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President oversees pollination of hybrid paddy seeds on model plotsNay Pyi Taw, 2 Nov—

President U Thein Sein en-couraged agricultural staff carrying out the pollination of hybrid paddy seeds on a model plot in the township of Dakhinathiri in the Nay Pyi Taw council area here on Sunday morning, sourc-es said.

President U Thein Sein presented uniforms to the staff, with Vice President U Nyan Tun and Union Minister U Thein Nyunt providing refreshments to farm labourers.

The president oversaw the harvesting of monsoon paddies on 3,000 acres of plot with the use of modern agricultural equimpment.

In the township of Py-inmana, the president ob-served villagers harvesting paddies on a model plot and tilling model paddy fields in a village, greeting and encouraging farmers in a friendly manner.

U Myint Hlaing, Un-ion Minister for Agricul-ture and Irrigation, briefed Vice President U Nyan Tun on agricultural undertak-ings, saying that combined efforts to urge farmers to use the same agricultural practices demonstrated on model paddy fields will double their income level and have dramatic effects on the reduction of poverty.

After receiving brief-ings by departmental of-ficials, the vice president pointed out the need for systematic farming meth-ods and the availability

of quality seeds, which he said was important for farmers to enjoy better lifestyles alongside higher incomes. He urged agricul-turalists to educate farmers on sustainable, effective and efficient use of cultiva-ble land through successive generations.

MNA

Yangon Region government to help manufacture Chevrolets in Myanmar

yaNgoN, 2 Nov — Yangon Region Govern-ment is ready to help man-ufacture Chevrolet cars in Myanmar, Chief Minister U MyintSwe said at the Of-ficial Opening of Chevrolet Flagship 3S Showroom, one of the biggest car showrooms in the ASEAN, on Saturday.

Chevrolet has been a famous motor brand in Myanmar since the pre-war period and a joint-venture between General Motors and Pacific-AA Motor is now importing brand new left hand drives that are suitable for Myanmar.

The opening ceremony of the car showroom was attended by Union Minis-ter for Commerce U Win Myint, Yangon Region Chief Minister U MyintS-we, Senior Commercial Officer Mr James Gols-en, Chairman and CEO of Pacific-AA Motor U Zaw Moe Khaing and President Mr Timothy Zimmerman of General Motors.

General Motors and Pacific-AA Motor donated 30 Chevrolet engines for technological universities and 22,390 footballs for middle and high schools in Myanmar.

The video of General Motors’ new model, Spin, was also presented at the opening ceremony.

GNLM

Dignitaries open Chevrolet Flagship 3S Showroom in Yangon.

mna

President U Thein Sein observes

modern agricultural equimpment on a model plot in

Dakhinathiri Township in the Nay Pyi Taw

council area.mna

Glory of Myanmar expected in near future

Patriotism

Union minister inspects upgrading and construction of roads and bridges

Beyond Access Myanmar to modernize libraries

Construction, Power & Mining Myanmar 2014 draws local and international exhibitors in high number

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Dwellers in Tamway

Township hold communal

Kathina festival

Yangon, 2 Nov —People in Ayoegon Ward in Tamway Township in southern part of Yangon held their first communal Kathina festival, the annual donation ceremony of Bud-dhists, on Sunday.

People donated reli-gious items to Arainnama Thitsa Manaing monastery in Nyuanggon Village-tract in Hmawby Township, source said.

Ko Chit

Fire extinguishing

drill conducted in Thaninthayi

ThaninTharYi, 2 Nov— A drill for fire extinguishing was conduct-ed in Thaninthayi township, south-ern Myanmar, on 1 November.

With the supervision of Town-ship Fire brigade Department, the training was carried out by the 20 staff members of administrative department, police force, munici-pal committee, Red Cross Society.

The firemen demonstrated us-ing fire extinguishers and conduct-ed the first-aid rehearsal, with the participation of locals.

Photo and News Nanthayi-Htein Win

(IPRD)

Life-saving equipment checked on ferries in Myeik

TaninThari, 2 Nov — Township administrative authorities, accompanied by local departmental of-ficials, inspected safety

measures being demon-strated by crew members on ferries in Myeik of Taninthari Region on 30 October, sources said.

Crew members demonstrated to passengers how to use lifejackets and fire extinguishers in case of emergency, with author-

Food & drug awareness raised in

Taninthayi TspTaninThaYi, 2 Nov

— Taninthayi Township Food and Drug Superviso-ry Committee has raised public awareness of the danger of prohibited food and drug in the townip as from 29 October.

The committee com-prising local authorities and officials from the local health department inspected shops, groceries, restaurants

Mudon Myoma Library honours outstanding students

Mudon, 2 Nov — Mudon Myoma Library honoured outstanding stu-dents who won the ma-triculation examination for 2013-2014 Academic Year and passed the religious courses conducted by Min-istry of Religion.

A total of 52 students

and markets selling food, drug, meat in attempts to provide safety food and drug and fish to prevent selling prohibited food and drug. During the inspec-tion, the team disseminated knowledge on safety food and drug, increasing pub-lic awareness of the dan-ger of prohibited food and drug.—Nantharyi-Htein Win (IPRD)

were awarded prizes in cash and books.

The committee for organizing the ceremony distributed an essay book which is a compilation of essays written by the out-standing students to those who attended the ceremo-ny.—Ko Chit (Mudon)

ities inspecting the quality of life-saving materials on ferries.

Nanthari Htein Win (IPRD)

Judge accused of ‘delaying’ giving out exhibit

MohnYin, 2 Nov — Representative of Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) has complained that Myohynin Township court delayed giving out exhibit of more than K4.8 million despite ten months after the prose-cution in a robbery case.

The court sentenced three-year imprisonment to the robber who took away the money of plain-tiff Aung Kyaw Myo who returned home after selling

paddy in December 2013. At the order of town-

ship judge, Aung Kyaw Myo applied for taking out his money which were kept at the court as the exhibit. However, he has not re-ceived it until now.

U Phe Thaung, repre-sentative of Upper House, said: “I have submitted this issue to the Amyotha Hlut-taw. The court procedures should not delay much longer.”—GNLM001

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Yangon, 2 Nov—A total of 55 libraries will be developed with the Beyond

Beyond Access Myanmar to modernize libraries

Moe Thuzar Soe Access Myanmar project in 2015 at the districts and townships where internet connection is available.

The launching ceremo-

ny of this project was held at Sedona Hotel in Yangon on Saturday, and attended by U Ye Htut, Union Minister for Information, and U Thaung

to set up in Yangon, Bago, Mandalay and Sagaing re-gions to turn the conven-tional public libraries into modern information cen-tres with the cooperative supports of the Myanmar Book Aid and Preserva-tion Foundation, Ooredoo, Ministry of Information and Irex, an international nonprofit organization.

The project will in-clude trainings for librar-ians on modern informa-tion technologies, public services, supporting with technologies and equip-ment and development pro-grammes for the libraries.

Dr Thant Thaw Kau-ng, executive director of MBAPF, said: “Informa-tion access is still a chal-lenge in Myanmar. Pub-lic libraries are one of the options to be able to solve this problem. The Beyond Access Myanmar will train librarians for information technology, and will pro-vide these libraries with va-

riety of books, latest books and some applications which apply Myanmar lan-guage in tablet computers.”

He also said that some 22,000 persons would be able to learn information technologies under this programme.

Ma Thiri Kya Nyo, manager of Ooredoo, said: “Our company will supply 55 libraries with equipment as a pilot project. We have plans to expand our contri-bution in the future.”

Together with the support of IREX in this programme, Ooredoo will contribute tablet comput-ers, 3G Wireless Routers and high-speed internet network, and the MBAPF will take over training pro-gramme.

The Beyond Access is a global network of IREX to develop public libraries into modern learning facili-ties, including those in My-anmar with nearly 5,000 libraries.

Tin, Deputy Minister for Communications and Infor-mation Technology.

This information tech-nology system is projected

naY PYi Taw, 2 Nov — Union Minister for Construction U Kyaw Lwin inspected the Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay sec-tion of Yangon-Manda-lay expressway, Manda-lay-Shwebo-Sagaing road and the Shwebo-Katha sec-tion of Swhebo-Myitkyina road on 1 November.

Chief Engineer U Hla Tun Oo reported to the union minister on the upgrading of Shwebo-In-taw-Naba- Myitkyina road at Kyauktan worksite. The union minister gave in-structions standards of up-

Union minister inspects upgrading and construction

of roads and bridgesgrading tasks.

Then, the minister and party arrived at the construction site of Ay-eyawady Bridge (Hteeg-yaint). Engineers reported to the union minister on construction of approach way and piles for the bridge. The union minister gave instruction on timely completion of the bridge.

Afterwards, the un-ion minister inspected the upgrading of Manda-lay-Tagaung-Bhamo-My-itkyina road and construc-tion of bridges along the road. —MNA Photo shows Ayeyawady Bridge (Hteegyaint) which is under construction.—mna

Union

Minister

U Ye Htut

greets a

foreign

guests at

launching

ceremony of

the Beyond

Access

Myanmar

project.

Photo:

tin aye

(iPRD)

naY PYi Taw, 2 Nov— Myanmar military dele-gation led by Command-er-in-Chief of Defense Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing arrived Belarus at 10 pm local time to pay a goodwill visit to the country.

They were welcomed at the Minsk International Airport by Major General Lotenkov, Deputy Minister for Defence; Mr Bykor Igor, vice-chairman of the defence and industry

Myanmar mily delegation arrives Belarus

Hluttaw speaker meets local people in Pyu

committee of Belarus; Mr Andrey Grenkivich, Direc-tor-General of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus; and Dr Aung Moe Myint, hou-ourable counselor of My-anmar to Belarus.

The delegation left Yangon International Air-port on 1 November and arrived at DME Airport in Moscow, Russia, at 6.20 pm local time for transit to Belarus.

At the DME airport, the Commander-in-Chief

held talks with Mr Alex-ander Fomin, Chairman of Russia-Myanmar Mili-tary Technical Cooperation Joint Commission, over boosting military technical cooperation between the two countries.

Also present at the meeting were Myanmar Ambassador to Russia U Tin Yu, Military Attaché Brig-Gen Ye Naing Myo, Mr Drojjor, Vice-Chairman of the joint commission and officials.— Myawady

naY PYi Taw, 2 Nov — Speaker of the Py-idaungsu Hluttaw and the Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann met locals in Kanyutkwin in Pyu Town-ship at the monastery.

Aslo present were Vice Speaker of Bago Region Hluttaw U Win Myint Oo, Pyithu Hluttaw representative U Nyunt Hlaing, Amyotha Hluttaw Representative U ThetNa-ing Oo and officials.

At the meeting, Thu-

ra U Shwe Mann said Kanyutkwin has devel-oped in health, social and economic sectors notice-ably and urged the locals to nurture their children to become intellectuals for regional development and poverty reduction.

Afterwards, Thura U Shwe Mann presented clothes and gifts to local people.

Then, Thura U Shwe Mann inspected the 25-bed hospital in Kanyutk-

win and comforted the patients before fulfilling their medical and financial needs.

Afterwards, Thura U Shwe Mann attended the respects paying ceremony of No 1 Basic Education High School and present-ed gifts to retired teachers before paying respects to them.

Then, Thura U Shwe Mann inspected the site for township hall in Pyu.—MNA

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Children sketch under ginkgo trees on a road near Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, capital of China, on 1 Nov, 2014.—Xinhua

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi

India’s Modi vows to bring back ‘black money’

New Delhi, 2 Nov — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday he was commit-ted to bring back funds illegally deposited in banks outside the country to avoid tax, widely re-ferred to as “black money”.

