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New Light of MyanmarExaggerating Rakhine conict as a genocide is totally contrary to the truthDiplomats supports efforts of government for restoring peace and
stability in Rakhine State Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Dec
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk
Kham, accompanied by
General Hla Htay Win of the
ofce of the Commander-
in-Chief (Army), Union
Minister for Border Affairs
Lt-Gen Thein Htay, Union
Minister for Immigration and
Population U Khin Yi, Union
Minister for Social Welfare,
Relief and ResettlementDr Daw Myat Myat Ohn
Khin, deputy ministers and
departmental heads, left
here for Yangon with the
Tatmadaw aircraft yesterday
morning.
The Vice-President
then proceeded to Sittway
with the special ight of
Myanma Airways, together
with ambassadors of
Bangladesh, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Pakistan and
Turkey, diplomats and
ofcials of UN agencies.
On arrival at Sittway
airport, they were welcomed
by the Rakhine State chief
minister, the commander and
state ministers.
The Vice-President held
a meeting with ambassadors,
diplomats, members of UN
agencies, the state ministers,
personnel working for
restoring stability in the
state, the supervisory
committee for restoringpeace and stability, relief
and rehabilitation in Rakhine
State and departmental
heads.
At the meeting, Vice-
President said that despite
the governments efforts,
which were witnessed by
diplomats and officials
from UN agencies during
their tr ips to Rakhine
State, to restore peace
and stability in Rakhine
State since the conflict
out broke, some accused
the government of using
over force to control the
situation, and some media
had portrayed the conict
as a genocide and that
were totally contrary to the
truth.
The vice-president
also reafrmed that there
was no racial or religious
discrimination by local
authorities in Rakhine State
when they made efforts for
restoring peace and the
rule of law. The fabricated
Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Dec
The water levels of the
Ayeyawady river are forecast
to fall below the present
water levels by (15) cm
(about -foot) at Myitkyina,
Bhamo and Katha, (30) cm
(about 1-foot) at Mandalay
and Sagaing, and (45) cm(about 1-feet) at Pakokku,
NyaungU, Chauk, Minbu,
Water level forecast for second
(10) days of December 2012
Magway, Aunglan, Pyay,
Seiktha, Hinthada and Zalun.
The water levels of the
Chindwin river are forecast
to fall below the present
water levels by (15) cm
(about -foot) at Hkamti and
Homalin, and (30) cm (about
1-foot) at Mawlaik, Kalewaand Monywa.
NLM
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham providing relief aid to locals at Sambalay
Village Relief Camp in Minbya Township.mna
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham gives encouragements to villagers at Taungbway Village in Kyauktaw
Township.mna
reportage and information
can arise misunderstanding
among the international
community over the actual
situation in Rakhine State,
he added.
(See page 9)
Egyptian military urges dialogue to avert
catastropheCairo, 8 DecEgypts
military said on Saturday
only dialogue could avert
catastrophe, stepping into
a crisis pitting an Islamist
president against opponents
of his drive to reshape anation in turmoil since Hosni
Mubaraks overthrow.
An army statement,
which state radio and
A member of the Republican Guard stands behind a barbedwire barricade, as the Guard blocks a road leading to the
presidential palace in Cairo on 7 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs
television interrupted their
programmes to read out,
told feuding factions that
a solution to the upheaval
in the most populous Arab
nation should not contradict
legitimacy and the rules ofdemocracy.
That sounded like a
swipe at protesters who
have besieged the palace
of freely elected President
Mohamed Mursi and who
have called for his removal,
going beyond mainstream
opposition demands for
him to retract a decree that
expanded his powers.
The statement also
called for a serious
national dialogue - perhaps
one more credible than
talks convened by Mursi
on Saturday in the absenceof opposition leaders. They
insist he must rst scrap his
22 November decree, defer
next weeks popular vote
on a new constitution and
allow the text to be revised.
D e e p r i f t s h a v e
emerged over the destiny
of a country of 83 millionwhere Mubaraks ouster
after 30 years of autocratic
rule led to a messy army-led
transition, with the Muslim
Brotherhood and its allies
winning two elections.
Many Egyptians crave
a return to stability and
economic recovery. The
army, which ran Egypt for
months after Mubarak fell
in February 2011, again
cast itself primarily as the
neutral guarantor of the
nation and a military source
said there was no plan to
retake control of the countryor its turbulent streets.
Reuters
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Rebels circle Damascus Airport; Russia, US
downbeat Damascus, 8 Dec
Rebels fighting to toppleSyrian President Bashar al-
Assad declared DamascusInternational Airport a battlezone on Friday, while Moscowand Washington both soundeddownbeat about the prospectsof a diplomatic push to endthe conict.
Fighting around thecapital city has intensiedover the past week, and
Western ofcials have begunspeaking about faster changeon the ground in a 20-month-old conict that has killed40,000 people.
But Russia and the UnitedStates, the superpowers thathave backed the opposingsides in the conflict, both
played down the chance of adiplomatic breakthrough aftertalks aimed at resolving theirdifferences.
I dont think anyonebelieves that there was some
great breakthrough, USSecretary of State HillaryClinton said of a meeting
with Russias ForeignMinister Sergei Lavrovand international mediator
Lakhdar Brahimi.No one should have any
illusions about how hard thisremains. But all of us, with anyinuence, need to be engagedwith Brahimi for a concerted,sincere push.
The rebel brigades whohave been putting the airportunder siege decided yesterday
that the airport is a militaryzone, said Nabil al-Amir,a spokesman for the rebelsDamascus Military Council.
Civilians who approachit now do so at their own risk,
he said. Fighters had waitedtwo weeks for the airport to beemptied of most civilians and
airlines before declaring it atarget, he added. He did not saywhat they would do if aircrafttried to land. Foreign airlineshave suspended all ights toDamascus since ghting has
approached the airport in thepast week, although some
Syrian Air ights have used
Kazakh pr esident, Chinese vice pr emier meet on relations
astana, 8 DecKazakh President NursultanNazarbayev and visiting
Chinese Vice Premier WangQishan met here on Friday todiscuss the development of
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (R)shakes handswith Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan during their
meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 7 Dec, 2012.Xinhua
Clinton to testify on Benghazi attack r eportWashington, 8 Dec
US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton will testify on areport expected to be releasednext week on the deadly
attack on the US diplomatic
post in Benghazi, Libya, atop Republican lawmaker
said on Friday.I have just received
conrmation from SecretaryClintons office that the
relations between their twocountries, with emphasison cooperation in energy,
communication and trade.Since China and
Kazakstan established
diplomatic ties 20 yearsago, their relations havemaintained a good momentumof development, Wang said.
Political mutual trustbetween the two countrieshas been constantly enhancedand bilateral cooperation in
various elds has movedforward smoothly, he said.
The two sides havesupported each other onmajor issues concerningtheir core interests andclosely cooperate in bothregional and global affairs,
Wang said. The efforthas promoted regionalstability and contributed tothe development of both
countries, Wang said.N a z a r b a y e v s
successful visit to China inJune injected new impetusinto the development of thecomprehensive strategicpartnership between the two
countries, he said.China apprec ia tes
Kazakhstans strong support
on issues including crackingdown on the EasternTurkistan terrorist forceand will firmly supportKazakhstans choice of adevelopment path that tsits national conditions, Wang
said.Xinhua
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to aquestion during a joint news conference with Irish
Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the government bu ildingin Dublin on 6 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs
Frances Hollande to attend Nobel
Peace Prize award ceremony in OsloParis, 8 DecFrench
President Francois Hollandewill attend award ceremonyfor the Nobel Peace Prize tothe European Union (EU)in Oslo next on Monday,
a statement from FrenchPresidency said on Friday.
Second bomb this week kills three in Nairobi suburb
nairobi, 8 DecAbomb blast in a predominantly
Somali district of the Kenyancapital of Nairobi on Fridaykilled three people andwounded at least eight, theKenyan Red Cross said.
There was no immediateclaim of responsibilityfor the attack in the run-down Eastleigh suburb, thesecond explosion there since
Wednesday night. Locallawmaker Yusuf Hassan wasamong the injured, Nairobispolice chief Moses Ombatisaid.
One Eastleigh resident,Said Abdullahi, said he heardtwo gunshots followed by an
explosion outside a mosque.Some of those injured
were worshippers leaving
the mosque, Abdullahi toldReuters.
Ombati said it wastoo early to tell whether agrenade or a bomb caused theexplosion and it was possible
the casualty toll would rise.Kenyan authorities have
blamed Somali militants andtheir sympathizers for a waveof grenade and gun attacksin Kenya after Nairobi sent
Policemen inspect the secured section at the scene of th e
blast in Eastleigh suburb of Kenyas capital Nairobi on7 Dec 2012.ReuteRs
soldiers into neighboringSomalia last year to drive out
Islamist rebel ghters withlinks to al-Qaeda.
Kenyas governmentaccuses al Shabaab rebels ofmaking cross-border attacksand blamed the group forthe kidnapping of Western
tourists and aid workers.Abdirashid Hashi,
a Somalia analyst at the
International Crisis Group,said lawmaker Hassan was anopen critic of the al Shabaabrebel groups almost six-year campaign againstSomalias Western-backedgovernment.
Tensions have risenin the past two months in
Eastleigh, a part of Nairobicommonly dubbed LittleMogadishu because of itslarge Somali population.
