

YANGON, 17 July— Chairman of MyanmarTimber Merchants Association U Sein Lwin, GeneralSecretary U Nay Tun Min, executives and officialsconcerned saw off a 16 member delegation led by CECmember of MTMA U Min Thein on its departure forChina to visit Shanghai World Expo at YangonInternational Airport this afternoon.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 17July—Minister forProgress of BorderAreas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs Chairman of

Nay Pyi Taw Water Fountain Garden (Annex)Recreation Centre inaugurated

Garden, the minister andguests enjoyed the sceneand visited the garden.

The recreat ioncentre opened today islocated on 60 acres of

Moreover, sweet soundsof birds, streams andwildlife are created forpublic relaxation.

A 3.8 acres widelake is installed with 24-

ray LED light spectrumfor illumination at thewater surface at night.Arrangements havebeen made for visitorsto enjoy boat-rowing atthe lake.

A 40 feet high four-storey tower was builton the hill of Nay PyiTaw Water FountainGarden (Annex)Recreation Centre.

Visitors can enjoythe scenic beauty of thewhole garden in additionto that of UppatasantiPagoda, City Hall, OpenAir Theatre, ThabyegonMarket, AungthabyeModern Cinema, GemsMuseum, RoyalMyanmar Golf Course,Hluttaw, housings andstaff housings.

MNA

Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Com-mittee Mayor U TheinNyunt at tended theopening of Nay Pyi TawWater Fountain Garden(Annex) Recreat ionCentre, here, thismorning.

Director-General UMyo Myint ofDevelopment AffairsDepartment, Joint-Secretary of NDC U WinHtay and U Than WinSwe of FCGC Coformally opened therecreation centre.

The ministerunveiled the signboardof the recreation centre.

From of the towerof the Water Fountain

land next to WaterFountain Garden Part II.

The Nay Pyi TawWater Fountain Garden(Annex) Recreat ionCentre was constructedwith the aim of enablingthe holiday-makers toenjoy the natural scenesand mobilizing them toconserve theenvironments.

Flowery plants andperennial trees such asteak, i ronwood,windbreakers and otherspecies of trees aregrown in the garden(annex). In addition, thegarden is facilitatedwith small halls, naturalstone chairs, statues ofwildlife and pavements.

Goose-shape small boats seen at the lake of Nay Pyi Taw WaterFountain Garden (Annex) Recreation Centre.—MNA

Four storey-tower of Nay Pyi Taw WaterFountain Garden (Annex) Recreation Centre.

MNA

Photo shows lake and scenic beauty of its environs at Nay Pyi Taw Water Fountain Garden(Annex) Recreation Centre.—MNA

Information, F&R, Labour win over opponentsNAY PYI TAW, 17

July—Jointly organizedby the Ministry of Sportsand Myanmar Football

Federation, the firstround matches of the 4th

Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry Football

Tournament continuedat the designated placesthis afternoon.

Among the

spectators were DeputyMinister for Finance andRevenue U Hla TheinSwe, off icials of

ministries and staff.Information Minis-

try routed Electr icPower No. 1 Ministry 5-1 in the group F; Finance

and Revenue Ministrytrounced ReligiousAffairs Ministry 5-0 inthe group G; and LabourMinistry edged outSupreme Court 5-2 inthe group G.

The matches on 20July are: DefenceMinistry vs Immigrationand Population Ministryin the group H, HealthMinistry vs ForeignAffairs Ministry in thegroup G and Industry-1Ministry vsCooperatives Ministryin the group A.

MNAPlayers of Information Ministry and Electric Power No. 1 Ministry vying for the ball in Group F match.—MNA

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Article: Kayan Soe Myint: Photos: Construction & Moe Myint Hlaing

Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung Road brings national brethren closer together

(from page 1)(13), we arrived in Nay PyiTaw to attend theinauguration of 20 milesand three furlongs longNay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung (Kintha-Koegway) section asphaltroad. We were in the cardriven by Junior Engineer-I (Civil) U Than Aye. Westarted the trip from Kinthaand passed Shan villagesnamely Lonehto, Letsweand Zadin. We werewelcomed at Koegway bySenior Engineer U MyintOo and introduced us to

Superintending Engineer UKyaw Shein of Shan State(South) Public Works. Atthe invitation of thesuperintending engineer,we proceeded to Pinlaungfrom Koegway.

It was amagnificent scene. Beinga journalist, I had mademany trips to variousregions. I had never seenthe magnificent scene ofNay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung hilly roadbefore. As the road wasconstructed along thehilly areas, we can see

the natural scenes of thearea from the car. As itwas early rainy season,we felt fresh due tosounds of the streams andsweet smell of forestflowers.

After passingTaungkya Village, westopped over at a hotspring under supervisionof the Ministry forProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs. Weleft the hot spring andcontinued the trip. Afterpassing Moeton and

Lonke, we arrived inLeinli. We sawconstruction of asuspension bridge whichcan withstand 75-tonloads of single vehicle.The bridge will be thehighest facilitythroughout the nation. Atpresent, the bridge isunder construction ofPublic Works.

We came backfrom Leinli suspensionbridge after observingthe Nay Pyi TawPyinmana-Pinlaung roadbecause we had to attend

the inaugurationceremony of Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana-Pinlaung( K i n t h a - K o e g w a y )section the next day.

We wavedgoodbye to Shan villagesnamely Nanpan, Konsi,Zaka and Yinhmi fromLeinli Suspension Bridge.

On 3 July 2010,a ceremony to inaugurateNay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung (Kintha-Koegway) sectionasphalt road took place atMingala pavilion at themile post 0/0 of the road.

