The New Light of Myanmar 21-12-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 249 6th Waxing of Pyatho 1371 ME Monday, 21 December, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of 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 insidethe country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

* 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 Con-

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec—Chair-man of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council of the Union ofMyanmar Senior General Than Shwereceived the visiting Chinese good-will delegation led by Vice PresidentMr Xi Jinping of the People’s Re-public of China at Zeyathiri Beikmanhere at 11:45 am today.

Present together with Chair-man of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Senior General ThanShwe at the call were Vice-Chair-man of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye, Member of the SPDCGeneral Thura Shwe Mann, PrimeMinister General Thein Sein, Secre-tary-1 of the SPDC General ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Ministerfor Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo, Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win, Minister forNational Planning and Economic De-velopment U Soe Tha, Minister for

Senior General Than Shwereceives Vice President of PRC

Commerce Brig-Gen Tin NaingThein, Minister for Finance and Rev-enue Maj-Gen Hla Tun, Minister forCulture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint,Myanmar Ambassador to the PRC UThein Lwin and departmental heads.Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinpingand party were accompanied by Chi-nese Ambassador to Myanmar MrYe Dabo and embassy staff.

The two sides exchanged viewson fortifying bilateral friendly rela-tions, cooperation for mutual inter-est, and matters to which the twoneighbouring countries should payserious attention.

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Senior General Than Shwe

shaking hands with Vice Presi-

dent Mr Xi Jinping of the

People’s Republic of China.

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Senior General Than Shwe receives Chinese goodwilldelegation led by Vice President Mr Xi Jinping of the People’s

Republic of China.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 December, 2009

Monday, 21 December, 2009

PERSPECTIVES

Improve traditional Myanmarmedicine to reach international level

Myanmar, a land resource-rich country,has high coverage of forests and vegetationin many regions. In the nation’s large wood-lands are a wide variety of species of invalu-able, rare herbs, from which traditionalmedicines can be manufactured to improvethe health of human beings.

Being compounded of herbs, tubers andbulbs that are available in many regionsacross the nation, traditional Myanmar medi-cines have only few side effects and are goodfor the health of the people.

Today, there has been a great change inlifestyles and cooking methods around theworld, thus culminating in many new dis-eases. In some cases, traditional medicinesare more effective than western ones.

Combined therapies of traditional andmodern medicines can make such diseases astuberculosis, malaria, diabetes, diarrhea, anddysentery go away.

Originally, traditional medicines are po-tent with fewer side effects. So, some coun-tries have turned to research on traditionalmedicine to produce traditional medicineson a broader scale in place of modern drugs.

So, all are to maintain methods of com-pounding effective traditional medicines andto conserve the sources of herbs and medici-nal components. And those responsible areto improve the traditional Myanmar medi-cine and nurture the youth for greater devel-opment of human resources for ensuringflourishing of traditional medicine.

Today, many other countries have recog-nized the effectiveness of traditionalMyanmar medicines. Therefore, traditionalMyanmar medicines will establish a foot-hold in the international drug market if tra-ditional Myanmar medicines, a legacy left byour forefathers, are produced with modernmethods of the international standard.

* 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

UMFCCI President meets Thai delegation

YANGON, 20 Dec—The third week December masswalk was held at the Aung San Stadium, here, yester-day morning. Chairman of Yangon Division Peaceand Development Council Commander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen Win Myint and Chairman ofYangon City Development Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin with people took part in theactivity.

The commander, the mayor, division level de-partmental, personnel, students, members of socialorganizations and locals started to walk from AungSan Stadium and took physical exercises together.

After that, the commander and the mayor ar-

3rd week December mass walk held in Yangon

rived at office of Thakayta Township DevelopmentAffairs Committee where they heard reports onprogress in keeping environment clean by the offi-cials.

They gave necessary instructions to them andinspected preventive measures against dengue fever,and the drainage system.

The commander then met with personnel who willdischarge their duties in Cocogyun Township, andpassengers at the passenger lounge of Myanma FiveStar Line in Thakayta Township and provided cashassistance to the personnel.

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YANGON, 20 Dec—President of the Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry U WinMyint, Vice-Presidents UWin Aung, U Zaw MinWin, U Aung Lwin and UTun Aung, Secretary-General Dr MaungMaung Lay, Joint Secre-tary-General Dr PwintHsan, CEC members andexecutives met a 12-mem-ber delegation led by Mr

Sumet Saengnimnual,Governor of Chiang Raiof Thailand, at the head-quarters of the federationon 18 December.

They discussed pro-motion of bilateral tradeand businesses, participa-tion of Myanmar entrepre-neurs in GMS Trade Fair

& Cultural Show to be heldin Chiang Rai of Thailandfrom 16 to 23 January 2010and meetings for respec-tive businesses.—MNA

Sales promotion of LUCKY BIRD GroupYANGON, 19 Dec—

LUCKY BIRD Groupof Companies wi l llaunch sale for Toshibabrand Notebooks, pro-jectors and copiers,Remaco brand projec-tion screens and USAbrand infocus projectorat special price.

Those wishing toenjoy special sale maycontact LUCKY BIRDGroup of Companies No.103, Theinbyu Road,Mingala TaungnyuntTownship, Yangon (Ph:248167, 379875,399011), LUCKY BIRDGroup of Companies

Mandalay No. 5, 26thStreet between 78th and79th Streets and LUCKYBIRD Group of Compa-nies Nay Pyi Taw, at thecorner of southwestThabyaygon Market, NayPyi Taw (Ph: 067-414113).

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UMFCCI President U Win Myint meets MrSumetSaengnimnual, Governor of Chiang Rai of Thailand and party.—MNA

Com-mander

Maj-GenWin Myinttaking part

in masswalk

togetherwith

people.MNA

Laptops and projectors on display at the special sales of Lucky BirdGroup of Companies.—MNA

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A view of the construction site of the stadium ofBenguela in September 2009, one of the four sta-dium to host the African Nation’s Cup (CAN). Oneof the four stadiums built for the African Cup ofNations (CAN) in Angola was officially handedover to the public works minister, state news agency ANGOP reported on Saturday.—INTERNET

Iran, Iraq seek diplomatic endto border dispute

Egypt boosts security at Gaza border after firing

10 Talebanmilitants killed

in S Afghanistan KANDAHAR, 20 Dec—Afghan National Army(ANA) backed by NATO-led forces eliminated 10Taleban militants during acleanup operation inTaleban’s former strong-hold Helmand Province,spokesman for local admin-istration said on Saturday. “During the joint opera-tion launched on Friday inwest of provincial capitalLashkargah, 10 rebelshave been killed and sixothers got injured,” DaudAhmadi told Xinhua. He also stressed thatthere were no causalitieson the troops.—Xinhua

Blast rocks Afghancapital, causing panic

KABUL, 20 Dec — A blast rocked Afghan capitalKabul on Saturday, causing panic among the war-weary people.

The blast which shocked the diplomat enclave WazirAkhbar Khan district and heard in adjoining areascaused panic among war-weary citizens.

However, official with the press department of In-terior Ministry who declined to be named told Xinhuathat a construction company exploded explosive ma-terials in eastern part of the city, but did not identifythe firm.

In the post-Taleban country, which is the most minecontaminated nation in the world, de-mining agenciesoften collect and detonate explosive devices in desertsand isolated areas as part of efforts to clean the coun-try from mines.—Xinhua

British soldierkilled in

AfghanistanKABUL, 20 Dec—Brit-

ish defence officials say aBritish soldier has died inan explosion in Afghani-stan. Officials say the sol-dier was killed while onfoot patrol in volatileHelmand Province. Hewas from the 2nd Battalionof The Duke of Lancas-ter’s Regiment.

His family was told ofhis death hours after it oc-curred this morning. Hisname has not yet been re-leased. The soldier’s deathbrings the British militarydeath toll in Afghanistanto 103 for this year.

Internet

An Egyptian soldierstands guard nearthe border between

Egypt and Gaza Strip19 December,2009

INTERNET

BAGHDAD,20 Dec —Teheran and Baghdadpledged on Saturday topursue a diplomatic solu-tion to a border disputeover accusations that Ira-nian troops seized an oilwell inside Iraq.

The Iranian flag wasflying over the disputedoil well in a remote desertarea southeast of Baghdadearly on Saturday and an

Iranian military tent waspitched nearby.

“We call for calm andfor a peaceful solution tothis matter, far from anymilitary escalation,” Iraqigovernment spokesmanAli al-Dabbagh toldReuters Television inBaghdad.

Iran, which has oilwells nearby, maintainsit owns the well in ques-tion. Iran’s Arabic-lan-guage al Alam state tel-evision channel quoted amilitary statement assaying: “Iran’s army de-nied that Iranian troopsseized an oil well insideIraq.”

