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PyinOoLwin wet with dewPYINOOLWIN, 23 Dec

The year of 2013 brings

signicant cold to the nation.

Various towns in the

country have seen signicant

cold.

PyinOoLwin is one

of the towns with lowertemperature.

On 19 December, the

whole town of PyinOoLwin

was under zero degree

Celcious. On that day, the

fog covered across the town

and some part of the town

saw dew.

As of early evening,

the grass, trees and plants

were wet with dew. As night

falls, trees in the town were

gradually covered with dew.

Wak in g ea r ly i n

the morning, seeing a

picturesque scene from the

window is feeling of the

past. Local people missed

such a chance for many

years.

At present, poinsettias

are blooming in the town

welcoming the Xmas. So,

everybody can see red

owers matching with its

environs.

People take exercises

along the bunds of

Kandawgyi and Kandawlay

lakes and along the circular

road of PyinOoLwin in the

morning.

PyinOoLwin regains

its dream of the past with

foggy beauties.

MMAL-Thet Naing

(PyinOoLwin)

Assistance provided to

hailstones-hit farmersDABAYIN , 23 Dec

Hailstone hit Dabayin due

to untimely rains on 15

December night.

The incident had laid

waste to paddy plantations.Head of Sagaing

R e g i o n A g r i c u l t u r e

Department U Thein Win,

Head of District Settlement

a n d L a n d R e c o r d s

Department U Myo Min

Oo, Chairman of Township

Management Committee

Township Administrator

U Nyein Chan Aung, Head

of Township Agriculture

Depar tment U Thant

Zin Kyaw and township

ofcials heard reports on

the local farmers.

The local people

reported on requirements ondifculties for recultivation

of summer paddy in 2013-

14.

T h e A g r i c u l t u r e

Department pledged to

provide one basket of

paddy strain for one acre

to farmers and it will take

such paddy in harvest time

from farmers.MMAL -

Township IPRD

Experience on arts show

recounted

MANDALAY, 23 DecAceremony to recount the

experience on joint arts

show displayed in Imphrel of

Manipur State in India from

21 to 27 November was held

at Hsinbyudaw Gallery on

36thStreet between 77thand

78thStreets in Mandalay on

19 December.

The art show was jointly

organized by Mandalay

Art Club and Manipur Art

Society.

It was attended by media

persons and artists.

Firstly, Chairman of

Mandalay Arts Group Artist

Nyo Pyar gave a speech.

He expressed thanks to

Chief Minister of Mandalay

Region U Ye Myint and the

Indian Consul General and

those who participated in

the trip.

Veteran artist Daw Cho

Cho Aung and Artist U Myint

Tun recalled experience on

the trip and participation

in the Saigan Festival in

Imphrel of Manipur State in

India and art show jointly

organized by Manipur Art

Society.

The Saigan Festival was

participated by Mandalay

Art Group, Sagaing Moe Zar

Troupe, Ywahtaung silver

wares, Mandalay Music and

Harp Troupes.

It was led by Mandalay

Region Chief Minister U

Ye Myint, Chief Minister of

Sagaing Region U Tha Aye,

the Indian Consul General

and the Indian Ambassador.

A total of 45 members

of 185-member delegation

came from India.

Mandalay Arts group

of the delegation comprised

great artists Nyo Pyar, U

Myint Tun, Ingar Oo, Daw

Cho Cho Aung, Kyaw Min

Oo and designer Phyu Pyar

Nyunt.

The festival has been

organized since 2010.

Thanks to the trip, artists

from Mandalay could further

cement relationship with

those of India.

MMAL-Khin Khin Win

UNFPA launches State of World Population 2013 in Myanmar

YANGON, 23 Dec

Every day, 20000 girls under

the age of 18 give birth in

developing countries. Nine

in 10 of these births occur

within marriage or a union,

and the girls affected have

little or no say indecisions

about when or whether to

become pregnant. Girls

under the age of 15 account

for 2 million adding the

total up to 7.3 million new

adolescent mothers a year.

If current trends continue

the number of births to girls

under the age of 15 could

rise to 3 million a year in2030.

W o r l d w i d e , i n

developing countr ies ,

the number of adolescent

pregnancies is 680,000.This is worrying numbers,

because there is an estimated

3.2 million unsafe abortions

among 15-19 year olds.

This means for every

teenage birth there are ve

abortions, mostly unsafe.

Unsafe abortions by an

unqualied practitioner are

predominately responsible

for complications post-

abortion and at worst

results in deaths of young

mothers. In Myanmar, this

is the case in over 10%

of pregnancies within the

age group 15-19, largelybecause of barriers based

on social and cultural values

that prevent young people

accessing reproductive

health services, includingthose for birth spacing.

The United Nations

Population Fund (UNFPA)

calls in its State of World

Population 2013 for action

that empowers girls, uphold

their basic human rights,

and put them on an equal

footing with boys as well

as for the girls to receive

an education. According to

the report girls who remain

in school longer are less

likely to become pregnant.

The Myanmar launch of

UNFPAs agship report

took place in Yangon, on10 December 2013. The

ofcial launch of the report

was on 30 October.

Myanmar may not

have many adolescentmothers, nor do the majority

of the countrys girls

marry young. However

this does not mean that

many young girls are not

vulnerable to unintended

pregnancies. We know

they are. Part of protection

adolescents is through

access to information and

access to reproductive

health services, including

contraception. This will help

reduce their vulnerability

and strengthen their ability

to take responsibili ty.

Prevention is the best wayto avoid unsafe abortions,

and this is happening in

many places, thanks to

youth spaces and adolescent

friendly services, said Ms

Janet Jackson, UNFPAMyanmar Representative

in her statement.

M s . J a c k s o n

emphasized that today

is a- bout committing to

ensure that changes are

implemented as part of the

nations post 2015 agenda,

in order to ensure that all

girls are protected and that

they have access human

rights, health and education,

which prevents them from

realising their ambitions

and living out their true

p o ten t i a l . Th ese a re

important considerationsfor Myanmar as it prepares

for taking on the ASEAN

chair in 2014, where

social policies and social

development should be

championed alongsideinvestments in trade and

interest for economic

growth.

UNFPA congratulated

the Ministry of Health for

launching the National

Services Standards and

Guidelines on Adolescent

Health Care in July with

support from WHO and

UNFPA. UNFPA remains

committed to work with

the Government and all

stakeholders to help meet

the needs and potentials

of the young people of

Myanmar. UNFPA is alsoa member of the recently

established National Task

Force for youth policy.

Moe Thu

A wellwisher presents medal of honour to U

Soe Lin who had donated blood for 75 times

at the 37thceremony to honour the blood

donors at Yangon University of Nursing on 14

December.MMAL-NATIONALBLOODCENTRE

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Tuesday, 24 December, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarNATIONAL

US will seek triggers to

reimpose sanctions on Iran

HONOLULU, 23 DecThe United States and its al-

lies will have ways to reim-pose sanctions on Iran if the

Islamic Republic is caughtmaking bombs after strikinga deal to freeze its nuclearprogramme, national secu-

rity adviser Susan Rice saidon Sunday.

In an interview on the

CBS news programme 60Minutes, Rice rejected theidea that, once relaxed, the

economic sanctions on Te-heran would be hard to rein-state.

Any United Nations Se-curity Council resolution that

enshrines a nal nuclear dealwith Iran not the interimsix-month deal signed in Ge-

neva in November couldhave triggers to automati-cally reimpose sanctions on

Iran if they violate the deal,she said.

US National Security Advisor Susan Rice looks upduring a meeting beside US President Barack Obama at

the G20 Summit in St Petersburg, Russiaon 5 Sept, 2013.

REUTERS

We will not construct adeal or accept a deal in which

we cannot verify exactlywhat they are doing, Rice

said. And if theyre caught,we will ensure that the pres-sure is reimposed on them.

A mechanism for such

automatic triggers has notbeen nalized, Rice said.Any deal beyond the current

arrangement is still monthsaway.

We havent designed

that resolution yet. But thisis something thats quite do-able, Rice said. The United

States does not want Iran tobe in a position to race to-

wards a bomb undetected.Rice said it was still

unclear if Iran was hurting

enough from existing sanc-tions on its oil exports andother industries to give up its

nuclear ambitions in a veri-able way.Reuters

Ukraine opposition urges more

protests, forms political bloc

KIEV, 23 DecUkrain-

ian opposition leaders urged

supporters at a rally on Sun-

day to stay on Kievs main

square through New Year

and Christmas, as street pro-

tests appeared to be losing

momentum.

About 100,000 people

gathered at Kievs Independ-ence Square to demonstrate

for the fth weekend in a

row against President Vik-

tor Yanukovichs decision

to shelve a trade deal the

European Union and pursue

closer ties with Russia.