In his second radio address to the nation since coming to power in May, Modi said the money stashed abroad illegal-ly belonged to the poor of the country.

“The issue is an article of faith for me,” Modi said in his speech that was aired live by various public and private radio channels.

Illegal deposits abroad cost India billions of dollars in lost revenue and Modi had earlier promised his government would change laws or enact new meas-ures to bring back such funds. On taking office, he appointed a

panel to investigate the matter.Modi said he did not know

how much black money was de-posited in banks overseas, but Washington-based think-tank Global Financial Integrity has estimated that India suffered $344 billion in illicit fund out-flows between 2002 and 2011.

The government has already submitted a list of people with illegal foreign bank accounts to the Supreme Court of India, which is monitoring the case.

“From what I am under-standing and based on the in-formation I have, I am telling you that we are in the right di-rection,” he said in his address, which lasted for about 20 min-utes.

Modi said he would take up the case of drug addiction in his next address.

Reuters

Cambodian security forces ready for Water Festival next week

PhNom PeNh, 2 Nov — Cam-bodian security forces are ready to beef up security and safety during the kingdom’s largest Water Festi-val from 5 to 7 November, a Na-tional Police spokesman said on Sunday.

“More than 10,000 security personnel, including police, mili-tary police, bodyguards, explosive disposal experts, and health staff, will be deployed during the festi-val,” National Police spokesman Lt Gen Kirt Chantharith said in a press conference. Water Festival, which marks the Tonle Sap Riv-

er’s annual change of direction, is the largest festival in this South-east Asian nation. Approximately 3 million Cambodians, especially those from rural areas, are expected to flock to Phnom Penh to enjoy a regatta to be held on the Tonle Sap River in front of the Royal Palace.

About 250 racing boats from across the country will take part in the race.

This year marks the first time Cambodia renews the festival af-ter it was canceled for three years since 353 people were trampled to death or suffocated in a stampede

on a bridge during the 2010 cele-brations.

Gen Kirt Chantharith said the authorities would do all their best to avoid such tragic incident in the upcoming event.

“We will use all means and strategies to manage or facilitate the flows of revelers,” he said.

Meanwhile, Phnom Penh Mu-nicipality has issued a directive to ban all cargo trucks, buses, mi-ni-buses and taxis from entering the national capital from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm during the three-day water festival.—Xinhua

Bangladesh tribunal sentences 2nd Jamaat leader to death within week

Dhaka, 2 Nov — A Bangladesh war crimes tri-bunal on Sunday sentenced a second Islamist party leader to death within a week for crimes stemming from the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.

The tribunal hand-ed down the guilty ruling against Mir Quasem Ali, four days after Jamaat-e-Is-lami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami was sentenced to death for crimes against hu-manity committed during the nine-month war, which ended with the emergence of Bangladesh as an independ-ent state.

According to the pros-ecution, Mir Quasem was head of the Jamaat student wing in the port city of Chittagong. He allegedly set up torture chambers in Chittagong, where pro-in-dependence activists were tortured and killed.

Mir Quasem ranked third under Nizami, the su-preme commander of the

Photo taken on 27 Sept, 2014, shows a male resident (R) looking at a picture in a dining room at Charm Suite Shakujii Koen, a private nursing home for the

elderly in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward.—Kyodo news

militia group Al-Badr, a paramilitary wing of the Pa-kistan army, during the 1971 independence war.

Mir Quasem, 61, was indicted on 5 September last year on 14 counts, including charges of murder, abduc-tion and torture.

Owner of the Bengali newspaper Naya Diganta and the Diganta television channel as well as a key financier of Jamaat, Mir Quasem was arrested at his newspaper office in Dhaka on 17 June last year.

Justice Obaidul Has-san, head of the No 2 Inter-national Crimes Tribunal, pronounced the ruling in the presence of Mir Quasem, who was brought to the Dha-ka central jail on Friday from the Kashimpur jail in Gazi-pur for the announcement.

The verdict came amid a three-day general strike called by Jamaat after the war crimes tribunal handed down the death sentence to Nizami.—Kyodo News

Tokyo, 2 Nov — A nursing home for the elderly that aims to enrich the lives of residents by exhibiting works by young artists has opened in Tokyo.

Charm Care Corp., an Osaka-based company that operates over 20 nursing homes for the elderly in the Kansai region of western Japan, recently built Charm Suite Shakujii Koen in a residential area of Nerima Ward, its first foray into the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Around 100 works by art students are on display in the hallways and inner court of the nursing home, which residents began occupying in early September.

One day in late Septem-ber, residents, their relatives and staff formed groups to discuss the drawings and sculptures.

“I enjoy studying the various drawings,” said 84-year-old resident Kimiko

Uchida, adding she wants to find one that matches her state of mind.

A resident in his 70s, who has trouble walking, likes to imagine where each painting was drawn. “I feel younger in the presence of the students’ works,” he said.

Takahiko Shimomura, 71, president of Charm Care,

proposed building a nursing home for the elderly “like an art gallery” in the summer of 2013 and sought advice from his friend Koji Kinu-tani, a painter and professor emeritus at the Tokyo Uni-versity of the Arts.

Kinutani welcomed the idea as it would not only benefit the residents but pro-vide an opportunity to nur-

ture young artists.The company then so-

licited works in cooperation with Kinutani’s university as well as Tama Art University and Joshibi University of Art and Design.

All of the works on dis-play at Charm Suite Shakujii Koen were produced by art students and graduates in their 20s.

Ayaka Furui, 26, whose 3.3-metre-tall steel sculpture titled “Apartment” stands in the inner court, said, “I want-ed to produce a work close to people’s lives so it could al-ways be seen by them.”

Charm Care has pub-lished a photo book of the artwork exhibited at Charm Suite Shakujii Koen.

“I hope this home will become a lively place where people can understand each other,” Kinutani said in a message contributed to the book.

Kyodo News

Nursing home for elderly in Tokyo exhibiting works by young artists

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For Obama and Xi, fight against Islamic State a brief moment to agree

China’s President Xi Jinping speaks during his meeting with US President Barack Obama (R), on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, in The Hague

on 24 March, 2014. — ReuteRs

Beijing / Washington, 2 Nov — When the United States and China discuss cooperating against Islamic State later this month, the most prominent outcome is likely to be less criticism of each other’s anti-terrorism policies.

Both countries have flagged that President Ba-rack Obama and President Xi Jinping will discuss the issue when they meet on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Coop-eration (APEC) summit in Beijing.

Cooperation like shar-ing intelligence will be dif-ficult. And China will not commit troops or weapons.

But simply seeing eye-to-eye on the problem of Islamic State can pay po-litical dividends, experts and diplomats say, as the United States launches air strikes against the ultra-rad-icals in Iraq and Syria and China faces condemnation of its hardline tactics in its western Xinjiang region.

“You’re mostly likely to see China sit back and

not criticize the United States. That is what coop-eration looks like,” said Philip Potter, an assistant professor at the Universi-ty of Virginia who studies global terrorism.

In return, Beijing would value more recog-nition from Washington of what Chinese authorities say is the threat of militant Islamic separatists in its far western province of Xin-jiang. China charges that a group called the East Turk-istan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is seeking to set up a separate state in Xin-jiang, home to the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.

Rights groups and Uighur exiles dispute the extent of the ETIM threat, and argue that economic marginalization of Uighurs is one of the main causes of violence there.

Washington deemed ETIM a terrorist organi-zation in the wake of the 11 Sept, 2001 attacks, but a few officials in the US government have privately questioned the extent of the

organization’s influence in Xinjiang.

However, some ex-perts note that the Unit-ed States’ rhetoric on the group may be swinging back in favour of Beijing.

“The United States stands by its decision to designate ETIM a terrorist organization by executive order in 2002. Further-more, we support the UN

designation of ETIM,” Daniel Russel, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told Reuters.

Russel, however, not-ed that Chinese govern-ment measures in Xinjiang “stoke discontent” and dis-missed the idea that there was a shift to lend Beijing’s policies more credence in return for less criticism

from China on US opera-tions in Syria in Iraq.

“I reject the implicit premise that there’s a quid pro quo for China’s coop-eration against ISIL. We believe China should con-tinue and expand its contri-butions to the international efforts against ISIL be-cause it is in China’s inter-est to do so,” Russel said.

China has significant

energy interests in Iraq and its state media has reported that militants from Xin-jiang have sought training from Islamic State fighters for attacks at home.

It has offered human-itarian and reconstruction assistance in Iraq, pledg-es not lost on the United States. Still, China has of-ten pressed Washington to abandon “double stand-ards” when it comes to combating extremists.

“The fight against ETIM is a component of the global fight against ter-rorism. We hope for the support of the international community,” Foreign Min-istry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters on Thursday.

Beyond that, China has been vague in public about what it hopes for in cooperation with the Unit-ed States.

Asked if it would work with the United States to limit financial transactions by militant groups, Hong said China wanted to treat the “cause and symptoms of terrorism”.—Reuters

Russian humanitarian aid reaches Ukraine’s self-proclaimed republics

A truck convoy, carrying humanitarian aid for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics.—ItaR-tass

Donetsk, (Rostov re-gion), 2 Nov — A truck convoy of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations has delivered an-other batch of humanitarian aid for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk peo-ple’s republics.

Trucks with medi-

G20 Summit to boost stronger global growth: Australian PM

cines and building mate-rials, badly needed for the restoration of the war-torn regions, are being unloaded in the administrative centre of Donetsk.

More than 50 trucks with more than 500 tons of humanitarian aid have also safely reached the city of

Lugansk, deputy head of the emergencies ministry’s National Crisis Manage-ment Centre Oleg Voronov told TASS.

Warehouses for fuel, building materials and food had been prepared in advance in Lugansk and Donetsk.

On 31 October, emer-gencies ministry drivers delivered in Donbass (the Donetsk and Lugansk re-gions) about 1,000 tons of relief aid, shared equally between the embattled re-gions.

This is a fifth Rus-sian humanitarian convoy for Ukraine’s southeast. The first three brought to Donetsk and Lugansk a total of 6,000 tonnes of foods, including cereals and canned foods, and also medical supplies, electrici-ty generators, warm cloth-ing, and bottled drinking water.

As the cargoes were selected, the needs of so-cially important facilities, such as hospitals, schools and child-care centres, as well as power generating facilities’ demand for fuel were taken into account above all.—Itar-Tass

Lebanese army seizes weapon depot

in TripoliBeirut, 2 Nov —

The Lebanese army said on Saturday it has seized a large weapon depot in Bab el-Tebbaneh, the Sun-ni neighbourhood of the northern port city of Trip-oli.

The Guidance Directo-rate said in a statement that “an army unit detected sus-picious movements on Sat-urday in Abi Samra where individuals were transport-ing boxes in a suspicious manner. According to this information, an army force raided the location and large quantities of various weapons were found.”

It also said “these weapons include RPG launchers, sniper rifles and various ammunitions.

The confiscated items

were handed to the compe-tent authorities and inves-tigation is underway under the supervision of law.”

The military said in another communique that “eight Lebanese were ap-prehended for involvement in shooting attacks and tossing grenades at military posts.”

It added that “it also arrested six suspicious Syr-ians who had been wander-ing in Tripoli without prop-er identification.”

The army has been car-rying out large-scale raids since last week’s battles with extremists in Tripoli and the region of Minieh in search for suspects. Scores of militants were arrested.