Oil prices rose on Fri-day on reports about thecommandeered well at

Fakka oilfield in MaysanProvince, where borderdisputes test the two coun-tries’ ties more than 20years after they ended aneight-year war in which anestimated 1 million peopledied.

Iraq has demanded animmediate withdrawal ofabout a dozen Iraniantroops it says captured thewell, but has tempered itsdemands with assurancesthat it is not looking for afight.

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ISMAILIA (Egypt), 20Dec — Egypt is steppingup security on its borderwith the Gaza Strip afterearth moving equipmentcame under fire from thePalestinian side for threedays, a security sourcesaid on Saturday.

The Israeli newspaperHaaretz said Egypt wasinstalling an undergroundmetal barrier between 20and 30 meters (70 and 100feet) deep along the shortborder strip where Pales-tinians have dug tunnelsto circumvent an Israeli

blockade of Gaza.Egyptian officials say

authorities have been in-stalling steel tubes in theground at several pointson the border, but theirpurpose has not beenspecified.

Egypt had stationedabout 200 policemen andincreased armored vehiclepatrols along the length ofthe border and in areaswhere excavating is underway, the security sourcesaid.

“We have sent newforces from the police tothe border with Gaza af-ter repeated shooting fromthe Palestinian side,” thesource told Reuters.

Shots had been firedfrom the Palestinian sideof the border at equipmentin the area since Thursday,the source said. No inju-ries were reported.

Internet

Stranded passengers wait at London St Pancras Eurostar terminalafter lengthy delays inside the tunnel caused by adverse weather

conditions in London.—INTERNET

Eurostar servicescancelled after

travellers strandedLONDON, 20 Dec—

Eurostar passengersfaced more chaos as thecompany axed its serv-ices for Sunday, causingfresh turmoil for traintravellers after more than2,000 spent a nighttrapped in the ChannelTunnel.

The decision followeddramatic scenes over-night into Saturday, whenhundreds on the servicelinking Britain to Francespent a desperate nightstranded under the sea onthe pre-Christmas week-end, one of the busiest of

the year.Angry passengers have

accused the train operatorof being woefully unpre-pared to deal with thebreakdowns sparked byfreezing weather, withone describing the han-dling of the emergency as“catastrophic.”

The trains began break-ing down late Friday, un-able to cope with thechange in temperature asthey moved from thefreezing conditions innortheastern France to thewarm air in the tunnel.

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China’s third largest oilfield expects24% growth in output this year

EU adoptsbigger budget

for 2010LONDON, 20 Dec—The

European Parliamenthas approved a 122.9bneuro (£110bn) EU budgetfor 2010 nearly halfof which is to go toagriculture and naturalresources.

It is a 6% increase onthe 2009 budget, whichwas worth 116bn euros.

Next year the EU is dueto conduct a major reviewof the budget. The UKwants to see a cut in farmsubsidies.

In 2010 an extra 2.4bneuros will go towards eco-nomic recovery projects,with the energy sector andbroadband developmentthe priorities.

Internet

India food prices hit 10-year high

Full repayment of Dubaidebt still option

DUBAI, 20 Dec—Dubai, set to ask creditors for astandstill on restructuring some $22 billion in debtlinked to troubled conglomerate Dubai World(DBWLD.UL), may still repay lenders in full, a localnewspaper said on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.

The National daily said two top Dubai officials, ona confidence-building mission to Britain and theUnited States in recent days, told financial leaders inLondon that repaying all bank loans in full “was dis-cussed as a medium-term possibility.”

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al Maktoum, head ofDubai’s Supreme Fiscal Committee and the uncle ofDubai’s ruler, and Mohammed al Shaibani, deputyhead of the committee, met officials in London lastThursday before traveling to the US.

“They made clear there were a number of optionsthe government of Dubai saw as feasible and desir-able for Dubai World and repayment in full was oneof them,” the newspaper quoted a person who attendedthe talks.

Internet

S Korea, China agree400-million-dollar auto deal

India is grappling with rising food prices.—INTERNET

A volunteer teaches disabled children to makedumplings, or jiaozi in Chinese, at Xi’an Xinxin

Kindergarten in Xi’an, capital of northwestChina’s Shaanxi Province, on 19 Dec, 2009. Withthe advent of winter solstice, over 30 volunteerscame to Xi’an Xinxin Kindergarten on Saturdayand made dumplings with the disabled children

there.—XINHUA

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motorsaid on Sunday it and China’s Baotou Bei Ben

Heavy-Duty Truck had agreed to launch a400-million-dollar joint venture in China

next year.—INTERNET

XI’AN, 20 Dec—Chi-na’s third largest oilfield,Changqing, is expected topost an annual growth of24 percent in oil and gasoutput this year, the com-pany said on Sunday.

By 19 Dec, the oil andgas equivalent productionat Changqing had ex-ceeded 30 million tonnes,and the figure wouldreach 31 million by the

end of this year, or 6 mil-lion more than last year,said Peng Xufeng, a com-pany spokesman.

Changqing, a subsidi-ary of PetroChina, is thecountry’s third largest oil-field, after Daqing andShengli.

But Peng said he be-lieves Changqing hasovertaken Shengli as thesecond largest oilfield in

China, as the annual oiland gas equivalent pro-duction at Shengli is lessthan 30 million tonnesover recent years.

“We are targeting 50million tonnes by 2015,thus becoming another‘Daqing’,” he said.

Daqing is also a sub-sidiary of PetroChina, andShengli is owned by itsrival Sinopec.

Changqing is locatedin north China’s OrdosBasin, and the company isheadquartered in Xi’an,capital of northwesternShaanxi Province.

It has a total area of370,000 square km forexploration, and reports8.5 billion tonnes of oilresources and 10.7 trillioncubic meters of naturalgas.

So far, it has provenmore than 2 billion tonnesof oil reserves and 2.7 tril-lion cubic meters of gasreserves. —Xinhua

SEOUL, 20 Dec—SouthKorea’s top automakerHyundai Motor said onSunday it and China’sBaotou Bei Ben Heavy-Duty Truck had agreed tolaunch a 400-million-dol-lar joint venture in Chinanext year.

The evenly-investedjoint venture will takeover the Chinese firm’slarge truck manufacturingsector under the dealsigned in Seoul on Satur-day, it said.

The combined unit willincrease production fromthe current 40,000 units ayear to 100,000 units ayear by 2014, HyundaiMotor said in a statement.

Hyundai said the dealwould help it better meetcustomers’ demand in theworld’s largest and fast-est-growing market for

commercial vehicles.“Entering China’s com-mercial vehicle market isessential in establishingHyundai’s reputation asthe most comprehensivecar manufacturer in theworld’s largest auto mar-ket,” said Hyundai MotorVice Chairman Choi Han-Young.—Internet

NEW DELHI, 20 Dec—Food prices in India haverisen to a high of nearly20% over last year, thehighest rate in a decade.

The federal FinanceMinister Pranab Mu-kherjee has said the gov-ernment was planning toimport food to ease prices.

A short supply of fooddue to lower farm producefollowing drought andfloods has led to the

rising prices.Overall inflation in In-

dia has risen to 4.78% inNovember, up from1.34% in October. Econo-mists say this could trig-ger a rise in interest rates.

Correspondents saythat the price rises arebound to increase con-cerns that poorer people inthe country may be moreexposed to food shortagesand malnourishment.

Finance ministerPranab Mukherjee saidthat the food prices werean “area of concern.”

“We have to take ap-propriate measures to seewhat best could be doneby augmenting the supplythrough imports,” he wasquoted as saying by thePress Trust of India newsagency.

Reports say that despiteeasing of import restric-tions to bolster food sup-plies, food inflation hadsoared to nearly 20%.

The prices of pulses,milk, wheat and rice andvegetables like potatoes -have risen sharply.

Potato prices have goneup by 136% and pulseshave risen by over 40%over last year.—Internet

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“One country, two systems”successful in Macao

Chinese President HuJintao shakes handswith representatives

from various walks oflife in Macao Special

Administrative Region(SAR) of south China

on 20 Dec, 2009.XINHUA

MACAO, 20 Dec—President Hu Jintao saidon Sunday the practice of“one country, two sys-tems” was successful inMacao, vowing to stick tothe “correct road.”

In a meeting with rep-resentatives of differentcircles in Macao, Hu saidthe development andprogress since Macao’sreturn to the motherlandten years ago showed

Macao compatriots hadthe wisdom and ability tomanage and developMacao.

Hu attributed Macao’sdevelopment to concertedefforts made by all theMacao people.