Although it was a rela-

tively strong showing

enough to ll the square

and adjacent streets the

Police fire teargas, water cannon at Istanbul

protestersANKARA, 23 Dec Police red water cannon and teargas at protesters marching in Istanbul on Sunday against the

Turkish governments urbanization plans and a corruption investigation in which scores of people, including the sons of

ministers, have been arrested.

Turkish riot police use water cannons against protesters during a demonstration

against Turkeys ruling Ak Party (AKP) and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, inIstanbul on 22 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

Hundreds of protesters

gathered in a square in Is-

tanbuls Kadikoy District,

holding banners calling

Prime Minister Tayyip Er-

dogans government to re-

sign, TurkeysDogan News

agency reported.

Erdogan has de-

nounced the corruption in-

quiry as the work of dark

alliances and has vowed to

expose those involved. In

a crackdown on the policecommand, he has already

removed dozens of police

chiefs from their duties.

Reuters

WORLD

Esteemed youth,

The 27th Southeast Asian Games has successfully

concluded. Myanmar has had an opportunity to host the

Games again after 44 years.

As Myanmar had the opportunity to successfully

holding the Games it hadnt been able to hold such a game

due to various reasons in the past, the Games brought four

opportunities to it. The rst opportunity is to make known

the internal and external critics who had voiced concern

about whether Myanmar would be able to host such inter-

national sporting event that Myanmar and its people were

capable of hosting the Games.

The second opportunity is to present morale, abil-

ity, sense of fair play and courage of Myanmar athletes

the world. The third one is to show kindness, hospi-

tality and morality of Myanmar people to athletes and

visitors from foreign countries. The nal one is to pro-mote the image of the nation and its people while for-

eign visitors enjoyed sports events and visited places

of interest in Myanmar.

Throng of athletes from respective countries, guests

President U Thein Seins video message to teamsthat made contributions to SEA Games successNAYPYITAW, 23 DecThe following is the translation of the video message of President U Thein Sein shown at a dinner in honour of the teams that made contributions to

the success of the 27thSoutheast Asian Games at the square of Nay Pyi Taw City Hall this evening.

and local and foreign journalists participated in the SEA

Games.

Like winning medals in the competitions, it is also

important to describe Myanmar whose people are kind,

hospitable and helpful and possess high morality and

ability to host the Games. Young people who took part

in the opening and closing ceremonies, liaison ofcers,

volunteer ofcers and work forces discharged this re-

sponsibility.

All of you, of your own volition, assumed these re-

sponsibilities. Volunteers are those who are willing to of-

fer help as much as they can for the sake of others and the

nation, without having any intention to gain advantages or

opportunities. So, it was seen that all of you had a strong

sense of duty to promote the national image, made active

participation while discharging this responsibility and

overcame difculties and problems patiently and under-standingly throughout the Games. It was the proudest mo-

ment of the nation as all of you from various parts of the

country joined hands for SEA Games success with Union

spirit.

Like you, leading committees, supportive commit-

tees, athletes, ofcers and other ranks of Defence Ser-

vices and Police Force, musicians and other technicians

also made all-out efforts for the successful holding of the

27thSEA Games.

So, successful holding the Games is the national vic-

tory brought about by the entire people including all of

you with Union spirit and genuine nationalistic fervor.

Now we are in the democratic transition building the

new nation and moving towards national reconsolidation

which is an urgent need for the development of the na-

tion. Successful realization of the national duty brought

about by civil societies and all walks of life with a sense

of cooperation at this time produced a brand new boost

to move forward. If we are able to establish the national

unity like this, it is sure to shape an era of peace and pros-

perity.Thats why, I would like to call on all of you to apply

a wealth of experience and spirit gained whilst working in

the Games to nation-building endeavours.

May you all have peace of mind and good health.

number was the lowest this

month, and around half the

previous weekends turnout

which was estimated at up to

200,000 people.We will not leave,

Vitaly Klitschko, a heavy-

weight boxing champi-

on who leads the liberal

UDAR (Punch) party, told

the rally. We will celebrate

the New Year here and we

will celebrate Christmas

here.

In the Ukrainian Or-

thodox Churchs calendar,

Christmas falls on 7 January.

Seeking to consolidate

the protest movement, he and

leaders of other major oppo-

sition parties said they wereestablishing a nationwide

political movement called

Maidan, a reference to the

Ukrainian name of the protest

site, Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

We will make life hell

for this government, said

far-right nationalist leader

Oleh Tyahnybok.

Street protests erupted

after Yanukovichs decision

on 21 November to walk

away from an agreement on

free trade and political as-

sociation with the EU, after

years of careful preparation,and turn to Ukraines for-

mer Soviet overlord Russia.

The U-turn, while

backed by many in Russian-

speaking eastern Ukraine

which is Yanukovichs

power base, angered others

in western and central areas,

where people see the coun-

trys future in Europe.

Reuters

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

New Light of Myanmar

A Samsung mobile phone is displayedduring a news conference to presentSFRs 4G public offers in Paris, on 23

Sept, 2013.

REUTERS

French government will police quality of 4G

servicesPARIS, 23 Dec The French govern-

ment will act to ensure telecom operatorsprovide decent service as they roll out cut-rate plans for new high-speed 4G broad-band service, a minister for digital issuessaid on Sunday.

Low-cost operator Iliad this month

added 4G service to its Free Mobile offerswithout raising the price, putting pressureon leading telecoms companies Orange,Vivendis SFR and Bouygues Telecom tofollow suit with competitive offers.

The contest has led executives to tradebarbs in the media, with Orange CEOStephane Richard accusing Iliad of com-promising quality on its 4G service. Iliadis still building its mobile network and had700 mobile antennas capable of handling4G speeds as of 1 December.

The minister, Fleur Pelleting, saidthe government would act to ensure thatthe telecom regulator Arches regained thepower to enforce quality standards, after aConstitutional Court ruling that prevented

it from imposing penalties.We are going to correct this situation

in early 2014, she told Le Parisiandaily.We are going to give the telecoms police-man his stick back.

The Iliad offer has led to a price waras well as a war of words among the tel-

ecom operators. Orange said some of itscustomers would get 4G wireless at no ad-ditional charge, shortly after smaller rivalBouygues extended the same offer to itslow-cost subscription plan.Reuters

Astronauts nail first spacewalk to fix

stations cooling systemCAPE CANAVERAL, 23

Dec Two NASA astro-nauts, their spacesuits riggedwith snorkels in case of a wa-

ter leak, oated outside theInternational Space Stationfor 5-1/2 hours on Saturday,successfully completing therst steps to x the outpostscooling system.

The spacewalk, whichwas broadcast live on NASATelevision, was the rst for

NASA since July when thespacesuit helmet worn byItalian astronaut Luca Parmi-tano began lling with water,

a situation that could havecaused him to drown.

No such leaks were de-tected in Saturdays space-walk, the rst of two or

possibly three that will beneeded to complete the cool-ing system repair.

The operation wasprompted by the December11 shutdown of one of thestations two US ammo-nia cooling systems, which

forced the crew to turn offnon-essential equipment andshut down dozens of scienceexperiments.

While the six-membercrew is not in danger, theremaining cooling systemcannot support the three lab-oratories and other moduleson the US side of the $100billion station, a project of15 nations. The Russian sideof the station has a separate

The International Space Station crew opens a hatch at

4:10am EDT (8:10 am GMT) to begin unloading cargoin this NASA handout photo taken on 30 Sept, 2013.

REUTERS

cooling system.Engineers at the John-

son Space Centre in Houstontried devising ways to by-

pass a suspected faulty pumpvalve, but with time runningshort, managers decided tohave astronauts replace thepump, located outside thestation, with a spare.

The work, which beganshortly after 7 am EST, wentsmoothly, with station ight

engineers Rick Mastracchioand Mike Hopkins nishing

up an hour earlier than ex-pected.

They were able to notonly disconnect the oldpump, but also remove itfrom its pallet on the sta-tions exterior truss, a taskslated for a second space-walk originally planned forMonday and later delayeduntil Tuesday, NASA saidlate on Saturday.

A third spacewalk, ifneeded, presumably alsowould slip one day, fromWednesday to Thursday.

NASA said an extraday was needed to preparea backup spacesuit for Mas-tracchio to use.

During repressuriza-tion of the stations airlockfollowing the spacewalk, aspacesuit conguration issue

put the suit Mastracchio waswearing in question for thenext excursion, NASA saidin a statement.Reuters

A sales assistant walks inside a China Mobile store inGuangzhou, Guangdong Province, on 18 Dec, 2013.

REUTERS

Apple, China Mobile

sign long-awaited deal to

sell iPhonesNEW YORK, 23 Dec

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) saidit has signed a long-await-

ed agreement with ChinaMobile Ltd to sell iPhonesthrough the worlds big-gest network of mobilephone users.

In a deal that couldadd billions of dollars toits revenue, Apple saidits smartphones will beavailable to China Mobilecustomers starting on 17January. Pricing and avail-ability details for the iP-hone 5S and 5C lines willbe disclosed at a later date,it said in a statement.