Its too early to say whowas behind this ... but I dontthink mosques are off-limitsto al Shabaab, Hashi told
Reuters. It was not clear ifHassan, a former journalist
at the BBC, was the targetof the attack.Reuters
the airport in recent days.The meeting of rebels in
Antalya, Turkey, was aimed at
forming a structure to run theconict in conjunction witha new opposition NationalCoalition, which someEuropean and Arab stateshave recognized as Syriaslegitimate representatives.
One delegate at themeeting, who asked not to be
identied, said two-thirds ofthe 30 members of the newlynamed command had ties withthe Muslim Brotherhood orwere its political allies.
We are witnessing theresult of the Qatari and Turkishcreations, said the delegate,referring to leading anti-Assadcountries that are seen as
backing the Brotherhood.Colonel Riad Asaad,
founder of the Syrian FreeArmy rebel force, and GeneralHussein Haj Ali, the highest-ranking ofcer to defect from
Assads military, were amongthose excluded.
Reuters
secretary of state willappear before the House
Committee on ForeignAffairs to discuss, in an
open hearing, the ndingsand the recommendations inthe report, RepresentativeIleana Ros-Lehtinen said ina statement.
R o s - L e h t i n e n i schair of the House ofRepresentatives ForeignRelations Committee, whichhas already held severalhearings and classified
briengs on the attack.The attack killed US
Ambassador ChristopherStevens and three otherAmericans, and raised
questions about the adequacyof security in far-ung posts.
Reuters
As the international community strives toachieve the Millennium Development Goals by2015 and forge an agenda for economic and socialprogress in the years beyond, addressing theproblem of corruption becomes all the more urgent.
The cost of corruption is measured not justin the billions of dollars of squandered or stolenGovernment resources, but most poignantly inthe absence of the hospitals, schools, clean water,roads and bridges that might have been built withthat money and would have certainly changed thefortunes of families and communities.
Corruption destroys opportunities and createsrampant inequalities. It undermines human rightsand good governance, sties economic growth anddistorts markets.
Corruption also aggravates environmentalproblems through the illegal dumping of hazardouswaste and the illegal trade in animal and plant lifefacilitated by bribery and under-the-table incentives
that determine who is awarded contracts, especiallyfor highly lucrative, large-scale infrastructureprojects.
Preventing corruption is critical to securingthe rule of law. The United Nations Conventionagainst Corruption has 164 States parties, but weneed universal adherence. The General Assemblyshistoric high-level meeting on the rule of law, heldin September, stressed the importance of addressingand preventing corruption. Governments must playtheir part and citizens must raise their voices.
Corruption is not inevitable. It ows fromgreed and the triumph of the undemocratic fewover the expectations of the many.
On International Anti-Corruption Day, I callon everyone to work towards a sustainable futurewhere corruption is exposed and rejected, where
integrity prevails, and where the hopes and dreamsof millions are realized.
UNIC/Yangon
UNSGs message on International
Anti-Corruption Day9 December 2012
The European Unionwas awarded on 12 Oct the2012 Nobel Peace Prizefor advancing peace andreconciliation, democracyand human rights in Europe
for over six decades.
Xinhua
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Chinas mini Apple takes slice of smar tphone pie
Lei Jun,founder andCEO of Chi-nas mobilecompany Xi-aomi, speaksat a launchceremony of
Xiaomi Phone2 in Beijingin this on 16
August, 2012fle photo.ReuteRs
Beijing, 8 DecChi-nas Xiaomi Technology isa fairy tale for nerdy entre-preneurs.
Less than three yearsafter its founding, thesmartphone maker is val-ued at $4 billion and evokesApple-like adoration fromits fans, some of whom aredesperate enough to skipwork for a shot at buyingthe latest product the day itgoes on sale.
Founder Lei Jundresses like the late SteveJobs, in jeans and a blacktop. He has created a fer-
vent fan base for Xiaomismoderately priced high-endsmartphones by mimickingApple Incs marketing tac-tic of attaching an aura ofexclusivity around its prod-ucts.
Before Xiaomi, the42-year-old Lei was a keyinvestor in Chinas earlyInternet scene, co-foundingstartups including Joyo.cn,which was eventually soldto Amazon.com Inc, andthe recently listed YY Inc.
Born in Xiantao, asmall city in Chinas cen-tral Hubei Province bet-
ter known for breedingOlympic gymnasts thanbillionaire technocrats, Leibrushes off comparisons toJobs but concedes that theApple visionary was an in-spiration.
Chinas media say Iam Chinas Steve Jobs,Lei toldReuters in an inter-view.
I will take this as acompliment but such kindof comparison brings ushuge pressure, said Lei,who grew up assemblingradios as a hobby. Xiaomiand Apple are two totally
different companies. Xiao-mis based on the Internet.We are not doing the samething as Apple.
Xiaomi has alreadysold 300,000 of its latest
phone model, launched inOctober.
The Xiaomi phone 2has specications similar tothose of Samsung Electron-ics Galaxy S3 and ApplesiPhone5 but a top-of-the-line model sells for about$370, half the price of aniPhone5.
Unlike the big domes-tic smartphone players,such as Lenovo Group,ZTE Corp and HuaweiTechnologies, which workwith telecom carriers to sella large volume of smart-phones, Xiaomi sells mostof its phones online and insmall batches.
This small volumestrategy creates pent-updemand that gives Xiaomifree marketing buzz.
The rst batch of50,000 phones released on30 October sold out in lessthan two minutes. Subse-quent larger batches havealso sold out in minutes.
Reuters
Private rm plans affordable lunar missionfor $1.5 billion
San FranciSco, 8DecA Colorado start-up run by former NASAmanaagers plans to con-duct missions to the moonfor about $1.5 billion perexpedition, a fraction ofwhat a similar government-run operation would cost,company ofcials said onThursday.
Our vision is to cre-ate a reliable and afford-able US-based commercialhuman lunar transportationsystem, said former Apol-lo ight director Gerry Grif-n, who serves as chairmanof the rm, named GoldenSpike.
The expeditions woulduse existing rockets andspacecraft now under de-velopment to y NASA as-tronauts to theInternationalSpace Station.
Depending on how
many customers sign up,the company said it couldbe ready to y its rst mis-sion by 2020. It did notelaborate on any existing orpending contracts with cus-tomers or suppliers.
The rst mission wouldrequire an investment of $7billion to $8 billion, saidGolden Spike PresidentAlan Stern, NASAs formerassociate administrator forscience. Once established,mission costs would drop toabout $1.5 billion to y twopeople to the moon for up totwo days.
This is a game-chang-er, Stern told reporters in
Washington and on a con-ference call. We can yhuman lunar missions forthe cost of a robotic mis-sion. Stern declined tospecify how many missionsthe company would need to
sell to turn a prot.If we only sell three or
four expeditions, its com-pletely upside down. Weneed to sell a bunch. But wedo not need to sell ridicu-lous numbers, he said.
A market study shows15 to 25 nations can affordlunar exploration and maywant to do so, he added.
Potential customersinclude civilian space agen-cies, corporations, researchinstitutes and some ex-tremely wealthy individu-als.
We can make it af-fordable for mid-sizedcountries like a Korea, an
Indonesia, or a South Af-rica to be in the businessof lunar exploration, whichwould cost them a greatdeal more to invent that ca-pability, Stern said.
In addition to advanceticket sales, the companyis counting on advertisingand marketing campaignsto raise funds.
Golden Spike is not therst company proposingprivately funded missionsto the moon. Other rmsinclude Moon Express, amining outt, and com-panies participating in a
Google-sponsored competi-tion to land a robotic probeon the satellite.Reuters
A man looks at the f ull moon atop a hill in Sydneyon 14 June, 2003.ReuteRs
In this photo illustration, a Facebook logo on a com-puter screen is seen throu gh a magn ifying glass held by
a woman in Bern on 19 May, 2012.ReuteRs
Italian tax police visit Facebooks Milanofces
Milan, 8 DecItalianpolice have been carrying
out checks at the Milan of-ces of Facebook to assesswhether it regularly de-clared its income in Italy,an investigative source andthe US company said onFriday.
Italian ofcials have
Japans Hitachi to cease production of chipsby 2014
Tokyo, 8 DecJapans Hitachi Ltdsaid on Friday it would cease productionof chips used in information and telecomshardware at the end of March 2014.
The semiconductor industry has seenan increasingly horizontal division of la-bour in terms of development, design andmanufacturing in recent years, said Hi-tachi in a statement.
Hitachi, an industrial manufacturerthat makes goods ranging from nuclear re-
actors to washing machines, said efforts toboost cost efciency and competitivenessdrove the decision.Reuters
A Hitach i logo is seen at an electron icsshop in Tokyo on 27 Oct, 2012.
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stepped up their effortsto collect taxes in recent
months and have alreadytargeted other big corpo-rate names such as Googleto check whether they arepaying their dues.
The investigative sourcesaid tax ofcials rst wentto the ofces of Facebook
in Milan nearly a monthago to collect documents.
Facebook pays taxesin Italy as part of its busi-ness activity in the countryand strictly complies withItalys scal rules, Face-book said in an emailedstatement.
Facebook has fullycooperated with tax policeduring the investigation andintends to continue to dothat. Italian police openeda new tax probe into Goog-le Italy last week, ve yearsafter an earlier investigationinto transfer pricing.