Xinhua

MelBourne, 2 Nov — Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday the upcoming G20 Sum-mit in Brisbane will focus on achieving economic growth. “At this G20 Sum-mit, our focus will be on building a stronger world economy,” he said in a vid-

eo speech released online.“Because economic

growth means more jobs, higher living standards and governments that are better able to reduce tax and fund better services,” he added.

Abbott stressed that during the world’s most important economic forum,

the focus of discussion will be placed on the fundamen-tals of the economy: trade, infrastructure, tax and banking.

The discussions will include the world-wide in-frastructure gap, reducing tax avoidance by global companies, and increasing

participation in the work-force, he said.

Australia has already secured an agreement that the G20 countries will aim to boost their collective economic growth by 2 per-cent above what is currently expected over the next five years, according to Abbott.

The summit, scheduled on 15 and 16 November, will gather leaders from 20 ma-jor economies with 4,000 delegates and 3,000 media to Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland. The G20 countries represent about 85 percent of the global GDP, 75 percent of interna-

tional trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population.

“This will be the larg-est ever gathering of world leaders in our history, and it is the culmination of Australia’s presidency of the G20,” said the prime minister.

Xinhua

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Netanyahu urges lawmakers’ restraint over Jerusalem’s Aqsa mosque

Jerusalem, 2 Nov — Is-raeli Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu on Saturday urged lawmakers to show restraint over Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque, which has been at the heart of rising tension with the Palestinians in recent weeks.

Daily clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the streets of East Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, have been stoking fears of a new Palestinian Intifada, or uprising.

In a sign of concern that the situation could es-calate, Netanyahu called in a statement “on all Knesset

A masked Palestinian protester takes up position near burning tyres during clashes with Israeli troops, following an anti-Israel demonstration over the entry restrictions to the al-Aqsa mosque, at Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah

on 31 Oct, 2014. —ReuteRs

members to calm tensions regarding the Temple Mount and show responsibility and restraint.”

The Palestinians say Is-rael is looking to change the delicate status quo at al-Aq-sa, the third-holiest site in Islam and the most holy in Judaism.

Under the rules govern-ing access to al-Aqsa, which is administered by Jordanian religious authorities, Jews are allowed into the com-pound but are not permitted to pray.

Netanyahu has said Israel has no intention of altering the status quo, but far-right activists and law-makers have been pushing

for Jewish worship at the site.

Israeli police often re-stricts access to al Aqsa when concerned about pos-sible violence there, only let-ting in women and Muslim men over the age of 40 or 50.

Shortly after Netanya-hu’s statement, one leader of the campaign for Jewish worship, Likud lawmaker Moshe Feiglin, said on Twit-ter he would be heading to the complex on Sunday.

Police said Palestinians threw a pipe bomb on Satur-day at forces on patrol near a mosque in the East Jerusa-lem neighbourhood of Shua-fat, causing no injuries.

Reuters

Burkina Faso opposition parties, African Union reject army takeover

OuagadOugOu, 2 Nov — Burkina Faso’s oppo-sition parties, the United States and the African Un-ion rejected the army’s sei-zure of power in the West African country on Satur-day after the resignation of President Blaise Com-paore, setting the stage for fresh street protests.

The military top brass named Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, deputy com-mander of the elite presi-dential guard, as head of state on Saturday. A power struggle within the armed forces was resolved by sidelining the chief of staff.

Zida, who has oper-ational control over the army’s best trained and equipped unit, had declared himself interim president in an early morning radio address, overruling mili-tary chief General Honore Traore’s claim to lead a transitional government following Compaore’s de-parture.

One of Africa’s long-serving rulers, Com-paore stepped down on Fri-day after two days of mass demonstrations against his attempts to change the constitution to extend his 27 years in power. At least three people were killed after protesters stormed the parliament building and set it on fire.

On the dusty streets of Ouagadougou, the capi-tal, protesters voiced anger that they had driven out Compaore — who seized power in a 1987 military coup — only to have an-other soldier imposed on them.

“This transition should

People celebrate the departure of Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, on 31 Oct, 2014.—ReuteRs

be democratic and civilian in character,” said a state-ment from a coalition of opposition parties and civ-il society groups, which called a demonstration in the vast Place de la Nation for Sunday morning.

“The success of the uprising — and therefore the leadership of the tran-sition — belongs to the people and should not be confiscated by the army,” it said.

The unfolding crisis in the poor, landlocked nation is being closely watched by the United States and former colonial power France, which were close military allies of Com-paore. Under his rule, Bur-kina Faso became a key ally in operations against al-Qaeda-linked groups in West Africa.

The US State Depart-ment on Saturday con-demned the Burkina Faso

military’s seizure of pow-er and urged it to transfer power immediately to ci-vilian authorities. Wash-ington could freeze mili-tary cooperation if it judges a coup has taken place.

Under Burkina Fa-so’s 1991 constitution, the head of parliament should take office if the president resigns, with a mandate to organize elections with-in 90 days. However, the army has dissolved the leg-islature and suspended the constitution.

In a statement issued by military leaders after meeting to appoint Zida to power, they said the form and duration of the transi-tion would be decided in consultation with all sec-tions of society. Troops loyal to Zida patrolled the quiet streets of Ouagadou-gou on Saturday following his early morning radio announcement that he was

taking over as head of state to avoid a descent into an-archy and to ensure a dem-ocratic transition.

“This is not a coup d’etat but a popular up-rising,” Zida said, dressed in military fatigues, in the studio of BF1 television. “I salute the memory of the martyrs of this uprising and bow to the sacrifices made by our people.”

He appealed for the African Union and West African regional bloc ECOWAS to show their support for the transition.

But, in a strongly worded statement, the Af-rican Union also called for the military to hand power over to civilian authorities. It said the Peace and Secu-rity Council, the arm of the 54-nation bloc that impos-es sanctions for violations of democratic process, would discuss the situation on Monday.—Reuters

French police clash with demonstrators over

protester deathNaNtes/tOulOuse, 2

Nov — French riot-control officers clashed with hood-ed demonstrators in Nantes and Toulouse on Saturday, a week after the death of a young activist apparently killed by a police grenade.

Several police and pro-testers were injured as both demonstrations descended into running battles be-tween protesters hurling projectiles and riot police firing tear gas.

The violence erupt-ed after several hundred people gathered in each city to protest the death of Rémi Fraisse, 21, who was found dead on 26 October with a wound to his back, after a standoff between police and opponents of a dam project in the Testet wetlands, near the southern city of Toulouse.

Tests on his cloth-ing and backpack suggest Fraisse was killed by a so-called “offensive grenade”, authorities have said. Used by police to disperse riots, the explosive devices were not previously thought ca-pable of causing death.

Demonstrators hold a banner during a rally in Marseille, on 31 Oct , 2014.—ReuteRs

In Nantes, the centre of long-running protests against plans for a new airport nearby, police said more than a dozen people had been arrested and at least four injured on Sat-urday. They included a 21-year-old woman whose legs were caught in the blast from another type of crowd-control grenade.

Protesters threw ac-id-filled bottles at riot po-lice, injuring one officer, according to Henri-Michel Comet, the regional prefet, or governor.

“These are groups who have come in search of violent altercations with the police,” Comet said on BFM Television.

Interior Minister Ber-nard Cazeneuve has dis-missed calls for his resig-nation over Fraisse’s death.

Leaders of France’s Green Party, one-time gov-ernment partners of Pres-ident François Hollande’s Socialists, have criticized ministers for not condemn-ing the apparent killing more forcefully.

Reuters

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Iraqi Kurds join fight against Islamic State in KobaniBeirut/Mursitpinar,

2 Nov — Iraqi Kurdish fighters have joined the fight against Islamic State militants in Kobani, hop-ing their support for fellow Kurds backed by US-led air strikes will keep the ultra-hardline group from seizing the Syrian border town.

Idriss Nassan, deputy minister for foreign affairs in Kobani district, said Iraqi Kurds using long-range artillery had joined the battle on Saturday night against Islamic State, which holds parts of Syria and Iraq as part of an am-bition to redraw the map of the Middle East,

“The peshmerga joined the battle late yes-terday and it made a big difference with their artil-lery. It is proper artillery,” he told Reuters.

“We didn’t have artil-lery we were using mor-tars and other locally made weapons. So this is a good thing.”

A US Navy F/A-18 launches from the USS Carl Vinson in this undated handout picture released on 1 Nov, 2014.—ReuteRs

Nassan did not elabo-rate and it was not immedi-ately possible to verify that progress against Islamic State had been made.

The arrival of the 150 Iraqi fighters — known as peshmerga or “those who confront death” — marks the first time Turkey has al-

lowed troops from outside Syria to reinforce Syrian Kurds, who have been de-fending Kobani for more than 40 days.

“They are support-ing the YPG. They have a range of semi-heavy weap-ons,” said Jabbar Yawar, secretary general of the

peshmerga ministry in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, referring to the main Syrian Kurdish armed group.

Eyewitnesses in the Mursitpinar area on the Turkish side of the border from Kobani said two rock-ets were fired on Saturday

night. A Reuters witness said the fighting on Sunday was heavier than in the last two days, noting a strike in the late morning and the sound of three explosions.

Attention has focused on Kobani, seen a key test of the effectiveness of American air strikes, and of whether combined Kurdish forces can fend off Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot made up of Arabs and for-eign fighters.

Air strikes have helped to foil several attempts by Islamic State, notorious for its beheading of hostages, to take over Kobani.

But they have done lit-tle to stop its advances, in particular in Sunni areas of western Iraq, where it has been executing hundreds of members of a tribe that resisted its territorial gains.

In addition to their deployment to Kobani, the Kurds are waging their own battle against the Sun-ni militants in Iraq.

While the Kurds have

retaken some territory with the support of U.S. air strikes in the north, Is-lamic State faces limited resistance in Iraq’s western Anbar province, where its militants last week execut-ed over 300 hundred mem-bers of the Albu Nimr tribe because it had defied the group for weeks.

Since Islamic State declared a “caliphate” in large areas of Syria and Iraq in June, the militants have lost hundreds if not thousands of fighters in battles against other Sun-ni rebels, Islamist groups, forces loyal to Syrian Pres-ident Bashar al-Assad and in U.S.-led air strikes.

Fighters inside the group say that it receives hundreds of volunteers every month, which helps it carry our more attacks. It also received pledges of allegiances from Islamist groups in places such as Pakistan, Africa and some Arab states.

Reuters

At least 23 killed as Yemen troops battle al-Qaeda in Hodeidah

sanaa, 2 Nov — Twenty Yemeni soldiers and three suspected al-Qae-da militants died in clashes on Saturday in the town of Jabal Ras in Yemen’s west-ern province of Hodeidah, local officials and residents said.

Fighting has flared in different parts of Yemen since the Houthis, a group of Shi’ite Muslim rebels, rose to dominance in recent months, threatening the fragile stability of a coun-try bordering on Saudi Ara-bia, the world’s biggest oil exporter.

Houthi forces took over the capital, Sanaa, in September and fanned out into central and western

Shi’ite Houthi rebels in police uniform search vehicles at one of the entrances to the headquarters of a meeting during a tribal gathering organized by the Shi’ite Houthi

movement in Sanaa on 31 Oct, 2014.—ReuteRs

Islamic State kills 85 more members of Iraqi tribe

Baghdad, 2 Nov — Islamic State has executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday, part of a mass killing cam-paign launched last week to break local resistance to the group’s territorial ad-vances.

