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Volume XX, Number 173 10th Waning of Tawthalin 1374 ME Wednesday, 10 October, 2012

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct On the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Fiji,which falls on 10th October 2012, U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Brigadier-GeneralRatu Epeli Nailatikau, CF, LVO, OBE, MSD, OStJ, President of the Republic of Fiji.

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President U Thein Seinfelicitates Fijian President

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct On the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Fiji,which falls on 10th October 2012, U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Commodore RatuJosaia Voreqe Bainimarama, CF, MSD, OStJ, Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji.

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President U Thein Sein sendsfelicitations to Fijian Prime Minister

NAY PYI TAW, 9 OctAceremony to welcomePresident of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar UThein Sein by President ofthe Republic of Korea MrLee Myung-bak took placein the front of PresidentsResidence Blue House inSeoul at 4 pm local timetoday.

On arrival at BlueHouse, President U TheinSein was cordiallywelcomed by President MrLee Myung-bak. After that,the Myanmar President andthe ROK President took thesalute of the Guard ofHonour from the dais whileStates band playednational anthems of bothcountries.

After that, both leadersinspected the Guard ofHonour and cordiallygreeted Myanmar andKorean children. TheROK President introducedhis welcoming party to theMyanmar President. Andthe Myanmar President alsointroduced Myanmardelegation members to theROK President.

ROK President Mr Lee Myung-bak gives warm welcome to President U Thein Sein

Also present on theoccasion were ministers,deputy ministers and high-ranking officials from bothcountries.

Afterwards, President

U Thein Sein signed thevisitors book at Blue Houseand posed for documentaryphoto together with theROK President. President UThein Sein met the ROK

President.Also present at the call

together with President UThein Sein were UnionMinisters U Wunna MaungLwin, U Soe Thein, U Tin

Naing Thein, U Khin MaungSoe and U Aye Myint, andthe Myanmar Ambassadorto the ROK. Mr Lee Myung-bak was accompanied bythe Minister of Foreign

Affairs and Trade, Ministerfor Knowledge Economy,the Ambassador of the ROKto Myanmar and high-ranking officials.

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 Oct President of the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar U Thein Sein met President of theRepublic of Korea Mr. Lee Myung-bak at Blue House inSeoul, ROK at 5 pm local time today and held discussionson matters related to mutual benefits.

Also present at the call together with the President werethe Union ministers, the chief ministers, deputy ministers, theMyanmar Ambassador to ROK and departmental heads.Together with the President of ROK, the minister of ForeignAffairs and Trade, the minister for Knowledge Economy, theambassador of the ROK to Myanmar and senior officialsattended the meeting.

Next, a signing ceremony followed. Union Minister forForeign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin and the Minister ofForeign Affairs and Trade of the ROK signed aid agreementand Union Minister for Industry U Aye Myint and theMinister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the ROK, MoU ondevelopment cooperation in the presence of the two leadersand exchanged notes.MNA

Myanmar, ROK sign MoU on development cooperation

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Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U WunnaMaung Lwin and Minister of Foreign Affairsand Trade of ROK sign aid agreement in the

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 OctVice-President of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar U Nyan Tun received a delegation ledby Chairman of NEC Corporation Dr Nobuhiro Endo of Japanat Credentials Hall in Presidential Palace, here, at 2 pm today.

Present together with the Vice-President were UnionMinister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs U TheinTun, Deputy Ministers U Thant Kyaw and Dr Daw Khin SanYi and officials of Union Government Office and the PresidentOffice.

They cordially discussed cooperation in advancedcommunication technology sectors between Myanmar andJapan and technological assistance to be provided for theXXVII SEA Games.

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Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives Chairman of NEC Corporation of Japan

NAY PYI TAW, 9 OctUnion Minister forCommerce U Win Myintreceived a delegation led byVice Chairman Mr MasayukiMatsushita of Kansai

More investment in Myanmar discussed

Economic Federation(Kandeiren) and PanasonicCo., at his office thismorning.

They held discussion onthe matters of swift

commodities flow, tradepromotion, payment systempractise as internationallevel and inviting moreinvestment in Myanmar.

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 OctWhen the State is tryingto shape up goodgovernance and cleangovernment, it is realizedthat the existing laws, lawsand rules and regulationsrelat ing to respect iveworks are important to

Duty assigned to Township GAD officersgenerate good staff whoabide by the laws, knowingreal situations, said UnionMinister for Home AffairsLt-Gen Ko Ko in meetingwith officers who wouldhave assigned townshipofficers (assistantdirector) of GAD at the

Ministry of Home Affairsat 12 noon today.

The Union ministerstressed the staff to carryout their tasks in accordancewith rule of law when theyare serving the interests ofnation and its people .

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YANGON, 9 OctCertificate for ASEANEconomic Studies (CAES)course, would help traineesget the knowledge onASEAN, ASEAN Free TradeArea and ASEAN EconomicCommunity, said UnionMinister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment Dr Kan Zaw, atopening ceremony of CAEScourse, at Nilar Yatu Hall ofYangon Institute ofEconomics (YIE) thismorning.

After that, Pro-ReactorDr Lay Kyi of YIE said thatthe trainees are warmlywelcomed as they wouldhave to participate in theemergence of ASEAN FreeTrade Area and ASEANEconomic Community in2015.

Certificate for ASEAN Economic Studies(CAES) course opens

A total of 100 traineesare attending the three-month course, jointlyconducted by Ministry of

National Planning andEconomic Development andYIE.

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 OctThe 41st Myanmar HealthResearch Congressorganized by the Ministryof Health will be held from7 to 11 January 2013 atthe Department ofMedical Research (LowerMyanmar) at No 5, ZiwakaRoad, Dagon Township,Yangon.

The congress will focus

41st Myanmar Health Research Congress 7-11 Janon health research papers-reading session, posterdisplay session, academicsymposia on varieties ofimportant health topics.Pharmaceutical companies,medical equipment andlaboratory reagentcompanies, privatehealthcare centres(laboratories, hospitals andclinics), both local and

international and all NGOsare also invited to take part inthe product exhibition. Thelast date to submit theabstract of research papersis fixed on 26 October 2012and the complete papers, 30November 2012.

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Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives adelegation led by Chairman of NEC

Corporation Dr Nobuhiro Endo of Japan atCredentials Hall in Presidential Palace.

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Union Minister for NPED Dr Kan Zaw speakingat opening of Certificate for ASEAN Economic

Studies (CAES) course.MNA

MOMAUK, 9 OctA talkon danger of narcotic drugswas held at the Dhammayonof Monastery in ManponVillage of MomaukTownship on 25 Septembermorning.

Before the talk,Township Administrator UNyan Hlaing made a speech.Commander of TownshipPolice Force Police CaptainThein Aung gave talks on

Danger of narcotic drugsdisseminated

danger of narcotic drug andpsychotropic substances.

Township Law OfficerU Thaung Tun disseminatedknowledge about narcoticdrug law and TownshipMedical Officer Dr Zaw WinNaing facts about drugs andhealth. On 21 Septembermorning, a similar talkwas held in MomaukTownship.

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WUNDWIN, 9 OctApack of playing cards wasarrested in Hsongon Villageof Wundwin Township on 2October.

IP Aung Soe Tint ofWundwin Police Station andparty suddenly searched thehouse of U Maung Than, 44in Hsongon Village andseized three packs of playingcards and gambling moneys.

Packs of playing cards arrested inWundwin Township

The squad arrestedMaung Than, 44 of HsongonVillage, Aung Lwin, 35 ofKokkobin Village, Zaw MyoAung, 24 of Hsongon Village,Thein Maung, 25 of HsongonVillage, Myint Maung, 45 ofHsongon Village, Myo Khin,30 of Ywethee Village, KoGyi (a) Tun Kyaing, 26 ofHsongon Village, Naing Win

(a) Bo Bo of Ywethee Villagetogether with sevenmotorcycles, two bicyclesand K 142,250 of gamblingmoney.

Wundwin PoliceStation opened a file oflawsuit against them undersection 13(a) and 14(a) ofGambling Law.

Kyemon

BAGO, 9 OctA bargenamely Than-296 carrying323 logs weighing 494.032tons pushed by Apex-II13326 driven by Nyunt Oohit pier RP 6 of AyeyawadyBridge (Nawade) in PadaungTownship at 6.45 am on 29September.

According to thecomplaint of the Staff Officerof Directorate of MarineAdministration, PadaungPolice Station opened a fileof lawsuit against Nyunt Oounder section 280 of CriminalLaw.Kyemon

Barge hits pierof bridge

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WORLD

China

Romneys English roots surprise cousins left behind

Barrow-in-Furness, 9 Oct Mitt Romneys fight to become Americas next president has the backing of one enthusiastic group of supporters, although they dont actually have a vote: his relatives in England.

Few associate the Republican candidate with Britain but it was in Englands industrial northwest that his ancestors lived for generations and converted to Mormonism before leaving for the United States in 1841 in search of the promised land.

It was a bold escape for a family of lowly carpenters.

Locals enjoy a mid morning stroll in the sun through

Dalton-in-Furness in northwestern England, where relatives of US

presidential candidate Mitt Romney were born and bred in the 18th and 19th

Century, on 26 Sept, 2012.