Google has said itcomplies with the tax laws
in every country in which itoperates.Reuters
San FranciSco, 8
DecGoogle Inc will no
longer offer its Web-basedofce productivity softwarefree to small businesses,the Internetcompany's lat-est move to expand revenuebeyond its core advertisingservices.
Google said on Thurs-day that businesses with 10or fewer people will nowneed to pay $50 per userper yearthe same ratethat larger businesses payto use its Google Appssoftware which includesemail, word processing,spreadsheet and presenta-tion tools.
The change will letGoogle offer a more con-sistent service to businesscustomers, the companysaid in a post on its com-pany blog.
Businesses quicklyoutgrow the basic versionand want things like 24/7customer support and largerinboxes, Google said.
Individual consumerswill still be able to get a
Google to charge small
businesses for Web-basedApps software
free version of many of theproducts, such as Gmail,
Google said. And existingbusiness customers who usethe free version will contin-ue to get it for free, thoughthey will not receive the ad-ditional services included inthe premium version.
More than 5 millionbusinesses use Google'sApps, Google said earlierthis year, though it did notdistinguish between cus-tomers who use the free orpaid versions.
The move marks thelatest change to GoogleApps, which until 2011 wasavailable for free to busi-nesses with 50 or fewerpeople.
In June, Googlelaunched the Google Com-pute Engine, which pro-vides online computingservices to a limited set ofcustomers.
Google, the world'sNo1 Web search engine,generates the bulk of itsrevenue from online adver-tising.Reuters
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US Air makes merger offer, AMR pilots
appr ove labour deal
A US Airways plane passes American Airlines plan es atRonald R eagan Nation al Airport in Washington on 13
April, 2012.ReuteRs
Goldman Sachs ned $1.5 million fortr ading glitch
Washington, 8 DecGoldman Sachs Group Inc
was ned $1.5 million tosettle charges it failed tosupervise its traders andallowing one futures dealer tohide billions in dollars fromsight and causing a $118million loss.
Ex-Goldman traderMatthew Marshall Taylorin 2007 camouaged an $8.3billion position, manuallyentering fake trades, theCommodity Futures TradingCommission (CFTC) saidon Friday.
Goldman failed tohave policies or proceduresreasonably designed to detectand prevent the manual entryof fabricated futures tradesinto its front ofce systems,
the top US derivativesregulator said. As a result,on seven trading days inNovember and December2007, Taylor circumventedGoldmans risk management,compliance, and supervisionsystems, the CFTC said.
In a lawsuit in NewYork in November, theCFTC sought a $130,000civil penalty against Taylor,who at the time was a vicepresident at the banksCapital Structure Franchise
Traders work in the Goldman Sachs stall on the oor ofthe New York Stock Exchange on 16 July, 2010.
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neW York, 8 DecBeing overweight is knownto increase the risk of need-ing a knee replacement, buta new study nds that kneereplacement surgery mayalso raise a persons risk ofgaining weight.
Analyzing the medicalrecords of nearly 1,000 knee-replacement surgery patients,researchers found that 30percent of them gained vepercent or more of their bodyweight in the ve years fol-lowing surgery.
One possible explana-
tion for the counterintuitiveresults, experts said, is thatif people have spent yearsadapting to knee pain by tak-ing it easy, they dont auto-matically change their habitswhen the pain is reduced.
After knee replace-ment we get them strongerand moving better, but theydont seem to take advantageof the functional gains andbecome more active, said Jo-seph Zeni, a physical therapyprofessor at the University ofDelaware, who was not partof the study. I think that hasto do with the fact that we
dont address the behavioralmodications that have hap-pened during the course of
Knee replacement linked to
weight gainarthritis before the surgery,he added. Hundreds of thou-sands of people in the USundergo knee replacementsurgery each year.
The goal of putting ina new knee is to alleviatepain and get people mov-ing around more, but DanielRiddle, lead author of thenew study and a professorat Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, said his team hadnoticed that patients tendedto gain weight after surgery.
To see whether this wascommon, Riddles group
used a patient registry fromthe Mayo Clinic in Roch-ester, MN, which collectedinformation on 917 kneereplacement patients beforeand after their procedures.
The researchers foundthat ve years after surgery,30 percent of patients hadgained at least ve percent oftheir weight at the time of thesurgery. Thats 10 pounds ormore on a 200-pound person,for example. In contrast, lessthan 20 percent of those in acomparison group of simi-lar people who had not hadsurgery gained equivalent
amounts of weight in thesame period.Reuters
neW York , 8 DecUS Airways Group Inchas made a formal mergerproposal to AmericanAirlines parent AMR Corpand its creditors that couldvalue the combined airlineat around $8.5 billion, twopeople familiar with the
matter said on Friday.Details of the proposalemerged as AmericanAirlines pilots voted toratify a new union contracton Friday, ending a years-long labor dispute andstabilizing the carrier asit tries to emerge frombankruptcy. Under anall-stock merger that USAirways proposed in mid-November at a meeting withAMRs unsecured creditorscommittee, AMR creditorswould own 70 percent of
the merged company andUS Airways shareholders30 percent, the people said.
US Airways and AMRare negotiating toward apotential merger agreementthat the smaller rival hopescould come as soon asJanuary, one of the people
added, asking not to benamed because the matteris not public.
The combined AMRand US Airways could havea value similar to Delta AirLines Inc, which has a marketcapitalization of around $8.5billion, the person said.
At the same time, AMRis still pursuing a plan toemerge from bankruptcyp r o c e e d i n g s a s a nindependent airline, whichwill be compared againstthe merits of a merger with
US Airways, the peoplesaid. The companies haveyet to narrow differenceson a number of signicantissues before any deal
could be agreed, includinghow much of the combinedcarrier each side shouldown, the people said.
AMR creditors thinkthey should get an equitystake of closer to 80 percentin a merged entity, rather thanthe 70 percent proposed byUS Airways, the people said.AMR and US Airways alsodisagree on potential costand revenue benets froma merger as well as laborintegration challenges, theyadded.
In a note to AmericanAirlines workers, AMR
CEO Tom Horton saidthe company is weighingwhether a merger couldcreate value for our ownersand a positive outcomefor our people and ourcustomers. We expect tohave a conclusion on thissoon.
Representatives of USAirways and the creditorscommittee declined tocomment. The Wall Street
Journal reported detailsof US Airways proposalearlier on Friday.Reuters
Trading desk, and later went
to work for Morgan Stanley.Goldman Sachs took
a $118 million loss inunwinding the position ine-mini S&P 500 futurescontracts.
Taylors activity wasagged by our controls on 14December, with no impact tocustomer funds, GoldmanSachs said in an emailedstatement. Since theseevents, we have enhancedour controls. Were pleasedto have settled this matter.
Taylor had established
the position on December13, 2007. Bart Chilton,a Democrat and one theCFTCs commissioners,thought the penalty wastoo low.
I believe that themonetary penalty should besignicantly higher in orderto represent a sufficientpunishment, as well asto denote a meaningfuldeterrent to future illegalactivity, Chilton said in astatement.Reuters
Mittal to ramp up investment at French
site from the rst-quarter
General view of the ArcelorMittal Florange-Hayange blast furnace in Hayange,
Eastern France, on 3 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs
Paris, 8 DecSteel-maker ArcelorMittal vowedon Friday to kick-start a180-million-euro (145million pounds), ve-yearinvestment programme atits Florange site in easternFrance in the rst quarter of2013, seeking to allay unionconcerns over job cuts.
The fate of Florangestwo idled blast furnaces,
which employ just overa quarter of the 2,000metalworkers at Florange,
has become a headachefor Frances Socialistgovernment, which strucka deal last week with thecompany to avoid job cutsamid union pressure.
While ArcelorMittalsaid it would keep the twoblast-furnaces shuttered,it pledged to work withunions to reach a labourdeal involving transfers
to other jobs at the site,retirement packages andvoluntary redundancies.
The groupsmanagement calls onworkers to construct with ita new phase in the history ofFlorange, which is destinedto remain an important sitefor steelmaking in Europe,the rm, 40 percent ownedby the Mittal family, said ina statement.
Frances rebrandMinister for Industrial
Revival Arnaud Monte-bourg raised the stakes in thedispute with ArcelorMittal
last week by threateningto nationalise the Florangeplant, raising workershopes that were dashed bylast Fridays deal.
Unions angrilydenounced a trick onThursday when thecompany announced it wasditching its bid to run anEU-funded green steelproject at Florange dueto technical difculties.The ULCOS project wasregarded as crucial toreviving the furnaces.
A r c e l o r M i t t a l ,
however, said on Fridayit would plough 13million euros into itsnearby research centre ofMaizieres-les-Metz in a bidto overcome the technicalproblems.
A successful bid forEU-funding would allowone of blast furnaces to beused in a pilot project, itsaid.
The investmentcalendar for the Florangesite will be detailed at a 13December meeting withunions, ArcelorMittal said,promising to meet all its
commitments to the Frenchgovernment.Reuters
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Visitors watch at Shanghai Civil Administration Museumin east Chinas Shanghai Mun icipality, on 7 Dec, 2012.The museum, displaying some 1,300 items, opened to the
public for free Friday. It is the rst civil administrationmuseum in China.Xinhua
Lithuanian
President
approves new
cabinet
Riga, 8 DecLithu-anian President DaliaGrybauskaite on Fridayapproved 12 members ofcabinet as proposed by thePrime Minister-designateAlgirdas Butkevicius,though the post of twoministers remained va-cant, according to newsreaching here.