He said he hoped theMacao people wouldmake joint efforts to sup-port the chief executiveand government of theSpecial Administrative

Region, push forward thedevelopment of localeconomy, and maintainsocial harmony and stabil-ity.—Xinhua

Some members of China’s expedition team sets out from the Zhongshanstation, Antarctica, on 18 Dec, 2009. China’s expedition team sent two teamsto the inland of Antarctica on Friday. One team headed to China’s Kunlun

Station, the other one went to the Grove Mountains.—XINHUA

Photo taken on 19 Dec,2009 shows the iciclescene at the HukouWaterfall, northwest

China’s ShaanxiProvince. Crowds of

visitors and photogra-phers came to the

Hukou Waterfall toadmire the icicle scene

recently.—XINHUA

Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan to establishcommon economic space before 2012

Auto accident kills 65 incentral Nigeria state

LAGOS, 20 Dec— Up to 65 people were confirmedkilled in an auto accident in central Nigeria’s Kogistate when a truck heavily loaded with fertilizer lostcontrol and ran into a market, local media reported onSunday.

An eye witness said 38 people were fatally injuredand are receiving treatment at the Ayingba SpecialistHospital in Kogi state.

He said the driver of the trailer lost control on thehill of Allo River on Friday evening. Without any formof restraint, the vehicle speed from the hill, destroy-ing and killing motor vehicle occupants.

The fuel in vehicles flattened by the trailer causefire outbreaks at each and every point where it hit cars,trucks and motorcycles.

The vehicle rammed into the village’s market fi-nally, which was full of people.

The sector commander of the Federal Road SafetyCorps, Yomi Asaniyan, confirmed the accident.

Xinhua

Russia supports China-Central Asiapipeline project

ALMATY, 20 Dec—The leaders of Russia,Belarus and Kazakhstanannounced on Saturdaythat a common economicspace would be estab-lished among the threecountries before 2012 tofurther enhance coopera-tion .

“We will furtherdeepen the process of in-

tegration under the frame-work of the Eurasian Eco-nomic Community(EurAsEC). A commoneconomic space will beestablished before 1 Jan,2012,” said Russian Presi-dent Dmitry Medvedev,Belarussian President Al-exander Lukashenko andKazakh PresidentNursultan Nazarbaev in a

joint statement at an infor-mal meeting of leadersfrom ex-Soviet nationsheld here. On 27 Nov, thethree leaders signed apackage of documentssetting up a single cus-toms union effective from1 Jan, 2010 in a bid toseek joint accession to theWorld Trade Organiza-tion.—Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

Nepal expresses discontentment overCopenhagen climate change conference

ALMATY, 20 Dec—Russia supports theChina-Central Asia natu-ral gas pipeline project,Russian First DeputyPrime Minister IgorShuvalov said here onSaturday.

Shuvalov, who was ac-companying President

Dmitry Medvedev for aninformal meeting of Com-monwealth of Independ-ent States (CIS) leaders,said that Russia is work-ing with some partners toexpand the energy deliv-ery system itself. With theenergy infrastructure inthis region more diversi-

fied and improved, hesaid, CIS countries willmake greater contributionto global energy security.

The China-CentralAsia natural gas pipelinestretches 1,833 km fromthe Turkmen-Uzbek bor-der to China’s northwestregion of Xinjiang, cross-ing central Uzbekistanand southern Kazakhstan.The pipeline was put intooperation last week aftertwo years of construction.

Xinhua

KATHMANDU, 20Dec— Nepal, aHimalayan Kingdom, onSaturday expressed itsdiscontentment over therecently held globalmeeting on climatechange in Copenhagen.

Nepal, having organ-ized campaigns againstclimate change and itsadverse effects on melt-ing Himalayas in na-tional and internationalarena, termed “15th con-ference of the United

Nations FrameworkConvention on ClimateChange in Copenhagen”a failure to come to aconsensus.

“It is highly disap-pointing that countrieswhich are responsible forclimate change are nottaking corrective meas-ures even at this laststage,” said AnilManandhar, CountryRepresentative of WWFNepal on Saturday.

“None of the polluting

countries signed any le-gally binding agreementto reduce the level of car-bon emission, nor is itclear that the how andwhich mechanism devel-oped countries will sup-port a goal of mobilizingfund to address the needsof developing countries,”Manandhar said talkingto Xinhua.

It’s a setback for Ne-pal in particular and peo-ple living in the drainagesystem of the Himalayasin general, being one ofthe most vulnerable areasto the impacts of climatechange, according tohim.

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NEWS ALBUM

6-year-old Malaysian boy sets featrecord of pulling car

A new item was added to the Malaysia Book of Recordswhen a six-year-old boy pulled a Mercedes Benz E class carwith four people in it for 120 metres.

New Straits Times, a local daily, reported here on Tuesdaythat T Santosperumal, who weighs only 35 kilograms, pulledan estimated 1,990-kilogram car and “passengers” in lessthan five minutes.

The boy’s feat made him the “youngest to pull a car”, asrecognized by the Malaysia Book of Records.

Interestingly, Malaysian Deputy Minister in the PrimeMinister’s Department T Murugiah was one of his“passengers”.

The boy was later presented a certificate by MalaysiaBook of Records official Josephine Intachat.

Woman plans to be a graduate,bride on same day

A 34-year-old Florida woman plans to be agraduate and bride on the same day in Iowa. TriciaGiordano said she has always been the kind ofperson who loves to stay busy. She was scheduledto get her degree on Saturday afternoon at AshfordUniversity in Clinton, Iowa. Shortly after that, sheplanned to head across campus to the chapel andswap her cap and gown for a wedding dress.

Giordano is from Tampa, Fla., and she said itwould have been too difficult for her and herfiance, Rich Munsey, to get all the relatives fromdifferent states together.

But the graduation in Iowa seemed to work foreveryone. The couple plans to move back to Florida.

Colombia to build new military base onVenezuelan border

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi’s healthdeteriorates

Freed Lockerbie bomber AbdelbasetAli Mohmet al-Megrahi is pictured at

a hospital in Tripoli in September2009. — INTERNET

TRIPOLI, 20 Dec — The condition ofAbdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan sen-tenced to life imprisonment for theLockerbie bombing and repatriated in Au-gust, has deteriorated and the cancer thatafflicts him has spread through his body, amedical bulletin said early on Sunday.

“A scan has shown a worsening of thedisease which has spread more than be-fore,” said the bulletin from the TripoliMedical Centre where Megrahi is beingtreated for terminal cancer.

The bulletin received by AFP saidMegrahi, 57, arrived at the hospital on Sat-urday coughing and vomiting.

He was also suffering from “secondaryeffects of the sessions of chemotherapy”

that he has been undergoing, including aweight gain, high blood pressure and sugarin the blood along with muscular fatigue.

“His condition was examined on Satur-day by a team of European experts whoagreed on the continuation of chemotherapysessions while also administering othermedicaments to treat the disease,” the hos-pital said in its first bulletin released sinceMegrahi’s return in August.—Internet

Bahamian investigators search for jet wreckage

BOGOTA, 20 Dec —Colombia has announcedit will build a new mili-tary base near its borderwith Venezuela, in a movelikely to further strain itstense ties with Venezue-lan President HugoChavez.

Defence MinisterGabriel Silva said onFriday that the base, lo-cated on the Guajira pe-ninsula near the city ofNazaret, would have upto 1,000 troops. Two airbattalions would also be

activated at other borderareas.

“It is a strategic pointfrom a defence point ofview,” Silva said.

The 1.5-million-dollarfacility, paid for with Co-lombian tax funds, wouldalso have a care facility forindigenous Wayuu peoplewho live in the area, headded.

Army CommanderGeneral OscarGonzalez meanwhileannounced on Saturdaythat six air battalions

were being activated,including two on theborder with Venezuela.

Tensions betweenVenezuela and Colombiahave been spurred by aUS deal with Bogota al-lowing US forces to runanti-drug operations fromColombian bases.

Venezuela suspendeddiplomatic relat ionswith Colombia on 28July in response to theUS-Colombian militarybase deal.

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NASSAU, 20 Dec — Bahamian investigators are searching for morewreckage of a small plane that crashed on the southernmost island ofthe archipelago.

Two US pilots were the only people aboard the small jet when itcrashed on Thursday night in an unpopulated area of Great Inaguashortly after taking off from the Dominican Republic en route to Mi-ami, police inspector Dennis Brown said on Saturday.

The pilots are presumed dead but their bodies have not been found.Authorities in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic have de-

clined to disclose the pilots’ identities or their hometowns.Small bits of debris from the Jet Falcon N-28 RK were found scat-

tered about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the remote Bahamian is-land’s only settlement, Matthew Town. Investigators plan to examinea sprawling area of dense vegetation on Sunday, Brown said.—Internet

This undated image provided by the MontereyBay Aquarium, shows the endangered

Kootenai River white sturgeon. As efforts falterto save this largest freshwater fish — a tooth-less beast left over from the days of dinosaurs

— officials hope to stave off extinction bysending more water hurtling down a river so

the fish can spawn in the wild.