China Mobile, which

has about 760 million cus-tomers, will begin register-ing orders for iPhone from25 December, the companysaid on its account on theSina-Weibo micro-blog-ging service.

The tie-up provides amuch-needed boost for Ap-ple in a country where itstrailing rivals, even thoughChina is its second-largestmarket after the US. It willalso give Apple extra re-power in its intensifyingglobal competition withSouth Koreas Samsung

Electronics Co Ltd.Apple didnt disclose

nancial terms of the

agreement. Tim Cook, Ap-ples chief executive, said

in its statement that Chinais an extremely importantmarket for the Cupertino-

based company.In a country where

smartphone sales arebooming, Apple has trailedits competitors. Shipmentsof iPhones in the countrygrew 32 percent year-on-year for the third quarter,about half of Chinas Le-novo Group Ltd, which hadthe next slowest growth at64 percent year-on-year.

China Mobile couldgain 17 million new iP-hone activations in 2014alone, according to re-search rm Forrester

more than double the 16.8million iPhones Apple soldin mainland China for the12 months ended Septem-ber, according to Forresterdata.

But after an expect-ed initial surge, Apple islikely to nd itself back in

a costly marketing battlewith Samsung Electronics.

The deal has beenyears in the making, withnumerous visits by Appleto the state-owned carri-ers Beijing headquarters.Negotiations have been

tricky, in part because ofdisagreements over detailslike revenue-sharing, ana-lysts have said.

Reuters

Nokia employees arrive for a personnel brieng in

Oulu, on 14 June, 2012.REUTERS

Finnish city Oulu sees light at end of Nokia tunnelOULU, 23 Dec From

early December, the Finn-ish city of Oulu is trappedin darkness for all but afew murky midday hours,

a darkness some fearedmight be matched by itseconomic prospects af-ter big local employer

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) hit theskids.

Oulu, with a popula-tion of about a quarter mil-lion, was once a key Nokia

R&D site, before the mo-bile maker was left for deadin the global smartphonerace by Apples (AAPL.O)

iPhone and handsetsrunning Googles(GOOG.O) Android soft-ware.

Nokia and its networks

venture at one point em-ployed about 5,000 peoplein Oulu, more than threetimes the next biggest pri-vate sector employer, butnow it has work for lessthan half that.

The citys unemploy-ment rate topped 16 percentin the summer, a level notseen since the Finnish -nancial crisis of the early1990s.

But despite the gloom,and an average annualtemperature of 2 degreesCelsius (36F), the buds ofa recovery are visible in

Finlands biggest northerncity, 600 kilometres fromHelsinki.

It is becoming a modelfor the rest of the country as

it ghts to ll the gap left by

Nokias tumbling sales andthe tens of thousands of jobcuts that preceded the for-mer world beaters Septem-

ber decision to give up themobile business and sell toMicrosoft (MSFT.O).

Oulu is now a leadingcandidate to host a new datacentre for Microsoft, whichwants to invest $250 millionon such facilities in Finlandafter it takes over the Nokiabusiness next year.

Former Nokians arestarting to land on their feet,too. Pasi Leipala, a formersenior manager at Nokia,is now chief executive atHaltian, which designselectronics and softwareproducts and is one of the

citys most successful start-ups. Last year you couldcount its employees on thengers of one hand. Now it

has a staff of 70.Reuters

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Boeing machinists to vote 3 January on revised

contract

Construction cranes and palm trees line the entranceat South Carolina Boeing in North Charleston, South

Carolina on 19 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

NEWYORK, 23 Dec Unionized workers at Boe-ing Co (BA.N) will vote on3 January on the companyslatest proposed contract,

according to a statementissued by the InternationalAssociation of Machinistsand Aerospace Workers onSunday evening.

In November, machin-ists at the Everett, Wash-ington plant where Boe-ings 777 jet is built voted 2

to 1 against the companysinitial offer.

Under that eight yearcontract, production ofBoeings next jet the

777X would have re-mained in Washingtonstate. But in exchange,management wanted to re-place the workers pensionplan with a 401(k)-styleretirement savings accountand raise healthcare costs.

In the aftermath of the

vote, Boeing said it wouldlook for other locations tobuild the 777X, the only jetthe company is likely to de-velop in the next 15 years.

Boeing later made arevised offer that includeda larger signing bonus andother concessions, andasked union leaders to en-dorse it. But the leaders ofIAM District Lodge 751,which represents the 31,000workers, refused endorse it

or put it up for a vote, say-ing the changes were notsignicant enough.

Details of the new offerwill be sent to IAM District

751, District W-24 and Dis-trict 70 members by mailprior to the vote, the IAMsaid in its statement, notingthat the new proposal con-tains signicant improve-ments from the earlier of-fer made by management inNovember.Reuters

Merchandise baskets are lined up outside a Targetdepartment store in Palm Coast, Florida,

on 9 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

Trafc at Target stores falls after

data breach WSJ

CHICAGO, 23 Dec In the wake of a massivedata breach, Target Corp

(TGT.N) suffered reducedcustomer trafc over one

of the busiest shoppingweekends of the year,the Wall Street Journalreported.

The number of trans-actions at Target fell 3 to 4percent compared with lastyears nal weekend before

Christmas, while, transac-

tions at other retailers werestrong, the Journal said, cit-ing estimates by retail con-

sultancy Customer GrowthPartners LLC.

Target said on Thurs-day that hackers had sto-len data from as many as40 million credit and debitcards of shoppers who visit-ed its stores during the rst

three weeks of the holidayseason.

At least 2 million shop-

pers who used bank debitcards at Target stores dur-ing its recent data breachare facing lower limits onhow much cash they cantake out of teller machinesand spend at stores.

This is the worst pos-sible time something likethis could happen, CraigJohnson, president of Cus-tomer Growth Partners toldthe Journal.

The consultancy rmestimates that US retailsales on Saturday totaled$17 billion, exceedingthose on Black Friday by$2 billion, according to thepaper.

A Target spokeswom-

an declined to comment tothe Journal specically on

this weekends results, say-ing the retailer reports saleson a quarterly basis.

Target could not im-mediately be reached forcomment by Reuters out-side of regular US businesshours.

Reuters

An employee works on a Renault Sandero at an

assembly line of a plant that produces Renaultautomobiles, in Moscow, in this 15 May , 2012 fle

photo.REUTERS

Russias red-hot car market stallsMOSCOW, 23 Dec A

year of disappointing autosales in Russia has dealersand carmakers worried thata once-red hot market that

was set to become Europeslargest may have slippedout of gear.

Stuttering economicgrowth, unhelpful demo-graphic trends and a com-ing increase in car capac-ity could dampen one ofthe few bright spots in aglobal market that is under

pressure. In a Moscowshowroom of dealershipPremium Motors, packedwith budget models suchas Russian-made Ladas and

Chevrolets, a dealer be-moaned the lack of custom-ers. In October and No-vember sales were bad... there were few people,he said.

A few doors down, adealership selling more ex-pensive imported Volkswa-gens was nding it equally

hard. Maybe people ...need to save money insteadof buying a car, said amanager. Asked about theoutlook for next year, he

said: Nobody knows. Wehope. In a trafc-clogged

city peppered with Porsches(PSHG_p.DE) and Masera-tis (FIA.MI) - trademarks ofthe super-rich who proted

personally from Russiasresource wealth - it is themiddle class who providethe bread-and-butter sales.

Yet after three yearsof double-digit growth asRussia recovered from the2008-2009 economic cri-sis, sales so far this year aredown around 6 percent ac-cording to the Associationof European Businesses, a

Moscow-based lobby groupthat counts major auto mak-ers among its members.Auto executives, resolutelybullish that Russias risingmiddle class will supportsales long-term, do not pre-dict another crisis, but areworried about an extendedcontraction.Reuters

A picture shows an artifcial heart holding by anemployee of the French Carmat company outside Paris.

REUTERS

French implant rm Carmat could seek

investorsPARIS, 23 Dec

Frances Carmat, devel-oper of an articial heartimplanted into its rst pa-tient last week, may seekan injection of funds fromfresh investors to help tap apotential multi-billion-euroglobal market, a senior ex-ecutive said.

We could, at somepoint, call on new inves-tors, Carmat co-founderPhilippe Pouletty wasquoted saying by Le Mondenewspaper on Saturday.Our aim, if possible, is toremain independent.

The company said after

Fridays stock market closeit had carried out its rst

implant of an articial heartthat can beat for up to ve

years, marking a potential

breakthrough for patients

with heart conditions.Company ofcialswarned it was too earlyto draw rm conclusions

from the operation carriedout in a Paris hospital onWednesday, but noted themale patient in his 70s wasconscious and talking in in-tensive care.