Grybauskaite stressedthat the government muststart working immediately,saying in a statement thatimportant work and deci-sions are waiting ... thatswhy I signed the decree toapprove the governmentwhose composition is in-complete.
The heads of the Min-istry of Social Security andLabor and the Ministryof Science and Educationwere still undecided, asGrybauskaite rejected twoof the Labour Partys can-didates.Xinhua
Cuba dismantles 2 illegal telecom networks
Havana, 8 DecCubanauthorities have crushed twounderground telecommuni-cations networks operatingfrom abroad to provide xed
and mobile phone services,ofcial media reported Fri-day.
The clandestine net-works were run by two com-panies owned by Cubansliving abroad, respectivelyin Canada and in Spain. Bothcountries have seen a grow-ing number of Cuban expa-
triates.According to of-
cial daily Granma, the tworms illegally used chan-nels owned by state-runtelephone company Etecsapurely to make a prot,
having robbed Etecsa of es-timated revenues of 3 millionUS dollars.
One of the two net-works, starting operation in2009, offered Cuban expatri-ates long-distance call ser-vices for 50 cents a minute
and text message services for5 cents a piece.
Nine Cuban citizenshave been charged, four ofwhom are in custody, sincethe investigation began inSeptember.
The suspects, includingtwo Etecsa employees, facecharges of fraud, which canland them in prison for upto 10 years, and illegal eco-nomic activity, which carriesa maximum jail term of three
years.Xinhua
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of theHouse Oversigh t and Government Reform Committee,
speaks during The Security Failures of B enghazihearing on Capitol Hill, Washington DC on 10 Oct,
2012.ReuteRs
Police probing jewelry theft
at home of congressmanKHaRtoum, 8 Dec
The Sudanese army onFriday acknowledged at-tacking forces of the Dar-fur Liberation and JusticeMovement (LJM), a sig-natory to a peace deal withthe Sudanese government,holding the movement re-sponsible of being presentat an area it does not be-long to, Sudans AshrouqNet reported.
The armys attack-ing of an armed group atEl-Sheikh area in NorthDarfur State comes withinthe context of performing
its duty, Ashrouq quotedAl-Sawarmy Khalid Saad,spokesman for the Suda-nese army, as saying.
The LJM forces made
a big mistake as they po-sitioned themselves at anarea which, according to aceasere committee, doesnot belong to them, saidSaad.
We have performedour duty by responding toan armed group reportedabout by the citizens of El-Sheikh village, west of ElFasher, he said.
Saad reiterated thatwhat has happened wouldnot affect the Doha Docu-ment for Peace in Darfur(DDPD), a ceasere com-mittee signed between the
government and the LJMin the Qatari capital lastyear, afrming the gov-
Sudanese army acknowledges attacking
LJ M forcesernments determinationto implement the deal. OnThursday, the LJM ac-cused the Sudanese armyof attacking its militaryunits and threatened towithdraw from the agree-ment.
The Sudanese armydeliberately attacked themovements forces onWednesday near El Fash-er, capital city of NorthDarfur State which re-sulted in the killing of twomembers of the move-ment, said Al-TiganiSessei, LJM chairman, ata Press conference Thurs-day. Our movementswere known for the army,but we were surprised bythis deliberate attack, he
added.Sessei criticized what
he termed as mislead-ing campaign by theSudanese government toshow that the Sudanesearmys attack was againstthe forces of the Revolu-tionary Front, an alliancethat brings together majorDarfur armed movementswhich are rejecting theDDPD.
On Wednesday, LocalSudanese media reportedthat the Sudanese armyclashed with a group be-longing to the Revolution-
ary Front as they were try-ing to bombard El Fasher,and killed three of the
group.Violence escalated
in the Darfur region dur-ing the past two months,which pushed the UnitedNations-African UnionMission in Darfur (UN-AMID) to express con-cerns over the mountingviolence in the region andurge the conicting parties
to avoid whatever mightthreaten the fragile peacein the restive region.
Xinhua
San Dieco, 8 DecThe San Diego-area homeof Representative DarrellIssa was broken into last
week by a burglar whostole jewelry, and policewere investigating severalleads into the crime, theSan Diego County SheriffsDepartment said on Friday.
A spokesman for Issa,the Republican chairman ofthe House of Representa-tives Oversight and Gov-ernment Reform Commit-tee, conrmed the burglary
but directed further inquir-ies to local authorities.
The San Diego Un-
ion-Tribune reported thatthieves took $100,000worth of jewelry, number-
ing more than 50 pieces in-cluding watches, earrings,rings and bracelets.
The items that weretaken were irreplaceablefamily heirlooms that wereinherited by the Issa fam-
ily, Issas spokesman,Frederick Hill, told the pa-per, adding that the fam-ily considered the piecespriceless.
Hill conrmed the re-mark to Reuters , and SanDiego County SheriffsDepartment spokeswomanJan Caldwell conrmed
that jewelry was stolen inthe burglary, which tookplace on the evening of 29November.
This is an ongoinginvestigation and theresvery little we can say,Caldwell said. Detectives
are investigating severalleads.Reuters
Motorcycle gang members convicted of racketeering, mur derKanSaScity, 8 Dec
A federal jury in Missouriconvicted motorcycle gangmembers on Friday of rack-eteering, murder and othercrimes as part of a broadcrackdown on motorcyclegang activity.
The convictions in StLouis, following a month-long trial, come on the heelsof indictments and arrestsof members of other mo-
torcycle gangs in Indiana,Michigan and Californiaearlier this year.
An indictment un-sealed in June said somemembers of the Wheels ofSoul Outlaw MotorcycleClub murdered a rival inSt Louis in 2009, commit-ted murders in Illinois andOhio and were involved indrug dealing or other crimesin multiple states.
The indictment saidgang members also tookpart in a drive-by shooting
in Colorado and a stabbingduring a gang ght in Chi-cago. Gang members used
explosives, committed ar-son and were ordered tocarry guns, hammers andknives, the indictment said.
In all, 21 Wheels ofSoul members were in-dicted in what FBI SpecialAgent Dennis Baker calleda nationwide takedownthat disrupted and disman-tled the group by targetingits senior leaders.
Seven of eight defend-
ants tried in St Louis werefound guilty of conspiracyto commit racketeering,
some of whom were alsowere convicted of murder,attempted murder and tam-pering with evidence. Aneighth defendant was ac-quitted.
The other 13 membersindicted had pleaded guiltybefore the trial, said JanDiltz, spokeswoman for theUS attorney.
The federal investiga-tion targeted gang leaders
considered to be particu-larly criminal and violent,authorities said.Reuters
Government heading for political
blow from debt downgradeLo n D o n , 8 Dec
Britain is lurching closerto an embarrassing loss ofits prized triple-A creditrating as the economicoutlook darkens, and thepolitical pain for PrimeMinister David Cameronsgovernment from a once-unthinkable move mayexceed the economic
damage. Chancellor GeorgeOsborne warned of weakergrowth and more austerityin a budget update onWednesday. Althoughhe avoided the political
Chancellor George Osborne speaks at the GlobalInvestment Con ference 2012 in Lon don on
26 July, 2012.ReuteRs
mis-steps for which themedia lambasted him afterMarchs budget, there nowlooms the more menacingspectre of a downgrade
before an election due in2015.Ratings agency Fitch
said his admission that hewill miss a key debt-cuttinggoal weakened his fiscalcredibility. That fuelledfears Britain may be strippedof a top credit rating thathas arguably helped keepborrowing costs at recordlows. Losing that crownwould be a blow to Osborneand Cameron, who havestaked their reputations onrebuilding an economy thatsuffered its biggest shocksince World War Two duringthe nancial crisis.
Their Conservative
Party was forced to sharepower with Liberal Democratrivals after the electionin 2010, and the partysleaders had hoped to win
a full mandate from votersby proving their economiccredentials.Reuters
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Myanmar archery team aims for gold in coming SEA GamesNay Pyi Taw, 8 Dec
Archery sport which had
brought honour to the State
secured three gold medals
each in 2009 and 2011.
At present, Myanmar
archery team is undertraining for achieving victory
in the XXVII SEA Games
to be hosted in Myanmar.
Altogether 24 tentatively
selected archers are taking
vigorous exercises in Nay
Pyi Taw.
Genera l Secre ta ry
of the Myanmar Archery
Federation U Kyaw Oo
(Deputy Head of Ofce of
the Ministry of Sports) said
that Myanmar archery team
started its training in Yangon
as of 1 January for the coming
SEA Games. On 11 October,
the training camp moved to
Nay Pyi Taw. At present,six men and six women in
compound and six men and
six women in recurve event
are taking exercises.
He said he satises
their training. Aung Hngein
and womens compound team
who secured gold medals in
the Indonesian SEA Games
secured better points than
that of the previous SEA
Games. Records of Aung
Hngein are better than thatof Asia.
The coming SEA Games
will award 10 gold medals in
the archery event. Myanmar
team is making preparations
for securing all 10 medals and
expects to win ve of ten.
Athletes are under training
at the Gold Camp in Nay
Pyi Taw. The athletes are
facilitated with hotel services
at the camp. They have the
opportunity to take exercises
at tness centre to have better
styles.