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Iran scorns Israeli air defences, complains of cyber attack

DuBai, 9 OctIran derided Israels air defences as feeble on Monday, citing a drone incursion into its arch-foes airspace, but did not say it had sent the aircraft shot down by the Israelis at the weekend.

It also accused Israel and others of masterminding what it said was a cyber attack on communication networks on Iranian offshore oil and gas platforms in the past few weeks.

With tension high over Irans disputed nuclear programme and Israeli threats to attack it, the remarks by Iranian officials pointed to possible aspects of a shadow war waged by the two adversaries and perhaps by Israels Western allies, whose sanctions have battered the Iranian economy and currency.

Jamaluddin Aberou-mand, deputy coordinator for Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the drone intrusion showed that Israels Iron Dome anti-missile

An Iron Dome launcher fires an interceptor rocket near the southern city of Ashdod on 11 March, 2012.ReuteRs

By sailing for the New World they took a step that eventually brought the Romney clan to the fore of American politics.

But some of them stayed and their descendants still live along Britains rainy western coasta world away from the intrigue and glamour of Washington.

One is a 69-year-old English widow who discovered just a few weeks ago that she is a distant cousin of the former governor of Massachusetts.

Its all come out of the blue, Jennie Iveson told Reuters in her modest home

in Barrow-in-Furness, a shipyard town once at the heart of Britains industrial revolution. Its a surprise really. Quite a surprise. Big surprise.

Ivesons link to Romney came to light when her inquisitive grandson-in-law began tracing back their family history by delving into archives in their home county of Lancashire.

Records show that Iveson is Mitt Romneys fourth cousinthey share a great-great-great grandfather, George Romney, who died in 1859.Reuters

defence system does not work and lacks the necessary capacity, Fars news agency reported.

The Israeli air force shot down a drone on Saturday after it crossed into southern Israel, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from.

Iron Dome is designed to shoot down short-range guerrilla rockets, not slow-flying planes such as drones.

The Israeli military said the drone was first spotted above the Mediterranean near

the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to the west of Israel and shot down by a fighter plane over Israeli territory.

Is rae l i par l iament member and former military spokesman Miri Regev described it as Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group that fought a war with Israel in 2006.

Israeli defence officials have not confirmed this. Hezbollah has sent a drone into Israeli airspace at least once previously.Reuters

Berlusconi may not run in 2013 election

rome, 9 OctFormer Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may drop plans to stand in next years election if it were necessary to allow the formation of a broad alliance with centrist parties, the secretary of his People of Freedom (PDL) party said on Monday. The comment followed weeks of speculation that Berlusconi may run as candidate to lead the centre-right in elections expected in April. The 76-year-old has hinted that he would be ready to stand.

We intend to make every effort to unite a large moderate area as an alternative to the left, the PDLs Angelino Alfano told a news conference with other party leaders.

H e i n v i t e d P i e r Ferdinando Casini, leader of the centrist UDC party

Italys former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) waves as he arrives for a meeting of the European Peoples Party (EPP), ahead of a two-day European Union leaders summit, in Brussels on 28 June, 2012.ReuteRs

with whom the PDL has cooperated in the past, to join a new moderate alliance.

If, as things appear to be going, Silvio Berlusconi does not stand as a candidate himself to favour the unification of the moderate area, you have the right, the possibility, the duty to play a role in rebuilding the moderate area, he told Casini.

Senior PDL officials have pressed Berlusconi to announce his intentions clearly but he has yet to confirm whether he will run for prime minister or play a behind-the-scenes role leading his party. Opinion polls show the PDL and its allies trailing the centre-left Democratic Party, which intends to hold a primary vote in November to choose its candidate for the election.

However Cas in i s reaction to the implied invitation to an alliance by

Alfano was cautious.I think everyone

who has any experience of Berlusconis turnarounds has a duty to be cautious with

Coast Guard missions in doubt as aging ships wear out

Baltimore, 9 OctThe US Coast Guard is on the front lines of national security, but it struggles to complete its missions with one of the worlds oldest maritime fleets and a multibillion dollar replacement programme years behind schedule.

The cash-strapped service operates with frequent breakdowns and obsolete gear in what one US congressman has called a death spiral, of too few ships and too many missions. If forced to give up some of its many jobs patrolling US waters, that could mean more cocaine and illegal immigrants entering the United States, and fewer ships protecting boaters and fisheries and cleaning up oil spills, experts said.

More money from Congress to bring its $29 billion replacement programme up

Israel deploys Patriot missiles in Haifa after drone breaches airspace

Jerusalem, 9 Oct A Patriot surface-to-air missile battery was deployed in the northern Israeli City of Haifa on Monday, two days after an unmanned aircraft breached Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean, local media reported.

Israel Defence Forces officials were quoted by

to date is unlikely, given the belt-tightening US budgetary environment.

If you have limited resources for operations or for capital assets, something has to give, US Representative John Mica, a Florida Republican and chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told Reuters. Signs of out-of-date gear were clear aboard the 270-foot (82-metre) cutter Tahoma, now hauled out of the water to undergo an 11-month makeover at Baltimores Coast Guard yard.

A yard inspector, Lieutenant Commander Gary Hillman, scrambled to reach a control room through an engine space cluttered by snaking hoses and cables and ringing to the sound of welding.

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Crewmembers aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma stand on the bow as the cutter enters port at

the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine in this 26 Feb, 2010 handout photo supplied by the US Coast

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their judgements at a moment like this and neither try to get out of their duty nor allow themselves to be tricked into anything, he said. Prime Minister Mario Monti, an economist brought in last year to run an emergency government of technocrats,

has ruled out standing as a candidate.

But the former European Commissioner has said he would be prepared to serve a second term if the election does not produce a winner capable of forming a government.Reuters

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Haaretz daily as saying that the deployment was not an emergency measure, and such systems are deployed to the area from time to time.

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) officials also refused to comment on the possible connection between the drone, which was intercepted on Saturday, and the Patriot

missile system deployed to Haifa, according to the newspaper.

The deployment comes shortly before the beginning of a joint comprehensive drill between the IDF and United States Military commands, which has been called AC12. The drill entails testing the active defence capabilities of

the two military organizations.The Israeli air force

shot down an unidentified aerial vehicle that penetrated Israels airspace on Saturday.

The IDF said that the drone arrived in Israel from the west after flying over the Mediterranean and the Gaza Strip.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Wednesday, 10 October, 20124

WASHINGTON, 9 OctUSt e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n soperators should not dobusiness with Chinas topnetwork equipment makersbecause potential Chinesestate influence on thecompanies poses a securitythreat, the US Houseof Representatives Inte-lligence Committee said in areport on Monday.

The report follows an 11-month investigation by thecommittee into HuaweiTechnologies Co Ltd and itssmaller rival, ZTE Corp.

The companies havebeen fighting an uphill battleto overcome US lawmakerssuspicions and expand in theUnited States after becomingkey players in the worldwidemarket.

The House IntelligenceCommittees bipartisan

US lawmakers seek to block China Huawei,ZTE US inroads

BEIJING, 9 Oct Chinas foreign ministrysaid on Monday that Chinese telecomscompanies operate according to market rules,urging the United States to set asideprejudices when it came to HuaweiTechnologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp.

Chinese telecoms companies have beendeveloping their international business basedon market economy principles.

Their investment in the United Statesembodies the mutually beneficial nature ofSino-American economic and traderelations, said ministry spokesman HongLei.

Chinas top telecommunications gearmakers should be kept from the US marketbecause they cannot be trusted to dodgeChinese state influence and thus pose asecurity threat, the US House of

China says telco gear makersoperate according to market rules

STOCKHOLM, 9 OctScientists from Britain andJapan shared a Nobel Prizeon Monday for the discoverythat adult cells can betransformed back intoembryo-like stem cells thatmay one day regrow tissue indamaged brains, hearts orother organs.

John Gurdon, 79, of theGurdon Institute inCambridge, Britain and

Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka (L)and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge

are seen at a symposium on induced pluripotent stemcell in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo on April

2008. REUTERS

UK, Japan scientists win Nobel for adult stem celldiscovery

SpaceX rocket blasts offfor space station

Shinya Yamanaka, 50, ofKyoto University in Japan,discovered ways to createtissue that would act likeembryonic cells, without theneed to collect the cells fromembryos.

They share the $1.2million Nobel Prize forMedicine, for work Gurdonbegan 50 years ago andYamanaka capped with a 2006experiment that transformed

the field of regenerativemedicine the search forways to cure disease bygrowing healthy tissue.

These groundbreakingdiscoveries have completelychanged our view ofthe development andspecialization of cells,the Nobel Assembly atStockholms KarolinskaInstitute said.

All of the body starts asstem cells, before developinginto tissue like skin, blood,nerves, muscle and bone. Thebig hope is that stem cellscan grow to replace damagedtissue in cases from spinalcord injuries to Parkinsonsdisease.

Scientists once thoughtit was impossible to turn adulttissue back into stem cells.That meant new stem cellscould only be createdby taking them fromembryos, which raisedethical objections that led toresearch bans in somecountries.