Tribal chief Sheikh Naeem al-Ga’oud told Reuters Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the group in Anbar Prov-ince on Friday. A further 35 bodies were found in a mass grave, a security offi-cial said.

Gunmen ambush police in northwest Kenya, at least 10 dead

nairoBi, 2 Nov — Unidentified gunmen am-bushed and killed at least eight Kenyan police of-ficers in Turkana county in the northwest of Kenya early on Saturday, with another 12 officers were feared dead, police said.

Two civilians were also killed, the police said, but did not provide details on their identities, nor did it say anything about a pos-sible motive for the attack.

Cattle rustling and clashes over grazing and farming land are common

Yemen. That antagonized Sunni tribesmen and al-Qa-eda militants, who regard the Houthis as heretics.

Saturday’s clashes broke out when suspected al-Qaeda militants staged an attack.

“Twenty soldiers were killed when the al-Qaeda elements attacked an ad-ministrative building from all directions and looted four police cars,” said a senior security official in Hodeidah.

He added that the cen-tral authorities had not re-sponded to requests to beef up security in the area. Res-idents in the area said that the clashes were still going on. An al-Qaeda suicide

bombing killed 33 people in the central province of al-Bayda last week. Days later, 30 Shi’ite rebels and 18 Sunni fighters and their tribal allies died in clashes, also in al Bayda.

Earlier this month, the Houthis took Hodeidah, site of the port of Hodei-da, the second largest port in the impoverished Ara-bian peninsula nation after Aden.

Last month, residents and activists said al-Qaeda fighters had marched into al-Odayn, a city of 200,000 in the central province of Ibb, captured the local gov-ernment offices and raised their black and white flag over it.—Reuters

Islamic State has exe-cuted a total of more than 300 tribe members in the past few days, Ga’oud and the official said.

The sustained blood-shed appears to demon-strate the group’s resil-ience to the US air strikes that have been targeting its fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Ga’oud said he had re-peatedly asked the Shi’ite-led central government in Baghdad for arms but that his pleas were ignored.

Albu Nimr had held out for weeks under siege by Islamic State, but final-ly ran low on ammunition, fuel and food.

Hundreds of tribal fighters withdrew and the tribe fled its main village of Zauiyat albu Nimr, but many were intercepted by the militants who shot them at close range and dumped in mass graves.

Islamic State’s ad-vances have fueled sec-tarian bombings, kidnap-pings and shootings which occur almost daily in Iraq, echoing the peak of a civ-il war in 2006-2007. Also on Saturday, a truck bomb killed 13 people at a veg-etable market in the town of Yusufiya just south of Baghdad, police and med-ical sources said.—Reuters

in arid areas of east Afri-ca and these can escalate. An influx of weapons from abroad, in particular from Somalia, has intensified the ferocity of these con-flicts in recent years. “The police officers who were involved in a security op-eration in Kapedo area in Turkana County were ambushed by an unknown number of armed raiders,” police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi said in a statement.

“The officers engaged the raiders in a fire fight which resulted in the death

of eight officers and two ci-vilians. Twelve officers are missing and feared dead.”

Mwinyi said reinforce-ments had been sent to the area to help with pursuing the attackers. The attack comes one week after ban-dits in the same area tar-geted a vehicle ferrying examination materials to a school in the region.

Kenyan television sta-tions reported that the num-ber of dead police officers stood at 22 and that a truck they were travelling in was burnt down.—Reuters

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term of literature, culture, prosperity and mili-tary. Since that time, Myanmar has faced foreign intruders who carried out offensive acts to the country as it possesses vast natural resources from the north to south of the country. Colonial countries and anarchists then invaded Myanmar without considering the fundamental rights and simplicity of Myanmar people.

A large amount of natural resources were in-humanely brought away, leaving the country with civil conflicts out of their dividing rules. Mis-understanding and mistrust among the national brethren have led to chilly relations each other. From mountainous areas to coastal regions, My-anmar ethnics are still being instigated by some economies, rather than sincere support of nation-al reconciliation.

It is undeniable that Myanmar is tainted with corruption, protectionism, lower education and even with poor management. These chronic prob-lems cannot be rooted out immediately. The fun-

damentals to solve these problems include knowledge and education.

Some of the bitter experiences or silly man-agement should be left behind. Myanmar still possess pristine environments, civilized people, and competitive human resources. It is not too late get back its glory in the past. However, both external powers and internal forces are crucially important for the golden future of Myanmar with total sincerity.By Aung Khin

Glory of Myanmar expected in near future

Myanmar has early civilization dating back to 1st century with archaeological evi-

dences of the Pyu Kingdoms of Srikestra, Beik-thano and Hanlin. Its ancient architectural skills and cultures could compare with western civilizations.

The first Myanmar Empire was founded in early 11th century by King Anawrahta. Under the administration of this mighty king, Myan-mar possessed great powers in the region in

* Patriotism means : Love of your country and willingness to defend it.

-Oxford Dictionary • P = Passionate Love for the Fatherland• A = Altruistic Attitude towards the People• T = Thoughts of National Defense• R = Respect for the National Culture• I = Integrity• O = Organizing Ability• T = Tough-minded Protection of National Characteristics• I = International Outlook• S = Strategic Interest In Promoting Patriotism• M = Mission -Oriented

PASSIONATE LOVE FOR THE FATHERLANDEvery citizen’s heart and mind should be imbued

with the love of one’s own country. Every citizen should be taught the necessity of loving one’s own Fatherland since childhood. Education, ocio-cultural activities, busi-ness affairs, politics etc. should be positively charged with the fervent patriotic spirit. ALTRUISTIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PEOPLE

With a genuine spirit of patriotism, every citizen should participate in serving the country and the broad masses of the people. Everyone in the country should be taught since childhood “the Spirit of One for All and All for One” Everyone should be trained since childhood to be of service and value to one’s own country. Everybody should be strongly inculcated with a sense of responsibil-ity for oneself as well as for the Fatherland.

Everyone should not think only WIIIFM — What is

Patriotismin it For Me ? Whenever one thinks of WIIIFM, he/she also should think of WIIIFC — What is in it For the Country, as well.THOUGHTS OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

Every citizen’s heart must be fired with a passionate spirit of defending one’s own Fatherland. Everyone must be hands-on, minds-on and hearts-on in the proactive preparations for the patriotic defense of the country.RESPECT FOR THE NATIONAL CULTURE

Everybody who has a true patriotic spirit must hold high the value of the national culture and historical herit-age. In the age of globalization and internet culture, it is especially necessary to have deep respect for the nation-al and historical beliefs and core values.INTEGRITY

There could be no genuine spirit of patriotism with-out having a true sense of integrity in all the people, espe-cially the powers that be. In fact, a sense of patriotism must be seamlessly integrated with honesty and right-eousness. Every patriotic person should hold high the banner of “All For the People and the Fatherland”.ORGANIZING ABILITY

A patriotic person should have the organizing ability to persuade other people to be patriotic, progressive and proactive. By the word proactive, we mean to take respon-sibility and to be in charge of one’s life, one’s job and one’s relationships.THOUGH-MINDED PROTECTION OF NATION-ALL CHARACTERISTICS

Every patriotic person must have a stout heart to pro-tect the national characteristics of one’s own country. This is not the age of colonization but there could be so-

cio-cultural and economic imperialistic disguises in many international relations. Every patriotic person must safe-guard the honor and inviolability of the Fatherland’s her-itage of tradition, customs, values and beliefs. By a true sense of patriotism, all patriotic people should strategical-ly hold firm the national characteristics, while tactically going along with flow of globalization processes.INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK

We all should be internationalists tactically, but we must also be patriotic nationalists strategically. Strategi-cally, we must be free and sovereign people. MIGHT can-not be always RIGHT. In the matter of sovereignty, RIGHT MUST BE ALWAYS MIGHT. In short, we should be broad-minded internationalists tactically but we cannot but be genuine nationalists strategically. STRATEGIC INTEREST IN PROMOTING PATRI-OTISM

All patriotic people must take strategic interest in promoting patriotism. Without proactively positioning ourselves to be freedom defenders, our national interests can be encroached upon in many disguises and on many fronts. We have got to be very vigilant in safeguarding and preserving our true national and historical heritage.MISSION-ORIENTED

Every true citizen must have a mission of nurturing, cultivating, preserving and safeguarding the national in-terest while promoting a sense of international brother-hood.CONCLUSIONPatriotism is essential in every sovereign nation which never dreams of encroaching upon and violating other na-tions’ sovereignty, in any way.

U Kyi Mun residing in Yangon is a consultant of NAING Group Capital Co.,Ltd.

People centred energy policyEnergy policies made now will define Myanmar’s

next few decades. They must be designed with the actual needs of cit-

izens in mind.David Allan

We all know that energy is crucial for Myanmar’s de-velopment – and especially for the poor. Light so children can study after dark, more accessible energy for cooking (meaning less time collecting firewood) and village health clinics with electricity so they can refrigerate medicine.

But while the health and education sectors are often seen through a people centred development lens, energy is not. And because of this, it can get caught up in technical goals – like rates of electrification –rather than starting with the actual needs of Myanmar’s citizens. In other words, it can tend to miss the forest for the trees.

I think that bringing development thinking back into Myanmar’s energy planning is really important and will

give fresh perspectives on possible ways forward.The first thing to recognise is that Myanmar’s single

biggest energy need is not industry but household cooking. In fact household cooking makes up more than three quarters of Myanmar’s total energy use. So making cooking more efficient – for example through wider use of fuel efficient stoves and finding better ways for using wood as fuel– could have an enormous impact. But at the moment there is little strategic thinking about how this can happen.

The next most important thing is lighting. Current plan-ning is focussed on improving this through wider access to a national electricity grid (which currently only serves around a quarter of the population). But focussing only on a central-ised grid will be costly and time consuming. And the major-ity of Myanmar’s citizens – especially those in rural areas - may be better served by decentralised options.

Around the world many countries are moving to decen-tralised options for increasing energy access. This can in-volve new technology like LED lighting and solar lanterns, solar household and village systems along with more empha-

sis on local power production – through small scale hydro, solar or wind power schemes. These approaches could be faster and more efficient than relying only on a national level system - and can give more emphasis to renewables.Starting with the end in mind

We know that increasing access to energy will be crucial for improving the lives of people in Myanmar. But current energy policy is focussing too much on big schemes and centralised production - on how energy can be produced and distributed rather than why it is needed.

It is better to start with the end in mind. And by recog-nising that the primary energy needs for Myanmar’s citi-zens are for cooking and lighting, we can start thinking more creatively about solutions - investing more in decen-tralised and renewable options. Industry needs electricity as well to be able to create jobs. So in some places, this is another clear energy need.

Myanmar is a country rich in energy resources. We need to make sure that citizens are the ones to benefit.

Monday, 3 November, 2014

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Yangon, 2 Nov— More than 165 exhibitors from 27 countries and in-ternational pavilions from China, South Korea, Sin-gapore and Thailand are at the second edition of Con-struction, Power & Mining Myanmar 2014 in Yangon from November 30 to con-

Construction, Power & Mining Myanmar 2014 draws local and international exhibitors in high number

Construction machinery and mining equipment on display at Yangon’s Myanmar Convention Centre where local and international exhibitors from the construction, power and mining sectors showcase new machines, equipment, technologies and solutions at second edition of Construction, Power and Mining Myanmar 2014

industry event.—PhoTo: ye MyinT

firm Myanmar’s potential in building, electric power and oil and gas sectors.