As part of preparations,
MyanmarArchery Federation
plans to host an internationalarchery competition before
the SEA Games. The Pre-
SEA Games Archery Contest
will take place at Archery
Range in Nay Pyi Taw on 8
to 12 January 2013.
Our federation had
hos ted SEA Archery
Championships for three
times. First, second and
fourth times were hosted in
Myanmar, and the third time
in the Philippines. ExceptTimor and Brunei, we invited
the remaining ASEAN
member countries to take
part in the contest. We plans
to award 18 gold medals to
the winners. Myanmar will
participate in the contest with
24 players.
S i x m e n a n d
women each will take
part in the compound and
recurve events. As the
players secured gold, silver
and bronze medals in the
previous four SEA Archery
Championships, we hope for
them to win medals so as to
uplift prestige to the State,said U Kyaw Oo.
Myanmar archery team
for the coming SEA Games
is led by General Secretary
of the federation U Kyaw
Oo together with co-leader
Dr Mya Thura Soe, manager
and eld manager U Than
Kyaing, Assistant managers
U Tin Aung Ko and Daw
Thida Win, leader of the
organizing the contest Daw
Kathy, deputy leader Daw
Aye Thida, member Daw Tin
Zin Ei, Chief Coach Mr LeeSang Bong (South Korea),
coaches U Aung Thura, U
Aung Naing Oo, U Ye Min
Swe, U Zaw Win Htaik, Daw
Myat Thuza Myint, Daw
Kathy Win, new generation
coach Mr Kim Sung Jin
(South Korea), archers Zaw
Win Htaik, Nay Myo Aung,
Aung Myo Thu, Wai Lin Tun,
Nyein Sithu, Maung Aye,
Thin Thin Khaing, San Yu
Htwe, Thazin Aung, Zargyi
Win, Thanda Soe and Nan
Kyi Kyi Shwe in recurve
event, Lin Naing, Myat Zaw
Tun, Aung Cheint Baw, SaiZin Min Htet, Shein Htet
Kyaw, Moe Kyaw Naing,
Aung Hngein, Hla Hla San,
Yaw Sein Ya, Poe Ei Ton,
Marlar Khin Nyunt and
Aye Aye Thin in compound
event.Myanma Alinn
General Secretary of
the Myanmar Archery
Federation U Kyaw Oo
(Deputy Head of Ofce of
the Ministry of Sports)
yaNgoN, 8 DecA
c e r e m o n y t o h o n o u r
outstanding students who
secured distinctions in the
2011-2012 academic year
matriculation examinationwas held at Mya Nyila Hall of
No. 2 Basic Education High
School in Latha Township
on 4 December.
A total of 257 students of
278 passed the matriculation
examination for 2011-2012
academic year, accounting
for 92.45 per cent. Thus, the
school stood second in the
best pass rate in the nation. In
addition, the school produced
four students who stood the
best positions from rst to
10th in the examination.
With regard to the
Outstanding students honoured
at Latha BEHS No. 2efforts made for securing
best pass rate of the school,
Headmistress Dr Daw
Theingi Kyaw explained,
The root cause of securing
the best pass rate of theschool is concerted efforts
of parents, teachers and
students.
Ma Pyone Le Wai Lwin,
who stood third in the entire
nation and secured Latha
Yadana award, expressed
her aim that she tried hard
to win the distinctions in
all subjects. She studied old
questions and followed the
teachings of teachers. She
wants to be a doctor. She
wishes to uplift prestige of
the State and the school, she
said.Myanma Alinn
Lashio, 8 DecA
vehicle driven by Myo Min
Htut on Pyidaungsu Road
near 2500 Sasana Pagoda
Road Junction in Ward 1 of
Lashio bumped the trafc
landscaping block due to out
Speedy car on trafclandscaping block
of control with high speed at
11.30 am on 3 December.
In the incident, the
car stopped on the block.
Although it was trafc busy
time, there was no casualty
not only on the road but also
abroad.
The trafc police force
opened a le of lawsuit against
driver Myo Min Htut, 22 of
Chanmyathazi Township of
Mandalay under the law.
Myanma Alinn
yaNgoN, 8 DecTo be
able to easing trafc jams
due to growing number of
cars in Yangon City as a
commercial hub, an overpass
is under construction at
Bayintnaung Junction in
Mayangon Township ofYangon Region.
At 6 am on 4 December,
Yangon Region Minister
for Development Affairs
Mayor of Yangon U Hla
Myint inspected progress of
construction tasks.
After that, the mayor
looked into nine feet each
expansion of both sides on
road shoulders along the
section from Danyingon
Junction to Bogyoke Road
in Shwepyitha Township,
functions of Concrete Pipe
Factory in Insein Township
and works of Leingon Bridgein Shwepyitha Township.
At Yangon City Water
Development tasks of Yangon
City supervisedSupply Project (Ngamoeyeik)
as second phase, the mayor
inspected laying of HDPE
pipes along Khayebin Road,
laying of 56-inch diameter DI
underground pipelines along
No. 3 Highways and HDPE
pipes along No. 3 Highwayin Kontalabaung Village of
Mingaladon Township and
repaving of Khayebin Road
with asphalt concrete.
Later, the mayor viewed
progress of building Hledan
Overpass in Kamayut
Township.
Myanma Alinn
gaNgaw, 8 DecAs
cold season crops have
harves ted in Gangaw
T o w n s h i p , p r i c e o f
vegetables remarkably
fall. Before harvesting the
vegetables, cauliflower,
tomato and bean were
Price of cold season crops fallstransported from Monywa
by car and Kalay by train
to Gangaw.
Therefore, the prices of
vegetables were added with
transport charge.
At present, price of
cabbage declined to K 400 per
viss from K 800, cauliower
K 400, tomato K 500 and
bean K 500.
When the production
of crops increases, price of
vegetables and crops will
be cheaper.
Myanma Alinn
Tailoring, domestic science courses concludeyaNgoN , 8 Dec
M y a i n g T o w n s h i p
Information and Public
Rela t ions Depar tment
reported that the Womens
Vocational Training School(Myaing) of Education and
Training Department under
the Ministry of Border
Affairs concluded the
advanced tailoring course
No. 17 and the basic domestic
science course No. 21 at its
hall in Myaing Township ofMagway Region at 8 am on
30 November.
On the occasion, Acting
Administrator U Hla Shwe
of Myaing Township made
a speech.
Deputy Principal of the
school Daw Yi Yi Aungexplained matters related to
the training courses.
Also present on the
occasion were departmental
ofcials, the chairperson of
Township Womens Affairs
Organization, responsible
persons of non-governmental
organizations, townselders,
ward administrators, traineesand course instructors.
Myanma Alinn
Reading habit
raisedLashio, 8 DecWith theaim of developing libraries
and raising reading habit
of the local people, Falam
District Information and
Public Relations Department
held roundtable discussion
and literary talks at its hall on
3 December morning.
The staff ofcer of the
District IPRD expalined
purpose of discussions.
Commander of Township
Police Force Police Major
Mya Htay discussed literary
affairs. Those present focused
on development libraries andliterary affairs.
Myanma Alinn
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PERSPECTIVESSunday, 9 December, 2012
Corruption kills developmentCorruption is a global issue that aficts all
countries around the world. Corruption weakensdemocracy, destabilizes governments, and sets
countries back economically and politically.
Although corruption comes in various forms, there
are no signicant differences among them in its
devastation blow to democracy and development.
Today is the International Anti-Corruption Day
which is observed on 9 December each year in order
to heighten the public awareness of corruption and
ways to ght it.
All of us have a responsibility in the battle
against corruption which is like cancer. Because
corruption is one of the serious impediments to
the nations bold moves taken towards building a
peaceful, prosperous and harmonious democratic
society. Corruption can be detrimental to reform
processes, killing development, breeding inequality
and undermining the rule of law. When public money
is stolen for personal gain or foreign aid desperately
needed for development funds diverted from the
State budget toward private bank accounts, poor
and vulnerable people who are marginalized by
corruption suffer rst and worst.
Tax evasion is a kind of corruption and it can
distort development. A shortfall in tax revenue has a
tremendous negative effect on the nations nancial
resources needed to be invested in bolstering national
economy and addressing urgent social problems. If
a developing country successfully collected all the
taxes, it will then not have to depend on foreign aid
in the long-term. When tax evasion is larger than
the spending on education and health sectors or
almost as large as the countrys export earnings, it
is sure that such kind of country will never breakthe cycle of poverty.
On this International Anti-Corruption Day,
schools are to serve as a good basis for good
governance. Being an auspicious ground where the
best chance is ourished to instill good morals that
stay with people through to adulthood, students,
from early childhood, are to be taught to be deeply
ashamed of committing corruption and they are to be
equipped with a culture that values ethical behavior.
It is imperative to put commitment, consistence,
capacity and constancy together while cracking
down on the corruption problems which are complex
and difcult to address within the short period of
time. Transparency must go hand-in-hand with all
the steps we are taking in both private and public
sectors. Corruption will always be with us if we lacktransparency in every step we take, no matter how
many different ways we try to ght it.
Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Dec
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk
Kham who is on tour of
Sittway of Rakhine State
and party, accompanied
by ambassadors f rom
Bangladesh, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Pakistan and
Turkey embassies based
in Myanmar, diplomats,
members from UN agencies
and departmental heads,
arrived at Kyeinnipyin
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham inspects regional
development and rehabilitation tasks in Rakhine State
v i l l a g e o f P a u k t a w
Township by helicopters
this morning.