Pouletty told LeMonde that, once put onsale, the 130,000 euro($177,700) device had apotential market of 100,000patients in the United Statesand Europe. The medicalneed is signicant, with a

market potential of sev-eral billion euros, Poulettysaid. The issue is whetherit will be reimbursed byhealthcare systems. We are

condent about that (as)

much less sophisticated ar-ticial hearts of comparablecost are already authorizedand reimbursed in a numberof countries.

Shares in the company

closed at 102.86 euros on

Friday, to give it a stockmarket value of about 436million euros. The stockwas listed on the Parisbourse in 2010 at 18 euros.

Reuters

Toyota to recall over

11,000 cars in S Korea for

defective air-conditioningSEOUL, 23 Dec Japa-

nese carmaker Toyota Mo-tor was ordered to recallmore than 11,000 cars inSouth Korea due to defec-tive air-conditioning sys-tem, Seouls transportationministry said on Monday.

A total of 11,507 carssold by Toyota in the coun-try were equipped witha faulty air-conditioningsystem, in which waterproduced by the radiatorows into the airbag con-trol system and causes mal-function in the airbags and

steering wheel, accordingto the Ministry of Land, In-frastructure and Transport(MOLIT).

Subject to the recall

that covered 10,961 pas-senger cars of three models,including Camry, manu-factured between 20 Oct,2011 and 16 May, 2013.The recall also affected 546units of the Venza com-pact utility vehicles madebetween 14 Aug, 2012 and28 March, 2013.

Owners of the defec-tive vehicles can contactservice centers operatedby Toyota Motor Korea forfree repairs from Thursday.

Jaguar and Land Roverwas also told to recall 888

units of the Jaguar XF 2.2diesel vehicles for defectivefuel lines that may causere, the ministry said.

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Membersof Japans

Ground

Self-Defence

Force hand

water topeople tak-ing refuge

at a UNpeacekeep-ing mission

base inJuba on22 Dec,

2013, amidfghting

in SouthSudan.

KYODO

NEWS

Emperor turns 80, hopes to continue to fulll his roleTOKYO, 23 Dec Em-

peror Akihito, on the occa-sion of his 80th birthday on

Monday, reiterated his in-tention to do his best, while

he is expected to hand oversome of his ofcial duties

to the younger generationin the year after next.While accepting the

limits arising from age, Ihope to continue to fulllmy role as best I can, theemperor said at a custom-ary Press conference heldon Wednesday ahead of hisbirthday.

Emperor Akihito, en-throned on 7 Jan, 1989, is

the second Japanese emper-

or to have turned 80 whileon the throne, following hisfather Emperor Hirohito.

Next year will be the

last time for the emperorand Empress Michiko,

79, to make annual visitsto kindergartens on Chil-drens Day in May and fa-cilities for the elderly on

Respect for the Aged Dayin September, as they willpass on those visits made

since 1992 to their childrenincluding Crown PrinceNaruhito.

We already havequite an age gap with the

children, while we will

be around the same age asthe elderly citizens, saidthe emperor, adding, Myhealth has had no bearingon this decision. Regard-ing the passing on of of-

cial duties to reduce hisburden, he said, I wouldlike to maintain the statusquo for the time being.

Asked about the rela-tionship between politicsand the activities of the

imperial family followingPrincess Hisakos involve-

ment in Tokyos successfulbid to host the 2020 Olym-pic Games, the emperor

said, It is my intention tocontinue to attend to my du-ties in a manner compliant

with the Constitution.The Constitution of

Japan stipulates, The Em-peror shall perform only

such acts in matters of stateas are provided for in thisConstitution and he shallnot have powers related to

government, the emperorsaid. About the events thathave left a special impres-

sion on him during thecourse of his life, the em-peror pointed to the Sec-

ond World War.Kyodo News

Syrian helicopter bomb raidskill 42 in Aleppo

BEIRUT, 23 Dec At

least 42 people, includingchildren, were killed on

Sunday when Syrian armyhelicopters dropped im-

provised barrel bombsin the northern province of

Aleppo, a monitoring groupsaid.

The British-based Syr-

ian Observatory for HumanRights said separate airraids hit several districts inAleppo, but the biggest tollwas in Hanano, east of the

city. At least six children

People carry a wounded man on a stretcher after whatactivists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syrian

President Bashar Al-Assad, at Masaken Hanano inAleppo, on 22 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

were among the dead.They hit a convoy of

cars on a road in Hanano,many cars were destroyed.

There were civilians there,said the ObservatorysRami Abdelrahman.

Human Rights Watchsaid in a report over theweekend that barrel bomb

attacks had killed scores ofcivilians in Aleppo in the

last month. It described theattacks as illegal and saidthey had hit residential and

shopping areas.

The Syrian air force iseither criminally incompe-tent, doesnt care whether it

kills scores of civilians, or

deliberately targets civilianareas, HRW senior emer-gency researcher Ole Sol-vang said in the report.

Barrel bombs areexplosive-lled cylindersor oil drums that are oftenrolled out of the back ofhelicopters with little at-

tempt at striking a particulartarget. They are capable ofcausing widespread casual-ties and signicant damage.

President Bashar al-

Assads forces, battling re-bels in a 2 1/2-year conictthat has killed more than100,000 people, frequentlydeploy air power and artil-

lery against rebel-held dis-tricts across the country.

They have been un-able to recapture easternand central parts of Aleppo,

which rebels seized in thesummer of 2012, but theyhave driven rebel ght-ers back from towns to thesoutheast of the city in re-cent weeks.Reuters

Bomb explodes on Israeli bus, no

one hurtJERUSALEM, 23 Dec

A bomb that Israeli authori-ties suspect was plantedby Palestinian militants

exploded in a bus near TelAviv on Sunday after pas-sengers were evacuated,and police said no one washurt.

No group claimed re-

sponsibility for the bomb-ing. But Fawzi Barhoum,a spokesman for the Islam-ist militant group Hamas,said in a statement the blast

was a heroic action in

response to what he termed

the continued crimes ofIsraels occupation of landPalestinians seek for a state.

Photographs from thescene, in the Tel Aviv sub-urb of Bat Yam, showed theblast blew out the vehicleswindows.

There were about 12

passengers on the bus. Thedriver stopped immedi-ately when he was alerted

to a suspicious object.It was a bag on the backbench, and he immediately

ordered everyone off, Ei-tan Fixman, a spokesmanfor the Dan bus company,was quoted as saying on theYNet news site.

We conrm the explo-sion on the bus today was aterror attack, based on as-sessments and evidence

gathered at the scene, said

Israeli police spokesmanMicky Rosenfeld, refer-

ring to suspected Palestin-ian militants. Police had setup roadblocks at entrancesto the occupied West Bankand were searching cars forthe perpetrators.

It was the rst suchincident since Israeli-Pales-tinian peace talks which

have shown few signs ofprogress resumed inJuly. We strongly con-demn the bombing of a busnear Tel Aviv today. Ourthoughts are with those af-

fected and with the Israelipeople at this time, USState Department spokes-

person, Jen Psaki, said in astatement on Sunday.

Reuters

UN chief urges donors to givemore aid to Haiyan victims

MANILA, 23 Dec UNSecretary General Ban Ki-

moon on Sunday urged theinternational community toprovide more support to on-going efforts to rebuild thecentral Philippine commu-nities devastated by pow-

erful typhoon Haiyan lastmonth.

I urge all donors toadd to their generous re-sponse so that we can help

communities to build backbetter and safer, Ban told ajoint news conference withPhilippine Foreign Secre-tary Albert del Rosario.

Ban arrived in the Phil-ippines late on Friday for a

Israeli police explosive experts survey a damaged bus atthe scene of an explosion in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat

Yam on 22 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

weekend visit to areas hitby Haiyan on 8 Nov, leav-

ing 7,888 people killed ormissing.

On Saturday, Ban ewfrom the capital Manila tothe central Philippine cityof Tacloban, one of the

hardest-hit areas in the east-ern central Philippines fac-

ing the Pacic Ocean.Yesterday, I was

deeply moved and alsoinspired by my visit to

Tacloban. People are work-ing hard to recover, Bansaid. We must not allowthis to be another forgotten

crisis.On Wednesday, the

Philippines launched an $8billion strategic plan for re-construction in the affectedareas.

The plan aims to re-

store the economic andsocial conditions of theaffected areas at the very

least to pre-typhoon levelsand to create a higher lev-el of disaster resilience,Ban said.

The world body and its

partners have also launcheda one-year strategic re-sponse plan worth $791million. Ban said only 30

percent of that amount has

been funded so far.Kyodo News

Massive ice storm in Toronto leavesmany in darkness, fights groundedTORONTO, 23 Dec A

massive weather system hasleft the largest Canadiancity blanketed in a thick coat

of ice, and nearly 300,000people without power sinceearly on Sunday morning.The bouts of heavy over-night freezing rain causednumerous complications onthe road, disrupting traveland Torontos transit ser-

vice on one of the busiesttravel weekends of the year.