I was among the localpeople attending theceremony.

Before cuttingthe ribbon to open theroad, Commander ofNay Pyi Taw CommandMaj-Gen Wai Lwindelivered an address. Hequoted the guidancegiven by Head of StateSenior General ThanShwe saying that thetransport sector plays apivotal role in building amodern nation andpromoting thelivelihoods of thepeople; and only whenthere is better transport,will economic and socialsectors develop. Thecommander continued tosay that extendedconstruction of roads andbridges creates atransport network amongStates and Divisionsthereby contributingmuch toward smoothflow of commodities andconvenient transport ofpassengers.

Therefore, hesaid the government hasspent a large sum ofmoney on constructionof roads and bridges. Heurged the local people toextend cultivation ofexport item crops toincrease their income.Nowadays, thegovernment has adoptedplans and isimplementing them tohand down fine legacyto the new generationsand to develop humanresources, he added.

(See page 9)

Minister for Construction U Khin Maung Myint speaking at inauguration of Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung (Kintha-Koegway) sectionasphalt road and local people attending the opening ceremony.

Kintha-Koegway road section has been upgraded for development of regions and ensuring better transport byovercoming natural barriers of mountain ranges.

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Article: Kayan Soe Myint: Photos: Construction & Moe Myint Hlaing

Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung Road brings national brethren closer together

(from page 8)As Nay Pyi TawPyinmana-P in l aung( K i n t h a - K o e g w a y )section is a goodfoundation for regionaldevelopment, he urgedthose present to helpmaintain and safeguardthe facility for itsdurability.

In his address,Minister forConstruction U KhinMaung Myint explainedfacts about the asphaltroad and itscharacteristics. He saidthat in accord with theguidance of the Head ofState, the Ministry ofConstruction isundertaking con-struction of roads andbridges. So far, theMinistry of Constructionhas built additional 7726miles and two furlongstotaling 21361 miles andtwo furlongs long roadscompared with 13635miles long roads before1988. Moreover, theministry accepted 1147miles and one furlonglong road transferred byDirectorate of MilitaryEngineers of the

Ministry of Defence andother ministries in 2009-2010 financial year. Inaccord with the guidanceof the Head of State, 125miles and one furlonglong Pyay-Paukkaung-Toungoo asphalt roadwas successfullycommissioned intoservice on 24 March2010. Likewise, 96 mileslong Pathein-Thalakkhwa-Mawtinsunroad, the 9th facility of 10main roads network inthe Ayeyawady Delta,was successfully openedon 14 May 2010. Theroad was constructedwithin five months and14 days, he said.

He noted that NayPyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung (Kintha-Koegway) section is 20miles and three furlongslong and 18 feet wide.The road area is 34 feetwide and some areas, 40feet wide. In the past, theroad was a 12 feet widegravel facility and someparts of it were steep. Inaccord with the guidanceof Head of State SeniorGeneral Than Shwe, theMinistry of Construction

started upgrading theroad to the asphaltfacility from 12 feetwide one to 18 feet widefacility on 8 August2009 for running ofpassenger buses.

In some sections,rocky grounds wereexploded to constructthe road. The uphill anddownhil l roads andbends of the road were

changed into improvedones. Along the road,wooden bridges wereupgraded to reinforcedconcrete facilities. Itwas a major road to linkNay Pyi Taw and ShanState (South). Thealready-opened 20miles and three furlongslong road section is partof 70 miles and twofurlongs long Nay Pyi

Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung Road.Concerted efforts arebeing made for theremaining sect ion(Koegway-Pinlaung)soonest, he concluded.

The already-inaugurated Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana-Pinlaung( K i n t h a - K o e g w a y )section asphalt road is20 miles and three

furlongs long and 18feet wide. The projectstarted on 20 August2009. It was supervisedby Deputy ChiefEngineer U Thein Zawof Road ConstructionGroup (13) of PublicWorks and assisted bysenior engineers,assistant engineers andworkers of Nay PyiTaw District PublicWorks, AirportConstruction SpecialGroup (2), BuildingConstruction SpecialGroups (3) and (5).

It was learnt thatthe remaining sectionof the road to Pinlaungwill be upgraded to the18 feet wide asphaltfacility. On completion,the national peoplefrom various regionscan travel to Taunggyiof Shan State (South)and Loikaw of KayahState along theupgraded road facilityvia Nay Pyi TawPyinmana-Tatkon so asto promote trading ofdomestic goods.Indeed, the betterfacilities of transportnetwork will enhancefriendly relationshipamong the nationalbrethren.

********Translation: TTAKyemon: 17-7-2010

Commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin and ministers stroll alongNay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung (Kintha-Koegway) section asphalt road.

Photo shows a part of Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung (Kintha-Koegway) section asphalt road.

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CA M B R I D G E, 17 July — BPBiofuels North America, a unit of oilgiant BP, acquired the cellulosicbiofuels business of Verenium Corpfor $98.3 million, the two companiesannounced on Thursday.

The agreement gives BP controlof Verenium’s research anddevelopment facilities in San Diegoand a pilot plant and demonstration-scale faci l i ty in Jennings, LaCambridge, Mass-based Vereniumwill retain control of its commercialenzyme operations as well as selectresearch and developmentcapabilities.

Venezuelan folk artists perform during the international folk dance festivalin Mexico City, on 16 July, 2010. —XINHUA

FRANKFURT, 17 July—German automotivegiant Daimler postedstrong quarterly figuresFriday on the back ofsoaring demand for itsMercedes cars and trucks,a weaker euro boostingexports and cost cuttingmeasures.