The Vice-President and
party cordially greeted local
people at relief camp in
Kyeinnipyin village. After
that, the Vice-President and
party, the ambassadors, the
diplomats and members
from UN agencies, asked for
local peoples daily needs,
running of agricultural and
livestock businesses and
health, and then provided
them with relief aids.
Afterwards, the Union
Minister, the diplomats and
members from UN agencies
met with local people and
visited the old Kyeinnipyin
village. There, the Vice-
President held discussion
on drinking water supply
of the village with the State
Chief Minister and ofcials
from UNICEF, and Deputy
Minister for Health gave a
supplementary report.
With respect to the
reports, the Vice-President
coordinated. Upon arrival at
Ohntawgyi rescue camp via
Sittway, the Vice-President
and party encouraged the
local people there and
provided them with relief
aids. On arrival at Bawduba
relief camp, they asked for
local peoples daily needs,education and health and
presented personal goods
and foodstuff to them.
Then, they proceeded
to Mingan relief camp
and encouraged local
people there. The Vice-
President and party asked
for local peoples health,
e c o n o my , e d u c a t i o n ,
social and daily needs and
presented relief aids to
them. In the afternoon, the
Vice-President and party
left Sittway by Myanma
Airways Special Flight and
arrived back in Nay Pyi
Taw.MNAVice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham presents reliefaid to local people at Ohntawgyi Relief Camp in
Sittway Township.mna Quantity
matters,
so does
quality!
Challenges
Cartoon
Maung Maung San Lwin
(GAD)
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham cordially greeting locals at Kyeinnipyin Village in Pauktaw
Township.mna
Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Dec
As December mass walk is
held nationwide annually in
December the second week
of December mass walk was
held this morning.
Among the participants
were Chairman of Union
Election Commission U
Tin Aye, Union ministers U
Tint Hsan and U Aye MyintKyu, deputy ministers,
departmental heads, staff
Second week of December
mass walk heldpersonnel and their families.
Around 8000 participants
walked from Myoma Market
to Gems Museum on Yaza
Thingaha Street through
Thabyaegon Roundabout
along Taungnyo-Pyinmana
Road.
Wellwishers served the
walkers with refreshments
and snacks and the walkerstook exercise in front of the
gems museum.MNA
Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Dec
Myanmar Ecumenica l
Central Committee marked
Christmas by holding a
S e r v i c e a t My a n ma r
Convention Centre on
Mindhamma Road in
Ma y a n g o n To wn s h i p
yesterday evening.
Union Minister for
Religious Affairs Thura
U Myint Maung andofcials from the ministry,
Myanmar Ecumenica l
X mas service held at MCCCentral Committee members
and Christians attended the
Service. Rev K D Tulum
of Yangon Kachin Baptist
Church gave blessings
and the Central Committee
Patron Col Aung Din (Retd)
extended greetings at the
ceremony. Then, the union
minister expressed words
of honour.
Dinner was hosted tothose present.
MNA
IT age.Education
Economic
Social
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Nay Py i Taw , 8
Dec Accompanied by
Ms. Baroness Valerie
Amos, United Nations
Under-Secretary General
and Emergency Relief
Coordinator and party,
United Nations Coordinator
in Myanmar Mr. Ashok
Nigam and ofcials of Border
Area and National Races
Development Department,
Union Minister for Border
Affairs Lt-Gen Thein Htay
arrived Myitkyina Airport by
special ight on 6 December
morning.
The talk between Union
Minister Lt-Gen Thein
Htay, Ms. Baroness Amos
and members and Kachin
State Chief Minister U La
John Ngan Hsaing, state
ministers and department
of f ic ia l s was he ld a t
Myitkyina Airport. At the
talk, Kachin State chief
minister said that armed
conicts had occurred in the
state since June 2011. Local
people had to ee to nearby
region due to the conicts.
Th o s e f a mi l i e s we r e
provided with food, shelter,
healthcare, education under
the supervision of Kachin
State government, joining
hands by UN agencies,
d e p a r t me n t s , I NGOs ,
social organizations and
wellwishers.
The union minister and
party together with Kachin
State chief minister visited
relief camp in Janmancong
ward in Myitkyina where
they cordially greeted to
families sheltering at the
camp.
The Union minister and
party left Myitkyina for Nay
Pyi Taw by special ight in
the evening.
MNA
Union Border Affair s Minister and UN
delegation look round relief camps in Myitkyina
Exaggerating Rakhine(from page 1)
To dispel the suspicion,
the Government would
provide correct facts and
information and the diplomats
and UN agencies can witness
the actual situation.Th e Mi n i s t r y o f
Information also issued
a press release strongly
opposing the fabricated news
and reportages.
With the aim of building
a society which can live
in peaceful coexistence
in Rakhine State, the
government has been making
efforts at most to settle the
issue, he said, and he also
stressed the need for assisting
in social and economic
development of the local
people in Rakhine State as
part of efforts for settling
out the issue.
For the social and
economic development
of the state, necessary
arrangements have been
made and the government
itself has been providing
humanitarian aids to the
needy people in Rakhine
State in a non-discriminatory
manner, he added.
The government has
been working together with
UN agencies UNHCR, WFP,
OCHA, NGOs, INGOs, other
governments of the countries
which are interested in
implementing the socio-
economic development, and
such way of cooperation is
a meaningful and positiveapproach to help the people
in Rakhine State.
Vice-President Dr Sai
Mauk Kham also expressed
his belief that the diplomats
and members of the UN
agencies would witness the
actual situation in Rakhine
State, saying that he expected
that the UN agencies would
submit the reports which
reect the actual situation
in Rakhine State to their
respective headquarters.
Union Minister Lt-
Gen Thein Htay briefed
on June and October
incidents, rehabilitation and
humanitarian aids.
U N R e s i d e n t
C o o r d i n a t o r N i g a m
thanked the government
for arranging the trip. He
pointed out the formation
of the commission as
one of the government
measures. He called for
immediate response to
the humanitarian issues.
He called for providing
shelter to displaced persons,
allotment of land, ending
hostilities of the local
people towards the aids
groups, social harmony
between two societies, and
granting citizenships to the
eligible persons in accord
with 1982 citizenship law
which he said is key toaddress the issue. He also
thanked donor countries
and urged them to donate
more.
The ambassadors of
Indonesia, Bangladesh,
Turkey and Cambodia said
they would continue to
support of the governments
ef for t s regarding the
Rakhine State incident,
acknowledging it is very
subtle issue. They said their
support was echoed at 21 st
ASEAN Summit, calling
for addressing root issues.
Vice-Pres ident Dr
Sai Mauk Kham in his
concluding remarks thanked
those present for their
discussions and reiterated
it was a fragile issue. He
said the understanding of
the history of the Rakhine
State is required to resolve
the issue. The Rakhine State
incident is an obstacle while
the government is initiating
political, economic and
social reforms. The June
and October incidents were
based on deep hostilities
between the two societies.
It would take time to resolve
the issue, he said. He vowedthe most possible effort of the
government to overcome the
challenge.
On arrival at Sambalay
village in Minbya Township,
the Vice-President and party
met the local people and
presented aids.
They comforted and
interviewed the local
people of Taunbwe village
in Kyaktaw Township and
presented them with aids.
The Vice-President
met local people at thebrieng hall of Shwe Yin
Aye village in Maungtaw
Township and the diplomats
interviewed the villagers. U
Tha Sein of Shwe Yin Aye
Village said he thanked the
government for taking relief
and rehabilitation measures.
The Vice-President and
party viewed construction
of make-shift tents for local
people in Thayaykonbaung
vi l lage in Maungtaw
Township and cordially
greeted the local people.T h e y l e f t
Thayaykonbaung village for
Sittway with helicopters. The
Ministry of Social Welfare,
Relief and Resettlement
and the Rakhine State
government provided rice
bags, oil, salt, pulses and
beans, instant food and
blankets to the local people
of the villages.MNA
Vice-President Dr Sai M auk Kham gives encouragement to villagers at
Taungbway Village in Kyauktaw Township.mna
National Day celebrated in townships of
Nay Pyi Taw Council Area Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Dec
92nd
Anniversary National DayCeremony for 2012 took place
at Yadanamon Hall of No 1
Basic Education High School
in Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana
this morning, attended
by Central Committee
Chairman for holding 92nd
National Day Union Minister
for Education Dr Mya
Aye, Central Committee
Members Deputy Minister
for Education Dr Ba Shwe,
Deputy Minister for Home
Affairs Brig-Gen Kyaw
Zan Myint, Deputy Minister
for Culture Daw Sanda
Khin, Nay Pyi Taw Council
Member U Than Aung and
department heads, ofcialsconcerned, members of
social organization, teachers
and students.
First, students from No.2
BEHS opened the ceremony
by singing Pyimyanmar
song.
T h e n , P y i n m a n a
Township Administrator U
Kyaw Tint read out the 92nd
Anniversary National Day
message sent by President of
the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar.
Union ministers, deputy
ministers and department
heads presented prizes to
students who got awards at
92nd
Anniversary NationalDay Commemorative essay
and poem contests.
The Union ministers
and party also attended
92nd Anniversary National
Day at No6 BEHS in
Zabuthiri. At the ceremony,
Zabuthiri Township Acting
Administrator U Thein
Zaw Win read out the 92nd
Anniversary National Day
message sent by the President
of the Republic of the Union
of Myanmar.