Bangkok Exhibition Services Ltd organized the three-in-one exhibition that will run for three days, along with the 1st Interna-tional Mining Myanmar Conference and introduc-tion of new products, tech-nologies and solutions by

exhibitors. Justin Pau, general

manager of Bangkok Ex-hibition Services Ltd, told The Global New Light of Myanmar that many com-panies returned for the second edition of the exhi-bition.

“Companies came and looked at the local market in the first edition and the

companies returned for the second edition because of the genuine business op-portunities in the market,” he said comparing the first event with the second.

He said that the second event, which was joined by new exhibitors, shows that the potential of the Myan-mar market is true.

All three industries are very strong, offering huge potential to continue to grow as construction is booming in Myanmar and many changes are hap-pening in the creation and generation of power and distribution, and mining is one of the key industries in Myanmar, the BES general manager added.

According to Myan-mar’s Directorate of In-vestment and Company Administration, 772 for-eign companies have so far invested more than US $49.4 billion across 12 sec-tors, including oil and gas, manufacturing, mining, ho-tels and tourism, transport and logistics, real estate, livestock and fisheries, ag-riculture, construction and services.

GNLM

naY PYi Taw, 2 Nov — Myat Parami Philan-thropic organization lo-cated at Wunna Theikdi Ward in Nay Pyi Taw do-nated glasses to 18 aged people with eye complaint on Saturday. The organi-zation also sponsored eye surgery of five aged people who went eye operation at 1000-bed hospital in Nay

Hsindewa (Thametku) dam benefits farmlands in arid zone

MYingYan, 2 Nov — Local farmers in Taungtha Township in central Myan-mar have to rely mostly on Hsidewa (Thametku) dam for agricultural purpose and drinking water. In this

year monsoon paddy cul-tivation season, the dam befitted 300 acres of paddy fields and 500 acres of oth-er crops.

Zaw Min Naing (Myingyan)

Myat Parami Philanthropic organization donates glasses to the aged

Pyi Taw. Led by Chair-man U Aung Kyaw Oo, the organization is willingly participating in the Philan-thropic tasks. Aged people with eye complaints may contact the organization for assistance. Those wish to donate cash may also con-tact the chairman at phone number 09 49 31 99 60.

Min Min Latt

naY PYi Taw, 2 Nov — Union Ministers U Soe Thane, U Tin Naing Thein and U Khin Yi met members of Rakhine State Government, officials and townselders at U Uttara Hall on 1 November morning.

Union ministers ex-plained the measures being taken for the stability and de-velopment of Rakhine State

Union ministers inspect tasks for stability and development of Rakhine State

and heard reports on health, education, agriculture, live-stock breeding, development of meat and fish sector, de-velopment of ports and wa-ter transportation, dredging of Sutyokya Creek, job op-portunities, vocational train-ing, recruiting and training teacher for primary schools and nurses, construction of roads, bridges and houses

and electricity supply in Ra-khine State.

In the afternoon, the union ministers inspected the construction of Ponnak-yun-Kyauktaw road, water supply from Shaukchaung Reservoir, the power sta-tion and arrangements for electricity distribution to Sit-tway, Myohaung and Ponna-kyun and gave instruction on

construction of Ponnakyun Industrial Zone and water supply for Ponnakyun and storage of rain water.

In the evening, the un-ion ministers viewed the training camp where about 20 students were undergo-ing training for the opening ceremony of Rakhine tradi-tional wrestling competition at Waithali stadium.—MNA

By Ye Myint

Monday, 3 November, 201410h e a l t h & B u s i n e s s

A euro logo sculpture stands in front the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt

on 26 Oct, 2014. —ReuteRs

European growth as elusive as quicksilverLondon, 2 Nov — Data

from both sides of the At-lantic will give clues in the coming week on just how bad the euro zone economy is and just how sustainable is its US counterpart.

Europe offers a rate meeting from the Europe-an Central Bank and a new slate of economic forecasts; the United States will release its influential monthly jobs data. Purchasing manager indexes for the past month will also show how busi-nesses see things shaping up in the United States and Europe. One for China’s has already come in lower than expected.

For many, the ECB meeting on Thursday will be the main money event – despite the fact that it is not likely to be one of action or suspense. As usual, the attention will be on ECB President Mario Draghi’s nuances at the news confer-ence that follows the likely non-move on rates. When it comes to the ECB, the news is often all about the journey rather than the destination.

This week’s inflation data let the ECB off the hook on taking any immediate ad-ditional action to combat the threat of deflation.

At 0.4 percent in Octo-ber, inflation is worryingly slight, but it is higher than it was a month earlier.

ECB policymakers are also in no rush to move on to something new when they

have not yet seen how their targeted loans and purchas-es of asset-backed securities are doing.

Many in financial mar-kets would like to see the ECB move to a full quan-titative easing (QE) as-set-buying programme like the one the US Federal Re-serve has just closed. But as these words from ECB Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny suggest, it is not likely. “I don’t think we should be pushed by the markets to produce a new programme at every meeting we have.”

The bank will also be looking at the US Federal Reserve’s ending of QE and relatively hawkish tone for some spillover succour. The euro is down more than 1.5 percent against the dollar since the Fed meeting on Wednesday, and down more than 10 percent since May.

A weaker euro not only boosts euro zone exports, it imports inflation, both of which the ECB wants to see.

The nuance being sought on Thursday, how-ever, will be whether there is any momentum towards full QE and how German oppo-sition could be overcome.

The ECB has been throwing money in various ways at the euro zone econ-omy for a long time but dy-namic growth has proved as elusive as quicksilver. This is expected to be underlined by the purchasing manager

indexes. The euro zone’s manufacturing is sitting just a tad above stagnation. Data has been very lacklustre.

“October’s ... busi-ness and consumer survey suggests that the euro-zone economy got off to a weak start in Q4, after broadly stagnating in Q3,” Capital Economics said in a note.

Mid-week, the Euro-pean Commission will give its latest economic forecasts and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development will issue its on the G20 economies ahead of a meeting of the group.

Outside the euro zone, the Bank of England also looks to keep interest rates on hold at record low levels on Thursday. Three of its most senior officials have expressed staunch oppo-sition to hiking rates over the last two weeks. Until a few weeks ago, a small

but significant minority of economists expected the BoE would raise interest rates from 0.5 percent in November. Now they are unanimous in expecting no change this month, accord-ing to a Reuters poll.

This is partly because the British recovery, while strong compared with else-where, is still tentative and is unlikely to be sustaina-ble if Britain’s main trading partners decline. The United States is one of those part-ners, but it seems to be rela-tively robust.

US employers are ex-pected to have expanded their payrolls by a healthy 233,000 in October, accord-ing to a Reuters poll. That figure, if confirmed on Fri-day, would validate the Fed-eral Reserve’s conclusion that the job market continues to make strides toward full health.—Reuters

Boys Solomon (C, rear) and Joe (R, rear) stand in the ‘’red zone’’ where they are being treated for Ebola at the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit about 200 km

(120 miles) east of the capital, Monrovia, on 28 Oct, 2014. —ReuteRs

Days after waving to US envoy, Liberian boys are Ebola freenew York, 2 Nov —

Just a few days after Solo-mon, 14, and Joe, 11, stood in t-shirts and pyjama pants waving as US envoy Saman-tha Power visited an Ebola treatment unit in Liberia, their recovery was complete — they tested negative for the hemorrhagic fever.

“Solomon and Joe went home,” said US nurse Bridget Mulrooney on Sat-urday, who works with the unit run by International Medical Corps in Bong County, about 200 km (120 miles) east of Liberia’s cap-ital Monrovia.

Power, accompanied by US public health experts, visited the treatment unit on Tuesday but did not enter the facility. She traveled to Libe-ria, Sierra Leone and Guinea to assess the global response to the worst outbreak of Eb-ola in history.

From a distance, Joe and Solomon watched and waved at Power’s delegation

from behind a neon orange fence at the “red zone” of the treatment unit.

US Navy Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Es-pinosa delivered the news to the boys on Friday that they were better, said In-ternational Medical Corps communications officer in Liberia Stuart Sia. Both Joe and Solomon went home to their villages on Saturday afternoon to be cared for by family, Sia said.

Espinosa, himself a fa-ther-of-four, is the officer-in-charge of a mobile laborato-ry set up in Bong County a few weeks ago that has cut sample testing times to five hours from five days.

But Solomon’s 7-year-old ‘social sister’ Christine, who’s mother raised Solo-mon as her own, is still fight-ing the virus that has gripped Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, killing some 5,000 people and infecting thou-sands more.

“Christine is up and down. Ebola and children is harsh. We want her to pull through, but her tiny body is ravaged. She is eating and walking, and she hasn’t done much of either in weeks,”

Mulrooney told Reuters in an email.

These improvements though in the past few days left the nurses confident that Christine will recover, said Sia in an email. Solomon

and Christine both arrived at the treatment unit about two weeks ago from Joblo in Margibi County, he said.

However, Christine’s 10-year-old biological broth-er Rancy, who was admitted

three days earlier than Chris-tine and Solomon, died from Ebola within a week of be-ing admitted for treatment.

“Their mother contract-ed Ebola from a friend in another village. She went to (the village of) Kakata to be taken cared of by fami-ly and later died,” Sia said. Their father then contracted Ebola from his wife, but af-ter three weeks of treatment at a hospital in Monrovia he recovered.

In total, Sia said 14 members of their family had been infected. Joe, who comes from Weala in Marg-ibi County, had also been in the treatment unit nearly two weeks.

After Power’s brief vis-it to West Africa, she told Reuters on Thursday that she had found some “hope and possibility” that the global response to the Ebola out-break is working, but more resources are needed.

Reuters

Beijing, 2 Nov — China’s quality watchdog demanded joint-venture FAW-Volkswagen submit new materials to verify the effectiveness of a latest re-call due to defective rear axles.

On 17 October, the company announced a re-call of more than 581,000 cars, including its New Sagitar and Beetle vehi-cles, as the trailing arm of the rear axles could rupture in certain scenarios. It of-fered to place a metal plate in the trailing arm to ensure the proper operation in case of a rupture.

However, the move aroused dissatisfaction among car users who had hoped for a more thorough solution by replacing the whole rear suspension. Protests were held by car owners in major cities, including Shanghai and Shenzhen.

China’s General Ad-ministration of Quality Su-pervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said in a statement on Saturday that its defective product management centre has or-dered the company to pro-vide further materials for verifying the recall meas-ure’s effectiveness.

The AQSIQ also or-

dered its management cen-tre to devote more techno-logical resources to the case and organize assessment of FAW-Volkswagen’s recall by inspection bodies and industry experts.

The centre asked af-fected car owners to con-tact the company’s dealers for examination in the case of a trailing arm deforma-tion or a rupture, and also report the problem to the centre online, the statement said.

Since the launch of an inspection into the compa-ny’s products in August, the AQSIQ met with repre-sentatives from the compa-ny, telephoned more than 3,000 customers who filed complaints and went to 11 cities for field surveys and vehicle examinations.

The management cen-tre has invited experts to conduct analysis of the bro-ken parts and asked nation-al level inspection bodies to have other related tests. “The work is still going on,” the statement said.

Sagitar is one of the most popular sedan models sold in China. In the first nine month of this year, 235,000 Sagitars were sold, ranking the fourth among all sedan models.