Daimler reported asecond quarter operatingprofit of 2.1 billion euros(2.7 billion dollars),reversing a year-earlierloss of one billion eurosand exceeding marketexpectations. The groupsaid its sales in the threemonths to June jumped to25.1 billion euros from19.6 billion euros a yearearlier. The results wereled by Mercedes-BenzCars, Daimler’s autodivision, a statement said.

Workers spray blue paint on the ground of the Times Square in New York, theUS, on 15 July, 2010. Titled “Cool Water, Hot Island,” the public art project

focuses on the urban heat-island effect, where cities tend to experience warmertemperatures than rural settings. The proposed design’s colour paint of striking

blues and light hues reflects more sunlight and absorbs less heat, improvingthe look of these popular pedestrian plazas while making them more

comfortable places to sit. The colours and patterns evoke water, suggesting ariver flowing through the centre of Times Square, “cooling” pedestrians here

in hot weather. —XINHUA

HONG KONG, 17 July— An earthquake measuring5.0 on the Richter scale jolted eastern New Guinea,Papua New Guinea at 0103 GMT on Saturday, theUS Geological Survey said.

The epicentre, with a depth of 69.8 km, wasinitially determined to be at 5.736 degrees southlatitude and 147.134 degrees east longitude, 114 kmnorth of Lae, Papua New Guinea. —Xinhua

ATHENS, 17 July—An earthquake measuring 5.1degrees on Richter scale was recorded on Fridayevening in the Aegean Sea, northeastern of Greekcapital Athens. It follows another tremor whichshook southeastern Aegean Sea earlier in the day.According to the Euro-Mediterranean GeodynamicInstitute, Friday evening’s earthquake occurred at9:53 pm local time ( 1853 GMT) and was recordednear the islands of Skopelos and Alonissos at a depthof 10 kilometers.

The tremor was felt in a major part of centralGreece, including Athens and according toinformation from Greek media there were no injuriesor damage caused.

The earthquake which was felt in Kos islandearlier on Friday noon measured 5.3 on the Richterscale at a depth of 180 kilometers and also did notcause any damage or injuries.—Xinhua

BP invests $98.3 in biofuels company

Strong Mercedes sales powerDaimler profits

An old man view the Racing Green Endurance(RGE), one of the world’s fastest electric cars, indowntown Vancouver, Canada, on 16 July, 2010.

The car arrived in Vancouver on Friday on thefull Pan-American Highway journey from Alaska,

the United States to Argentina. It was convertedfrom a gas powered race car by students from theImperial College London. Using batteries made byChina Thunder Sky Battery Limited, it’s one of theworld’s fastest electric cars with top speeds of up

to 200 km per hour. The designers hope the 84-dayand 26,000-km journey will add excitement and

interest in electric vehicles while promotinginnovation in green technologies.

XINHUA

5.0-magnitude earthquake hitsPapua New Guinea

Magnitude-5.1 earthquakerecorded in Aegean Sea, Greece

The unit posted salesof 14 billion euros andearnings before interestand taxes (EBIT) of 1.38billion euros, owing tostronger demand,“especially in China andthe United States,” it said.Other factors given were“an advantageousproduct mix as well asbetter price penetrationand positive exchangeeffects” as the eurodeclined in value againstother major currencies.

Internet

Cellulosic biofuels are usuallymade from grass, wood chips oragricultural waste and are seen as analternat ive to more prevalentalternative fuels made from corn andother food crops.

“This acquisition demonstratesBP’s intent to be a leader in thecellulosic biofuels industry in the USand positions us as one of the fewglobal companies with an integratedend-to-end capability, from R&Dthrough commercial izat ion todistribution and blending,” said PhilipNew, chief executive of BP Biofuelsin a statement.—Internet

Regulators shut banks in Fla,Mich, SC

W A S H I N G T O N , 1 7July— Regulators onFriday shut down threebanks in Florida, twoin South Carolina ando n e i n M i c h i g a n ,b r i n g i n g t o 9 6 t h enumber of US banks tosuccumb this year tot h e r e c e s s i o n a n dm o u n t i n g l o a ndefaults.

T h e F e d e r a lD e p o s i t I n s u r a n c eCorp on Friday tooko v e r t h e b a n k s :W o o d l a n d s B a n k ,b a s e d i n B l u f f t o n ,S C , w i t h $ 3 7 6 . 2m i l l i o n i n a s s e t s ;First National Bank

of the South, basedin Spartanburg, SC,with $682 mill ion ina s s e t s ; a n dM a i n s t r e e t S a v i n g sB a n k o f H a s t i n g s ,M i c h , w i t h $ 9 7 . 4mill ion in assets .

T h e F D I C a l s ose ized Miami-basedMetro Bank of DadeCounty, with assetso f $ 4 4 2 . 3 m i l l i o n ;T u r n b e r r y B a n k o fAventura, Fla, assetso f $ 2 6 3 . 9 m i l l i o n ;a n d O l d e C y p r e s sCommunity Bank ofClewiston, Fla, assetsof $168.7 million.

Internet

CLEVELAND, 17 July—US researchers saythey are uncovering themechanism linking ahigh-fat diet and prostateillnesses.

Researchers at CaseWestern ReserveUniversity in Clevelandsay they are learning whydiet is considered one ofthe most controllable riskfactors for prostatediseases such as benignprostatic hyperplasia,prostatitis and prostatecancer. The study,published in The Prostate,explains how high fat inthe diet causes increasesin a protein complex thatcontrols DNAtranscription active inpromoting tumourprogre-ssion.—Internet

High-fat diet islinked to

prostate ills

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ANKARA, 17 July —Two people were killed and four others injured on Fridaywhen an air tank exploded at the metro construction site in western Turkey, thesemi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

The explosion took place in Izmir city of Izmir Province, said Anatolia, addingreporters are not being allowed to enter the site of the explosion.