Over 300 departingights have been cancelledat Toronto Pearson Inter-national Airport since the

morning. With ice-coated

tree branches toppling overacross the city pulling downpower lines, and more than

90 large-scale outagesthroughout the city, Toron-to Hydro warned that many

could be left without poweruntil Christmas Day.

The city is experienc-

ing widespread outages.We cannot provide restora-tion time, please plan for a

worst case up to 72 hrs,Toronto Hydro, the largestmunicial electricity distri-bution company in Canan-da, tweeted.

The freezing rainwarning has been lifted in

Toronto, but it seems theworst is yet to come.

Toronto Hydro is ex-

pecting high winds laterSunday, which could resultin even more power out-ages. Winds are expected togust as high as 50km/hr.

Calling the storm oneof the worst in Torontos

history, Mayor Rob Fordsaid at a news conference on

Sunday afternoon that thecity is not yet in a state of

emergency, but that couldchange if the weather con-ditions continue to worsenover the next 24 hours.

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South Sudanese womencarry water in a UN camp inJuba, capital of South Su-

dan, on 22 Dec, 2013. Thetwo main UN camps have

received millions of refugees

as of Sunday. Deadly clash-es have escalated in SouthSudan since last weekend,

according to media reports,following what President

Salva Kiirs governmentclaimed was an attemptedcoup by soldiers loyal to

former Vice President RiekMachar, who was dismissed

in July. XINHUA

Pilot to blame for Mozambican plane

crashMAPUTO, 23 Dec

The preliminary investiga-

tion into the Mozambicanplane crash on 29 Novem-ber indicates that the disas-

ter was caused by the pilotdeliberately, the countryscivil aviation authority said

on Saturday. The inves-tigation commission con-cluded that all it observed

in the records shows thatthe descent was all withautomatic pilot activating.

This is an indicator of clearintention, Joao Abreu,chairperson of the Institute

of Civil Aviation of Mo-zambique said at Press con-ference in Maputo.

According to the re-port, investigations into

the planes black box at theNational Transport Safety

Board in the United Statesfound that the plane oper-ated normally with no me-

chanical malfunctions at38,000 feet and had goodcommunication with the

Gabarone control centrein Botswana, but suddenlyit started to descend, then

vanished from radar screenand lost all communicationwith the control centre just

before it crashed.Abreu said the copilot

went to the bathroom a few

minutes before the crash,leaving the pilot, Herminiodos Santos Fernandes,

alone in the cockpit.It was then the altitude

selector was manually al-tered three times, bringing

the planes altitude downfrom 38,000 feet to 592feet. The throttle control

was set to idling, but the ve-locity selector was operatedmanually several times,

bringing the speed up to theplanes VMO (MaximumOperating Velocity).

These actions setoff low and high intensityalarm signals, and there

were repeatedly hits on thecockpit door, which can beheard on the recording, pre-

sumably indicating the co-pilot was trying to enter thecockpit but found the door

locked against him, saidAbreu.Xinhua

Thousands of Swedes rally againstracism

STOCKHOLM, 23 Dec Thousands of Swedestook to the streets of Stock-

holm on Sunday in a protestagainst racism following aneo-Nazi attack on a similar

but much smaller rally lastweekend, police said.

The protest followed

events last weekend whenaround 30 neo-Nazis at-tacked another anti-racism

rally in the same suburb,Karrtorp, throwing bottles

and recrackers at pro-

testers. Two people werestabbed and 26 neo-Nazis

were detained by police.Sweden, long seen as

a bastion of tolerance, has

seen a rise in support for thefar right as immigration hasgrown. Anti-immigration

party Sweden Democratshas reached around 10 per-cent in the polls ahead of a

parliamentary election nextyear. Stockholm was hit bythe worst riots in years in

Protesters rally against racism during a demonstrationin the Stockholm suburb of Karrtorp on 22 Dec, 2013.

REUTERS

May in mainly poor immi-

grant Stockholm suburbs,with youths throwing rocksat police and setting cars on

re for more than a week.The violence in one

of Europes richest capi-

tals shocked a country thatprides itself on a reputa-tion for social justice, and

fuelled a debate about howSweden was coping with

youth unemployment and

the inux of immigrants.The organizers of Sun-

days demonstration esti-

mated more than 16,000people took part. The crowdchanted End racism now

and No racists on ourstreets, and prominentSwedish artists played on

a stage set up on a soccereld.Reuters

Palestinians insist own stance in push

for peace talksRAMALLAH, 23 Dec

The US administration islikely to present its plan for

a peaceful solution to theIsraeli- Palestinian conict

in February, a Palestinianofcial said on Sunday.

Riad al-Maliki, the Pal-estinian minister of foreign

affairs, added that Wash-ington raised several pointsfor discussions and has not

yet presented any ofcialscheme as it pushes for a

deal by spring.US Secretary of State

John Kerry, who sponsors

peace talks between the twosides since their resumptionin July, has forged a secu-

rity plan for the West Bank,trying to take the security

question off the negotiating

table.Having reservations on

the plan, al-Maliki said the

Palestinian leadership re-acted quickly in proactive

approach, with PresidentMahmoud Abbas send-ing a message to President

Obama last week deningwhat is acceptable and whatis not for the Palestinians.

On Saturday, Abbas

received Arab support asArab foreign ministers, who

met in Cairo, announcedtheir adoption of the Pales-tinian position concerning

upcoming US proposals.Al-Maliki said that the Arabministers meeting was also

a proactive measure.In their nal state-

ment, the Arab ministers

emphasized that they dontaccept less than an inde-pendent Palestinian state on

all lands that Israel has oc-cupied in 1967 with a capi-

tal in East Jerusalem. Theyalso urged the Obama ad-ministration to force Israelto stop settlement building

in the West Bank and EastJerusalem.

Kerrys security plan

envisioned, among others,Israeli presence or indirect

control on the borders oftheir future state, especiallyin the vital Jordan Valley,

for 10 to 15 years. The Pal-estinians have always statedthey dont accept any kind

of Israeli military controlon their borders with Jor-

dan.Xinhua

Chinese merchant killed during

robbery in RussiaMOSCOW, 23 Dec

A Chinese merchant waskilled and another one in-

jured on Saturday during arobbery in Russias Yekat-erinburg, the Chinese Con-

sulate General in that citysaid on Sunday.

Three unidentied at-tackers broke into a rented

apartment and tied and beatup three Chinese merchants,the Consulate General said.

One person was killed onthe spot and the injured waslater sent to a hospital for

treatment. The third mer-chant was unharmed during

the incident.The perpetrators ed

the scene with undenedamount of cash, mobilephones and jewelry, the

Consulate General said.The Chinese Consu-

late General has urged lo-

cal authorities to hold thoseresponsible for account.

A criminal case has beenopened.Xinhua

African immigrants use lms and books to ght

Italian racismROME, 23 Dec Seven

years ago, Dagmawi Yimer

was between life anddeath when Italian navy

ofcers rescued him and 30others from a skiff in heavyseas between Libya and theisland of Lampedusa.

Today, Yimer directsdocumentary lms aboutimmigrants like himself

from the home in the north-ern city of Verona he shareswith his Italian partner and

their two-year-old daughter.

He is part of the fast-growing immigrant popu-lation that is changing theface of Italy, just as it has

transformed the populations

Director Dagmawi Yimer from Ethiopia walks past a

mural in downtown Rome on 13 Nov, 2013.REUTERS

of more northern Europeancountries such as Britain,France or Germany.

He is also one of many

foreigners who are try-ing through cultural

initiatives such as lms andbooks to change the rac-

ist views of many Italiansof the immigrants in theirmidst.

Contrary to popularperceptions, immigrants aremaking their mark across

the Italian economy, poli-tics and society. African-born author Kossi Komla-

Ebri, a 59-year-old medicaldoctor, has published sixbooks, all in Italian.

Many immigrantsthink our emancipation isonly economic and politi-

cal, but we are convincedits cultural and that we can

have a more profound inu-

ence through culture, hesaid.Reuters

Israels Mossad headhunters

to attend college job fairJERUSALEM, 23 Dec

In highly unusual move,Israels Mossad intelli-

gence agency will dispatchrecruiters to interview pro-spective candidates in a job

fair at Ben-Gurion Univer-sity (BGU) in the Negevon Monday, the Jerusalem

Postreported on Sunday.While its US coun-

terpart, the Central Intel-ligence Agency, has beenrecruiting on college cam-

puses across America for

decades, the fabled Mos-sad, which for the most

part of its existence hadopted to remain deep in theshadows, had only begun

approaching graduatingseniors in person in recentyears.