As far back as 1962Gurdon became the firstscientist to clone an animal,

The SpaceX Falcon 9rocket lifts off from Space

Launch Complex 40 atthe Cape Canaveral AirForce Station in Cape

Canaveral, Floridaon 7 Oct, 2012.

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House IntelligenceCommittee Chairman

Mike Rogers (R-MI) (L)and Rep Dutch

Ruppersberger (D-MD)hold a news conference to

release a report onnational security threats

posed by Chinesetelecommunications

companies Huawei andZTE on Capitol Hill inWashington on 8 Oct,

2012. REUTERS

making a healthy tadpolefrom the egg of a frog withDNA from another tadpolesintestinal cell. That showedthat developed cells carrythe information to makeevery cell in the body decades before otherscientists made worldheadlines by cloning the firstmammal from adult DNA,Dolly the sheep.

More than 40 years later,Yamanaka produced mousestem cells from adult mouseskin cells by inserting asmall number of genes.His breakthrough effectivelyshowed that thedevelopment that takes placein adult tissue could bereversed, turning adult tissueback into cells that behavelike embryos.

Stem cells created fromadult tissue are known asinduced pluripotency stemcells, or iPS cells. Becausepatients may one day betreated with stem cells fromtheir own tissue, their bodiesmight be less likely to rejectthem.

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CAPE CANAVERAL,(Florida), 9 Oct Anunmanned, privately ownedFalcon 9 rocket and Dragoncargo capsule blasted offfrom Cape Canaveral onSunday on a mission torestore a US supply line tothe International SpaceStation after the retirementof the space shuttle.

Powered by nineoxygen and kerosene-burning engines, the 157foot (48-metre) tall rocket,built by Space ExplorationTechnologies, lifted off fromits seaside launch pad at CapeCanaveral Air Force Stationat 8:35 pm EDT.

This was a criticalevent for NASA and thenation tonight, said NASAAdministrator CharlesBolden. Just over a year afterthe retirement of the spaceshuttle, we have returnedspace station cargo-resupplymissions to US soil.

The Falcon booster,flying for the fourth time,streaked through balmy,

partly cloudy skies as itheaded east over the AtlanticOcean toward the stationsorbit, some 250 miles aboveEarth.

Despite a problem withone engine during the 10-minute climb to orbit, thecapsule was delivered exactlywhere it was intended to go,company president GwynneShotwell told reporters.

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concerns are bound to setback the companies USprospects and may also leadto new strains in trade tiesbetween the United Statesand China, the worlds twobiggest economies.

Committee ChairmanMike Rogers, at a Pressconference to release thereport, said companies thathad used Huawei equipmenthad reported numerousallegations of unexpectedbehavior, including routerssupposedly sending largedata packs to China late atnight.

The panel cited what itcalled long-term securityrisks supposedly linked withthe companies equipmentand services.

It did not provide anyhard evidence to back up itsconcerns, at least not in the

unclassified version of thereport.

Rogers, a MichiganRepublican who is a formerFBI agent, said lawmakersconcerns had beenheightened by what he andthe panels top Democrat, CARuppersberger of Maryland,described as the companieslack of full cooperation withthe investigation.

If the committeeswarnings about doingbusiness with Huawei andZTE prompt the Chinesegovernment to get out ofthe business of cyberespionage, a growing USconcern, then thats great,he added.

The committee recom-mended that the Committeeon Foreign Investment in theUnited States, an inter-agencygroup that evaluates the

national security risks offoreign investments, shouldblock any deals involvingHuawei or ZTE.

Government contrac-tors and privatesectorcompanies should seek othervendors for their networkequipment, the panel said.

Rogers, responding to aquestion at the pressconference, stopped short ofurging a US boycott of mobilephones and other handhelddevices made by Huawei andZTE.

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A ZTE flag flutters in front of theChinese national flag outside its

headquarters in Shenzhen, GuangdongProvince on 17 April, 2012.

REUTERSRepresentatives Intelligence Committeeleaders said in a draft of a report to be releasedlater on Monday.

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Science Tech

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ATHENS, 9 Oct The activist hacker group Anonymoussaid it had taken down a number of Greek government websiteson Monday, on the eve of a visit by German Chancellor AngelaMerkel that is likely to be met by angry protests. Severalgovernment websites appeared to go down briefly late onMonday, including those of the Citizens Protection Ministry,the police and the Ministry of Justice. A message appearedsaying: The page cannot be found.

Police could not confirm who was responsible for theattack, which Anonymous claimed in a series of Tweets on thesocial media site Twitter.

In a message posted on YouTube, the group criticized thehuge security operation that police plan for Tuesday to containprotests against Merkel, comparing the government to themilitary junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.Tradeunions and opposition political parties have called for massprotests to greet the German chancellor, whom many Greeksaccuse of unfairly forcing them down the path of painfulausterity and driving the country even deeper into recession.

Reuters

Hacker group says attacksGreek official websites

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BUSINESS & HEALTHAsian shares rise, growth worries cap

TOKYO, 9 Oct Asianshares rose on Tuesday butwere capped by concerns overglobal growth prospects,especially in the worldssecond-biggest economyChina, and expected weak UScorporate earnings.

The International Mon-etary Fund cut its globalgrowth forecast on Tuesdayto a 3.3 percent expansion for2012, down from its Julyestimate of 3.5 percent,making it the slowest year ofgrowth since 2009. It warnedUS and European policy-

makers that failure to fix theireconomic ills would prolongthe slump.

The IMF also said onTuesday that Chinaseconomic growth is expectedto weaken to 7.8 percent thisyear, warning of risks toemerging Asia if the eurozone crisis worsens and theUnited States does not avoidits fiscal cliff.

The MSCI index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japanadded 0.6 percent. Australianshares rose 0.5 percent,climbing to a fresh 14-month

high, as a 6 percent jump iniron ore prices lifted minersand helped offset concernsabout global economicgrowth.

However, TokyosNikkei stock averageresumed trading after aholiday on Monday with a0.3 percent drop. Japanesecorporate earnings seasonbegins later in the month.Asian equities markets arefeeling the positive effectsfrom the recent global easing,prompting investors to buythe regions stocks whichhave remained undervalued,said Hirokazu Yuihama, asenior strategist at DaiwaSecurities.

The euro inched up 0.1percent to $1.2977, off itstwo-week peak of $1.3072reached on Friday. The risk-sensitive and commodity-related Australian dollargained 0.5 percent to$1.0229, after hitting a three-month low of $1.0149 onMonday.

ReutersA man clicks his nails as he looks at an electronic board

displaying share prices outside a brokerage in Tokyoon 20 Sept, 2012.REUTERS

Meningitis-linked steroidshots given to 13,000 US

patients

Pharmaceutical compounding company New EnglandCompounding Centre (NECC), a producer of the steroid

methylprednisolone acetate, is seen in Framingham,Massachusetts on 8 Oct, 2012. REUTERS

NASHVILLE, 9 OctTennessee About 13,000people in 23 states may havereceived steroid injectionslinked to a rare fungalmeningitis outbreak that haskilled eight people, but farfewer are likely to contractthe disease, the Centres forDisease Control said onMonday.

It was the first time theCDC has given an estimate ofthe number of patientspotentially affected, havingpreviously said only that itcould be in the thousands.So far, 105 cases of the rareform of meningitis have beenconfirmed in nine states. Inworst-hit Tennessee anotherperson has died, bringing thenational death toll to eight,the CDC and Tennessee stateauthorities said on Monday.The Saint ThomasOutpatient Neurosurgery

Centre in Nashville receivedabout 2,000 of the 17,676 vialsof potentially tainted steroid,more than any other facility inthe country, said TennesseeHealth Commissioner Dr JohnDreyzehner. Dealing withpatients who received theinjections has been anhorrific experience in manyways, said Dr Robert Latham,director of the InfectiousDiseases Programme at SaintThomas.

Weve seen upwards of40 to 50 patients a day sincelast Monday through theemergency room that havehad to be extensivelyevaluated, he said. In Ohio,health officials said they weremobilizing communityresources, including sheriffsoffices, to check on patientswho have received theinjections.

Reuters

The logo of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), asubsidiary of the Anschutz Company, is seen in Los

Angeles, California on 9 Feb, 2011. REUTERS

AEG auction starts; Anschutz seeks bids in$10 billion range

NEWYORK, 9 OctBillionaire Phil Anschutzhas kicked off the auction ofhis Anschutz EntertainmentGroup, with an expectationthat the sports andentertainment giant shoulddraw bids in the $10 billionrange, higher thanpreviously believed,according to sourcesfamiliar with the situation.

The initial, 25-pageAEG information

memorandum that describesthe business but has nofinancial information wasexpected to go to dozensof potential buyers onMonday, the sources said.

The initial group ofrecipients is expected toinclude rich individuals,rivals, sovereign wealthfunds, real estate firms, and

private equity firms, theysaid. Anschutz is likely tostart signing non-disclosureagreements and send out thebooks with financial detailsby the end of the month, thesources said.

The list of potential

NEW YORK, 9 OctChildrens risk ofdeveloping attention-defi-cit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD) later on in life maybe tied to how much fish theirmothers ate while pregnant,according to a new study.