Adnan Oguz Akyarli, a senior official of Izmir city, said Izmir mayor AzizKocaoglu had went to the explosion site immediately.

Walls of surrounding buildings cracked and glasses were broken due to theexplosion.—Xinhua

Two killed, four injured in metro blast inTurkey

The metro constructionsite is seen after anexplosion in Izmir,western Turkey, on16 July , 2010. Two

people were killed andfour others injured on

Friday when an air tankexploded at the metroconstruction site in

Izmir.XINHUA

ZAMBOANGA, 17 July — A Japanese man whowent missing on a remote southern Philippineisland may have been kidnapped, authorities saidSaturday.

Amer Katayama Mamaito was last seen onPangutaran island in the Sulu archipelago earlyFriday, said Chief Inspector Amil Banaan, Sulu’sdeputy police chief.

The area is a stronghold of Abu Sayyafmilitants who have kidnapped foreign tourists andmissionaries in the past. Police are investigatingunverified reports that he left the island with aboutten gunmen.

“Our forces are still out and searching for theforeigner. We still have no reports about hiswhereabouts,” Banaan told reporters by telephoneon Saturday afternoon, more than 30 hours afterthe man’s reported disappearance.

It was unclear why the foreigner was in thearea. The Sulu group is regarded as one of the AbuSayyaf’s strongholds and is extremely dangerousfor foreigners.

Regional military commander Lieutenant-General Ben Dolorfino said there were suggestionsthe missing man is a treasure hunter.

Internet

Japanese man fearedkidnapped in Philippines

A navy cutter is seen patrolling the shores of a fishing village in the southernPhilippine Province of Sulu. The Sulu archipelago is regarded as one of the

Abu Sayyaf’s strongholds and is extremely dangerous for foreigners.INTERNET

SANNA, 17 July—Eight more people werekilled by torrential rainsand ensuing flash floodsin several Yemeniprovinces on Friday,raising the death toll ofthe disaster to 23, theflood control authoritysaid.

Four people,including a 27-year-oldwoman, were drowned asheavy floods swept thestreets and trappeddrivers in their vehiclesin Hajja Province,northwest of the capitalSanaa, said the floodcontrol authority of theInterior Ministry.

Xinhua

Death tollrises to 23

from Yemenfloods, heavy

rains

OTTAWA, 17 July —A small plane crashed inCanada’s QuebecProvince on Friday,killing four people onboard and injured the resttwo.

At the time the pilotwas trying to land near alake in the region ofMar i a -Chapde l a ine ,north of Lac Saint-Jean,due to bad weather,according to theCanadian BroadcastingCorporation (CBC).

A Griffon helicopter

Small plane crash kills four,hurts two in Canada’s Quebec

Residents stand on a partially destroyed wharfnear a capsized ship after Typhoon Conson hit

Mariveles, Bataan, north of Manila on 15 July, 2010.

INTERNET

from a Canadian ForcesBase (CFB) inBagotville, Quebec,rushed to the scene andtransported the injured toa hospital in Chicoutimi,CBC quoted local policeas saying.

Earlier, a C-130Hercules sent from aCFB in Trenton, OntarioProvince, dropped twomedics by parachutes toprepare to havecasualties transportedaway by otherhelicopters.—Xinhua

WELLINGTON, 17 July— A second seriouscrash has left up to sixpeople injured in NewZealand North Island’sBay of Plenty onSaturday afternoon,police said.

It came after a vancrash early Saturday left12 teenagers injured,some seriously, south ofNorth Island touristresort city of Rotorua.

The second crashhappened on StateHighway 2 at Pukehina,about 20 km east of TePuke. The vehicle wentout of control nearOtamarakau Marae, leftthe road and ended up ina paddock.—Xinhua

18 injured in twotraffic accidentsin New Zealand

ISTANBUL, 17 July — Simultaneous sound bombs were exploded last night infront of two municipal buildings in Istanbul’s Esenyurt District on the Europeanside, a report said here Friday.

Local Turkish channel CNN Turk reported that unidentified assailants leftsound bombs in front of the Esenyurt Post Office and the health centre, injuringnone but causing some slight property damage and panic in the surroundingneighbourhoods. Many police arrived on the scene and analysis of the bombsshowed that they were sound bombs, according to the report.

Some windows were broken in both the post office and the health centre.Police are investigating to find those who planted the bombs. —Xinhua

Sound bombs go off in Istanbul municipal buildingsFirefighters work at thescene where a blast took

place in Dalian, acoastal city in northeast

China’s LiaoningProvince, on 16 July,

2010. Flames thatengulfed a port in

Dalian were basicallyextinguished Saturday

morning, 15 hours afterblasts hit two oil

pipelines.XINHUA

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Goldman paying $550M tosettle civil fraud charges

Elderly couple dies while trapped in home elevator

In this undated photo provided by theWadsworth family shows Sherwood

and Caroline Wadsworth.—INTERNET

European stocks up as euro heads to $1.30

Women watch the electronic stockboard of a securities firm in

Tokyo.—INTERNET

Goldman to pay $550Mto settle fraud

charges.—INTERNET

Germany, China sign billions of dollars in deals

German Chancellor Angela Merkel,second from left, inspects Chinese

Guard of Honour with ChinesePremier.—INTERNET

Congress acts, but bank bill has work ahead

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,D-Calif, centre, reaches out to Rep.