The adoption of theCIAs favourite recruitingmethod could hint at the in-

creasing competition posedby the private sector, whichoffers higher salaries and

no risk. Although the Mos-sad is relatively unfamiliar

with job fairs, the agency,like the Shin Bet securityservice, has made recruiting

new personnel a top prior-

ity, placing periodic adver-tisements in newspapers

and receiving applicationsvia its ofcial website since2005.Xinhua

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Tuesday, 24 December, 2013

Effective toolIn the past, newspapers of the Information

MinistryMyanma Alinn, The Mirror, and

The New Light of Myanmarare government-

centred dailies. But now, people-oriented public

service media is the destination of two Myanmar

language dailies focusing mainly on the wishes

and interest of the great majority as per the

democratic principles. Public Service Media

PSM is an integral part of media reforms of My-

anmar.

The English language dailyThe New

Light of Myanmarwill become a joint-venture

newspaper.

The government of the Republic of Union of

Myanmar formed the PSM Governing Body on

18 October last year to steer the transition to the

public service media.

The State-owned Myanmar Radio and Tel-evision (MRTV) is on its way towards publicservice broadcasting (PSB). We expect interna-tional cooperation towards this end.

As for the Fourth Estate, the President hasalready instructed the amendment or the sub-stitution of some outdated laws concerning themedia and literature and the laws that are nomore in conformity with the stipulations of theConstitution. As the cabinet is responsible forthe people through the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (theparliament), its functions focus on the wishesand aspiration of the people.

Now we have already permitted over 30 pri-

vate daily newspapers, and more will come out.

And we have four TV networks including two

private channels and also six private radio sta-tions.

We are making great strides in our media

reform process believing that media is an effec-

tive tool for the rule of law and democratic ad-

ministration.

Cambodianking ...

(from page 16)

They exchanged views

on cementing amity and

friendship between the two

countries, progress of po-

litical reforms in Myanmar,

strengthening cooperation

between the parliaments,

governments and peoples

of the two countries.

The Pyidaungsu Hlut-

taw Speaker and party

viewed round the Royal

Palace of Cambodia on 20December evening.

They also attended a

luncheon hosted by Chair-

man of International Coop-

eration, Information, Media

and Foreign Affairs Com-

mission Mr. Chheang Vun

at Sokha Club on 21 De-

cember afternoon.MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 24

DecOn the occasion of

the birthday of His Majesty

Akihito, Emperor of Japan,

which falls on 23 Decem-

ber 2013,U Wunna Maung

Lwin, Union Minister for

Union FM felicitates Japanese

counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 23

DecDeputy Minister for

Finance Dr Maung Maung

Thein met with Mr Furu-

kawa, Japanese Vice-Min-

ister of Finance in Tokyo,

Japan on 18 December.

They discussed prep-

arations for holding of

ASEAN Finance Minis-

ters meeting, ASEAN

Deputy Finance Ministers

and ASEAN+3 Meetings in

Myanmars 2014 ASEAN

chairmanship.

The deputy minister and

Commissioner of Financial

Myanmar-Japan discuss

conducting fnancial servicesServices Authority (FSA)

of Japan Mr Hatanaka ex-

changed views on signing an

MoU between the Ministry

of Finance and FSA for con-

ducting nancial organiza-

tions and nancial services

in Myanmar.

The deputy minister to-

gether with executive ofc-

ers from private insurance

companies of Myanmar met

with ofcials from the Gen-

eral Insurance Association

and insurance companies of

Japan from 16 to 19 Decem-

ber.MNA

YANGON, 23 DecOp-

eration Dove Debrieng

jointly conducted by My-

anmar Police Force and

Interpol IMEST for taking

security measures of the

27th SEA Games from 2nd

to 20thDecember was held

at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel,

here, on 20 December.

Operation Dove Debriefng held in YangonOn behalf of the chief

of Myanmar Police Force,

Myanmar delegation led

by Police Col Aung Htay

Myint from Transnational

Crime Corps, and Leader

and high ranking ofcer of

Interpol IMEST, Expert Mr.

Rastislavt Sasik and four

delegates and representa-

tives from Brunei, Malay-

sia, Laos, the Philippines,

Thailand and Vietnam par-

ticipated in the discussions.

They discussed mak-

ing a check with Interpol

crime database to the for-

eigners who enter Myanmar

by ight during the SEA

Games and inspection and

exchanging information at

the airports of the countries.

Over 1700 persons

underwent a check going

through crime database of

Interpol at Nay Pyi Taw

International Airport and

123353, at Yangon Inter-

national Airport till 20 De-

cember.MNA

(from page 1)

Chairman of the Constitu-

tional Tribunal of the Union

U Mya Thein, Chairman of

the Union Election Com-

mission U Tin Aye, Deputy

Commander-in-Chief of

Defence Services Com-

mander-in-Chief (Army)

Vice-Senior General Soe

Win, the Union ministers,

President U Thein Sein hosts ...

the senior military ofcers,

Hluttaw representatives,

distinguished persons and

those who made contri-

butions to the 27th SEA

Games.

Firstly, President U

Thein Sein cordially greet-

ed those who gave a helping

hand to the 27thSEA Games

and presented certicates of

honour to the liaison ofcer

group, the volunteer group,

work force group, GMS

group and others.

The State symphony

orchestra of the MRTV

under the Ministry of In-

formation entertained the

attendees with songs.

A total of 15562 ar-

tistes, intellectuals and in-

telligentsia, liaison ofcers

and volunteers attended the

dinner.

Likewise, on behalf of

the President, Yangon Re-

gion Chief Minister U My-

int Swe hosted a dinner to

supportive groups for suc-

cessfully holding the 27th

SEA Games at the Yangon

Region Governments Of-

ce this evening.

Over 1000 volunteers

enjoyed the dinner.

MNA

President U Thein Sein presents certicate of honour to a contributor.MNA

Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann being given an

audience by King of Cambodia His Majesty Preah Karona Preah Bat

Samdech Baromneath Norodom Sihamoni.MNA

Foreign Affairs of the Re-

public of the Union of My-

anmar, has sent a message

of felicitations to His Ex-

cellency Mr Fumio Kishida,

Minister for Foreign Affairs

of Japan.MNA

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Second Mandalay Hill

Invitational Cycling Contest

on 25 DecMANDALAY, 23 Dec

The Second Mandalay

Hill Invitational Amateur

Cycling Contest will be held

on 25 December.

The participants will be

launched from the starting

point in front of Sedona Hotel

at the corner of 26thand 66th

Streets.

They must pass the

nish line at the platform of

National Sports

Hsutaungpyae Pagoda on

Mandalay Hill.

As the second part,

the Mandalay Hill Bike

Challenge will be held.

Those wishing to take

part in the contests may dial

09-5161323 at O Store at the

corner of 35thand 80thStreets

in Mandalay.

Kyemon-Maung Pyi

Thu (Mandalay)

Route of Mandalay Mayor

Mini-marathon announcedMANDALAY, 23 Dec

The Mandalay Mayor Mini-

marathon 2014 will be

launched at 6.30 am on 11

January 2014.

The mini-marathon

will include mens and

womens open and novice

contests.

The participants will

be launched in front of

Mandalay City Develop-

ment Committee Office.

They have to run the 13

miles route along 80 th

s t reet ,12 th s t reet , 66 th

street, 10thstreet, 62ndsteet,

Theikpan Street, 78thstreet

passing Yangon-Mandalay

Highway junction, and 30th

street and will pass the nish

line at Bahtoo Stadium.

The open event will be

categorized from mens and

womens 1st to 10th grade,

novice mens and womens

classes. Handsome prizes

will be given to the winners.

Kyemon-Maung Pyi

Thu (Mandalay)

Finished Ingyin fossil gets East Europe marketNATOGYI, 23 Dec

Ingyin petried wood fossils

from Natogyi Township of

Mandalay Region get not

only domestic market but

also the market from China,

Taiwan and Singapore,

said U Phone of Toe Aung

Myint Co. One lot of Ingyin

fossil can fetch K 40000,

he said. Now, the company

accepts many offers from the

Taiwanese customers.

Green Ingyin fossils

are marketable in Chinese

market while orange and red

brown colour products in East

European and Taiwanese

markets.

Tow Aung Myint Co is

producing nished Ingyin

fossil products for the market

all the year round.

Kyemon-Htay Myint

Hluttaw, Irrigation

Department, farmers to dig

Ingyingon feeder canal

Irrigation

MOHNYIN, 23 DecAs

Ingyingon Village-tract

in Mohnyin Township of

Kachin State is engaged

in cultivation of monsoon

paddy and cold season

crops, the local farmers can

earn increased income from

cultivation tasks. So, they

have enjoy better socio-

economic life.

F a r m e r s f r o m

Ingyingon Village are

relying on Hsahlaw Creek

and Mayangon Drainfor cultivation of crops.

They irrigate water from

the drains to over 1000

farmlands.

Sometimes, the drains

m ay cau se o v er f lo w

at the harvest time. In

consequence, the local

people suffer loss in

reduction of per acre yield

of paddy and loss and

damages of paddy.