Palestinians enjoy massage before bathing at“Hamam Alshefa”, the traditional Turkish bath

in the West Bank city of Nablus. The Turkishbath, built about 400 years ago during the

Ottoman rule, opens 24 hours a day and hasseparate days for men and women.

Man accused ofrifle attack after

drunk ridePolice arrested a 51-year-

old man accused of attackinga relative with a rifle afterdriving home drunk on asnowmachine. The TundraDrums reported that HooperBay police responded to acomplaint of a man shooting arifle inside a home Saturdaynight.

Police determined that theman had grabbed the loadedweapon and swung it at one ofthree people inside the house.Hill then fired a shot into thefloor.

Big bird gets talon caughtin DC Metro escalatorEvery so often in the Washington

Metro subway system, a foot gets caughtin an escalator. Usually, the culprit is ashoe lace or a flip-flop. On Monday, itwas a bird’s talon. DC fire departmentspokesman Pete Piringer says rescuerswere called to the Benning Road stationin northeast Washington shortly after 8am Monday. A large bird of prey —possibly a hawk or a falcon — had itsfoot stuck in the escalator.

Metro employees shut off thepower, and a passer-by held the birdto keep it from injuring itself more.When firefighters arrived, theyremoved a portion of the escalator tofree the bird.

US intruder arrestedwhile taking bath

Texas Police arrested a 25-year-oldman who was suspected of breakinginto an east Texas house when he wastaking a bath in of the house, accordingto media reports.

The incident happened early Sundaymorning in a blue-collar neighbourhoodof northwest Tyler of Texas.

Local police said they received a callfrom a resident saying someone hadkicked in the front of the house. Whileen route, officers were advised theresident had left the house but theintruder remained inside.

OPEC expects to holdsupply steady

LUANDA, 20 Dec— The OPEC cartel of oil producingcountries expects to keep output unchanged when it meetsin Luanda next week, Angolan Oil Minister Jose Botelhode Vasconcelos said on riday.Angola currently holds thepresidency of the 12-member group.

“We will keep with the decisions that we have takenin the past on production quotas and leave our goals un-changed,” Vacon-celos told Radio Ecclesia about theOPEC meeting set for Tuesday. “If by then the pricesare stable at between 75 and 80 dollars, it is likely thatthe situation will remain as it is,” he was also quoted assaying by Angolan business magazine Exame.—Internet

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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye hosts luncheon inhonour of Chinese goodwill delegation

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye hosts luncheon to Chinese delegation headed by VicePresident Mr Xi Jinping at Zeyathiri Beikman in Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye and

Chinese Vice

President Mr Xi

Jinping inspecting

Guard of Honour.

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NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec—Vice-Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye hosted a luncheon in honour of thevisiting Chinese goodwill delegation led by VicePresident of the People’s Republic of China Mr XiJinping at Zeyathiri Beikman here at 12.55 pm today.

Also present on the occasion were SPDC MemberGeneral Thura Shwe Mann, SPDC Secretary-1 GeneralThiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, SPDC Member Lt-Gen Tin Aye, the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), theCommander-in-Chief (Air), senior military officersfrom the Ministry of Defence, ministers, deputyministers, Myanmar Ambassador to PRC U TheinLwin and heads of department, Chinese Ambassadorto Myanmar Mr Ye Dabo and officials.

The State orchestra played the national anthemsof the two countries.

Before and during the luncheon, vocalistspresented variety songs to the accompaniment of themodern music band of Myanma Radio and Television,and artistes from the Fine Arts Department under theMinistry of Culture, with dances including dances tomark China-Myanmar friendly relations.

After the luncheon, Vice-Senior General MaungAye presented the photo album of the Chinese goodwill

delegation’s visit to Myanmar to Chinese VicePresident Mr Xi Jinping.

Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping presented a flowerbasket to artistes and cordially greeted them.—MNA

YANGON, 20 Dec—CONCORDIA Int’l CoLtd will exhibit itsproducts in Electronics &Lifestyle 2009 Exhibitionto be held from 24 to 27December at TatmadawConvention Hall on UWisara Road here.

Fujixerox brand hi-tech photocopiers, colourphotocopiers, laserprinters, Japan madeTopoon brandDifferential GPS (RTK),Garmin brand GPS, andhospital and laboratoryequipment such as DC-7

CONCORDIA to launch special sales programmein Electronics & Lifestyle 2009 Exhibition

(Ultrasound), DP-1100Plus (PortableUltrasound), ECG,Omnitest Plus, Complan(Newzealand) will be ondisplay.

During theexhibition, Fujixeroxbrand photocopiers, laserprinters will be on sale atspecial discount andspecial programmes likeA 4 colour laser printeror A 4 multifunction laserfax present for every A 3photocopier buyer, 7%discount on GPS and 10%discount for departments.

The contact addressis Tatmadaw ConventionHall on U Wisara Roadduring the show,Shwegon Plaza, BahanTownship here, Ph:544199 and 558170,951544824, between 77th

and 78th Street,C h a n a y e t h a z a nTownship in Mandalay,Ph: 02-36478, 09-5067172 and 69303, andNo.144, Thiri YadanaMarket in Nay Pyi Taw,Ph: 067-420819 and421362.

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NAY PYI TAW, 20Dec—Minister forEnergy Brig-Gen Lun Thireceived President Mr LiRuogu of the Exim Bank

Energy Minister receives Chinese guests

of the People’s Republicof China and party at theMinistry of Energy hereat 5 pm yesterday.

The cordially

discussed the matter onreciprocal cooperationbetween the two countriesin the energy sector.

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Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi receives President Mr Li Ruogu of theExim Bank of China.—MNA

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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye meetsPRC Vice President Mr Xi Jinping

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec— Vice-Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilVice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye met thevisiting Chinese goodwilldelegation led by VicePresident of the People’sRepublic of China Mr XiJinping at ZeyathiriBeikman here at 9:50 amtoday.

Present at the calltogether with Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye wereSPDC member GeneralThura Shwe Mann, SPDCSecretary-1 General Thiha

Thura Tin Aung MyintOo, SPDC member Lt-Gen Tin Aye, Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo,Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win,Minister for National

Planning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,Minister for ElectricPower .1 Col Zaw Min,Minister for CommerceBrig-Gen Tin NaingThein, Minister forTransport Maj-Gen Thein

Swe, Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thi,Minister for Finance andRevenue Maj-Gen HlaTun, Minister for CultureMaj-Gen Khin AungMyint, MyanmarAmbassador to PRC U

Thein Lwin anddepartmental heads.Together with thegoodwill delegation led byChinese Vice PresidentMr Xi Jinping wereChinese Ambassador toMyanmar Mr Ye Dabo

and embassy staff.At the meeting, they

discussed matters relatedto further improvement ofthe friendship between thetwo countries, bilateralcooperation in agriculture,road transport, tran-sportation, energy,electricity and commu-nications sectors, deepercooperation in theimportant sectors,cooperation in the regionaland international fields andthe two countries’ stand onglobal climate change andexchanged their views.

After the meeting, aceremony to sign bilateralagreements followed,attended by Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye andparty and the Chinese VicePresident and delegationmembers.

After the ceremony,officials of the twocountries signed 16 MoUsand agreements such as

five agreements ondevelopment of trade,economy, transportinfrastructures, techno-logical cooperation andpurchase of machinery;seven financial agree-ments, three agreementson hydro-electric powerand one agreement onenergy sector and oil andnatural gas pipeline.

Later, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye andChinese Vice PresidentMr Xi Jinping viewedthe scale model of theproject of Myanmar-China oi l and gaspipel ine (Myanmarsect ion) to l inkKyaukpyu of Myanmarand Yunnan Province ofChina. Vice GeneralManager Mr LiaoYongyuan of ChinaNat ional PetroleumCorporation reported onfacts about the project.

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Officials of Myanmar and the PRC sign MoU and agreements.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping view scale modelof oil and gas pipeline project (Myanmar section).—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping hold discussions in Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

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YANGON, 20 Dec—Atthe invitation of Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil of the Union ofMyanmar Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye, agoodwill delegation led byVice President Mr XiJinping of the People’sRepublic of China arrivedin Yangon at 2.20 pmyesterday to pay agoodwill visit to the Unionof Myanmar.