Barney Frank, D-Mass, left, SenChristopher.—INTERNET

Minorearthquakerattles theDC area

WASHINGTON, 17July— A minor earth-quake shook residentsawake in the DC areaearly Friday.

The quake hit at 5:04am EDT and had a mag-nitude of 3.6.

The quake wascentered in the Rockville,Md, area said RandyBaldwin, a physicist withUS Geological Survey’sNational Earthquake In-formation Center.

Police in Washingtonand in nearbyMontgomery County,Md., said there were noimmediate reports of inju-ries or damage.

On the US GeologicalSurvey’s website, peopleas far away as Pennsyl-vania and West Virginiareported feeling thequake.

Lucille Baur, publicinformation officer forthe Montgomery CountyPolice Department, saidthe department received alot of calls from peoplewondering what had hap-pened.

Internet

BEIJING, 17 July—Chinese and Ger-man companies signed deals worth bil-lions of dollars to make trucks andpower equipment on Friday as the primeministers declared their countries’

economies had recovered from lastyear’s global recession.

German Chancellor Angela Merkelbrought the heads of major German cor-porations with her on a four-day visit toChina, underscoring the robust businessties between the two export power-houses.

Merkel and Chinese Premier WenJiabao have met frequently in recentyears and agreed to work together toguide a recovery from the global eco-nomic crisis.

“China and Germany have passed atesting period of crisis and turbulence,”Wen announced after he and Merkel re-viewed an honour guard at a welcome cer-emony at the Great Hall of the People.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 17 July—In the end, it’sonly a beginning.The far-reaching newbanking and consumer protection billawaiting President Barack Obama’s sig-

nature now shifts from the politicians tothe technocrats. The legislation givesregulators latitude and time to come upwith new rules, requires scores of studiesand, in some instances, depends on inter-national agreements falling into place.

For Wall Street, the next phase repre-sents continuing uncertainty. It also of-fers banks and other financial institutionsyet another opportunity to influence andshape the rules that govern their busi-nesses.

In hailing the bill’s passage in theSenate on Thursday, Treasury SecretaryTimothy Geithner acknowledged that im-plementing the new law will take time.

“But we are determined to move asquickly as we can to provide clarity andcertainty,” he said.—Internet

ST STMONS ISLAND, 17 July—Whenthe elevator in their home got stuck be-tween floors, Sherwood and CarolineWadsworth found themselves trappedwith no way to call for help as tempera-tures rose into the 90s in the closet-sizedlift until they finally died from heat ex-haustion.

Autopsies on the elderly couple —he was 90, she was 89 — on Thursdaypointed to a tragic end to lives they

shared for more than 60 years. Police es-timated they had been dead at least fourdays before a newspaper carrier called911 out of concern that papers had piledup by their garage.

Investigators were trying to determinewhat turned an elevator into a death trapinside the Wadsworths’ three-storeyhome overlooking Georgia’s coastalmarshes. Stunned family members,meanwhile, looked for a shred of solace.

“We always said we hoped theywould go together because if one went,the other wouldn’t survive long,” thecouple’s son, Wesley Wadsworth of BlueBell, Penn, said on Thursday. “They wereso dependent on each other.”

The newspaper carrier called policeon Wednesday after noticing the un-opened editions going back to July 9, aswell as an untouched watermelon aneighbour had left at the couple’s doorthe day before.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 17July—Resolving a high-profile government caselinked to the mortgagemeltdown, GoldmanSachs & Co. has agreed topay a record $550 millionto settle civil fraud chargesthat it misled buyers ofcomplex investments.

The Securities and Ex-change Commission an-nounced the settlement onThursday with the WallStreet titan, just hours af-ter Congress gave final ap-proval to legislation im-posing the stiffest restric-tions on banks and WallStreet firms since the GreatDepresssion.

For Goldman, it was achance to put behind it acase that had tarnished itsreputation after it emergedrelatively unscathed from

the financial crisis. For theSEC, emerging from theembarrassment of a seriesof lapses, the charges andthe settlement were a high-stakes opportunity toprove it could be tough onWall Street.

And the agency’ssweeping investigation ofthe conduct of financialfirms in the run-up to themortgage market collapsecould bring more cases.

The deal calls forGoldman to pay a $535million fine and $15 mil-lion in restitution of fees itcollected. Of the total $550million, $300 million willgo to the government and$250 million goes to com-pensate two Europeanbanks that lost money ontheir investments.

Internet

Kenyan police arrest suspectin Uganda bombings

LONDON, 17 July—European stockmarkets rose on Friday, helped by alate rally on Wall Street overnight,while the euro headed towards $1.30for the first time in over three monthsamid mounting concerns about thepace of the US economic recovery.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index ofleading British shares was up 44.98points, or 0.9 percent, at 5,256.27while Germany’s DAX rose 26.95points, or 0.4 percent, to 6,176.31.The CAC-40 in France was 18.34points, or 0.5 percent, higher at3,600.16.

Wall Street was poised for a sub-dued opening despite Thursday’s laterally, which limited the damage froma pair of extremely disappointing USmanufacturing surveys — Dow fu-tures were down 21 points, or 0.2 per-cent, at 10,271 while the broaderStandard & Poor’s 500 futures fell 0.9point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,089.50.

Mitul Kotecha, an analyst at CreditAgricole, said stock markets aroundthe world have been saved “from too

much of a beating” by the release ofbetter than expected earnings from JPMorgan Chase & Co. as well as the$550 million agreement betweenGoldman Sachs Group Inc. and regu-lators to settle civil fraud charges andnews from BP PLC that it has tempo-rarily stemmed the flow of oil from theleak from its Gulf well.