P y i t h u H l u t t a w

representative U Kyaw

Soe Lay and Amyotha

Hluttaw representative USai Tin Aung of Mohnyin

T o w n s h i p t o g e t h e r

with Head of Township

Irrigation Department

U Khin Maung Lwin,

Deputy Head of Township

Agriculture Department U

Min Thein and Deputy Head

of Township Settlement and

Land Records Department

U Min Zaw, made a eld

trip to inspect the Ingyingon

eld.

Spending the fund

allotted by Irrigation

Department in 2014-15

fiscal year, the water

control building will be

built at Hahlaw Creek.

The Department will carry

out dredging of Ingyingon

Drain with the use of

heavy machinery spending

the fund allotted by the

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw of

Mohnyin Township.Moreover, the local

people will join hands

with the department in

inplementing the project.

Kyemon-K Hsai Naw

(Phakant)

Traditional medicines donated

to Kyaikhtiyoe PagodaKYAIKTO, 23 DecA

total of 56 monasteries are

carrying out missionery

works along mountain

ranges where Kyaikhtiyoe

Pagoda is located in

Kyaikto Township of Mon

State.

So as to contribute

to health conditions of

members of the Sangha

from the monasteries, well-

wishers have been donating

traditional medicines to the

monasteries as of 2003.

This years donation is 11th

time of its kind.

This year, U Maung

Maung Oo (MingalarShwe Oak) and family,

U Tun Shwe (Tun Shwe

Wah Traditional Medicine

Clinic) family, U Aung Ko

Ko (Aye Gabar Clinic) U

Ngwe Soe-daughter Daw

Swe Swe Lin (Nawin

Clinic) family, U Win

Aung (Aung Taman Clinic)

family, Daw Mi Mi Thet

(Pan Wuthmon) family, U

Kyaw (Hmancho) family,

U Myint Lwin (Galon

Yazar) family and U

Aung Than (Wazikarana)

family donated traditional

medicines to the Sayadaw

o f Pag o d a P l a t fo rm

Monastery.

Traditional medicines

are transported to the hill at

the end of December 2013

and first week of January

2014.

Together with tradi-tional medicine practi-

tioners, those wishing to

donate cash and medicines

may contact 09-31248184

of U Khin Maung Myint.

Kyemon-537

Seizures of drugs increased

more than previous years in

Kalay

Anti-Narcotic Drives

KALAY , 23 Dec

Seizures of narcotic drugs

could be seized in Kalay of

Sagaing Region more than

that of previous years.

The authorities arrested

88 men and 22 women in

65 cases of heroin, 95 men

and 13 women in 65 cases

of opium, 12 men and vewomen in nine cases of

stimulant tablet, 20 men and

four women in eight cases of

pseudo-ephedrine, 15 men

and four women in 11 cases

of Khatpon, three men and

one women in two cases of

capsule, said the commander

of Kalay District Police

Force in meeting with media

on 20 December.

Members of Kalay

District Police Force

investigate trafficking ofnarcotic drugs. In 2012, they

seized 104 cases of narcotic

drugs and 158 in 2013.

Kyemon-Lin Let Kyei Sinn

Pieces of Ingyin

petried wood fossils

displayed for domestic

and foreign markets to

be able to fetch income

for the nation.

Four objectives of 66thAnniversary

Independence Day

- All the national people to live together in the Union forever

in weal or woe;

- All the national people to strive together for non-disintegra-

tion of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity

and perpetuation of sovereignty;

- All the national people to participate in efforts for ceasing

armed conflicts and gaining genuine peace;

- All the national people to work hard in building a developed

and discipline-flourishing democratic nation

66thAnniversary Independence Day,

2014

Thatta Thattaha Maha Bawdi Pagoda,

Nay Pyi TawPhoto: Ko Ko

Khaing (IPRD)

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The Garai family, owners of a lottery shop which soldpart of the rst prize of Spains Christmas Lottery ElGordo (The Fat One) , amounting to 172 million eu-

ros, celebrate outside their shop in Mondragon,on 22 Dec, 2013. REUTERS

Men look at the scene near a military base in Barsis,some 50 km (30 miles) outside Benghazi, after a suicidebomber detonated a truck packed with explosives at anarmy checkpoint on 22 Dec, 2013. Seven soldiers died

in the rst such attack since the revolution in Libyasdeepening turmoil.REUTERS

Suicide bomber kills

seven outside Libyas

BenghaziBARSIS, (Libya), 23

Dec A suicide bomber

detonated a truck packedwith explosives at an armycheckpoint outside the cityof Benghazi on Sunday,killing 13 soldiers in therst such attack in Libyas

deepening turmoil.Car bombs and assas-

sinations of army and po-lice ofcers are common

in Benghazi, where troopshave clashed regularly withmilitants from the hardlineIslamist group Ansar al-Sharia.

But a suicide bombingwould mark a shift in tac-tics to t a pattern common

in other Islamist struggles

in the Middle East, butnot in Libya either during

or since the uprising thatbrought down MuammarGadda.

The attacker blewhimself up at a road check-point near a small militarybase in Barsis, some 50 km(30 miles) outside Beng-hazi, killing 13 people andwounding three, state newsagency Lanasaid.

A Toyota truck ap-proached the checkpointand parked there. Therewas a young man driving,but when the army troopswent to check it out, thevehicle exploded, said Ay-

men al-Abdlay, a Benghazi

army ofcer.

A Reuters reporterat the scene saw four de-stroyed cars and bloodsplashed on the tarmac.

The government post-

poned celebrations for

Libyas independence day

on 24 December and de-clared three days of mourn-ing for the victims of whatit called a cowardly terror-ist act, Lanasaid.

Reuters

SPLA soldiers drive in a truck in Juba on 21 Dec, 2013.

REUTERS

Fears grow of civil war

in South Sudan as rebels

seize townJUBA, 23 Dec South

Sudans government said

on Sunday rebels hadseized the capital of a keyoil-producing region andfears grew of all-out eth-nic civil war in the worldsnewest country.

The UN announcedit was trying to rush morepeacekeeping forces tolandlocked, impoverishedSouth Sudan as foreign

powers urged both sides tostop ghting, fearing for the

stability of an already frag-ile region of Africa.

The South Sudan gov-ernment said on its Twitteraccount it was no longer incontrol of Bentiu, the capi-

tal of Unity State.Bentiu is not current-ly in our hands. It is in the

hands of a commander whohas declared support for

Machar, it said.Information MinisterMichael Makuei said onSaturday an army divisionalcommander in Unity State,John Koang, had defectedand joined rebel leader andformer Vice President RiekMachar, who had namedhim the governor of thestate.

But the government inJuba said it was still in con-trol of the oilelds crucial

to the economy. UN Secre-tary General Ban Ki-moontold a news conference inManila the UN planned tosend resources from other

peacekeeping missions inthe region to South Sudan.Reuters

Two working-class towns big winners of Spains

El Gordo prize

MADRID, 23 Dec Lottery ticket-holders intwo Spanish towns aworking-class suburb out-side Madrid and a town re-

cently hit by layoffs in theBasque country were thebig winners of the 640-mil-lion-euro El Gordo Christ-mas draw on Sunday.

People who boughttheir tickets in the twotowns took a combined 540million euros of El Gordo,the top prize of a 200-year-old Christmas lottery thatis a treasured tradition inSpain, with families, ofces

and bar regulars clubbingtogether to buy tickets.

Some 180 million eu-

ros ($246 million) went tothe Basque town of Mon-dragon, the site of Spains

biggest consumer appliancecompany Fagor, which re-cently had to lay off morethan 2,000 people as part ofinsolvency proceedings.

Im on cloud nine!I couldnt imagine some-thing like this happening.Weve been in the press

for so many unpleasant

reasons, and for somethingwhich brings such joy tohappen here is a real sup-port for the people, JoseMaria Garai, one of the of-cially designated ticket

sellers in Mondragon, toldSpanish television.

Another 360 millioneuros went to ticket holdersin Leganes, a town of la-

bourers and immigrants onthe outskirts of the capital.Reuters

An overview of Barrick Gold Corporations Pueblo

Viejo gold mine, one of the worlds largest, is seen inCotui on 11 Dec, 2013. REUTERS

Dominican gold rush hits a

bureaucratic slowdown

COTUI, (DominicanRepublic), 23 Dec Lit-tle more than a decade ago,one of the worlds largestknown gold deposits satabandoned in the foothillsof the Dominican Repub-lics Central Cordillera

mountain range. Car-sizedboulders leached heavy

metals into what localscalled the blood river, itswaters ran so red from con-taminants.

Today the mine, which

reopened as Pueblo Viejothis year, hums with ac-tivity. Trucks with tirestwice the size of an SUVroll through its massiveopen pits on roads thatcut through the 11-square-kilometre site (4.24 squaremiles), transporting tons ofrock to a processing facility.