Xinhua

FAW-Volkswagen demanded to submit

recall materials

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Costa Rica’s Turrialba volcano stages most powerful eruption in years

Ash rises over Turrialba volcano, as seen from San Gerardo de Irazu near Turrialba on 30 Oct, 2014. Costa Rica’s Turrialba volcano staged its most

powerful eruption in years, belching a plume of gas and ash that was reported to sprinkle the capital San Jose some 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, emergency

services said on Thursday.—Xinhua

Branson determined to find cause of Virgin spaceship crash, pilots identified

Mojave (Calif) / Cape Canaveral (Fla), 2 Nov — Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson vowed on Saturday to find out what caused his space tour-ism company’s passenger spaceship to crash during a test flight in California, killing one pilot and injur-ing the other, but expressed a desire to press on with the dream of commercial space flight.

US investigators have indicated the powered test flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo on Friday was well recorded, giving them an abundance of in-formation to help determine what caused it to crash and spread debris over a 5-mile (8 km) swath of the Mojave Desert, 95 miles (150 km) north of Los Angeles.

Branson arrived in the Mojave Desert to meet his Virgin Galactic team and federal officials who were opening their investiga-tion into the accident, the second in less than a week involving a commercial space company.

“We owe it to our pi-lots to find out exactly what went wrong,” Branson said during a news conference in Mojave.

“If we can overcome it, we will make absolutely certain that the dream lives on,” he said.

Michael Alsbury, 39, has been identified as the co-pilot who died in the

crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, and the surviving pilot is Peter Sie-bold, 43.

Alsbury, who police said was found dead in the aircraft and who resided in Tehachapi, California, was a project engineer and test pilot at Scaled Composites, a Northrop Grumman Corp subsidiary that built and designed the spacecraft for Virgin Galactic.

Alsbury was flying for the ninth time aboard SpaceShipTwo, including serving as the co-pilot on its first rocket-powered test flight on 29 April, 2013, ac-cording to his biography on the company’s website.

Siebold parachuted from SpaceShipTwo and was found with serious injuries by rescuers, who

took him by helicopter to Antelope Valley Hospital, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

He was alert and talk-ing with his family and doctors on Saturday, Scaled Composites said in a state-ment, but National Trans-portation Safety Board acting chairman Christo-pher Hart said his agency’s investigators have not yet interviewed Siebold at the advice of his doctors.

An NTSB team arrived at the crash site on Saturday to begin piecing together what led to the crash.

“We are here to inves-tigate this accident, while we are here investigating there is nothing that stops this operation from contin-uing flying,” Hart said.

An aircraft flying be-

hind SpaceShipTwo col-lected video images and radar data, and a range camera at Edwards Air Force Base also recorded the failed test flight, Hart said. The spaceship had video cameras and data storage cards on board which could help investi-gators.

Friday’s crash was the second disaster in less than a week suffered by a pri-vate space company, deal-ing a blow to the fledgling commercial space industry that has been taking on work traditionally done by governments.

On Tuesday, an Antar-es rocket built and launched by Orbital Sciences Corp exploded after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, destroying a cargo ship

bound for the International Space Station.

The Virgin probe will likely focus on Space-ShipTwo’s rocket engine, which on Friday was flying with a new type of fuel for the first time, experts said.

The solid plastic-type propellant is ignited by nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas.

Virgin Galactic an-nounced in May it was re-placing the rubber-based propellant used during the spaceship’s three previous rocket-powered test flights to get better performance.

“We’ve tested both of these fuel grains a lot,” Virgin Galactic chief ex-ecutive George Whitesides told Reuters at the time.

Before Friday’s flight, SpaceShipTwo’s last pow-ered test flight was in Jan-uary, though the rocket and its new propellant had passed multiple ground tests.

Virgin Galactic is a US offshoot of the Lon-don-based Virgin Group founded by Branson, one of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs whose em-pire ranges from airlines to music stores and mobiles phones.

Friday’s accident marked the fourth fatality in Scaled’s SpaceShipTwo development effort. In 2007, a fuel tank exploded, killing three Scaled em-ployees.—Reuters

Sheriff’s deputies look at a piece of debris near the crash site of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo near Cantil, California on 1 Nov, 2014.—ReuteRs

MosCow, 2 Nov — Russian Strategic Missile Troops ( RVSN) test fired on Saturday a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to test its technical features, Defence Ministry said.

“The Topol-M, a si-lo-based ICBM, was launched on 1 November, at 9:20 am local time (0620 GMT) from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia’s northern Arkhangelsk re-gion,” the ministry said in a statement.

The missile demon-strated its high precision capabilities with an overall good performance, as it hit a designated training tar-get on Russia’s Kamchat-ka peninsula, RIA Novosti news agency quoted the ministry as saying.

RVSN spokesman Dmitry Andreyev said in August that steady rearma-ment of the RVSN is due to be completed in 2025 with the new- generation ICBMs, including the up-graded version of Topol-M.

The Defence Minis-try said previously that Topol-M and Yars RS- 24 would be mainstays of the ground-based part of Russia’s nuclear triad and would account for no less than 80 percent of the RVSN’s arsenal by 2016.

Xinhua

Russia test fires Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile

KPN’s America Movil board member sells part of KPN stake

Brussels, 2 Nov — The Chief Financial Officer of Mexico’s America Mov-il has reduced his personal stake in Dutch telecoms group KPN, of which he is a supervisory board mem-ber, by more than a quarter, regulatory filings showed

on Saturday.Carlos Garcia More-

no Elizondo, one of two America Movil members on KPN’s supervisory board, sold about 28.5 per-cent of his stake in KPN in three transactions and now owns just under 200,000

shares, according to Dutch regulator AFM.

America Movil, owned by billionaire Car-los Slim, in 2013 made a bid to take over all of the Dutch telecoms group but failed, when an independ-ent foundation tasked with protecting KPN’s stake-holders acquired a near 50 percent share.

The Mexican group has since reduced its stake in KPN to 21.4 percent from about 30 percent at the peak, and analysts are divided on the future of America Movil’s involve-ment.

Carlos Slim’s group is still sitting on a paper loss from its KPN investment, as they paid about 3.24 eu-ros on average and shares closed at 2.617 on Friday.

Reuters

The company logo of Dutch telecoms group KPN is seen on the headquarters in the Hague

on 4 Feb, 2014.—ReuteRs

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Detroit, 2 Nov — President Barack Obama made his lone campaign appearance with a Dem-ocrat running for Senate on Saturday in Michigan, urging voters to remem-ber how his administration helped rescue the auto in-dustry when he first took office in 2009.

Obama, whose un-popularity has left him on the sidelines leading up to Tuesday’s midterm elec-tions, spoke to a crowd of about 6,000 supporters of Democratic congressman Gary Peters, who is expect-ed to win the seat held by retiring long-time Demo-cratic Senator Carl Levin.

Focusing his message on economic issues, Oba-ma also rallied support for Democrat Mark Schauer, a former Democratic repre-sentative who is in a tight

Vucic, Ivanov: Trade in goods and services

should improve

BelgraDe, 2 Nov — Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov agreed dur-ing a meeting they had in Belgrade on Saturday that there was room for im-provement of economic co-operation between the two countries.

Prime Minister Vucic said that bilateral relations were very good and that there was room for im-provement of economic cooperation between the two countries, which called for finding ways to make exchange of goods and ser-vices faster and easier, the

Serbian government’s me-dia relations office said in a release.

President Ivanov agreed with the propos-al and concluded that the trade in goods between the two countries, which now totaled EUR 800 mil-lion annually, could easily reach EUR 1 billion.

The two officials also agreed that realizing infra-structure projects would help create a stronger con-nection between Serbia and Macedonia and improve economic relations and stability in the region, the relase said.

Tanjug

Obama stumps in Michigan, where his popularity is still strong

race for governor.“They said we

shouldn’t walk away,” Obama told a rally in a gymnasium at Wayne State University, recalling how the Michigan dele-gation fought for the De-troit-based auto industry.

Obama’s appearance was part of a last-ditch ef-fort by Democrats to get out the vote for their can-didates. Polls show Re-publicans are likely to gain control of the US Senate in Tuesday’s election.

“I need you to get some classmates. I need you to get some coworkers. I need you to knock on doors and make some phone calls,” Obama said.

Obama has spent a lot of time raising money for Democrats leading up to the midterms, but with his approval ratings hovering

Terri Lynn Land, a former Michigan secretary of state.

The Fox 2 Detroit/Mitchell poll showed in-cumbent Republican Gov-ernor Rick Snyder with a five percentage point lead over Schauer.

But an EPIC-MRA poll done for the Detroit Free Press between 26-28 October showed a closer race, finding Snyder with a two-point lead over Schau-er. Nine percent of poll re-spondents were undecided, and most of them leaned Democratic.

On Sunday, Obama will travel to Connecticut to campaign with Dem-ocratic Governor Dan Malloy, who is in a tough race, and to Philadelphia to campaign with Tom Wolf, Democratic candidate for governor.

Reuters

US President Barack Obama campaigns for US Representative Gary Peters (D-MI), candidate for US Senate, and former US Representative Mark Schauer (D-MI),

candidate for governor of Michigan, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan on 1 Nov, 2014.—ReuteRs

around 40 percent he has kept a low profile on the campaign trail.

Obama is more pop-

ular in Michigan, where polling done on 27 October by Fox 2 Detroit/Mitchell put his approval rating at

48 percent.That poll showed Pe-

ters with a 14 percentage point lead over Republican

French nuclear plants in new mystery drone overflights

A general view shows Golfech nuclear plant on the edge of the Garonne river between Agen and Toulouse, southwestern France, on 28 Oct, 2014. —ReuteRs

Paris, 2 Nov — Un-identified drones illegally overflew five French nucle-ar power plants overnight, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Satur-day, in the latest of a series of unexplained incidents that have raised safety con-cerns.

The small unmanned aircraft were detected late on Friday above the five plants in northern and east-

ern France, the source said, confirming an earlier report by Agence France-Presse.

State-controlled util-ity EDF, which operates the plants at Penly, Fla-manville, Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux, Dampierre and Fessenheim, could not con-firm the latest drone incur-sions, a spokeswoman said. French law bans aircraft of all types from flying within five kilometres of nuclear

facilities.Interior Minister Ber-

nard Cazeneuve said on Thursday that France had launched an investigation after drones were sighted over seven EDF nuclear plants between 5 October and 20 October.

The power company has insisted that the mys-tery flights pose no safety or security threat. But the incidents have fueled pub-

lic anxiety in France, the world’s most nuclear-de-pendent country with 58 reactors on 19 sites.

Greenpeace protesters forced their way into the Fessenheim facility earlier this year and have a history of breaking into French nu-clear plants. The environ-mental campaign group has denied any involvement in the unmanned flights.

Reuters

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pedestrians in central Russia

Yaroslavl, 2 Nov — A drunk road policeman driving a car has knocked down four pedestrians in central Russia’s Yaroslavl region. A wounded woman was taken to hospital after the road accident, the press service of regional police department reported.

“Overnight to 1 No-vember a policeman born in 1976 driving a personal car VAZ-2107 ran down several pedestrians walk-ing on the right lane of the road in the same direction in village of Novy Nekouz in Vokzalnaya Street in central Russia’s Yaroslavl region,” the press service of regional police department said, adding that “Three local residents, includ-ing a man born in 1991, a woman born in 1988 and a woman born in 1985 have got bruises in the road acci-dent. Another woman born in 1985 was taken to hospi-tal with wounds.”

Road police, chiefs of regional road police depart-ment and local police went to the road accident site. Police found that the driver who knocked down by-pas-sers was drunk.