Internet

Del. church mournsman killed in Uganda

blast.—INTERNET

NAIROBI, 17 July—AKenyan official says po-lice have arrested a suspectin connection with theUganda bomb attacks dur-ing the World Cup final.

Northeastern Provin-cial Commissioner Jamesole Seriani says a man witha satellite phone and dig-ital camera was arrested ata police checkpoint onWednesday near theKenya-Somalia border.

Police say the man saidhe supported Somalia’s al-Qaeeda linked group, al-Shabab, despite his claimto be a member of theUgandan army.

Seriani said on Friday

that police officers are in-terrogating the man to de-termine his nationality.

Kenya beefed up its se-curity along its porous bor-der with Somalia after al-Shabab claimed responsi-bility for Sunday’s twinblasts in Uganda that killed76 people who werewatching the World Cupfinal.—Internet

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BEIJING, 17 July— Andy Lau andGong Li, both highly popular amongChinese movie-goers, will collaboratefor the first time on a romantic comedythat is a Chinese remake of the Americanfilm “What Women Want”, Sohu.comreports.

Lau and Gong appeared togetheron Wednesday in Beijing to introducethe film to local media.

In the movie, Lau will play amanager at an advertising firm who canread women’s minds. He uses the abilityto tackle his boss, played by Gong Li,but ends up falling in love with her.Previous reports suggested that MelGibson, who starred in the originalversion of the movie, was likely tomake a guest appearance in the Chineseremake.

Filming is underway.—Xinhua

Andy Lau, Gong Li to collaboratefor 1st time

Andy Lau and Gong LiXINHUA

TUNIS, 17 July—The Centre of Arab and Mediterranean Music in Tunis haswon the Arab Academy of Music (AAM) award for the year 2009.

Perched on the hills of Sidi Bou Said, north of Tunis, the Centre which is alsoknown as “Ennejma Ezzahra” has been a source of inspiration for generations ofTunisian musicians and musical historians. It is the third time Tunisia is honored,after two Tunisia musical scholars Saleh El Mahdi and Mahmoud Qtat receivedthe prize in 1999 and 2002 respectively.

The AAM, which is placed under the aegis of the Arab League andheadquartered in Cairo, distinguishes each year scholars, composers, singers andmusical institutions that have contributed to promote Arab traditional music.

Xinhua

Tunisian group wins Arab music award

BEIJING, 17 July— Oscar winning actor MelGibson and former girlfriend Oksana Grigorievacontinued fighting over custody of their nine-month-old baby daughter, media reported onThursday.

The two now shares custody of the child. Lawyersfor both parties attended a hearing in a courtroom inLos Angeles. Presented were also detectives andpolice officers. Some of them were from unitsinvestigating child abuse, sexual assault and domesticviolence.

Steve Whitmore, spokesman for LA sheriff, toldPeople Magazine that tapes of the leaked phoneconversations in which the actor allegedly threatenedand cursed his former girlfriend were handed over tothe detectives.

“The tapes will be analyzed by our detectives.But they are not the central focus of the investigation,they’re just part and parcel of it,” he said. He alsoassured that the reliability of the tapes will beverified.—Xinhua

Gibson, girlfriend continuefight over child custody

Actor Mel Gibson (R) and Oksana Grigorieva poseduring the Spanish premiere of the film “Edge of

Darkness” in Madrid on 1 February, 2010.XINHUA

Pinkhospitalized

after stage fall

Pink appears backstageat the 52nd annual

Grammy Awards at theStaples Center in Los

Angeles on 31January, 2010.

INTERNET

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry isaccepting applications from people willing to spend amonth living at the facility for a $10,000 paycheck.

The Museum of Science and Industry said it isaccepting applications on the Web sitemonthatthemuseum.org from people interested inspending 30 full days and nights at the facility andposting about the experience on YouTube, Twitter anda blog, the Chicago Tribune reported on Friday.

The museum said the chosen applicant will use afurnished 16-foot-by-16-foot glass exhibit an office,where museum officials will post a to-do list for the day.“You don’t have to be Einstein to take part in Month atthe Museum,” said Rob Gallas, vice president and chiefmarketing officer for the museum. “Lacking basicscience knowledge is not a deal-breaker.”“It’s ourversion of a reality show,” he said. “But it’s not‘Survivor.’”

Museum offers $10,000 tostay 30 days

The ship was buriedas junk two centuriesago — landf i l l toexpand a bustling littleis land of commercecal led Manhat tan .When it re-emerged thisweek, surrounded byskyscrapers, it was aninstant treasure thatpopped up from the mudnear ground zero.

A 32-foot piece ofthe vessel was foundin soil 20 feet unders t r e e t l e v e l , a m i dn o i s y b u l l d o z e r sexcavating a parkinggarage for the futureWorld Trade Centre.Near the s i te of somany grim finds —1 1 S e p t . v i c t i m s ’remains, twisted steel— this discovery wasas unexpected as i twas thri l l ing.

Historians say theship, believed to date tothe 1700s, was defunctby the time it was usedaround 1810 to extend

Ship junked 200 years ago uncovered atWTC site

Archaeologists examine the remnants of acenturies old wooden ship at the World Trade

Center site in lower Manhattan in New York on 15July, 2010. The decayed hull of the ship was

unearthed at the World Trade Centre constructionsite, providing a glimpse into the history of

Manhattan, archeologists said. The ship likelydated back at least 200 years when part of the riverwas filled in with trash, debris and wooden beams

in order to expand a fast-growing Manhattan.

the shores of lowerManhattan.