Union minister and
Deputy Ministers Dr Ba
Shwe and Daw Sanda Khingave awards to students
who secured prizes at 92nd
Anniversary National Day
Commemorative essay and
poem contests.
Similar ceremony held
at Myoma Golden Jubilee
Hall in No 1 BEHS in Lewe,
attended by Deputy Minister
for Home Affairs Brig-Gen
Kyaw Zan Myint, Nay Pyi
Taw Council Member U
Than Aung, director-general
of Myanmar Examination
Board and officials. 92nd
Anniversary National Day
Ceremonies were celebrated
across the nation on grand
scale this morning.MNA
Union Border Af fairs Minister and party at Janmancong ward relief camp in
Myitkyina.mna
Union Minister for Education Dr Mya Aye gives
prize to a student at 92nd Anniversary National Day
commemorative essay and poem contests.mna
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World Bank says youth employment to dr ive
economic growth in Kenya
Rescuers carry a rescued miner to an ambulance at theooded Furuixiang Coal Mine in Qitaihe, northeastChinas Heilongjiang Province, on 7 Dec, 2012. Four
miners who have been trapped in the ooded Furuixi-ang Coal Mine for more than ve days were rescuedearly Friday morning. Rescuers are still searching for
seven others who have been missing after the mine wasooded on Saturday. A total of 22 miners were working
underground when the accident occurred. Six minersescaped, with another two escorted out of the mine at
noon Sunday. Three miners have been conrmed dead.Xinhua
New York, 8 DecCablevision Systems Corp,the New York-based cableoperator, said on Thursdayit would raise its Internetprices by $5 in January,
representing an averagehike of 3.2 percent for cus-tomers total monthly bills.The company said in astatement that prices for itsvideo and phone serviceswill not be affected andthat prices for promotionalpackages, which generallylast one year, will not rise.
But all customers whohave Internet service aspart of their video or phonepackage will see prices rise.
Cablevision said it hadnot raised Internet pricesin a decade. It raised videoprices in 2011, which sawcustomer bills rise by 2.88
Podgorica, 8 DecMontenegro plans to rebuildits trade eet with Chinese
help, Prime Minister MiloDjukanovic told Xinhua inan interview a day after be-ginning his seventh term.
These ships will notbe only able to pay off costsof their building, but also to
HoustoN, 8 DecBrit-ish oil giant BP said Thurs-day it is building a new fa-cility in Houston that willhouse what it says will bethe worlds largest complexof supercomputers for far-
ther and faster search for oiland gas.BP ofcials said con-
Cablevision to r aise Internet pr ices by $5 a monthpercent on average.
The company said ithas invested $140 million inimproving its Internet net-work, deployed more than50,000 WiFi hotspots,
and puts no usage caps onits service, unlike somecable competitors. Canac-cord Genuity analyst TomEagan downgraded his Ca-blevision rating from buyto hold on 27 Novemberand said that Cablevisionwould lose customers if itwere to decide to raise pric-es not long after SuperstormSandy. Given the massiveservice outages among itssubscribers (after Sandy),we dont believe the com-pany can raise rates ... with-out incurring material cus-tomer churn, Eagan said.
The cable provider,
which is controlled by theDolan family, said in earlyNovember that costs fromSandy, which knocked outservice for as many as halfits customers, would be
substantially higher than its$16 million bill from Hur-ricane Irene in 2011.
Like bigger operatorsComcast and Time WarnerCable, Cablevision hasbeen losing customers to ri-vals such as satellite televi-sion provider DirecTV andtelephone operator VerizonCommunications.
Reuters
BP to build new supercomputing facility for
oil, gas sear ch
Montenegro to rebuild trade feet with
Chinese help
struction has already be-gun on the three-storey,110,000 square foot (about9,900 square metre) facil-ity, part of the companysve-year, 100-million-US
dollar investment in high-
performance computing,according to The HoustonChronicle website.
The new high-perfor-mance computing center,scheduled to open in 2013,will enable scientists toproduce clear images ofrock structures deep under-ground that can be used to
identify potential drillingtargets for oil and naturalgas.Xinhua
contribute and create meansfor new ships to be built inorder to completely renewthe Montenegrin trade eet,Djukanovic said.
While Montenegrohas had a strong tradition inshipping dating back severalcenturies, its trade eet waspractically non-existant until
recently.Due to UN sanctions on
former Yugoslavia during
the 1990s, of which Mon-tenegro was a part, its eet
slowly decayed trapped inforeign ports until it wasreduced to a ghost eet of
ships usable only for scrapmetal.Xinhua
Nairobi, 8 DecEx-panding income generatingopportunities for the youthis critical to enhancing eco-nomic progress, social co-
hesion and political stabil-ity in Kenya, a World Bankreport launched in Nairobion Wednesday said.
The report, Kenyaat Work, Energizing theeconomy and creating
jobs, stresses that youthemployment will acceler-ate economic growth andattainment of Kenyas Vi-sion 2030.
Kenya is in the midstof a critical transition evi-denced by a dramatic shiftfrom agriculture basedto wage and service sec-tor employment where the
skills and expertise of theyouth are in huge demand,the World Bank Country
Director for Kenya, Jo-hannes Zutt told journalistsin Nairobi.
Zutt noted that Kenyahas a dynamic youth pop-
ulation which should betapped to propel economic,social and economic trans-formation in the east Afri-can nation.
He challenged the gov-ernment to prioritize youthemployment in the nationaldevelopment agenda.
Kenya needs to cre-ate more jobs to cater forthe large number of peopleentering the workforce. Thecountry is on the verge ofa signicant demographic
opportunity, as the workingage population is increas-ing faster than the number
of dependants, both youngand old, Zutt said.
He added that Ken-
yas demographic dividendpresents an opportunityfor growth of modern andknowledge based economy.An estimated 800,000 Ken-
yans enter the working ageannually yet only 56,000are absorbed in the formal
job market.Zutt regretted that nep-
otism, corruption, sexualharassment and skills mis-match prevent the youthfrom securing well paid
jobs.The country director
pointed out that upgrad-ing skills alongside ght-ing graft and discrimina-tory practices will expandemployment opportunitiesfor the youth. Kenya mustmaintain macroeconomic
stability to create jobs forthe burgeoning youthfulpopulation.Xinhua
UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon arrivesat the refugee campin the border town of
Islahiye of Gaziantep,Turkey, on 7 Dec, 2012.UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon, during
his visit to Turkey onFriday, urged all sidesin Syria to stop violence
immediately.Xinhua
Intl community urged to address
cor ruption pr oblemuNited NatioNs, 8
DecThe United Nations
Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called onthe international communityto deal with the problem ofcorruption, which he saidhas become all the moreurgent.
As the internationalcommunity strives to achievethe Millennium DevelopmentGoals (MDGs) by 2015 andforge an agenda for economicand social progress in theyears beyond, addressingthe problem of corruptionbecomes all the more urgent,Ban said in a message
marking the InternationalAnti-Corruption Day, whichfalls on 9 December.
The cost of corruptionis measured not just inthe billions of dollarsof squandered or stolengovernment resources,but most poignantly in the
absence of the hospitals,schools, clean water, roadsand bridges that might havebeen built with that moneyand would have certainlychanged the fortunes offamilies and communities,he said.
The UN chief noted
that corruption destroys
opportunities and createsrampant inequalities, whichundermines human rightsand good governance,stifles economic growthand distorts markets.
C or rup t ion a l soaggravates environmentalproblems, through the illegal
dumping of hazardous wasteand the illegal trade in animaland plant life facilitatedby bribery and under-the-table incentives thatdetermine who is awardedcontracts, especially forhighly lucrative, large-scaleinfrastructure projects, Bansaid.Xinhua
Insurgent
leader killed
in eastern
Afghan
operationkabul, 8 DecAn
insurgent leader was killedon Tuesday in an operationin eastern Afghan province
of Kunar, the NATO-ledcoalition forces conrmed
on Saturday.Afghan and coalition
security forces conrmed
today that the insurgentleader, Numan, and severalother insurgents were killedduring a security operationin Nari District, Kunarprovince, on Tuesday, thecoalition or InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF) said in a statement.
Numan facilitated themovement of weaponsand money in Kunar andprovided direct support to
senior insurgent leaders inthe province, some 180 kmeast of Kabul.
In addition, the Afghanand ISAF forces arresteda Taleban leader in Nahr-eSaraj District, Helmandprovince 555 km south ofKabul earlier Saturday,according to the statement.
T h e c a p t u r e dTaleban leader distributesimprovised explosivedevice (IED) materials,the statement said, addingduring the operation, thesecurity force also detainedone suspected insurgent
and seized IED-makingmaterials,Xinhua
Residents
watch a
reworks
show
during the
celebration
called Day
of the Little
Candles,
which mark
the beginning
of the
Christmas
in the city
of Bogota,
capital of
Colombia, on
7 Dec, 2012.Xinhua
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Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong (L) shakeshands with Cambodian Permanent Deputy Prime
Minister Men Sam An in Phn om Penh , Cambodia, on7 Dec, 2012. Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong
arrived here on Friday for a two-day ofcial visitaiming to fu rther enhance bilateral ties. Xinhua
Eight died, two injured in blaze in Cambodias
Siem Reap cityPhnom Penh, 8 Dec
Eight persons died and twoothers injured in a strongre early on Saturday in anight market in Cambodiastourism hub Siem Reap city,Siem Reap provincial policechief Sath Nady said.