Researchers found thateating at least two servingsof fish per week was linkedto about a 60 percent lowerrisk of kids developingcertain ADHD-like symp-toms. However, elevatedmercury levels, which cancome from eating more fish,were tied to a higher risk ofdeveloping the symptoms,such as hyperactivity,impulsiveness and inatten-tiveness.

While the study cannotprove cause and effect anddid not use a formaldiagnosis of ADHD, it mayoffer insights into acondition thats estimatedto impact one in 10 childrenin the United States,researchers say.

The really importantmessage is to eat fish. Juststay away from mercurycontaining fish, becausethese protective effects arepretty important, saidSharon Sagiv, the studyslead author from the BostonUniversity School of PublicHealth in Massachusetts.Past studies looking at thelink between mercury andADHD have producedconflicting results, which is

Moms fish, mercury intaketied to kids ADHD risk

bidders includes trade buyerssuch as Liberty Media Corpinvestment companies suchas Guggenheim Partners LLC;private equity firms such asThomas H Lee Partners LP,Bain Capital LLC andColony Capital LLC; andrich individuals such as Los

Angeles biotech billionairePatrick Soon-Shiong,sources have previously said.Sources close to potentialbuyers had said last monththat the company could fetchbetween $6 billion and $8billion in a sale.Reuters

why Sagiv and her fellowresearchers, from Brighamand Womens Hospital inBoston, decided to look atthis issue. For the new study,the researchers followed 788children who were born nearNew Bedford, Massachu-setts, between 1993 and1998.

The researchers usedhair samples taken from themothers right after deliveryto test their mercury levels,and food diaries to see howmuch fish they ate.

Then, once the childrenwere about 8 years old, theresearchers asked theirteachers to evaluate the kidsbehaviours to see how manyexhibited ADHD-likesymptoms.

After taking all of theinformation into account, theresearchers found 1microgram of mercury pergram of a mothers hair about eight times the averagelevels found in similarwomens hair in anotheranalysis was tied to abouta 60 percent increase in therisk of their child exhibitingADHD-like behaviours.

The researchers saw nolink below 1 microgram ofmercury per gram of amothers hair.

She added that thenegative effects from lowerlevels of mercury may becanceled out by the benefitsfrom eating fish.

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SYDNEY, 9 OctAustralian business confidenceimproved in September but remains subdued, according toa business survey released on Tuesday by National AustraliaBank (NAB).

The latest NAB Monthly Business Survey showed thebusiness confidence index, a key barometer of sentiment inthe business, rose to zero in September from minus threepoints in August.

NAB said in a statement on Tuesday that major stimulusannouncement by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and theEuropean Central Bank (ECB) had helped lift Australianbusiness confidence.

However, NAB said, confidence remained well below itslong-term average, due to ongoing concerns about the valueof the Australian dollar and falling commodity prices.

Confidence is now six points below the long-runaverage and has been subdued relative to the average formore than a year, NAB said.

The NAB business survey also found the businessconditions index fell to minus three points in September,down from zero the month before and well below the long runaverage of one.

The bank said declines was broad-based, with heavyfalls for wholesale, retail and transport, and utilities in themonth.Xinhua

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Mexico arrests suspected cartel leader in US jet skier case

Mexico city, 9 OctMexican officials said on Monday they had arrested a suspected drug cartel leader believed responsible for the murders in 2010 of dozens of migrants and an American

Suspect Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo (C) also known as El Ardilla (The Squirrel) is presented along

with other suspects and confiscated weaponry to the media by Mexican marines at the Attorney Generals

headquarters in Mexico City on 8 Oct, 2012.ReuteRs

A Nord Stream pipeline operator stands on a platform before the opening ceremony of the North Stream

second gas link in Portovaya bay, some 60 kilomtres from the town of Vyborg in northwestern Russia, on

8 Oct, 2012. Nord Streams 1,224-kilometre Line Two started operating at full capacity on Monday. Line One with an annual capacity of 27.5 billion cubic metres has

been working since November 2011.Xinhua

who was killed as he jet skied on a lake on the Texas-Mexico border.

M e x i c a n m a r i n e s arrested Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, known as Squirrel, on Saturday

evening in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, across the border from Laredo, Texas, after a car chase and a shootout earlier in the day, Mexicos presidency said in a news release.

The driver was armed with a rifle and had a pistol tucked into his waistband when he was ordered by troops to surrender after the chase, authorities said. He subsequently identified himself as Martinez, who authorities said is the suspected head of the Zetas cartel in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila states, all of which border Texas.

Mexican authorities said Martinez was the mastermind of the murders of 72 migrants from Central and South America in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, in August 2010, in the one of the worst single acts of cartel violence in Mexico.

In addition, he is a suspect

in the murder of a Tamaulipas police commander who was found beheaded as he was investigating the high-profile death of jet skier David Hartley. Hartley and his wife, Tiffany Hartley, of the Denver area, were riding jet skis across Falcon Lake to photograph the ruins of a church, Tiffany Hartley told US authorities.

She reported that they were approached by men in two or three boats who opened fire as the couple attempted to speed away and that her husband was shot twice before going under the water. His body has never been recovered. The US- Mexico border bisects Falcon Lake, and the Hartleys were on the Mexican side of the lake when they were shot. The murder drew widespread attention in the United States, especially in Texas.Reuters

US citizen on al-Qaeda wanted list arrested by Yemeni security forces

Ad e n , 9 OctAn American who is believed to be linked to the al-Qaeda group was arrested by the Yemeni security forces in the countrys restive southeastern Province of Shabwa on Monday, a police officer told Xinhua.

A patrol of the police forces detained the American who appeared on a wanted blacklist by the countrys security authorities in downtown Ataq, the provincial capital of Shabwa, and transferred him with a military helicopter to the capital Sanaa, the police officer said on condition of anonymity.

The captured US national was a Muslim and had three passports in his possession two American and one German, according to the

Venezuela, China to remain close after presidential election

cArAcAs, 9 OctVenezuelas relationship with China would remain close after Sundays presidential election, an analyst at the Americas Council said.

I dont see much change in Venezuelas relations with China no matter who wins, Eric Farnsworth told Xinhua. This is a commercial relationship and Venezuela needs markets.

The interview was conducted before latest news coming out that President Hugo Chavez has won the election carrying 54 percent of the votes with 90 percent of the ballots counted.

Chavez remains popular with many Venezuelans because he has transparently transferred income from oil exports to the lower classes, Farnsworh said.

In recent years Chavez

NYPD officer who shot unarmed motorist eager to tell his story

new york, 9 OctThe New York police detective who fatally shot an unarmed motorist last week is more than eager to tell his side of the story to any investigating authorities, his attorney said on Monday after receiving word the citys police commissioner called for a grand jury probe of the incident.

New York Detective Hassan Hamdys pulling the trigger did not occur in a bubble, said attorney Philip

Karasyk. Way before that happened, the driver was acting in such a manner as to continuously raise the level of threat to the police, he said.

The police said Hamdy shot Noel Polanco, 22, just after 5 am on 4 October after pulling the US Army reservist over for erratic driving on a Queens highway. Karasyk said his client maintains that Polanco ignored police orders to put his hands in the air and instead reached down

with both hands to the cars floorboard.

An NYPD statement released last week is consistent with Krasyks description of the lead-up to the shooting.

But witness Diane DeFerrari, 37, a bartender whom Polanco was driving home from her work at a Queens nightclub, said Polancos hands never left the wheel, according to attorney Sanford Rubenstein, who is also representing Polancos

mother. The conflicting accounts have led New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to call for a grand jury investigation into the shooting, The New York Post reported on Monday.

The shooting will require what I believe to be a grand jury investigation to determine precisely what happened there, Kelly told the paper. An NYPD spokesman did not respond to requests for comment on Kellys remarks. Reuters

officer. The US citizen was arrested while having a meal in a hotel, but his entry into Shabwa Province, was unclear and suspicious, the officer said.

The security authorities suspected the American might have links with terrorists in Shabwa, the ancestral homeland of the slain US-Yemeni cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, al-Qaedas most dangerous English-speaking propagandist in Yemen, the source added.

The Yemeni government troops have launched an intensive military campaign with the support of the United States and Yemens oil-rich neighbour Saudi Arabia to uproot the al-Qaeda militants in the southern regions.

Xinhua

Turkish president says worst case unfolding in Syria

Gu v e c c i , 9 OctTurkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the worst-case scenarios were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army fired back for a sixth day after a shell from Syria flew over the border.

Gul said the violence in Turkeys southern neighbour, where a revolt against President Bashar al-

Assad has evolved into a civil war that threatens to draw in regional powers, could not go on indefinitely and Assads fall was inevitable.

T h e w o r s t - c a s e scenarios are taking place right now in Syria ... Our government is in constant consultation with the Turkish military. Whatever is needed is being done immediately as you see, and it will continue to be done, Gul said.

There wil l be a change, a transition sooner or later ... It is a must for the international community to take effective action before Syria turns into a bigger wreck and further blood is shed, that is our main wish, he told reporters in Ankara.

Turkeys armed forces have bolstered their presence along the 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria in recent days and have been responding in kind to gunfire and shelling spilling across from the south, where Assads forces have been battling rebels who control swathes of territory.