“The Russian road police chief in Yaroslavl region ordered to set up a committee for a service inquiry to find all details of the road accident,” the regional police department said, noting that “Upon re-sults of the service inquiry this will be decided to fire the guilty policeman from police and reprimand local police chiefs.—Itar-Tass

Cambodia charges 10 men with conspiring treason: police spokesman

Libyan port rebel leader refuses to hand over oil ports to rival group

Phnom Penh, 2 Nov — A Cambodian court has charged 10 suspects, who were arrested here last week, with conspiring trea-son that could face up to ten years in prison if con-victed, a National Police spokesman said on Sunday.

The ten men were ap-prehended on Wednesday and Thursday last week in Phnom Penh with evidence to prove that they were

Tunis, 2 Nov — A for-mer Libyan rebel leader, who seized oil ports in the past to campaign for east-ern autonomy, said he had turned down an offer to join an armed group chal-lenging the international-ly-recognized government.

The loyalty of Ibrahim Jathran to the government is key to ensure that three oil ports accounting for at least 500,000 barrels of days of exports in eastern Libya will stay open.

He had closed with thousands of supporters the ports in summer 2013 to press for regional auton-omy, inflicting billions of

members of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), an anti-govern-ment movement, National Police spokesman Lt Gen Kirt Chantharith said at a press conference.

“Our authorities seized KNLF’s 770 flags and 461 anti-government pamphlets from those suspects during the raids,” he said. “More-over, those suspects have assignment letters from the

KNLF.”Chantharith said the

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has charged them with conspiring treason, which is a crime that could lead to imprisonment be-tween five and ten years under the country’s crimi-nal code.

He said the Den-mark-based KNLF was founded in December, 2012 by fugitive Sam Serei and his accomplices.

“The group has a plot to overthrow the legitimate Cambodian government through forming illegal armed forces, sending spies to key military locations, distributing anti-govern-ment leaflets, and training illegal armed forces along Thai border,” he said.

In April, a Cambodian court convicted 13 KNLF men of treason for form-ing illegal armed forces and sentenced them be-tween five and nine years in prison. Only seven of the convicts have been serving their jail terms since the others had fled the country.

Xinhua

Cambodia’s National Police spokesman Lt Gen Kirt Chantharith (C) speaks during a press conference

in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 2 Nov, 2014. A Cambodian court has charged 10 suspects arrested

here last week, with conspiring treason that could face up to ten years in prison if convicted, said

Kirt Chantharith.—Xinhua

Libyan militia leader Ibrahim al-Jathran, head of an autonomy movement in Cyrenaica Province, speaks

during an interview with Reuters in Brega on 20 Oct, 2013. —ReuteRs

dollars of losses for Libya until reaching a deal with the government to end the blockage in return for his men joining a state oil guard force.

Jathran said he had been offered a deal by an armed force called Opera-tion Dawn which seized the capital Tripoli in August to challenge the government of Prime Minister Abdul-lah al-Thinni, which has moved to the east where also the elected parliament is now based.

The Operation Dawn reinstated Libya’s previous parliament which set up a parallel government, part

of chaos gripping the North African country three years after the ousting of Muam-mar Gaddafi.

Dawn leaders had of-fered him a deal to hand over control of the oil ports to them in exchange for money and power, he told Libya’s Wataniya televi-sion station late on Friday.

“I prefer to stay in jail next to Abdullah al-Senus-si rather than to have a deal with Operation of Dawn or share the power with them,” Jathran said, refer-ring to Gaddafi’s former intelligence chief who is currently in jail.

There was no immedi-

ate comment from Opera-tion Dawn, an armed group mainly coming from the western city of Misrata.

Libya’s oil output has risen to around 800,000 bpd in the past two months mainly thanks to the reo-pening of Ras es-Sider and two other ports in the east under a deal between Jath-ran and Thinni. But the oil sector stays highly vulnera-ble to protests from armed youth or former rebels who helped oust Gaddafi and now use their guns to seize oilfields or ministries to press for financial and po-litical demands.

Reuters

Four injured in shootings outside Washington, DC concert

WashingTon, 2 Nov — Four people are recovering from gunshot wounds on Saturday after a Halloween shooting outside a Fleetwood Mac concert in downtown Washington, according to police.

Three men were shot just steps from the Verizon Cen-tre, a major venue for sports and entertainment, around 10 pm on Friday night, minutes before the concert end-ed. One man was shot in the arm, and two suffered graze wounds, police said. None of the injuries are life-threaten-ing. Shortly after, another man suffered a minor wound a few blocks away, when he grazed by a bullet, police said. Police recovered one weapon and are questioning sever-al people believed to have been involved in the shooting. Police did not know if the incidents are connected and are investigating. At a press conference late Friday night, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the number of police in downtown Washington had tripled for Halloween.

“Police were on every corner and lined up and down the block,” she said. “It’s kind of shocking that anyone is brazen enough to take some shots.”—Reuters

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Kid Rock

Kid Rock surprises fan for 30th birthday

BAFTA Britannia Awards held in LA

Judi Dench and Emma Watson at BAFTA Britannia Awards, Los Angeles, America on 30 Oct 2014.—Xinhua

ferer Dan McGurk, from Toledo, Ohio sent Rock a video via YouTube asking him to attend his celebra-tion, reported MTV online. At first, it seemed all hope was lost as a friend sings ‘Happy Birthday’ poorly, but then his dream becomes a reality as the musician ap-pears with a birthday cake.

“I’ve been waiting for this, Kid Rock finally came to my birthday,” McGurk said. The singer gave sev-eral presents, including a custom Kid Rock guitar and promised tickets for his next concert.—PTI

Los AngeLes, 2 Nov — Kid Rock gave one lucky fan a surprise of a

lifetime by turning up at his 30th birthday meal.

Down Syndrome suf-

‘American Hustle’ sued for defamation by science journalist Los AngeLes, 2 nov

— Crime comedy-drama ‘American Hustle’ has been sued for defamation by a science journalist over a dialogue in the movie.

The journalist named Paul Brodeur filed the com-plaint in Los Angeles Su-perior Court on Tuesday, saying that a ‘scientifically unsupportable statement’ about microwaves in a dia-logue in the movie which is attributed to his name dam-aged his reputation, said The Hollywood Reporter.

‘American Hustle’, starring Christian Bale,

Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams, received 10 nominations at the Oscars this year. One

of the scenes shows Law-rence’s character telling Bale’s character that micro-wave takes nutrition from

Led Zeppelin was inspirational: Jimmy PageLondon, 2 Nov —

Rocker Jimmy Page says being in the legendary band Led Zeppelin was inspira-tional.

Page, 70, said he and his bandmates, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and the late John Bonham, ex-perienced a kind of energy that allowed them to create their classic songs because they shared the same vi-sion, reported Contactmu-sic.

“As a band, we had a collective consciousness.

It was so inspirational and songs like ‘Rock And Roll’ just appeared out of thin

air. It was like a huge burst of energy. Wonderful!” he said.—PTI

Jimmy Page: As a band, we had a collective consciousness.—PTi

food. “Bullshit,” Bale’s character says in response to her statement. Lawrence hits back, “It’s not bullshit. I read it in an article. Look, by Paul Brodeur.” Brodeur is now suing Columbia Pictures, Atlas Entertain-ment and Annapurna Pic-tures for libel, defamation, slander and false light. He is seeking USD 1 million in damage. “The scene from the movie ‘American Hustle’ where the defama-tory statement was made is highly offensive to a rea-sonable person,” read the document.—PTI

‘American Hustle’, starring Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams, received

10 nominations at the Oscars this year.—PTi

Inspiration for Harry Potter nemesis Umbridge

revealed on websiteLondon, 2 Nov — As

a Halloween treat for her fans, JK Rowling has re-vealed that the much-hat-ed character Dolores Um-bridge from her “Harry Potter” stories is based on a teacher to whom she took an instant dislike — but whose name she has not disclosed.

Umbridge, played by actress Imelda Staunton in the film adaptations of the hugely popular fantasy se-ries, is the seemingly sweet but innately vicious teach-er at Hogwarts who bans young Harry from playing Quidditch and forces him to write the words “I must not tell lies” on the back of his hand.

In an essay posted on Friday on her Pottermore.com website, Rowling says that the character of Umbridge was based on a person “whom I disliked intensely on sight”.

“The woman in ques-tion returned my antipathy with interest. Why we took

against each other so in-stantly, heartily and (on my side, at least) irrationally, I honestly cannot say,” she writes.

Like Umbridge, the person had a “pronounced taste for twee accessories...(including) a tiny little plastic bow slide, pale lem-on in colour”.

PTI

Author JK Rowling hosts a special family

fundraising evening in aid of her children’s charity, Lumos, at the “Warner

Bros Studio — The Making of Harry Potter

in Hertfordfshire” in London on 9 Nov, 2013.

PTi

Lena Dunham recruits celebrity friends for parenthood campaign The limited edition

pink shirt that was sold during the tour is printed with the message ‘Lena loves Planned Parent-hood’, and is available for purchase online, with all proceeds going towards the nonpartisan advoca-cy and political arm of the organization. Dunham has called on some of her fellow female celebrities to share their support of sexual and reproductive

health services to women across America.

Dunham took to her Instagram account to share photos of her friends pos-ing for ‘selfies’ while wearing the shirt, includ-ing actresses Poehler, Page, Leslie Mann, Rashi-da Jones, Mindy Kaling, Gabrielle Union, America Ferrera, Girls co-star Jemi-ma Kirke, and singers Sara Bareilles and Sara Quin.

PTI

London, 2 Nov — Actress Lena Dunham has recruited celebrity friends Amy Poehler and Ellen Page to wear a T-shirt supporting America’s Planned parenthood cam-paign. The 28-year-old actress teamed up with the women’s rights group ear-lier this month as she went on a tour promoting her new book, ‘Not That Kind of Girl’, reported Contact-music.Lena Dunham

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Robben gives Bayern comeback win

over DortmundMunich, 2 Nov — A

late Arjen Robben penalty gave Bayern Munich a dra-matic 2-1 comeback win on Saturday that sent Borus-sia Dortmund sliding into the drop zone after their fifth straight defeat and worst-ever start to a Bun-desliga season.

The Dutchman sent keeper Roman Weiden-feller the wrong way in the 85th minute, after Franck Ribery was brought down, to lift leaders Bayern to 24 points, four ahead of second-placed VfL Wolfs-burg. “We are very satis-fied,” coach Pep Guardiola told reporters at the Alli-anz Arena after his team avenged their season-open-ing German Super Cup de-feat by Dortmund. “In the second half we played as we should.”

The defeat, which fea-tured two decisive blunders from defender Neven Sub-otic after he came on for the injured Mats Hummels in the second half, drops the Ruhr Valley club to third from bottom with sev-en points from 10 games.

“After a good first half we had a visibly less good

second where we could not deal with the pressure any more,” said Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp after the ‘Klassiker’ fixture be-tween two of Germany’s biggest clubs.

“We invested a lot in this game so it is even more bitter.”

In a game that lived up to its reputation with both teams hitting the wood-work amid high tempo fare in the opening exchanges — Robben for Bayern and Henrikh Mkhitaryan for Dortmund — it was Ger-many winger Marco Reus who drew first blood for the visitors in the 31st minute. Reus, Bayern’s top transfer target, headed in a pinpoint cross from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang after the Ga-bon international’s 50-me-tre sprint down the wing.