The Vice President ofthe PRC and party werewelcomed at YangonInternational Airport byMinister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-GenHtay Oo, Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin, Chairman of YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin,

Vice President of PRC and partyarrive in Yangon

Ambassador of the PRCto the Union of MyanmarMr Ye Dabo and embassyofficials and Chinese inYangon waving StateFlags of the two countries.

Accompanied byMinister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-GenHtay Oo and ChineseAmbassador Mr Ye Dabo,the Vice President andparty of the PRC visitedthe Myanma GemsEmporium on Kaba AyePagoda Road. Officialsconducted them round theemporium.

On arrival atShwedagon Pagoda,Deputy Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko andmembers of the PagodaBoard of Trusteeswelcomed the Chineseguests. The Chinese Vice

President signed in thevisitors’ book andpresented cash to thefunds for all-roundrenovation of the pagoda.Next, the Vice Presidentand party went round thepagoda.

In the evening, theVice President and partyof the PRC arrived atYangon InternationalAirport and left for NayPyi Taw by special flight.They were seen off at theairport by Minister forAgriculture andIrrigation Maj-Gen HtayOo, Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win,Chairman of YCDCMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin, officials andresponsible persons ofthe PRC Embassy inYangon.

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NAY PYI TAW, 20Dec—At the invitation ofVice-Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilVice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye, a goodwilldelegation led by VicePresident Mr Xi Jinpingof the People’s Republicof China left Nay Pyi Taw

Vice President of PRC concludes visitAirport by China Airlinethis evening.

The Chinesegoodwill delegation wasseen off there byCommander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin, Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo,Minister for Foreign

Affairs U Nyan Win,Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe,Myanmar Ambassador toPRC U Thein Lwin,Chinese Ambassador toMyanmar Mr. Ye Dabo,officials of embassy andChinese people inMyanmar.

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Delegation led by Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping at ShwedagonPagoda.—MNA

CommanderMaj-GenWai Lwinsees off

delegationled by

ChineseVice

PresidentMr Xi

Jinping atNay Pyi

TawAirport.

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NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec—The secondround robin matches of the 48th DefenceServices Commander-in-Chief’sTrophy (Army, Navy and Air) FootballTournament continued at designatedplaces today.

2nd round of Tatmadaw Football Tourney(2009) continues

In No.1 Sports Ground in Nay Pyi Taw,Yangon Command beat EasternCommand 1-0. In Paunglong SportsGround, Tatmadaw (Navy) won overNo. 11 LID 1-0.

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YANGON, 20 Dec—Myanmar DistributionGroup Co., Ltd held adinner in honour of saleagents (lower Myanmar)and 2009 fare ware atSedona Hotel here on 18December. ManagingDirector U Aung MawThein of MyanmarDistribution Group Co.,Ltd extended greetingsand made presentation onpacking design of GoldRoast Coffee mix to bedistributed to the marketsoon.

Myanmar Distribution Group holdsdinner in honour of sale agents

Singers and dancetroupe entertained to theaccompaniment of Treesmusic band. ManagingDirector U Aung MawThein and wife Dr DawMoe Myat Win selectedone first prize (K 1million) and three secondprizes (K 500,000) andsale and marketingconsultant U Min TalaNyan, six third prizes (K200,000) and forty fourthprizes (K 50,000) andNational sale manager UMyo Htet, Actors Ye

Htaik, Wut Hmon ShweYi and guests, othersprizes.

Myanmar National-owned MyanmarDistribution Group Co.,Ltd has been distributingGold Roast Coffeemix,Ben Cafe Coffeemix, Cafe21 Coffeemix, Calsomecereal, Royal MyanmarTeamix, Fresh Up Lemontea starting from 1997.The products produced bythe company are popularnot only at home but alsoabroad.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec—MyanmarMedical Association (Yangon) will holdits annual general meeting atAuditorium-B of MMA on 26 December.

MMA to hold Annual General MeetingThe association has invited executivemembers and members to attend themeeting without fail.

MNA

Officials from Myanmar and China sign MoU and agreements.(News on page 8)

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Coco Island in Myanmar watersByline & Photos: Yan Naing Win (Hline)

Cocogyun Township in southern Yangon Divisionis difficult of access because it is located between theBay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, 260 miles southwestof Yangon. Being composed of 12 islands, the townshipis bounded by Kyet Island on the east; AndamanIsland on the west; Phinat Island and Zabwe Island onthe north; and Jerry Island and Cocolay Island on thesouth.

In the township, low plains lie in the northeasternpart. The ground is even in the southern part. Theslope on the beach is rocky with many alluvial floodplains.

The seawater is transparent as deep as about 40feet. Around the Coco Island are coral reefs and rockmasses in high quantity. Mountain ranges stretchbetween north and south in the township. There, thehighest mountain is 366 feet high.

Being situated in the sea, it has a temperate climatepattern. Its average annual rainfall is about 95 inches,and average temperature is 28 degree centigrade. Itdoes not have any steams that flow all year round. So,Cocogyun Dam with a water storage capacity of 49million gallons was constructed in 1991, and the

The beach of Coco Island and the wooden landing stage.

Cocogyun Township People’s Hospital (25-bed).

The pre-primary school of Cocogyun Township Social Welfare Department.

project was completed in 1993. The earthen type damis some 800 feet from the sea. About 30,000 gallons offreshwater are pumped to the town a day with the useof a 52 HP waterworks.

It grows coconut, mango, guava, banana and fruittrees of many other species, landscaping plants, andshade trees. It also grows paddy just for localconsumption. It has a 10-acre farmland of seasonalcrops. It raises several species of farm animals such ascow, chicken and duck, especially goat. Its majorbusinesses are coconut farming, production ofmangrove tree trunks, and fishing.

The majority of its population is Bamar, and otherraces are Mon, Kayin, Rakhine and Chin. It has 180households or a population of about 1000—servicepersonnel, fishermen, sculptors, bead makers, livestockbreeders, and fishery entrepreneurs.

Since 1 June 1992, the Myanma Electric PowerEnterprise has supplied electric power to the townfrom 6 pm to 11 pm daily with the use of 150 KVA

generator. Now, the 14 miles and three furlongs longbypass is in the process of being upgraded into a 12-foot-wide gravel road.

It has a 1193 feet long landing stage, plus awooden landing stage. In the education sector, it has

a basic education high school furnished with threecomputer sets and a printer, and 25 teachers and over200 students. Now, the principal and teachers aretrying to improve the education of the township. It

opens a pre-primary school. Cocogyun TownshipHospital was opened in 1989, and it has beenupgraded to a 25-bed facility with a doctor, a dentist,two nurses, one assistant nurse, five general workers,and a clerk.

Staff member Daw Htay Yee Win of the MyanmaPosts and Telecommunications said that with four IPStars and 50 exchange phones, the township couldcontact any other place around the world.

Cocogyun Township has a fire service station. In2005, it got a fire engine. The fire service station isconstituted with an officer, five other ranks, and 50auxiliary fire brigade members.

The township has a police station, a townshipcourt, a township law office, Immigration and NationalRegistration Department, and Information and PublicRelations Department.

The IPRD has opened a library and a Myawadyand MRTV retransmitting station there to broaden thehorizons of the township dwellers.

Interesting places in the region are JinanarajinPagoda, Dipa Pagoda, the plain and Kywet island inthe eastern part of the township, Jerry Island in thesouthern part, and the lighthouse on Mingalar Island.

Therefore, it is fair to say that the existence ofCoco Island lends interest to the Myanmar’s waters.

******Translation: MS

Kyemon: 27-11-2009*******

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The Loch Ness monster made out of snow on Brighton beach. Two Londonairports closed by heavy snowfall have reopened, but forecasters are warning

of a repeat of the bad weather that caused traffic chaos and closed schoolsacross the southeast.—INTERNET

Climate talks yielded ‘positive’ results

Lebanon’s Hariri onlandmark Syria visitDAMASCUS, 20 Dec — Lebanese Prime Minister

Saad Hariri began a landmark visit to his country’sformer powerbroker Syria on Saturday, on a two-daymission aimed at rebuilding ties between the two Arabneighbours.

It was Hariri’s first trip to Damascus since the 2005assassination of his father, ex-prime minister RafiqHariri — a killing that he and his US-backed allies inBeirut blamed on Syria.

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad gave Hariri awarm welcome at the capital’s Tishrin palace, wherethe two young leaders shook hands and embracedbefore going into one-on-one talks.

They met for three hours, stressing the need to setup “privileged and strategic ties” between the twocountries to overcome years of tensions, officials said.

The meeting between Assad and Hariri, who be-came Lebanon’s Premier last month, helped to “dis-pel the past (differences),” Syrian presidential adviserBouthaina Shaaban told reporters after the talks.

“There is no doubt that the ice has been brokenbetween the two sides,” she said.