Turkeys Chief of Staff, General Necdet Ozel, travelled to the southern city of Adana to inspect the region patrolled by Turkeys 2nd Army, which protects the border with Syria, the military said on its website.

Reuters

Smoke rises after a mortar bomb fired from Syria landed in Turkish soil on the Turkish-Syrian border in southern Hatay Province on 8 Oct, 2012. ReuteRs

had overcome a series of formidable challenges, including a coup attempt in April 2002, a general strike later that year and a referendum on his rule in 2004. But after all of those, he was re-elected in 2006. Some 19 million Venezuelans went to the polls on Sunday while 100,000 others voted overseas.

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IMF cuts China, India, emerging Asia growth forecasts

wAshinGton, 9 OctChinas economic growth is expected to weaken to 7.8 percent this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday as it warned of risks to emerging Asia if the euro zone crisis worsens and the United States does not avoid its fiscal cliff.

However, the IMF said several Asian countries had fiscal room to support their economies if needed and it reiterated a long-standing view that some regional countries, including China, have weaker currencies than desirable.

The IMF sharply lowered its forecasts for India and predicted less buoyant growth in the near- and medium-term for Asia as a whole, cautioning any cool down in Chinas investment surge will add to the drag on regional and German manufacturers. The balance of risks to the near-term growth outlook is tilted to the downside, the Fund said in its semi-annual World Economic Outlook. It predicted Chinas economy, the worlds second-biggest, will soft land by growing 7.8 percent this year and 8.2 percent next year, boosted by interest rate cuts in June and July. Beijing has targeted growth of 7.5 percent this year.Reuters

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(from page 16)have the rights to export Myanmar goods to US and enjoyGSP in importing goods to EU member countries. At thesame time, foreign investments start flowing into the countrydue to the lifting of economic sanctions. Thanks to it,Myanmar citizens would enjoy job opportunities and socio-economic development. One reason why Myanmar haslagged behind in the development is due to the long-lastingarmed conflicts that have prevailed since Myanmar regainedits Independence. Myanmar faces least development due tothe disunity. Myanmar government is doing its utmost forensuring political peace and stability and the end of armedconflicts.

The huge foreign investments would flow into thecountry when the country has peace and stability. And thecountry would see a lot of factories and workshops fromwhich technology transfer would be got. To become adeveloped country, people should work together withknowledge and diligence. He continued to say that Myanmarcitizens are to keep in touch with the development of thosecountries in which they reside, at a time when they are inother foreign countries.

In an effort to bring aboutcountrys economic...

After that, the President presented gifts to theAmbassador, the military attach, embassy staff and theirfamilies and Myanmar students. Then, the President and

President U Thein Sein meets with staff from Myanmar Embassy and Myanmar students.MNA

party went sightseeing in Han River passing through Seoulon board the private vessel and enjoyed a dinner hosted byAmbassador U Nyunt Hlaing.MNA

Singaporean delegation visits farmers educative plantationsNAY PYI TAW, 9 Oct

Union Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationU Myint Hlaing conducteda Singaporean delegationled by Senior Minister ofState Mr Lee Yi Shyan ofSingapore and Sin-gaporean Ambassador toMyanmar Mr Robert Chuaround the thriving farmerseducative plantations inNay Pyi Taw Council Areathis morning.

After that, thedelegation paid a call onUnion Minister U MyintHlaing, Deputy Ministers UOhn Than and U Khin Zawand departmental heads, atthe Ministers office.

At the call, both sideshad a cordial discussion ontechnical cooperation inagriculture sector,cooperation in production

and export of value-addedfarm produces and farmer-

centered programme forpromoting the socio-

Union Foreign Ministerfelicitates Fijian ForeignAffairs and International

Cooperation MinisterNAY PYI TAW, 10 OctOn the occasion of the

National Day of the Republic of Fiji, which falls on 10thOctober 2012, U Wunna Maung Lwin, Union Minister forForeign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar,has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency HonRatu Inoke Kubuabola, Minister for Foreign Affairs andInternational Cooperation of the Republic of Fiji.MNA

Union Culture Minister meetscurators of museums

Union Minister for Culture U Aye Myint Kyu inspectedmuseums in Taunggyi and Nyaungshwe in Shan State on 6October and met staff.

Auditor-General of the Union meetsState/Region Auditors-General

Auditor-General of the Union U Thein Htaik gaveinstructions on exact inspection and checking and exercisingthrifty to officials at coordination meeting between Office ofthe Auditor-General of the Union and Region and StateAuditor-Generals Offices on 8 October morning.

Development of industrialsector discussed

The Mon State industrial development workshop kickedoff at the hall of the state in Mawlamyine on 6 October, withan address by Mon State Chief Minister U Ohn Myint.

Coord meeting on ASEANchess sport held

The coordination meeting for successfully holding ofASEAN Chess Games 2012-Pre SEA Games 2013 Event washeld at Central Hotel in Yangon from 22 to 28 September, witha speech by Deputy Minister for Sports U Thaung Htaik.

Stake driven for schoolbuilding

Sagaing Region Chief Minister U Tha Aye and officialsdrove stake for construction of new building at BasicEducation Middle School in Natlu Hteikpan Ward inMonywa on 4 October and attended the cash donation forthe construction of new buildings.

Fire at Padaukpin oil field leavesone injured

THAYET, 9 OctA fire broke out at the well of ShweyathiCo in Padaukpin oil field in Padaukpin Village of ThayetTownship, Magway Region, at 11.30 pm on 5 October.

While crude oil was drawn out from the well, sparks ofengine caused fire by combining with gas in the air. Eight oilwells, oil well equipment and utensils, engine parts, crude oilfrom the tank were lost in the fire. Moreover, oil well workerMin Naung, 28, son of U Pi Tel of Kanasogon Village inWakema Township was injured at both legs and hands.

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Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing andSingaporean delegation observing Palethwe hybrid paddy plantations.MNA

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Multiplier course onfarmland and land

management lecturedKYAUKSE, 9 Oct

Settlement and LandRecords Department ofMinistry of Agriculture andIrrigation opened themultiplier course for

farmland law, and vacant,virgin and fallow landmanagement law and rulesat Myinsai Hall in Kyaukseon 7 October morning.

The deputy com-missioner of KyaukseDistrict General Admini-stration Department made aspeech. Head of MandalayRegion SLRD U Aye Koexplained the purpose ofconducting the trainingcourse.

Head of KyaukseDistrict SLRD U Zaw LwinOo lectured matters relatedto farmland law, and vacant,virgin and fallow landmanagement law and rules.

Myanma Alin

District News

economic status of ruralpeople.MNA

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The launch of the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Childrenin March 2012 is a major milestone in the pushto ensure the success of the Every WomanEvery Child movement. It is now two yearssince the movement was launched at the UnitedNations Millennium Development GoalsSummit. Its agenda to save the lives of 16million women and children by 2015 isambitious, but achievable.

Maternal and child health are serious issuesthat have to be taken seriously. It is notacceptable, in this day and age, that pregnancy,childbirth and childhood continue to betantamount to a death threat for so many.

Too often, affordable, effective medicinesand simple health supplies do not reach thewomen and children who need them. Some ofthe common barriers to access include the lackof affordable products, lack of formulationssafe for children, weak supply chains,inadequate regulatory capacity at countrylevel to protect people from sub-standard orcounterfeit products that can cause harm, andlack of awareness of how, why and when to usethese commodities.

This Every Woman Every Child movementis about people, and the determination is toensure that policies and committed guidanceaccount for lives saved, not count lives thatcould have been saved.

As Myanmar has already adopted thepeople-centred approach, the Ministry ofHealth and related government bodies willfind more areas to save the lives of women andchildren in cooperation with UN agenciesincluding UNFPA, that is increasing access toand use of quality maternal and newborn healthservices, and INGOs apart from our ownpeople and domestic organizations.

No child should die of preventable causes;no woman should die giving life: this is withinour reach and it is in our hands.

For every woman and every child

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Hey! End the call! It would eatup your phone top-up! Recall

me with the office phone.

Cartoon Maung Maung Lay

President U Thein Sein lays wreath at National Cementary in Seoul.MNA

President U Thein Sein holds talks with Korean President Mr Lee Myung-bak.(News on page 1)MNA

Tobacco Kills

Cooperationin SMEs toserveinterests

(from page 16)entrepreneurs who are intouch with the internationalcommunity.

He hoped for the help ofKBIZ extended to small andmedium enterprises ofMyanmar to get readythemselves to tapopportunities and tacklechallenges stemmed fromforeign investments that

would be made in Myanmarfollowing political andeconomic developments ofthe country.

The governmentestablished SME Centersfor adopting necessarypolicies and conductingresearch and SME Bank wasestablished for dealing withmonetary matters in

running SMEs, he said. Hethanked the South Koreangovernment for its pledge toopen a KDI.

Through cooperation inSMEs, the interests of thepeoples would be served, hesaid.

Chairman of MyanmarInvestment CommissionUnion Minister U Soe Thein

and the KBIZ chairmanexchanged notes of MoU onSME development. ThePresident and those presenthad the lunch.