“ A s h i p i s t h esummit of what youmight find under theWorld Trade Centre —i t ’ s exc i t ing!” sa idMolly McDonald, an

Idaho treedecorated with

shoes since1940s burns

Singers perform on a giantfloating stage at Lake

Constance during a dressrehearsal of Giuseppe

Verdi’s “Aida” in Bregenzon 16 July , 2010. The

opera, directed by Britishdirector Graham Vick, will

have its premiere on 22 July at the annual

Bregenz festival. The ‘shoe tree,’ abeloved Priest Riverlandmark, stands in

Boise, Idaho before ithad caught on fire.

US Forest Serviceofficials in northernIdaho say the rubber-soled decorations thatmade the “shoe tree” abeloved Priest Riverlandmark also helpedfuel its demise. Touristsand locals since the1940s have dressed thetree with hundreds ofpairs of shoes, nailingsneakers to its trunk andhanging work bootsfrom its branches.

NUREMBERG, 17July—US pop star Pinkapologized via Twitter tothe audience ofThursday’s concert inGermany after anonstage stunt went awryand sent her to thehospital.

The BBC said thesinger fell out of aharness and was draggedinto a barricade at theconcert in Nuremberg.

Internet

a r c h a e o l o g i s t w h of i r s t s p o t t e d t w op i e c e s o f h e w n ,curved timber — partof the frame of theship — peeking out ofthe muddy soil at dawnon Tuesday.

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SPORTS

Ferguson signs Birminghamcontract extension

BIRMINGHAM, 17 July—Birmingham midfielder Barry Fergusonsigned a one-year contract extension on Friday that will keep him atthe Premier League club until 2012. Ferguson has been rewarded forhis impressive form last term which led to the former Rangers starbeing named Birmingham’s player of the season by his teammates.

Ferguson, who is currently on the club’s pre-season tour of HongKong and China, said: “Before I left on the tour it was all agreed andI signed on the dotted line. I can now concentrate on another twoyears at Birmingham.

“They came to me and had a chat, and I was always interested.“I loved my first season down there. I’ve never hidden that. I was

more than happy to extend the contract by another season.”—Internet

Birmingham midfielderBarry Ferguson signs a

one-year contractextension.—INTERNET

(Left to centre) Eng-land’s Wayne Rooney,Steven Gerrard and

John Terry reactamong German

players.—INTERNET

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Barcelona set aside 50m eurosfor new players

Kids selllemonade toback Cavs

owner after fine OHIO, 17 July—Some

young fans in Ohio aremaking lemonade out ofthe $100,000 fine slappedon Cleveland Cavaliersowner Dan Gilbert overhis criticism of LeBronJames.

Children in suburbanRocky River sold lemon-ade on Thursday to raisemoney for Gilbert’scause. They charged 50cents a cup.

Ten-year-old MollySponseller says she andher friends wanted toshow support for the Cavsand Gilbert. She says he’s“not a bad man.”

After James an-nounced last week thathe would leave Cleve-land for the MiamiHeat, Gilbert wrote asearing letter callingthe MVP “narcissistic”and “self-promotional.”The NBA fined Gilbert.

Internet

Premier League foreign legion ruining England

MADRID, 17 July—Spanish champions Bar-celona, who secured abank loan of 155 millioneuros this week to solvecash-flow problems, haveset aside 50m euros to

spend on new players, theclub said on Thursday.“The club has approxi-mately 50m euros net tospend on new playerseach season,” Barcelonasaid in a statement, aftervice-president for financeJavier Faus gave a newsconference to provide de-tails about the loan. Bar-celona signed strikerDavid Villa for 40 millioneuros in May but haveparted ways since the endof the season with IvoryCoast defender YayaToure, French strikerThierry Henry andUkrainian defenderDmitryo Chygrynskiy.

Internet

Japan defender Tulio backfrom brink of retirement

Gutsy Brazilian-born de-fender Marcus TulioTanaka, seen here in June2010, who helped Japanreach the last 16 of World

Cup.—INTERNET

China boss says ‘best time’ for2026 World Cup bid

TOKYO, 17 July—Gutsy Brazilian-born de-fender Marcus TulioTanaka, who helped Japanreach the World Cup last-16 round, says he hascome back from the brinkof retirement thanks toadvice from his ailing fa-ther.

The 29-year-old re-joined his J-League clubNagoya Grampus onThursday after spendingsome two weeks in Brazilto see his father PauloRyuji, 57, recover from aheart problem he sufferedat home during the bigtournament.

Tulio learned about hisfather’s condition rightafter Japan beat Denmark3-1 to reach the WorldCup knockout stage forthe first time on foreignsoil.—Internet

Spanish champions Bar-celona, who secured abank loan of 155 millioneuros this week to solve cash-flow.—INTERNET

LONDON, 17 July —Former ManchesterUnited star Eric Cantonaclaims the vast numbersof foreign players in thePremier League couldlead to England failing toqualify for the World Cupin future.

Cantona was a trail-

blazer for foreign stars inEngland as he spent fivehugely successful seasonswith United and Leeds.

The French forwardwon the title with Leedsbefore moving to OldTrafford in 1992, wherehe proved the inspirationbehind United’s first

championship for 26years and the club’s sub-sequent run of success.

But Cantona was oneof only 12 overseas play-ers in the Premier Leagueat the start of the 1992-93season, whereas nowhomegrown stars are eas-ily outnumbered by for-eigners.—Internet

A group of Chinesegirls pose wearingvarious World Cupteams’ jerseys in

Beijing.INTERNET

BEIJING, 17 July—China’s football chief hassaid now is the “besttime” for the country —still trying to bounceback from a graft scan-dal that rocked the sport— to launch a bid for theWorld Cup in 2026.