Shaaban also noted that Syria “broke with proto-col” by inviting Hariri to stay at the Tishrin guest pal-ace which is usually reserved for visiting monarchsand heads of state.—Internet

Shark bites diver inAustralia

SYDNEY, 20 Dec — An Australian man was in hos-pital on Sunday after surviving a shark attack whilediving off the country’s northeast coast, officialssaid.

The 19-year-old was diving at Lamont Reef, offcentral Queensland’s Herron Island, when he was bit-ten on the arm, the Royal Flying Doctor Service saidafter taking him to the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

“He was in a stable condition when our doctor lefthim at the hospital there,” a spokesman for the RoyalFlying Doctor Service told AFP.

“Any kind of shark bite is serious. But I believe hiscondition is stable, it’s not life-threatening.”

Sharks are a common feature of Australian watersbut fatal attacks are rare.

In December 2008, a snorkeller died after beingattacked by a large shark off the Western Australiancoast.—Internet

Airlines eye ‘contact-less’ travel Lifesavers and anemergency reponseteam member seen ona beach near Sydney.An Australian man wasin hospital on Sundayafter surviving a sharkattack while diving offthe country’s northeastcoast, officials said. INTERNET

LEGASPI (Philippines), 20 Dec — Volcanic activityis building up inside Mount Mayon in the Philippinesand an explosive eruption is expected within two weeks,a government volcanologist warned on Sunday.

The warning came as civil defence officials triedto convince the last residents still living within thevolcano’s shadow to evacuate their homes.

“Up to now, the activity continues to increase. Mostprobably if this would further accelerate, an explosiveeruption would occur within two weeks,” said July Sabit,part of the government team monitoring the mountain.

He said at least 222 volcanic quakes were detectedfrom Saturday morning to Sunday morning comparedto 197 quakes in the previous 24-hour period.

Sabit told AFP that an explosion could be expectedsometime around January 1, adding that it would likelyshoot a column of ash about 10 kilometres (six miles)into the sky.—Internet

Graphic showing a cutaway view of a volcano.Seismologists indicate that the 2,460 metre (8,070feet) Mayon volcano in the Philippines is prepar-

ing for a major eruption.—INTERNET

Philippine volcano close tomajor eruption

GENEVA, 20 Dec —–Airlines are trying toshrug off a financially-plagued decade by prom-ising passengers more lowfares as well as a seam-less, paperless and even“contact-less” travel ex-perience, industry execu-tives said.

After electronicticketing and check-inbooths, Dutch carrierKLM is trying out auto-mated bag drop machines,while the International AirTransport Association ispromising queue-skip-ping mobile phone board-ing passes, ID scans and“self boarding.”

“The travel experienceis going to change, that’sfor sure,” PhilippeBruyere, global head ofpassenger services, said atIATA’s annual end-of-year media day, “selfservice is what passengers

want.”“And by self service

we don’t mean a kiosk,that’s where we began theconversation two yearsago. We mean new web-based services, morethings you can do at homeinstead of in an airportline.”

“In some cases we arefacilitating contact-lesstravel,” he added.

While airlines are try-ing to woo passengersthey are also scramblingto cut costs after theyhaemorrhaged nearly 50billion dollars in 2000-2009.—Internet

BEIJING, 20 Dec —China, the world’s larg-est emitter of greenhousegases, lauded on Sundaythe outcome of a historicUN climate conferencethat ended with a non-binding agreement thaturges major polluters tomake deeper emissionscuts — but does not re-quire it.

The international cli-mate talks that broughtmore than 110 leaderstogether in Copenhagenproduced “significantand positive” results,Foreign Minister YangJiechi said.

Disputes betweenrich and poor countriesand between the world’sbiggest carbon polluters— China and the UnitedStates — dominated thetwo-week conference.Tens of thousands ofprotesters took to thestreets to demand actionto cool an overheatingplanet.

The meeting ended onSaturday after a 31-hournegotiating marathon,with delegates acceptinga US-brokered compro-mise. The so-called Co-penhagen Accord givesbillions of dollars in cli-

mate aid to poor nationsbut does not require theworld’s major pollutersto make deeper cuts intheir greenhouse gasemissions.

Yang said the positiveoutcomes of the confer-ence were that it upheldthe principle of “com-mon but differentiatedresponsibilities” recog-nized by the Kyoto Pro-tocol, and made a stepforward in promotingbinding emissions cutsfor developed countriesand voluntary mitigatingactions by developingcountries.—Internet

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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION

MYANMA RADIO AND TELEVISION

INVITATION TO TENDER

1. Sealed tenders are invited for Myanma Radio andTelevision for the following equipment:

(1) 3KW UHF TV Transmitter System (Dual Cast) 2 Sets -Dual Power Amplifier ( Analogue/ Digital) -Output Coaxial Equipment & Channel Combiner -Programme Input and Monitoring Equipment &

Audio/ Video Power & RF Cabling Material(2) Antenna System for 3 KW TV.TX & RF Feeder Cable 2 Sets(3) 100 Metre Guyed Tower Complete Set 1 Lot(4) Automatic Voltage Regulator & Power Distribution

Board for TV.TX 2 Nos(5) Generator (Diesel Open type,3Ø, 65KVA, 380 V.50 Hz) 2 Nos(6) Supervision Commissioning and site training 2 Lots

2. Tender closing date/time will be on 30.12.2009 at 16:30 hrs.

3. Tender documents are available at the below mentioned address.

Procurement CommitteeMinistry of Information

Myanma Motion Picture EnterpriseNo.28, Kokkine Yeiktha Street,

Bahan Township, YangonPh: 534574, 536029

Mexico catches cartel suspect linkedto 109 deaths

MEXICO CITY, 20 Dec—Mexican police say they have captured a suspected lieu-tenant of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel linked to more than 109 execution-stylekillings.

The Public Safety department says Jesus Basilio Araujo is also known by thenickname “The Chicken.”

It said on Sunday in a statement that Araujo allegedly worked for an aide todrug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, who died on Wednesday in a shootout with Navypersonnel.

The statement did not say if Araujo’s detention on Friday was linked to thegunbattle. He was arrested in a town near where the clash occurred.

Araujo was allegedly responsible for a series of killings of rival traffickers andothers. Many of the bodies bore messages referring to “The Boss of Bosses,”Beltran Leyva’s nickname.—Internet

Five missing after boatsinks off S Korea

SEOUL, 20 Dec—Five fishermen were reported miss-ing on Sunday after their boat sank off South Korea’ssoutheastern port of Busan, officials said.

The five — three South Koreans and two Indone-sians — were among 25 crew aboard a 129-tonne boat,Geumyang, which sank early on Sunday while oper-ating in waters around 65 kilometres (40 miles) eastof Busan, the coast guard said.

The other 20 crew were rescued by other fishingboats nearby.

Three coast guard ships, backed by a helicopter,from South Korea and another three patrol boats fromJapan were searching the area for the missing crew, acoast guard official in Busan told AFP.

High waves and strong winds hampered the search,the official said, adding that investigations were un-der way to determine the cause of the accident.

Internet

China’s SichuanProvince sees 180artificially-bred

pandas survive inrecent decade CHENGDU, 20 Dec—Al-

together 180 giant pandas,an endangered species,were born through artifi-cial breeding and survivedin the past decade in south-west China’s SichuanProvince, government sta-tistics show. That bringsthe number of pandasraised in captivity to 241in the province, account-ing for 83 percent of thecountry’s total, accordingto the Sichuan ProvincialForestry Department.

Meanwhile, 1,206 pan-das are living in the wildin Sichuan, or 76 percentof the country’s total.

Giant pandas, knownfor being sexually inactive,are among the world’smost endangered animalsdue to shrinking habitat.

There are about 1,590pandas living in the wild inthe country, mostly inSichuan and the northwest-ern provinces of Shaanxiand Gansu. —Xinhua

Yemen airstrike kills al Qaeda deputy

File photo, provided bythe Korea Coast Guard,shows a rescue vesselclose to a submerged shipoff the country’s coast.Five fishermen have beenreported missing aftertheir boat sank off SouthKorea’s southeastern portof Busan, officials have

said.—INTERNET

Yemeni NGO workers give newly arrived Somali migrants water on the beachof Hasn Beleid village, 230 kms east of the Red Sea port of Aden in October

2008. The number of migrants fleeing the unstable Horn of Africa andarriving in Yemen rose by 50 percent this year, reaching a record high of

74,000, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.—INTERNET

In this 25 Nov, 2009 photo, policeofficers escort a suspected drug

dealer after his arrest in downtownTijuana, Mexico.—INTERNET

SANAA, 20 Dec—An airstrike inYemen earlier this week killed a lead-ing al Qaeda figure there, a Yemeni gov-ernment official said on Friday.