Four adults and fourchildren were killed in theblaze, and other two men
Head of UN
anti-drug
agency visits
Southeast
AsiaUnited nations, 8DecYury Fedotov, theexecutive director of theUnited Nations Ofce onDrugs and Crime, is on a visitto ve countries in Southeast
Asia for discussions onillicit drugs, transnationalorganized c r ime and
environmental crimes,deputy UN spokesmanEduardo del Buey toldreporters here on Friday.
During the 12-daymission, he discussed illicitdrugs, transnational organized
crime, anti-corruption, and
environmental crimes,including the illegal trade intimber and protected wildlifewith heads of state, ministers,and experts, del Buey saidat a daily news brieng here.
After visiting Thailand,Myanmar, Vietnam, andLao Peoples DemocraticRepublic, Fedotov is on Fridayin Indonesia. He will conclude
his Southeast Asia visit onSunday, said del Buey.
The UN ofce, set upin 1997, is a global leaderin the struggle against illicitdrugs and transnationalorganized crimes. It iscommitted to achieving
health, security and justicefor all, and to delivering legaland technical assistance toprevent terrorism.Xinhua
Typhoon death toll in S Philippines hits
456manila, 8 DecThe
death toll of Typhoon Bopha( local name Pablo) hasclimbed to 456 as more bodies
were dug out from disaster-affected areas in southernPhilippines, the NationalDisaster Risk Reductionand Management Council(NDRRMC) announced onFriday. The NDRRMC alsoreported that 445 peopleare injured and 533 othersremain missing.
Some local media haveput the death toll above 500.
As typhoon Bophatoppled down 28,000 houses,5.3 million disaster victims in27 provinces in southern andcentral Philippines ed theirhomes while 210,000 people
were huddling in temporaryshelters.
Philippine PresidentBenigno Aquino III led
a high-level governmentdelegation to visit areashardest hit by TyphoonBopha on Friday and orderedacceleration of disasterresponse operations to ndand rescue the missingresidents in typhoon-affectedareas in Mindanao.
At a news briefingafter inspecting areas inCompostela Valley andDavao Oriental, Aquino saidhe would declare a state ofnational calamity soon.
Under the national stateof calamity, the governmentcould freeze the prices of
basic commodities.Aquino also ordered
the interior minister, MarRoxas, to lead a multi-
agency investigation team toprobe into the cause of highcasualties brought about byTyphoon Bopha. The teamwill look into allegationsthat massive logging andmining activities contributedto the occurrence of deadlymudows that killed over120 people in the New
Bataan town alone. Theinternational communityincluding China, Canada,the United States, Australia,Canada, Malaysia has eitherrendered or promised todonate relief funds for thevictims.Xinhua
Photo taken on 7 Dec, 2012 shows the typhoon-affected area in southern Province of
Compostela Valley, the Philippines. The death toll of T yphoon Bopha, locally knownas Pablo, has climbed to 456 as more bodies were dug out from disaster-affected areas
in southern Philippines, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and ManagementCouncil (NDRRMC) announced on Friday. Xinhua
Six gunned down in Pakistans Kar achiislamabad, 8 DecAt
least six people were killedand several others injured in
separate incidents of ring inPakistans southern port cityof Karachi on Friday, localmedia and Police said.
T h e i n c i d e n t s o f violence broke out earlyin the morning where twopeople were gunned downin Haji Camp area of the
city, stirring tension in thearea. Later, two bodieswith eminent marks oftorture were found from theNazimabad area.
Two men were killedand several others injured inseparate incidents of ring
by unknown motor-cyclistsin Abul Hassan IsphahaniRoad and New Mianwaliareas of the city.
C o m m e r c i a l a n deduca t iona l ac t iv i t ieshalted in the affected areas
and residents demandeddeployment of more police
force in the area.The history of violence
in Karachi dates back toearly 1990s but the situationbecame uncontrollable since
the last two years, mainly
because of the increasingsectarian, ethnic and political
clashes in the city that ishome to over 21 millionpeople.
According to Karachipolice, over 2,000 peoplehave been shot down in thecity since the beginning of2012. Police is conductingsearch operations in various
areas of the city to apprehendthe people involved indeteriorating law and ordersituation of Karachi.
Earlier last week, the
Sindh Police chief said that165 target killers have beenarrested by police since the
beginning of this year, andthey are hopeful to apprehendmore killers by informationprovided by the arrestedconvicts.
Addressing a session ofSenate on 19 Nov, InteriorMinister Rehman Maliksaid that an estimated 2,339
police encounters have beenreported in 2012, in which145 armed bandits and over100 policemen were killed.
Xinhua
were seriously injured, hetold Xinhua over telephoneon Saturday morning. Thevictims are vendors and theirchildren who slept in their
houses in the market whenthe accident occurred.
The accident happened
at 2:00 am local time andwas completely extinguishedat around 5:00 am, he said.
Besides the human casualties,the re destroyed hundredsof stalls in the market,which sold souvenir thingsto tourists.
Electric fault wasblamed for the accident,he said.
Siem Reap Provincehouses the world heritageAngkor Wat temple, which is
the countrys largest culturaltourism destination. It islocated some 315 kilometersnorthwest of Phnom Penh,the capital of Cambodia.
The cultural provinceattracted 1.64 million foreignvisitors in the rst ten months
of this year, up 28 percentcompared with the sameperiod last year.Xinhua
7.3-magnitude quake jolts off
east coast of Honshu, J apantokyo, 8 DecA
7.3-magnitute earthquakejolted off the east coast ofHonshu, Japan, resulting in
a tsunami warning for thecountry's northeastern coast-al areas, according to JapanMeteorological Agency(JMA).
The quake occurred at
5:18 pm local time on Fri-day (08:18:24 GMT) . Theepicentre was initially deter-mined at 37.8 degrees northlatitude, 144.2 degrees eastlongitude, with a depth of 10
km, the JMA reported. The
tremor was followed by a6.2-magnitute aftershock offthe east coast of Honshu, at08:31:14 GMT, the US Geo-logical Survey said.
The epicentre, with
a depth of 29.20 km, wasinitially determined to be at37.9387 degrees north lati-tude and 143.7626 degrees
east longitude. A warning fora two-metre tsunami was is-sued for the coast of Japan'snortheastern Miyagi Prefec-ture. Injuries and damagesare not immediately known.
Xinhua
Thailand plans to run Chinese
high-speed railway systembangkok, 8 Dec
Thailand has planned to run
Chinese- made high-speed
railway systems designed
to have time-saving, inex-
pensive trains for long-dis-
tance commuters shuttling
between Bangkok and the
northern city of Chiang Mai
and between the capital and
the northeastern province of
Nong Khai, a senior ofcialsaid here on Friday.
Thai Transport Minister
Chatchat Sitthipan disclosed
that the Thai government has
decided to go ahead with the
multi-billion-US dollar rail-
way projects under which the
so-called Hexie Hao or China
Railway Highspeed train sys-
tem will be used. Construction
of the initial stage of the rail-
way project for the Bangkok-
Chiang Mai route is scheduled
to begin by the middle or
second half of next year. Therailway project for both routes
will be completed until 2015,
he said.Xinhua
Local residents in a restauran t react after a strong
earthquake hit the area in Iwaki, Fuku shima prefecture,in this ph oto taken by Kyodo on 7 Dec, 2012.Kyodo news
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Fireghters work at the site of a re in the Paraesop-olis slum, south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 5 Dec, 2012.The re that lasted about 45 minutes caused damagesat least to eight homes. So far no deaths or injuries
reported.Xinhua
Buenos Aires, 8 DecA pesticide container thatcugt re in te port re
of Argentinas capital Bue-nos Aires blanketed the cityin a toxic cloud of smoke onThursday, local Civil De-
fence Chief Daniel Russosaid.
Authorities warnedresidents to stay indoors to
Buenos Aires covered in toxic cloud from chemical re
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ds c f
San
caa, n
nDAmAscus, 8 Dec
At least one person waskilled and 29 others in-
jured when terrorist blastrocked the Syrian District
of al-Mazzeh 86 on Thurs-day evening, the state-run
SANA news agency said.The blast rocked the
area between a bakery anda school bus stop in al-Mazzeh 86, the report said,adding that children were
among the injured.The blast is the latest in
a series of explosions thathave become daily routinesrecently.
Earlier on Thursday,one person was killed whena roadside bomb went offnear a branch of the Syrian
Arab Red Crescent in Da-
mascus. Syria accuses al-Qaeda of carrying out suchblasts.Xinhua
Bb sn as ac nv wnds
Afan s cfKABul, 8 DecA
Taleban suicide bomberposing as a peace messen-ger wounded Afghanistansintelligence chief in Ka-bul on Thursday, anothersign that the governmentis struggling to improvesecurity ahead of a NATOpullout in 2014. Asadul-lah Khalid was woundedwhen the bomber struck ina meeting at a guesthouseused by the National Direc-torate of Security (NDS).
The bomber was apeace messenger sent by theTaleban to the Afghan gov-ernment, around 3 pm in a
meeting with the head ofNDS, detonated his explo-sives, said NDS spokes-mn Squll Tiri.
Right now the headof the NDS is in good con-dition. The surgery was asuccess. The Afghan Tale-ban claimed responsibil-ity for the bombing, whichhighli
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