The President paidfloral tribute at NationalCemetery in Seoul in theevening and signed in thevisitors book.

MNA

Judicial reform to bemade in real time forensuring

(from page 16)economic growth. Having economic sectors with smallinvestments when the country possesses good prospects fordevelopment has become advantages for the future of thenational economy. With the aim of rejuvenating its imagein international community, Myanmar is trying to create afavorable economic environment.

He said his government understood that Rule of Lawis the basis for sustainability of favorable economicenvironment. Judiciary reform would be made in real time

for ensuring Rule of Law.He said investments mainly in labour-intensive

manufacturing and agriculture sector and infrastructuraldevelopment that could create rapidly job opportunitiesfor the grassroots are needed. Investment in private sectorand changes in government policy are moving towards, headded.

Foreign investments not only contribute to economicdevelopment in Myanmar but also assist in democratizationand internal peace processes.

The President said he warmly welcomed investmentsof the Republic of Korea that would be mutually beneficialfor the countries and for the peoples, enhancing friendlyrelations between the two countries.

Next, the President cordially greeted those present andviewed round the booth on activities of KOTRA.

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19th Myanmar National Races Traditional Performing Arts CompetitionPuppet Drama Contests

According to the historical, archaeological and literaryevidences so far traceable, the earliest record of an actuallyperforming puppets comes from the Nile basin in the 8thcentury B.C., that is about six hundred years before thereign of Tutankhamen, the Egyptian King.

Articulated statuettes excavated in Greece and Italy aswell as some ancient texts show that puppets performed forentertainments and also for ceremonies in Hellenic times,the fifth century B.C. During the third century B.C., theyeven performed in the venerable Theatre of Dionysus in theAcropolis, the site of the greatest Greek strategy dramacompetitions.

In the ancient Greece, the live and puppet theatresflourished together. Usually, of course, the live theatreeclipsed the puppet theatre but, sometimes, the latteroutshone the former.

Greek puppetry emigrated to Italy and on to the RomanEmpire and from thence to other parts of Europe.

The puppet theatre in China can in fact look back ona history which is over 2000 years old and all types ofpuppet (shadow, glove, rod and string) flourish in theneighbouring country. Sung Dynasty (960-1279) enlistedmany master puppeteer such as Lu of the golden stringsmeaning string puppets.

In India, the director of the theatre of the present iscalled, Sutradhara and, thus, scholars believe that theancient Sanskrit drama was attempted with string puppets.

The puppet theatre in Myanmar dates back to InwaPeriod (1364-1516) for the Htupayon Pagoda stoneinscription set up at Sagaing in 1444 by King Narapatimentions a group of entertainers such as Puppeteers (ah-yoke-the) and musicians (pantara-the) the monarchdedicated as slaves to the shrine in order for them toentertain the worshippers from far and near.

Moreover, a young monk by the name of Shin MahaRathas Thara (1468-1529) composed three poems withreferences to puppets such as The Naga-serpents lookedlike figures manipulated by strings (Buridat-lingargyipyo);the figure of a bearded Brahmin with eyes which rotated andlips which opened (Minglazedi Mawgun) and Dances oflarge and small figures, illuminated by many oil lamps(Thanwara-pyo).

The present writer of this article opines that, like inThailand (nang) and like in Indonesia (wayang kulit), andthe shadow puppets, the art of drama began with string

puppets in this country in the Innwa Dynasty (1364-1516).According to the research carried out by U Maung Maung

Tin in about 1960, five plays were performed to commemoratethe holding of the hair-knotting and ear-boring ceremony ofPrincess Panhtwar, the daughter of King Nyaungyan (1599-1605), founder of the Nyaungyan Dynasty (1599-1762) in1602. Therefore, the writer of this article is of the opinion thatsince five players were staged only three years after theestablishment of the Nyaungyan Dynasty and since it wasimpossible for an art form such as drama to fully develop assoon as it was born, it is most probable that the Myanmar artof drama made its appearance much earlier than the beginningof the Nyaungyan Dynasty, for instance, the Toungoo Dynasty(1527-1590) or even Innwa Dynasty (1364-1516). In otherwords, at the beginning of the Innwa Dynasty (1364-1516), thestring puppetry was born; by the middle of the same dynasty(1414-1464), the art of drama was attempted with stringpuppets; and, before the end of the dynasty (1464-1516), thelive (human) drama came into being.

This year, the 19th Myanmar National Races TraditionalPerforming Arts Competition, Puppetry Contests, the storydesignated for the puppet drama event is Lu, Kyay, Naga,Kywet, Lay Par (Man, Parakeet, Naga (serpent) and Mouse;the Four Creatures) based on a fictitious story formerlystaged by both the live and puppet theatres. The story runsas follows. The king gives a necklace studded with rubiesas a birthday present to his daughter. The next morning, thepeasant man and his wife, while working in the rice fieldhear loud voices shouting for help and they see a man, aparakeet, a Naga and a mouse being stranded at the foot ofthe precipice because, the other night, a violent storm brokeout and forced them to fall down the hill-side. The peasantman and woman throw a long rope down the precipice andthey rescue firstly the mouse, then the parakeet, then theNaga and, finally, the man. The animals say words of thanksto the couple and, saying that the peasant man could calleach and every one of them by wishing aloud, go away.

The peasant man and his wife bid the man farewell andgo away. The man is in fact the kings appraiser. Hs is greatlydispleased and angry for the peasant couple did not rescuehim first as he is a human being like them and as he is thekings appraiser. The man goes away, determined to givetrouble to the peasant man and woman some day, somehow.

The princess firstly places her clothes on the groundand then places the ruby necklace on the clothes, and then

goes to bathe in the pool. Meanwhile, the parakeet entersflying and, believing that the necklace is a piece of meatcovered with blood, picks it up beak and flies away.

The princess in greatly overwhelmed with grief and sheinformed the matter to her father the king. The King ordersthat the necklace is not a piece of meat but something whichhuman beings use for an unknown purpose. He goes to thepeasant man and woman and presents the necklace asgesture of gratitude to them and goes away. The peasantman and woman, wishing to know the value of the necklace,go to the city and show it to the appraiser.

The appraiser now expresses his ingratitude byreporting the King that the peasant man and woman areresponsible for the theft of the necklace. The King ordersthat the peasant couple be thrown into the dungeon at onceand be killed the next day.

The Naga visits the peasant couple in the dungeon and

By Ye Dwaytells them his plan of temporarily killing the princess. Healso tells the peasant man to seek the help of the mouse inorder for the animal to go to the Himalaya Forest and fetchfor him the root of a medicinal plant. The mouse did as heis told by the peasant and gives the medical root to him. Thepeasant man begs te Naga not to harm the princess.

The Naga enters the bed chamber of the princess andsprings at her with his fangs and she dies. The King ordersthe town criers to declare that anyone who could save thelife of the princess would be greatly rewarded.

The Naga, disguised as a man, informs and the towncriers that the peasant couple being imprisoned forsuspected theft of the necklace could cure all woundscaused by animals.

The peasant man and woman duly case resurrection tothe princess using the medicinal root.

The king is holding court the next day. The peasantsummons all his animal friends to him to act as witnesses.Then, he relates the story leading to the death andresurrection of the princess. In a fit of anger, the King ordersthat the wicked official be banished from his realm. He thenpresents a million pieces of silver to the peasant couple andmakes them the riches persons in the kingdom and thedrama closers.

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YANGON, 9 OctExecutive Board of Myanmar BanksAssociation met at its office here this afternoon in thewake of recent buzz in the banking industry.

Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar U Than Nyein,who is also the chairman of the association, said that 23foreign companies have put forward proposals to opencountry offices in Myanmar, calling for more transparencyto achieve trust of the people.

Chairman of Cooperatives Bank U Khin Maung Ayeexplained undertakings of the association.

U Aung Ko Win, Chairman of Kanbawza Bank Ltd,which was recently hit by rumours, thanked the centralbank for standing on his banks side.

Kanbawza Bank is functioning as usual becauseit could retain confidence of customers by allowingthem to withdraw unlimited amount of deposits asthey wanted.MNA

Myanmar BanksAssociation meets

Yedagun Socio-Economic Development Projectdonates medical equipment, teaching aids

NAY PYI TAW, 9 OctYedagun Socio-EconomicDevelopment Projectdonated medical equipmentto Dawei Peoples Hospital

and teaching aids toGovernment Technical HighSchool in Dawei at theceremony held at thePeoples Hospital on 6

October. The government isopening more hospitals andschools around the countryfor socio-economicdevelopment of the people

in each region, ruraldevelopment and povertyalleviation.

The Taninthayi Regionchief minister said at theceremony that contributionsof the Yedagun Socio-Economic Development

Project counted in the bid forregional development.

Myanmar in-charge MrAhmad Lutpi Haron of theproject donated the medicalequipment and teaching aidsthrough the chief minister.

MNA

President of theRepublic of the Unionof Myanmar U TheinSein and President MrLee Myung-bak of the

Republic of Koreahold discussion at

Presidents Residencein Seoul. (News on

page 1)MNA

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Eurozones ministers pose for a familly photo after an European Stability Mechanism meeting, in Luxembourg, on 8 Oct, 2012.Xinhua

Mo s c o w, 9 OctVisiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki said on Monday that his country would strengthen military and energy ties with Russia.