The official, who is not named be-cause he is not authorized to speak tothe media, told CNN that MohammedSaleh Mohammed Ali Al-Kazemi waskilled in an airstrike in the southern prov-ince of Abyan on Thursday, along with“scores of operatives.”

Al-Kazemi, also known as AbuSalehAljadwe, was a deputy in an al Qaedacell in Abyan, the official said.

The airstrike was accompanied byraids in Abyan and in Yemen’s capitalSanaa, state news agency SABA reportedon Thursday.

“This was the most large scale andsubstantial attack carried out againstal Qaeda in Yemen this year,” the

official said.The airstrike targeted a training camp

with tents. Yemeni forces surrounded thecamp and captured some of the injuredand other operatives escaped through themountainous terrain, the official said.

On Thursday, SABA reported that se-curity forces had killed 34 suspected ter-rorists and arrested 17 who were linkedto al Qaeda.

Believed to be in his late 30s,Al-Kazemi was on a Yemeni mostwanted list of 154 al Qaeda-linked mili-tants, the official said.

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Fog discovered on Saturn’s largestmoon Titan

Guy Hachey, president and COO of Bombardier Aerospace poses with amodel of the new CSeries jet before the groundbreaking ceremony for the

CSeries assembly plant on 15 Sept, 2009 in Mirabel, Quebec north ofMontreal.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 20Dec—US scientists havediscovered fog movingacross the south pole ofSaturn’s largest moon,Titan.

Titan looks to be theonly place in the solar sys-tem aside from Earth tohave copious quantities ofliquid (largely, liquidmethane and ethane) sit-ting on its surface.

The new discoverysuggests that Earth andTitan share yet anotherfeature, which is inextri-cably linked with that sur-

face liquid: common fog,according to researchersat the California Instituteof Technology (Caltech).

The presence of fogprovides the first directevidence for the exchangeof material between thesurface and the atmos-phere, and thus of an ac-tive hydrological cycle,which previously hadonly been known to existon Earth, the researcherssaid in a paper publishedin the latest issue ofAstrophysical JournalLetters.

Titan’s south pole isspotted “more or less eve-rywhere” with puddles ofmethane that give rise tosporadic layers of fog,said planetary astronomerMike Brown of Caltech.

The researchers madetheir discovery using datafrom the VisualandInfrared MappingSpectrometer (VIMS)onboard the Cassinispacecraft, which hasbeen observing Saturn’ssystem for the past fiveyears.

Xinhua

Koalas show somechanges from ancestors

Flying telescope in milestone test flight

Two Italians kidnapped in MauritaniaNOUAKCHOTT, 20 Dec — Two Italians were kidnapped in the West African desert

nation of Mauritania, a police chief and a security official said on Saturday.The Mauritanian officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they

were not authorized to speak to the media on the subject, said the hostages weretaken by gunmen on Friday night from their 4-wheel drive vehicle.

The security official said that one hostage was an Italian man and the other washis wife, originally from Burkina Faso. He said their vehicle was found empty andwith bullet marks near the village of Kobeni in southern Mauritania.

Italian officials could not be reached to confirm the report.Mauritania, once known as a predominantly moderate Muslim nation on Africa’s

western coast, has been rocked by attacks by the North African group known as al-Qaida of the Maghreb.This kidnapping comes nearly three weeks after three Span-ish aid workers were kidnapped in Mauritania. While there have been no officialclaims of responsibility for this abduction, Spanish officials have said they fear thehostages were taken by al-Qaeda of the Maghreb.—Internet

Minorearthquake

hits NE Chinacounty

BEIJING, 20 Dec— Anearthquake measuring 4.1on the Richter scale struckJidong County in China’snortheastern HeilongjiangProvince at 21:26 (Beijingtime) Saturday, the ChinaEarthquake NetworksCentre reported. Theepicenter was at 45.2 de-grees north latitude and131.3 degrees east longi-tude with a depth of 10kilometers.

Xinhua

(L-R) Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, Bollywood actressAishwarya Rai Bachchan, actor Amitabh Bachchan, actor Shah Rukh Khan

and director Karan Johar pose at the annual police show in Mumbaion 19 Dec, 2009.—INTERNET

A Sri Lankan farmersprays pesticide at his

rice farm at Piliyandalaon the outskirts of

Colombo on 8 Decem-ber. Sri Lanka’s eco-

nomic growth acceler-ated at its fastest pacethis year after the end

of civil war in May,helped by new invest-

ment, official datareleased on Fridayshowed.—INTERNET

LANCASTER, 20 Dec—An airborne telescopescientists hope will helpuncover the origins of theuniverse completed amilestone test flight inCalifornia, officials said.

The modified 747 jet,named the StratosphericObservatory for InfraredAstronomy, flew formore than an hour atEdwards Air Force base,

NASA announced on Sat-urday. It marked the firstflight with the doors cov-ering the telescope fullyopened.

“Today we opened thetelescope cavity door, thefirst time we have fullyexposed the telescope,”said Bob Meyer of theNational Aeronautics andSpace Administration’sDryden Flight Research

Centre.“This is a significant

step toward certifyingNASA’s next great ob-servatory for future studyof the universe.”

Two more test flightsare scheduled for early2010 to prepare the tel-escope assembly for thefirst flight with the tel-escope operating.

Internet

SYDNEY, 20 Dec—Pre-historic Australian koalaswere as lazy as theirmodern counterparts andused the same loud bel-lowing to attract mates,a new study shows.

But an article pub-lished on Saturday in TheJournal of VertebratePaleontology says thekoalas from 5 millionyears ago did not havethe same kind of special-ized eucalyptus leaf dietas the modern koala.

The shift to eucalyptusdiet was probablycaused, the article says,by the drift north of theAustralian continent,causing a retreat of itsrain forests and domi-nance of eucalyptustrees.

Coping with the newdiet caused adaptivechanges in the digestiveand anatomical structureof the koalas. When sci-entists measured skulls

of ancient and modernanimals, they noticeddramatic differences inthe facial skeleton, whichthey noted were probablydue to the change to atougher diet of eucalyp-tus leaves.

And the low nutritionlevels of eucalyptusleaves caused the ani-mals to develop a moresedentary, energy-con-serving lifestyle, theysaid.

“In order to accommo-date both the mechanicaldemands of their newdiet, as well as maintain-ing their auditory sophis-tication, the koala under-went substantial changesto its cranial anatomy, inparticular that of the fa-cial skeleton,”says DrJulien Louys of Univer-sity of New SouthWales’s School of Bio-logical, Earth and Envi-ronmental Sciences.

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Six-goal Real Madrid handBarcelona winter warningMADRID, 20 Dec—Real Madrid sent out

a message of intent to all-conquering cham-pions Barcelona with a 6-0 demolition ofReal Zaragoza on Saturday.

While Barcelona were away in AbuDhabi winning the Club World Cup, theirsixth trophy this year, Real closed the gapat the top of La Liga to just two points af-ter tearing apart sorry Zaragoza. It was al-ways going to be a tough challenge forZaragoza’s caretaker coach Jose Gay whotook charge this week and it quickly turnedinto a nightmare with Gonzalo Higuainscoring after just three minutes.

A double for Rafael Van der Vaart thenfollowed and Higuain volleyed in a delight-ful shot still before half time.—Internet

Real Madrid’s defender Marcelo (R)jumps over a challenge from

Zaragoza’s defender Roberto Ayaladuring their Spanish League foot-ball match at Santiago Bernabeustadium in Madrid. Real Madrid

sent out a message of intent to all-conquering champions Barcelona

with a 6-0 demolition of RealZaragoza.—INTERNET

Fulham’s midfielderDanny Murphy (L) fightsfor the ball with Manches-ter United’s Anderson (R)during their English Pre-mier League footballmatch at Craven Cottagein London. ManchesterUnited’s English PremierLeague title ambitions suf-fered a setback as theyslumped to an abject 3-0

defeat by Fulham.INTERNET

Ferguson fearfulafter Fulham

run riotLONDON, 20 Dec—

Manchester United’s re-sources may have madethem the envy of worldfootball but Sir AlexFerguson has admitted alack of defensive depthmay cost them a fourthstraight English PremierLeague title.