Some 2,000 people al-ready work here, churningout shimmering gold barsthat are exported to Canadaand the United States, but

the mine has the potentialto create 12,700 more directand indirect jobs and con-tribute $1.3 billion a year inexports.

This dynamic, foreign-operated enterprise is partof the countrys effort todevelop an industry that

could help boost and diver-sify its tourism-dependenteconomy.

Yet despite robustcommercial production bytwo of the worlds largest

gold mining companies,Canadas Barrick Gold

Corp and Goldcorp Inc,development of the miningsector is vexed by bureau-cratic delays and agitationby activists still concernedabout pollution and gov-ernment deals with foreigncompanies to exploit thenations riches.

At stake are billionsof dollars and thousands ofjobs in a country of 10 mil-lion with high levels of un-employment and poverty.

Reuters

Security personnels check the area where a bus accidenttook place at the km 300 of the Penha Regis Bittencourt

Highway, near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 22 Dec, 2013.

XINHUA

At least 14 people killed in Brazilian bus

plungeRIODEJANEIRO

, 23 Dec At least 14 passengerswere killed early on Sundaymorning when a bus fellinto a ravine in Sao Louren-co da Serra municipality,the Federal Highway Policesaid.

The bus with 54 pas-sengers on board was enroute from Curitiba, in thesouthern state of Parana, toRio de Janeiro. It fell into aravine at some 50 km fromSao Paulo, the largest cityin Brazil and South Amer-ica at 2:30 am local time onSunday.

So far, the causes ofthe accident have not beenidentied, but the authori-ties suspected that the driv-er fell asleep.

According to the po-lice, the driver, who wasinjured, admitted that therewas no mechanical problemor anything in the pave-ment that could cause the

accident. Other 12 people,including one baby, wereinjured in the accident. Theinjured people were takento nearby hospitals.

Xinhua

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Tuesday, 24 December, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarREGIONAL

A popular group of monkeys attend a graduationceremony at the Nikko Saru Gundan theme park in

Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on 21 Dec, 2013. The parkopened in 1992 in Nikko, one of the most popular

tourist destinations in Japan, and became popular be-

cause of the monkey performances. But it will close atthe end of this year because foreign monkey trainers

left Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake.

KYODONEWS

Japan to extend Fukushima radiation cleanup

work by up to 3 yrsTOKYO, 23 Dec The

government will have toextend its decontamination

work following the 2011

crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant by

a maximum of three years,government ofcials saidon Sunday.

The Environment Min-istry will shortly release anew schedule for radiation

cleanup work, which wasscheduled to be completed

by the 31 March end of s-

cal 2013 under the initialplan, according to the of-

cials.

The government will

try to complete the workbefore reorganizing in scal

2017 areas around the crip-

pled plant, currently divid-ed into three zones based on

radiation levels.The cleanup work has

been completed as sched-

uled only in the city ofTamura, out of 11 munici-palities in Fukushima Pre-

fecture subject to the work,with work in three other

areas heading for comple-

tion by the end of the cur-rent scal year.

The ministry believes

that a three-year extensionwould be enough to com-

plete the work for most ofthe municipalities, but asfor Futaba, it remains un-

certain when the work willbe concluded as most parts

of the town are classied asareas difcult to return tofor a long time, the ofcials

said. On 14 Dec, the gov-

ernment announced plansto acquire around 19 square

kilometres of land chiey

around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant to build facilities

for the long-term storage ofradioactive and other wastepiling up in the decontami-

nation process. The govern-ment aims to start using theplanned facilities in January

2015.Kyodo News

An employee of Chinas Huawei Company distributes stationery to a Cambodianchild in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 22 Dec, 2013. Chinese Company Huaweis

Cambodian branch on Sunday donated laptops, books, stationery and food to a Cam-

bodian non-governmental organization Khemara, which provides education to about300 poor children in Phnom Penh. XINHUA

Chinese seniorsenjoy their

meals at the 3rdChristmas

seniors lunch

event inChinatown,Vancouver,

Canada, on21 Dec, 2013.

About 500

Chineseseniors are

invited to

attend thisevent.XINHUA

Over 20

injured inbomb

attack in

southern

ThailandBANGKOK, 23 Dec

At least 24 people werewounded in a bomb at-

tack on Sunday in southernThailand, local police said.

According to the po-

lice, the blast happened infront of a hotel in Sa-daodistrict of Songkhla Prov-

ince, with children and aMalaysian tourist amongthe injured.

The explosive devicewas hidden in a car in thehotels parking lot and det-

onated by mobile phone,the police said.

Two bombings oc-curred earlier in the daynear local police stations in

the same district, but therewere no casualties.

More than 5,500 peo-

ple have been killed in theprovinces of Pattani, Yalaand Narathiwat since a sep-

aratist insurgency broke outin 2004.Kyodo News

Bangladesh police

charges factory owner,12 others over deadly

freDHAKA, 23 Dec

Charges have nally beenpressed against 13 peopleincluding the owner of a

garment factory over a late2012 devastating re that

left 112 dead as ofcialsover a year after the horren-dous tragedy wrapped up

an investigation.In one of the worst

tragedies in Bangladeshshistory in November 2012,at least 112 workers of thefactory at Ashulia on the

outskirts of capital Dhakawere killed. Dozens ofworkers also sustained in-

juries as the 24 Nov dev-astating re, claimed to bean act of sabotage, raged

through the eight-storeyTazreen Fashion Limited,where global brands includ-

ing US retail giant Wal-Mart were manufactured.

AKM Mohsinuzzaman

Khan, a Criminal Investi-

gation Department ( CID)inspector, on Sunday morn-ing submitted the chargesheet against the accused in

a case before Chief JudicialMagistrate Court of Dhaka.

A CID ofcial who pre-

ferred to be unnamed saidthe Tazreen Fashion Ltd

owner and its ofcials havebeen accused of breach-ing construction rules in-cluding building staircases

that were too narrow andunsafe. Of the accused, hesaid, many including owner

Delwar are on the run. Theonly arrestee is security-in-

charge Anisur Rahman.After submitting the

charges, the CID inspectormade a plea to the court to

issue arrest warrant against

the absconding accused.

He also requested thecourt to conscate the prop-erties of the absconding

accused. Bangladesh hasone of the largest garment

industries in the world, pro-viding cheap clothing formajor Western retailers that

benet from its widespreadlow-cost labour. But the in-

dustry has been widely crit-icized for low pay and lim-ited rights given to workersand for the often dangerous

working conditions in gar-ment factories.

In Bangladesh, factory

owners are rarely chargedover such tragedies. Analystssay tragic incidents continue

to occur in Bangladesh asmost of the time culprits gounpunished. The Tazreen

re incident was dwarfed byanother worst ever industrialtragedy at an apparel hub

on outskirts of the capital

where ve factories housedin a eight-storey buildingcollapsed on 24 April thisyear, leaving at least 1,130

people dead.Xinhua

Cambodian PM to visit Vietnam to

boost bilateral tiesPHNOMPENH,23 Dec

Cambodian Prime Minister

Hun Sen will pay a three-dayofcial visit to Vietnam from26 Dec in order to further

enhance ties and cooperationbetween the two neighbours,according to a news state-

ment from the Ministry ofForeign Affairs on Monday.

The visit plan came atthe invitation of VietnamesePrime Minister Nguyen Tan

Dung.During the stay, the two

prime ministers will hold abilateral talk and witness the

signing ceremony of eightagreements, the statementsaid.

One of the deals is thetreaty on extradition betweenthe two neighbours, and the

others will focus on the bilat-eral cooperation in public se-

curity, trade, education, and

information.Besides, Hun Sen will

pay separate courtesy callson Nguyen Sinh Hung, Pres-

ident of Vietnamese NationalAssembly, Vietnamese Pres-ident Truong Tan Sang, andNguyen Phu Trong, Secre-

tary General of CommunistParty of Vietnam.

Xinhua

Uncertainties linger over six-

party talks despite

multilateral effortsSEOUL, 23 Dec The

Korean Peninsula, wherethe two Koreas are still in

a state of war as an armi-stice agreement, not a peacetreaty, ended the 1950-53

Korean War, started offthe year 2013 with esca-

lated tensions. The UnitedNations Security Councilimposed sanctions on the

Democratic Peoples Re-public of Korea (DPRK)in January after Pyongyang

test-red its long-rangerocket, called Unha-3. The

DPRK conducted its thirdnuclear test in February, the

rst under Kim Jong Unsleadership, going so far asto amend its constitution forthe nuclear statehood.

Resuming talks is thevery rst thing to do for

nuclear-free North Korea(DPRK), Yang Moo-jin, aprofessor at the University

of North Korean Studies inSeoul, said in a recent tel-ephone interview. Strate-

gic patience is not a rightanswer.Xinhua

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