Baghdad needs Russias help in military and defence areas, and would like to forge closer partnership with Moscow in the future, Maliki said in a lecture delivered at the Russian Foreign Ministry mansion.

Some people describe this visit as solely about arms purchases. But that is not the case, RIA Novosti quoted Maliki as saying.

Maliki admitted that Iraq needs arms to defend itself

Iraq eyes closer military, energy ties with Russia

IMF cuts 2012 Africa growth forecast, raises outlook for 2013

Tokyo, 9 OctThe International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its 2012 forecast for Africa along with most other countries around the world as the euro zone crisis dampens global demand and higher food prices weigh on food-importing countries in the region. In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF shaved its 2012 projections for Africa to 5 percent from 5.4 percent. However, it revised up its 2013 outlook to 5.7 percent from 5.3 percent.

The Fund said spillovers from the euro zone crisis into Africa have so far been modest except for South Africa, which has close financial and trading

ties with Europe. The IMF cut its 2013 forecast for South African growth to 3 percent from a July projection of 3.3 percent mainly due to the impact from the continuing euro zone debt crisis. It maintained its 2012 projection of 2.6 percent.

If the euro area crisis escalates further and global growth slows further, Sub-Saharan Africas prospects will be less favourable, the IMF said. South Africa, strongly linked to Europe, would be particularly affected, with possible repercussions for some economies in southern Africa, the Fund said, Softer commodity prices would adversely affect the regions

natural resource exporters, it added.

The IMF cautioned that African countries could also be hit if Chinas economy slowed sharply. Chinas economic growth is expected to be the lowest in more than a decade this year.

Increasing Chinese foreign direct investment and government funding to African countries has made it an important player in the region.

The priority in much of the region is to continue to strengthen policy buffers and prepare contingency plans if downside risks materialize, the IMF added.

Reutersand fight terrorism, and underscored the countrys demand for weapons to fight against rebels and terrorists in its deserted areas.

Meanwhile, Russia and Iraq could deepen cooperation in exploring natural resources in Iraq, which would help the Middle East country restore its infrastructure, Maliki said.

He also invited Russian companies to participate in the construction of Iraqs electric energy industry and other spheres.

In addition, Maliki said Iraq would like to cooperate with all its partners, including countries like the United

States and Iran.The top Iraqi official

arrived in Russia on Monday for a working visit at the invi tat ion of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin Press service reported.

Maliki would meet w i t h R u s s i a n P r i m e Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday on military technology cooperation, local media reported.

On Wednesday, Maliki would talk with Putin on further promoting bilateral ties in political, trade and economic, and humanitarian areas, the Kremlin Press service reported.Xinhua

Main highway closed in Sweden due to flooding

sTockholM, 9 OctMain highway E4 was closed due to flooding caused by heavy rain in northern Sweden, reported Swedish media on Monday.

Near the City of Skelleftea in the northern area of Vasterbotten, villages were almost cut off completely by the flood and nine roads were closed, according to Swedish Television SVT.

The water is half a meter deep on the roads, said the report, adding that the local graveyard was under the water now. The further north of Sweden was also affected by the heavy rain, yet there is no report on death and injuries for the time being.Xinhua

Cities hit by recession ask voters to approve more debt

san Francisco, 9 OctHouston-area schools want to borrow $1.9 billion to modernize most of the high schools, while Seattle says it needs $290 million to upgrade a seawall protecting the downtown waterfront so it can withstand an earthquake.

San Francisco wants to sell $195 million of debt to repair and improve worn-out parks and playgrounds that it says have been loved to death.

Voters in th ese and a number of other big US cities some with already-high debt loads will decide on Election Day whether to borrow even more or face prospects for reduced services or higher taxes.

The United States needs $2 trillion of infrastructure upgrades, according to a 2011 report by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young. Many of these roads, bridges, dams, water and sewer plants serve major metropolitan areas, but the recession left many cities struggling to pay for capital projects and services.

Downtown Seattle and the Elliott Bay waterfront are seen from atop the roof of the 650-foot-tall Space Needle looking

South over the skyline on 17 April, 2012.ReuteRs

Teenage workers to see minimum pay cut as New Zealand government aims

to create jobswellingTon, 9 OctThe New Zealand government on Tuesday announced it was cutting

the minimum pay for teenage workers in a controversial bid to encourage youth employment.Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson said the new starting-out wage, to be introduced in

April next year, would help provide young New Zealanders with more opportunities to get into the workforce. Wilkinson said the starting-out wage was the latest in a series of steps to help get more New Zealanders into jobs in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.

The new starting-out wage will create demand for young people by giving employers a real incentive to take them on, Wilkinson said in a statement. The governments plan would provide for eligible 16 to 19-year- olds to be paid 80 percent of the minimum wage.

The new starting-out wage will help some of our youngest and most inexperienced workers get a much-needed foot in the door, in what is currently a tight labour market, she said. Those eligible for the lower minimum wage included 16 and 17- year-olds in their first six months of work with a new employer; 18 and 19-year-olds entering the workforce after more than six months on welfare; and 16 to 19-year-old workers in industry training courses. The starting-out wage would apply for up to six months after starting work with a new employer.Xinhua

Elected leaders are wary of asking voters to approve more borrowing.

Politicians are very sensitive to the current economic climate and hesitant to go to the voters for anything that would incur additional costs for debt, but theres also a recognition that revenues will not be enough to support our capital needs, said Miguel Santana, Los

Angeles city administrative officer.

Some cities are reaching levels of borrowing that fiscal monitors call critical, a no-go zone where high debt service costs can crowd out education, police and fire protection, or other priorities. A look at 10 prominent cities reveals markedly different debt profiles, according to data Moodys Investors

Service compiled for Reuters.Many large cities, such

as Boston, New York or Chicago, do not require voter approval to sell debt, relying on built-in policy safeguards. Boston, for example, limits debt service to 7 percent of expenditures. In other cities, voters must make the decisions on borrowings, as Seattle and Houston will do this November. Voters have mixed records when it comes to taking on debt, with citizens in some cities more restrained than in others.

One measure used to assess whether a city or state has over-borrowed is debt service as a percent of operating expenditures.

Anything between 5 and 7 percent is enough, as a general rule of thumb, said Mark Tenenhaus, director of municipal research at RSW Investments, LLC, in Summit, New Jersey.

Seven out of 10 large cities have gone beyond that guideline, spending more than 7 percent of their annual budgets on repaying debt in 2011, according to Moodys.

Reuters

Students perform at a school in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea(DPRK), on

5 Oct, 2012.Xinhua

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Malaysian palm oil firm eyes Philippinesafter peace deal

KUALA LUMPUR, 9 Oct Malaysias Felda GlobalVentures, the worlds largestcrude palm oil producer, isthe first foreign investor toevince interest in thesouthern Philippines afterManila agreed on a historicpeace deal with Muslimrebels, potentially openingup tracts of farm land.

The Philippine govern-

ment and Moro IslamicLiberation Front rebelsagreed on Sunday on a pactto end 40 years of conflict inthe impoverished southernregion of Mindanao. Officialshave cautioned that the dealis only a first step as the twosides need to thrash outdetails on the scope andpowers of a new autonomousregion. Conflict-wracked

Mindanao has the mostsuitable land in thePhilippines for oil palms, SabriAhmad, chief executive ofcash-rich Felda Global toldReuters in an interview.

We will go there for oilpalms, he said in theMalaysian capital late onMonday. There is amplearea for oil palms to meetstrong local demand, headded. Felda Global had a$3.1 billion listing earlier thisyear, at the time the largest inthe world after FacebooksIPO, and had said it plannedto use the funds to expand inSoutheast Asia and Africa.

The fighting inMindanao has deterred anywidespread foreign invest-ment in the agriculture andmineral-rich region.

Despite the naturalresources, the Philippinesimports more than 500,000tonnes of crude palm oil a yearto meet strong local demandfor the product, used mostlyfor cooking.Reuters

A Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA)farmer sits on oil palm fruits to be delivered to the

factory in Hulu Selangor, about 100 km (62 miles) northof Kuala Lumpur in this 22 Feb 2012REUTERS

Pakistan rejects Karzais assertion as misplaced, baselessISLAMABAD, 9 Oct

Pakistan on Monday rejectedcomments reportedly madeby Afghan President HamidKarzai about conditions for aproposed Strategic Partner-ship agreement betweenPakistan and Afghanistan asentirely misplaced andwithout any basis.

It was reported thatKarzai said in Kabul last weekthat conditions would beattached to negotiations on aStrategic PartnershipAgreement with Pakistan.

Listing conditions,Karzai said at a Pressconference that neighboursmust stop the export ofterrorism, suicide bombers,interference and all the otherthings which result in killingand disturbing the Afghanpeoples tranquility anddestabilizing Afghani-stan.

Once we are assured thatPakistan with which we wantto have a friendly relationshipmeets these conditionseliminates terrorism andextremism and stops the

training and export ofinsurgency to AfghanistanAfghanistan will be ready towork on this, the Afghanpresident said.