United are struggling tocope with a crippling in-jury list which has de-prived them of six seniordefenders in recent weeks- a scenario which, evenfor a club with their swol-len bank account, hasproved untenable. Havingalready slumped to a sur-prise defeat at home toAston Villa this month,United’s makeshift back-line crumpled again onSaturday, as they werebeaten 3-0 by Fulham atCraven Cottage.—Internet

Bordeaux surge clear as Janotthwarts OM

Bordeaux’s forwardDavid Bellion (R) fightsfor the ball with Lorient’sdefender LaurentKoscielny (L) duringtheir French L1 footballmatch at Chaban Delmasstadium in Bordeaux. Adouble by Bellion in-spired Bordeaux to a 4-1home win over Lorienton Saturday thatstretched their lead at thetop of the French first

division to ninepoints.—INTERNET

Cacau, Khedira givesStuttgart’s Gross first league win

BERLIN, 20 Dec—Germany squad members Cacauand Sami Khedira hit second-half goals to seal Stutt-gart’s 3-1 win over Hoffenheim on Saturday to pulltheir side out of the bottom three.

Brazil-born Cacau gave his side the lead just sevenminutes after coming off the bench before Khedira putthe result beyond doubt with time running out.

This was Stuttgart’s first win under coach ChristianGross who took over from Markus Babbel on Decem-ber 6 and this was their first success in ten league gamessince their last victory against Eintracht Frankfurt on26 September.

It was also a timely confidence boost for a teamdue to tackle mighty Barcelona in the ChampionsLeague knockout round in February.

“It is our first win for nearly three months and thatis a long time to go without a victory,” said Khedirawho made his Germany debut in the 2-0 win over SouthAfrica in September.—Internet

Stuttgart’s defenderChristian Traesch (R)and Hoffenheim’sstriker Chinedu Obasifight for the ball duringthe German first divi-sion Bundesliga footballmatch in the southernGerman city of Stutt-gart. Stuttgart won

3-1.—INTERNET

PARIS, 20 Dec—A dou-ble by former ManchesterUnited striker DavidBellion inspired Bordeauxto a 4-1 home win overLorient on Saturday thatstretched their lead at thetop of the French first di-vision to eight points.

Second-placed Mar-seille could have cut thegap to six points but theywere held to a 0-0 draw atSaint-Etienne in the lategame despite the hostshaving to play with 10 menfor over 80 minutes. Greekdefender EfstathiosTavlaridis was dismissedin the eighth minute for alast-man foul on BakaryKone but a bravura per-formance from goalkeeperJeremie Janot enabled LesVerts to earn a point thattakes them out of the rel-egation zone.—Internet

Benitez defiant despite Pompey defeat

Portsmouth’s striker FredericPiquionne (L) clashes with Liver-pool’s midfielder Javier Mascheranoduring their English Premier Leaguefootball match at Fratton Park in

Portsmouth.—INTERNET

Redknapp impressed as Tottenhamget back in party spirit

BLACKBURN, 20 Dec—Tottenham manager HarryRedknapp praised his team’s new-found grit as theykept up their push for the Champions League placeswith a 2-0 win at Blackburn.

Redknapp has had a difficult week after discover-ing his players had defied his orders by holding a se-cret Christmas party in Dublin and then learning thathe has been charged by Her Majesty’s Revenue andCustoms over unpaid tax.

But Redknapp was pleased with the response of histeam to a difficult game at Ewood Park on Saturdayand he insisted their performance had nothing to dowith wanting to do well after their trip to Ireland.

And the Spurs boss feels that the game would havebeen one his team might have lost in the past, which isa measure of the progress his team is making.

Internet

Wenger tells Gunners to shootfor title

Arsenal’s striker Eduardoda Silva (L) fights for theball with Hull City’sGeovanni during theirEnglish Premier Leaguefootball match at theEmirates stadium innorth London. Arsenalwon 3-0.—INTERNET

LONDON, 20 Dec—Arsenal manager ArseneWenger is convincedhis side are contendersfor the most openPremier League titlerace since he came toEngland more than a dec-ade ago.

The Gunners moved towithin two points of sec-ond-place ManchesterUnited, who lost atFulham, thanks to a 3-0win over Hull City at theEmirates Stadium here onSaturday.

Arsenal, who also havea game in hand, beat Liv-erpool last weekend butdropped points by draw-ing at Burnley a few dayslater.

But with no side, in-cluding leaders Chelsea,looking invincible,Wenger argued the des-tiny of the trophy mustremain unknown for awhile.

Internet

PORTSMOUTH, 20 Dec—Liverpool man-ager Rafael Benitez insisted he does not fearthe sack despite seeing his team suffer theirseventh Premier League defeat of an in-creasingly poor season at bottom club Port-smouth.

Midfielder Javier Mascherano was sent-off for the third time in his Liverpool careeras the visitors’ fading title hopes were allbut extinguished in a 2-0 loss at FrattonPark.

The sorry Reds have now won just fourof their last 12 league games and are strug-gling even to secure a top four finish and aplace in next season’s Champions League.

When asked if he was worried for his job,Benitez replied: “I am only worried aboutthe next game (against Wolves).—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, isolated light rain inKachin State and Taninthayi Division, weather has beengenerally fair in the remaining States and Divisions. Nighttemperatures were (3°C) to (4°C) below December averagetemperatures in Shan and Chin States, lower SagaingDivision, (5°C) below December average temperatures inupper Sagaing Division, (3°C) to (4°C) above Decemberaverage temperatures in Kachin, Kayin and Mon States,Mandalay, Magway and Taninthayi Divisions and aboutDecember average temperatures in the remaining areas.The significant night temperatures were Haka (0°C) ,Namhsam (5°C) and Lashio, Pinlaung and Heho (6°C) each.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Putao(0.12) inch, Kawthoung (0.07) inch and Machanbaw (0.04)inch.

Maximum temperature on 19-12-2009 was 95°F.Minimum temperature on 20-12-2009 was 63°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 20-12-2009 was 69%.Total sun shine hours on 19-12-2009 was (8.5) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on 20-12-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, atKaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (111.69) inches at Mingaladon, (122.09) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (129.41) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mphfrom Northeast at (15:30) hours MST on 19-12-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy inthe Andaman Sea and South Bay and fair elsewhere in theBay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21st December 2009:Likehood of isolated light rain in Kachin, Chin and ShanStates, Upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Divisions andweather will be generally fair in the remaining areas. Degreeof certainty is (60%).

Outlook for subsequent two days:Generally fair in thewhole country.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for21-12-2009: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for21-12-2009: Generally fair.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for21-12-2009: Partly cloudy.

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A UN conference has rammed through a battleplan against climate change forged by US

President Barack Obama and other top leaders,sidelining smaller states which lashed the deal

as a betrayal.—INTERNET

Small iPhone developerTapulous sees big success

SAN FRANCISCO, 20 Dec—IPhone app developerTapulous says its sales have approached $1 milliona month, providing fresh evidence of the growingsuccess of start-ups designing programs for AppleInc’s mobile device.

Tapulous — with a mere 20 employees — saidits “Tap Tap Revenge” game series has now beeninstalled more than 20 million times, with morethan 600 million total games played. Earlier thisyear, research group comScore said the game hadbeen installed by one-third of Apple app users.

The company says it’s profitable, but it won’treveal precise sales data. Tapulous’ chief executivesaid he expects it to ride a wave of exponentialgrowth in mobile app commerce in the next twoyears, similar to that seen recently by social gamingcompanies like Zynga, Playfish and Playdom.Playfish was recently acquired by Electronic Artsfor $275 million in cash.

“It’s going to be big and all of a sudden peopleare going to say, ‘holy cow, where did those guyscome from?’” said CEO Bart Decrem. The installbase for app developers is growing fast. Apple hassold more than 50 million iPhones and iPod touches,which use the same software.—Internet

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6th Waxing of Pyatho 1371 ME Monday, 21 December, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

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

troubles

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

and violence

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec—Visiting Vice President ofthe People’s Republic of China Mr Xi Jinping receiveda red carpet welcome by Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye in front of Zeyathiri Beikman here at 9.30am today.

Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping left MyatTawwin Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone in amotorcade for Zeyathiri Beikman, where he receiveda warm welcome from Vice-Senior General MaungAye.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and the Chinese

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye welcomesChinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping

Vice President took position on the dais to take thesalute of the Guard of Honour. Meanwhile, the StateBand played the National Anthems of the two coun-tries.

Next, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and Chi-nese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping inspected the Guardof Honour.

Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping pre-sented his entourage to Vice-Senior General MaungAye.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye also presentedMember of the SPDC General Thura Shwe Mann,

Secretary-1 of the SPDC General Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, Member of the SPDC Lt-GenTin Aye, Minister for Agriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo, Minister for Foreign Affairs UNyan Win, Minister for National Planning and Eco-nomic Development U Soe Tha, Minister for Com-merce Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein, Minister for Fi-nance and Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun, Minister forCulture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint, Myanmar Am-bassador to PRC U Thein Lwin and departmentalheads to the ChineseVice President.

MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and Chinese Vice President Mr Xi Jinping take salute of the Guard of Honour.—MNA

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