“It really moved us to

see all the social benefitsSouth Africa got fromhosting the World Cup,”Wei Di, head of the Chi-nese Football Association(CFA), told the nation’sleading sports newspaperTitan Sports.

“The CFA is preparingto ask the General Ad-ministration of Sport tobid for the 2026 WorldCup,” he was quoted assaying.

“Everyone has beendebating whether Chinashould bid for the WorldCup or when to bid, butseeing how successfullySouth Africa hosted it, Ihave to say that China hasno reason not to bid andnow is the best time,”Wei said.

China’s hosting of theOlympic Games inBeijing in 2008 had giventhe nation more confi-dence, he said. The south-ern city of Guangzhouwill host the Asian Gamesin November.

Internet

South Africa’s LouisOosthuizen plays a shotfrom the 14th tee duringthe second round of the British.—INTERNET

Oosthuizen surges to 3-shotlead at British Open

ST ANDREWS, 17 July —South Africa’s on quite aroll. Coming off the rousingsuccess of being the first Af-rican nation to host soccer’sWorld Cup, the countrymade another splash in theBritish Open when LouisOosthuizen surged to athree-stroke lead in the sec-ond round Friday.

The 27-year-old fromMossel Bay — whosegiven name is LodewicusTheodorus Oosthuizen —shot a 5-under 67 for a 12-under 132 at the midwaypoint of the tournament. Hepulled ahead of Rory

McIlroy, the 21-year-oldNorthern Irishman whotied the major-champion-ship record with a 63 onThursday.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Magway Division and rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Lower Sagaing and YangonDivisions, scattered in Rakhine and Kayah States,Mandalay and Bago Divisions, fairly widespread in Kachinand Chin States, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions,widespread in the remaining areas. The noteworthy amountsof rainfall recorded were Bilin (2.95) inches, Kyeikkhame(2.52) inches, Paung (2,36) inches, Myeik (2.16) inches,Kalaywa (1.69) inches and Kalay (1.45) inches.

Maximum temperature on 16-7-2010 was 92°F.Minimum temperature on 17-7-2010 was 79°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 17-7-2010 was 84%.Total sun shine hours on 16-7-2010 was (4.7) hours.

Rainfall on 17-7-2010 was (Tr) at Mingaladon, (Nil)at Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was (34.53) inches at Mingaladon, (40.83) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (48.54) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mphfrom South at (16:30) hours MST on 16-7-2010.

Bay Inference: Monsoon is moderate in the AndamanSea and Bay of Bengal.

Special Features: According to the observation at the(12:30) hrs MST today, yesterday's the severe tropical strom"Conson" over South China Sea has arrive Gulf of Tonkin(South China Sea) and it is centred at about (140) milessoutheast of Hanoi (Vietnam). It moves northwest wardsand forecast to cross North Coast Of Vietnam withinnext 12 hours.

Forecast valid until evening of the 18thJuly 2010:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Lower Sagaingand Magway Divisions, scattered in Chin, Rakhine andKayah States and Mandalay Division, fairly widespread inKachin State and Bago Division and widespread in theremaining areas with likelihood of isolated heavy fall inKayin and Mon States and Taninthayi Division. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Increase of rain inthe Eastern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for18-7-2010: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for18-7-2010: One or Two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for18-7-2010: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

Weather outlook for second weekend of July 2010:During the coming weekend, rain (or) thundershowers willbe isolated in Nay Pyi Taw and Yangon Division and arelikely to be isolated in Mandalay Division.

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Dance”* News* The World's Largest Book* Kokang National & Their Top Festival* Music Gallery* News* Surprising Myanmar (The Shwedagon

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Third Finn books spaceflightfrom Virgin Galactic

HELSINKI, 17 July— A 30-year-old Finnish man whoworks in the theater industry has booked a flight into outerspace, making him the third Finn to sign up for the 200,000-US-dollar trip with Virgin Galactic, Finnish media reportedon Friday. The company is currently testing flights and hasnot announced how long the test phase will last. Earlier,Virgin Galactic said it would begin commercial flightsnext year. The trip requires three days of training at a spacecenter in the United States. Upon boarding the aircraft,passengers will voyage 100 to 115 kilometers into space.

Xinhua

A dolphin from China performs at thedolphinarium in Constanta, Romania, 16 July,

2010. Three dolphins from China gave their firstpublic show on Friday after they arrived on

29 May.—XINHUA

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

7th Waxing of Second Waso 1372 ME Sunday, 18 July, 2010

UEC Chairman meets members ofsubcommissions in Mon State

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—Chairman of theUnion Election Commission U Thein Soe metmembers of Mon State Election Sub-commission and township, ward and village-tract election subcommissions of MawlamyineDistrict at Yamana Hall of Mon State Peaceand Development Council Office in

Mawlamyine at 9 am on 14 July.The Chairman made an opening speech.Chairman of Mon State Election

Subcommission U Thein Tun Aye andChairman of Mawlamyine District ElectionSubcommission U Khin Tun reported onelectoral works.

Chairman of Union

Election

Commission U

Thein Soe meets

members of

Mawlamyine

District, Township,

Ward and Village-

tract Election

Subcommissions.

MNA

Likewise, the chairmen of TownshipElection Subcommissions and those presentalso submitted reports on electoral process.

After reviewing the reports of thosepresent , Chairman of Union ElectionCommission U Thein Soe made concludingremarks.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw Water FountainGarden (Annex) Recreation

Centre inaugurated

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