Commenting on Karzaisassertions, Pakistans ForeignMinistry spokesman clarifiedthat Pakistan desires topromote good relations withAfghanistan on the basis ofmutual respect and mutualinterest. In this regardcomments reportedly madeby President Karzai andcertain other quarters in

South East Asia

Pakistan

A US soldier walks past aHarrier jet after the

opening ceremony of theRP-US AmphibiousLanding Exercise

(PHIBLEX) 2013 insideof the USS BonhommeRichard assault ship

docked in Subic bay, thePhilippines, on 8 Oct,

2012.XINHUA

Filipino soldiers, US Marines begin annual jointexercises

SUBIC BAYFREEPORT, 9 Oct Members of the ArmedForces of the Philippines andthe United States ArmedForces started a joint trainingexercise at the Subic Bay inthe northern Philippineprovince of Zambales onMonday.

Over 2,000 US troopsand about 1,600 Filipinosoldiers are taking part in theannual Amphibious LandingExercise 2013 ( PHIBLEX)which will be held until 18October.

This years exercise willfocus on improving intero-

perability for humanitarianassistance and disasterresponse missions.

Majority of the activitieswill take place in Zambalesand in other areas in northernPhilippines Crow Valleyand Camp O Donnell inTarlac; Fort Magsaysay inNueva Ecija; Basa Air Basein Floridablanca inPampanga; and Marine BaseGregorio Lim in Cavite City.

A staff planning exercisefocusing on humanitarianassistance and disasterresponse will be staged in thenorthern Philippine Province

of Palawan.US deputy chief of

mission Brian Goldblecksaid this years PHIBLEX isanother demonstration of thegreat friendship andcooperation between thePhilippines and the UnitedStates. PHIBLEX 13 is aregularly scheduled exercisehosted annually by thePhilippines. It is the 29th of acontinuing series of exercisesdesigned to promoteregional peace and securityby ensuring interoperabilityand readiness of Philippineand US forces.Xinhua

Passengers board on the plane CZ680 at Gansu Zhongchuan Airport in Lanzhou,northwest Chinas Gansu Province, on 8 Oct, 2012. The passenger plane, which made a

forced landing in Lanzhou on Monday afternoon after receiving an anonymousterrorist threat, took off at about 10:45 pm Monday after a security check. XINHUA

Man detained after hoax grounded plane in NW ChinaChina

Philippines

Pacific Island countries tomeet on MillenniumDevelopment Goals

SUVA, 9 Oct Government representatives, civil societyand development agencies from 15 Pacific Island countrieswill meet in Fijis western tourist town of Nadi from Wednesdayto review the regions Millennium Development Goals (MDG)achievements, the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) said on Tuesday.

According to a UNDP release, the Islandcountriesgathering will also assess the challenges that needto be addressed for some of the MDG goals on how to accelerateprogress towards their achievement in the remaining period to2015. The Post-2015 Pacific Consultation, which is organizedthrough a regional partnership for MDG between ESCAP,Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the UNDP in cooperationwith the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and the Asia PacificCommunity of Practice on Managing for Development Results(APCoP), will also gather views and perspectives on the post-2015 development agenda and the processes to definesustainable development goals.

It responds to a request by the 43rd Pacific Island Forumin which the leaders urged the regional agencies to work withthe UN to support countries take urgent action to accelerateprogress and get behind a final push to achieve the MDGsby 2015 as well as begin consultations on what are thepriorities of the Pacific ahead of global discussions on the psot-2015 agenda.Xinhua

LANZHOU, 9 OctAsuspect was detained bypolice in northwest ChinasXinjiang Uygur AutonomousRegion late Monday night,hours after a plane made aforced landing because of a

terrorist threat he allegedlyfabricated.

The man, whosesurname was given as Wang,confessed to the police thathe made the fake terroristthreat that had led to the

forced landing of aninternational passengerplane, according to sourceswith Xinjiang public securityauthorities. Police said theyare investigating Wangsmotives of making up the

land in Beijing at 5:50 pm,according to the flightstimetable. It made its forcedlanding in Gansu at around5:30 pm.

All the 196 onboard,including 186 passengersand 10 crew members, wereevacuated immediately afterthe landing. No other flightsat the Zhongchuan Airportwere disrupted. An Internetuser who claimed to be one ofthe passengers on the planesaid she was not given anyexplanation before or afterthe landing.

Without the maps appon my mobile phone, I wouldnot even have known whereI was, said Baimifan at SinaWeibo, Chinas Twitter-likemicroblogging website. Shewas identified as a designerwith Puma by the website.The latest incident came lessthan two months afterbombing threats groundedtwo airplanes in China.

In late August, an AirChina flight bound for NewYork returned to BeijingCapital International Airportafter it received a threateningmessage. The plane headedfor New York after nodangerous items were foundon the plane.

In the same week, aShenzhen Airlines domesticflight returned after receivinga bomb threat. Police incentral China detained a manwho confessed that hefabricated the bomb hoax tostop a creditor aboard theflight from collecting hisdebt.Xinhua

Afghanistan are entirelymisplaced and without anybasis. The spokesman furtherclarified that the proposedStrategic PartnershipAgreement was suggested byPresident Karzai during atrilateral summit betweenAfghanistan, Pakistan andBritain in New York last week.

Referring to allegationsagainst Pakistan, thespokesman said that Pakistanhas invested heavily topromote stability inAfghanistan.Xinhua

threat. The China SouthernAirlines flight CZ680,travelling from Istanbul toBeijing via Urumqi, wasgrounded in the ZhongchuanAirport in Lanzhou, capitalof northwest Chinas GansuProvince, hours after its take-off from Xinjiangs capital ofUrumqi.

The Boeing 757 took offagain at around 10:45 pm atthe airport after a four-hour-long security check found noexplosives or any othersuspected items. The planewas scheduled to take offfrom Urumqi at 2:30 pm and

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Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

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AGENT FOR: RK SHIPPING & TRADINGPTE LTD.

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Consignees of cargo carried on MV SEA SUNNYVOY NO (-) are hereby notified that the vessel will bearriving on 10.10.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignees risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: SANG THAI SHIPPING CO LTD.Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV MERKUR BRIDGE VOY NO (018)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV MERKURBRIDGE VOY NO (018) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 10.10.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.P where it will lieat the consignees risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S MOL (SPORE) PTE LTD.Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Businessconference to

promotetrade betweenSweden, Iraq

STOCKHOLM, 9 Oct TheSwedish-Iraqi Business andInvestment Conferenceopened here on Mondaywith aims to promote tradeand business betweenSweden and Iraq.

I hope that thisconference will inspire Iraqiand Swedish companies toengage in new forms ofcooperation and to furtherdevelop existing projects,for the benefit of our twocountries, said the host ofthe conference SwedishMinister for Trade EwaBjorling.

Around 1.5 percent ofSwedens population are ofIraqi origin and can play avery special role inenhancing ties betweenSweden and Iraq, she added.

Bjorling also said thatSweden was happy to shareits experiences and benefitsof free trade on whichSwedens prosperity wasbuilt.

The conference wouldalso include match-making,workshops and businessmeetings of representativesfrom different sectors of thetwo countries.

Xinhua

Armenia sees fast ICT development inrecent years

YEREVAN, 9 Oct Armenia has seen noticeable development of informationcommunication technology (ICT) in recent years, the local media Armenpress quoted anofficial as saying on Monday. Bagrat Yengibaryan, chairman of the Enterprise IncubatorFoundation, said the ICT sector has maintained an average annual growth rate of 20percent to 30 percent in recent years, and there are plenty of related programmes beingdeveloped in the country. According to the reports of Armenpress, 47 percent ofArmenians were Internet users in 2010, while the figure was only 0.1 percent back in 2001.

The country now has 400 ICT firms, with altogether 10,000 employees. Some 80percent of these companies are export-oriented, and are mainly operating in the capitalcity. Their annual turnover is close to 200 million US dollars, said the reports.

Armenpress also said Armenia is well ahead of Azerbaijan and Georgia in the ICTindustry.Xinhua

Putin guarantees Europe seamless gas supplyMOSCOW, 9 Oct Moscow would guarantee stable and

seamless supplies of natural gas to European customers,Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

Gas will be shipped directly, stably, by the shortestroute linking largest Russian gas deposits with the Europeanmarkets, with no transit risks and interruptions, Putin saidin a video address upon the Nord Stream pipelines start ofoperating on full capacity.

On Monday, the Line Two of the Nord Stream startedpumping gas from Russia to Germany. The Line One with anannual capacity of 27.5 billion cubic metres was opened inNovember 2011.

Nord Stream is capable to satisfy growing demand onenergy resources in Europe, Putin said, adding the pipelineworked in fully automatic mode under control from anelectronic control centre.

According to Putin, the projects design helped reduceenvironmental harm for Baltic Sea and cut maintenanceexpenses, the Kremlin Press service reported.

Russia has always fulfilled and will be fulfilling itscommitments as a reliable and predictable fuel supplier onthe European market. We expect the European Union wouldfacilitate the efficient use of Nord Streams potential, Putinsaid.

He said the Nord Stream would make a sizeablecontribution to economic growth of both Russia and Europeas a whole. Under existing contracts, Russia woul

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