The Bavarians had a golden opportunity to level six minutes after the restart but former Dortmund strik-er Robert Lewandowski fired wide from inside the box. The Pole eventual-ly snatched a 72nd-minute equaliser, drilling the ball home from the edge of the area after Subotic’s poor

Bayern Munich’s Arjen Robben scores a penalty goal against Borussia Dortmund during their German first

division Bundesliga soccer match in Munich on 1 Nov, 2014. — ReuteRs

clearance landed in his path. The goal completed Lewandowski’s set of scor-ing against all 18 Bundesli-ga teams.

Subotic also tugged desperately at Ribery’s shirt as the Frenchman surged into the box, leading to Robben’s coolly-taken winner.

Elsewhere, Ivan Peri-sic scored twice as Wolfs-burg crushed VfB Stuttgart 4-0 to extend their win-ning run to five straight

league games. Hamburg SV claimed their first home win of the season, against Bayer Leverkusen, after Rafael van der Vaart con-verted a first-half penalty in a 1-0 win. Argentine Fran-co Di Santo struck twice in Werder Bremen’s 2-1 comeback win at Mainz 05.

It was their first victory of the season on new coach Viktor Skripnik’s league debut and moved them off the bottom of the table.

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Wanderers hold off Al Hilal to win AFC Champions League

Australia’s Western Sydney Wanderers hold the trophy as the celebrate winning their second-leg soccer match of the Asian Champions League final against Saudi

Arabia’s Al Hilal at King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on 1 Nov, 2014.—ReuteRs

Riyadh, 2 Nov — The Western Sydney Wander-ers completed a fairytale AFC Champions League run by surviving another onslaught from Al Hilal to become the first Australi-an winners of the title after a bad tempered goalless draw in Saturday’s second leg in Saudi Arabia.

Al Hilal dominated at the King Fahd International Stadium but wasted some fantastic chances as the fledgling Wanderers, only founded in 2012, some-how held out to complete a remarkable 1-0 aggre-gate triumph in their debut continental campaign and qualify for next month’s

FIFA Club World Cup.The Australians had

shown fight and spirit in knocking out defending champions Guangzhou Evergrande, last year’s runners up FC Seoul and J-League holders Sanfrecce Hiroshima all during their off-season to make the final and they again dug deep to

upset their more illustrious opponents. “I’m just proud for these players and our club,” Wanderers coach Tony Popovic said.

“We don’t have the resources or funds... but we have something money can’t buy, and that’s the de-sire to win.”

Carrying a goal advan-tage from the first leg they owed much of their victory to the heroics of goalkeep-er Ante Covic, later voted man of the match, and gen-erosity of Japanese referee Yuichi Nishimura, who waved away two strong Al Hilal penalty appeals.

Al Hilal’s fury at the officiating boiled over after the final whistle and led to a brawl between some of their players and officials.

The 65,000 Al Hilal fans had filled the stadium to capacity hours before kick off after Prince Al-waleed Bin Talal Bin Ab-dulaziz Al Saud had made it free entry but they de-parted in a hurry after the final whistle as the Syd-ney players collected their medals in a near empty venue.—Reuters

People in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, the city famous for the Takarazuka Revue, dance together in a line on 1 Nov, 2014, as they attempt to set a world record for the longest single line of dancers. They set a record recog-

nized by the Guinness World Records when 4,395 people danced for more than 5 minutes in a line, beating the

previous record set in 2012 in the United States with 2,569 dancers. Takarazuka Grand Theater, a theater dedicated

to the all-female troupe, is seen in the background. —Kyodo News

World record set in Takarazuka for longest single line of dancers

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia (L) and Kei Nishikori of Japan shake hands after

their BNP Paribas Masters semifinal match at the Palais Omnisports de

Paris-Bercy in Paris on 1 Nov, 2014. Djokovic

won 6-2, 6-3.Kyodo News

Nishikori falls to Djokovic in Paris semifinalsParis, 2 Nov — World

No 1 Novak Djokovic earned some sweet revenge on Saturday, when he de-feated Japan’s Kei Nishi-kori in the Paris Masters

semifinals.Nishikori, who de-

feated Djokovic in the semifinals of this year’s US Open, fell in straight sets 6-2, 6-3 at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Ber-cy. The loss came one day after Nishikori became the first Asian player to qualify for the elite eight-man ATP Finals.

“I’m really excited to go London next week,” Ni-shikori said. “It’s the first time, first experience. It’s going to be a lot of tension

and I might get nervous in the first match, but I will try to enjoy the moment.”

There was not a lot to be happy with against Djokovic in the semifinals. Nishikori showed some fa-tigue from playing on con-secutive days, his serves and shots lacking their usu-al energy.

“Physically, I was a little fatigued. I was not able to get into 100 percent condition,” Nishikori said. “It’s really tough to play against Novak. He doesn’t

miss and at the same time he’s very consistent on the baseline.”

Djokovic, who is look-ing for his second straight Paris title, will play Can-ada’s Milos Raonic in the finals. Raonic knocked out Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 in the other semifinal.

“We could see Kei wasn’t serving at his best, maybe he was fatigued from finishing late last night,” Djokovic said.

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Real Madrid top after Barca lose at home

Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez is congratulated by teammates after scoring against Granada during their Spanish First Division soccer match at Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium in Granada, on 1 Nov, 2014.

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Madrid, 2 Nov — Barcelona followed up last weekend’s 3-1 defeat at Real Madrid with another reverse on Saturday, squandering a host of chances to lose 1-0 at home to Celta Vigo and handing the lead in La Liga to their arch rivals.

Barca forward Neymar hit the crossbar twice and team mate Lionel Messi did likewise once before hesi-tation in the defence let in Celta forward Joaquin Lar-rivey to score 10 minutes after halftime at the Nou Camp. As the home side strove in vain for an equalis-er, Messi, who remains one goal short of La Liga’s scor-ing record of 251, sent a free kick against the corner of the goal frame in the 80th min-ute. Luis Suarez, making his home debut, was then denied by a brilliant save from Ser-gio, one of a string of superb stops by the inspired Celta goalkeeper.

Barca’s second straight defeat is another blow for new coach Luis Enrique, who was in charge at Celta last season, and means Real take over at the top on 24 points from 10 matches thanks to a 4-0 win at Grana-da earlier on Saturday.

James Rodriguez struck twice for the European champions, including a su-perb volley, and the prolific Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 17th goal in nine La Liga appearances this season. Champions Atletico Ma-drid, 4-2 winners at home to Cordoba, are second on 23 points.

Sevilla can overtake Real and Atletico with victo-ry at Athletic Bilbao on Sun-day while Celta are sixth on 19 points. “I think we played a bad match and we weren’t comfortable,” Barca centre back Javier Mascherano told Canal Plus television.

“Beyond creating chances we were unable to

play our game and that is worrying,” added the Argen-tine international.

With Wednesday’s trip to Ajax Amsterdam in the Champions League loom-ing, Barca were looking for a morale-boosting win after the setback at Real.

It was not their night, however, as chance af-ter chance went begging through a combination of poor shooting and bad luck and Larrivey clinically con-verted one of Celta’s few openings.

“We showed a lot of mental strength to survive at the back and have enough oxygen to score the goal,” said Celta coach Eduardo Berizzo. “We have to be fair and admit that if Barca had scored first the outcome would have been very differ-ent,” added the Argentine.

Ronaldo set Real on their way in the second min-ute at Granada’s Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium when he clipped home a Karim Ben-zema centre.

Rodriguez made it 2-0 for the European champions in the 31st minute when he crashed a superb, dipping volley into the top corner be-fore Ronaldo’s clever back-heel sent Benzema clear for a third in the 53rd.

Granada fluffed their

few chances before Rodri-guez followed up a scuffed Ronaldo effort to score the fourth with four minutes to go as Real eased to an 11th

win in a row in all competi-tions. “We played with focus and with a lot of work and sacrifice,” said Real coach Carlo Ancelotti.

“If you fight everything comes off well,” added the Italian whose side host Liv-erpool in the Champions League on Tuesday.

“We have to keep going in the same way to maintain our good run. We are play-ing well and winning.”

Cordoba held out until two minutes before half-time at the Calderon stadium when Antoine Griezmann’s effort was deflected in for an own goal by Luso.

The visitors surprised Atletico nine minutes into the second half when Nabil Ghilas headed in at a corner before Griezmann made it 2-1 with another header four minutes later.

Mario Mandzukic nod-ded Atletico’s third in the 62nd minute before substi-tute Raul Garcia deflected Koke’s cross into the net nine minutes from time. Ghilas grabbed Cordoba’s second goal with three min-utes left after some poor de-fending.—Reuters

Chelsea see off QPR, Saints and Arsenal also win

London, 2 Nov — Chelsea were not at their imperious best but still beat battling strugglers Queens Park Rangers 2-1 with a late penalty from Eden Hazard to remain undefeated, four points clear at the top of the Premier League on Satur-day.

Hazard scored from the spot after 75 minutes of a hard-fought London der-by against the resolute visi-tors, who pulled level when Charlie Austin back-heeled the ball home after 62 min-utes.

That cancelled out Bra-zilian Oscar’s stunning first-half goal, which he scored by bending in a low angled drive with the outside of his boot from 12 metres after 32 minutes.

The victory lifted Chel-sea on to 26 points from their opening 10 matches, four clear of second-placed Southampton, who won 1-0 at Hull City with Vic-tor Wanyama scoring with an astonishing speculative 40-metre chip after three minutes as the Saints won for the 10th time in 11 match-es in all competitions.

Champions Manches-ter City, who are third on 17 points, will attempt to close the gap on the leading pair when they face Manchester

Chelsea’s Cesc

Fabregas (C) shoots but fails to

score during their English

Premier League

soccer match against

Queens Park Rangers at Stamford Bridge in

London on 1 Nov, 2014.

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United at the Etihad on Sun-day.

Arsenal moved up to fourth, pulling level with City on 17 points and leav-ing Burnley bottom of the table and without a win from their first 10 games, by beat-ing them 3-0 at the Emirates.

Chile striker Alexis Sanchez scored twice, ei-ther side of a Calum Cham-bers effort, with all the goals coming in the last 20 minutes. West Ham, who slipped one place back to fifth, came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium. They are also on 17 points.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, after seeing his team make it five home wins out of five in the league, told Sky Sports: “It was a com-pletely deserved victory but not a good performance.

“We didn’t play con-sistently well. We had some good periods and a good reaction after their goal, but I don’t think we played a complete game like we have been doing in the Premier.

QPR manager Harry Redknapp, whose team re-main one spot off the bottom, was nevertheless pleased with their performance but not with the penalty that tilt-ed the match Chelsea’s way.

Referee Mike Jones

awarded it after ruling that Eduardo Vargas fouled Hazard, but Redknapp said: “I am not one to complain about referees but I thought it was two little men going shoulder to shoulder and it was a soft penalty really.

“But I can’t fault the effort we made and the way we played the game.”

Southampton manag-er Ronald Koeman praised another winning perfor-mance, which came after Wanyama capitalized on a poor clearance from Hull’s third choice keeper El-din Jakupovic, sending his flighted shot back into the net over the keeper’s head.

“I never scored a goal that,” said Koeman, who did score some memorable goals in his stellar career, including a rasping 30-metre effort to win the 1992 Euro-pean Cup for Barcelona.

“It was an incredible one, maybe it was the fault of the goalkeeper, but shoot-ing from that distance with that precision, it was incred-ible.”

Koeman’s team have now made the best ever start by a Southampton side in the top flight after 10 matches, having two points more than their previous best perfor-mance at this stage in 1983-84.—Reuters