Established 1914

Volume XIX, Number 105 5th Waxing of Wagaung 1373 ME Thursday, 4 August, 2011

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* Strengthening of national solidarity* Building and strengthening of discipline-flourish-

ing democracy system* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the Constitution

Four political objectives* Building of modern industrialized nation through the agricultural devel-

opment, and all-round development of other sectors of the economy* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of technical

know-how and investment from sources inside the country and abroad* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the hands

of the State and the national peoples

Four economic objectives* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preservation

and safeguarding of cultural heritage and national char-acter

* Flourishing of Union Spirit, the true patriotism* Uplift of health, fitness and education standards of the

entire nation

Four social objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing conductedthe students of University of Agriculture led by RectorDr Tin Htut round the high yield model integrated farmin Zabuthiri Township of Nay Pyi Taw this morning.

In his speech, the Union Minister said thatagriculturists are to take part in the respective sectorsfor socio-economic development of rural people. Hepointed out that students of the University of Agricultureare to hand down techniques on production of highyield crops and training to the rural farmers to enablethe nation to be on a par with other countries inagriculture sector in serving the national interest.

Deputy Minister U Ohn Than explained factsabout modern cultivation methods for model integratedfarm and boosting double yield paddy strains.

Deputy Minister for Information U Soe Win (See page 8)

Agriculturists to take part in respective sectorsfor socio-economic development of rural people

Environmental Conservation Committeeholds 2nd meeting

the bill.After the meeting, committee members

directors-general and managing directors of thedepartments and enterprises under related ministries,and the Core Unit comprising experts continuedtalks to amend the bill.—MNA

Union Minister for Agriculture andIrrigation U Myint Hlaing explains factsabout high yield model integrated farm tostudent of Yezin University of Agriculture

in Zabuthiri Township.—MNA

Union Minister for Forestry U Win Tun

addresses second meeting of EnvironmentalConservation Committee.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—The Committee forEnvironmental Conservation held its secondmeeting at Kyun Shwe Wah Hall of the Ministry ofForestry here this morning.

Chairman of the Committee forEnvironmental Conservation Union Minister forForestry U Win Tun in his speech said that themeeting was intended to enact a law for conservationof the environment; that to draw and enact anecessary law for environmental consevation is afundamental requirement for proportionate

development of the economic, social andenvironmental development; that the process is incompliance with the guideline of the President forimplementing national environmental conservationpolicy. The bill is to be amended to meeting thepresent situation.

Vice-Chairman of the committee UnionMinister at the President Office U Soe Maung,members of the committee deputy ministers,departmental heads and experts held discussionsabout matters to make necessary amendments to

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Healthy foods a growth industry as boomers age

US hospitalspoor at

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PERSPECTIVES* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesireThursday, 4 August, 2011

Give breastfeed to babies forhealth and IQ development

The Ministry of Health has adopted andis implementing the national health plans forlongevity and health of the entire people incooperation with social organizations andinternational non-governmental organizations.

Maternal and child care is one of thetasks in upgrading the health standard of thepeople. Over 60 per cent of population ismothers and children. The activities onNutrition Promotion Weeks will be launched inAugust with a view to reducing nutritiondeficiencies, preventing chronic diet-relateddiseases and promoting dietary practices.

In the first week of August, a plan hasbeen adopted to broaden horizon of the peoplewith nutritional knowledge. The activities willbe undertaken for nutritional development ofchildren under five in the second week, that ofexpectant mothers and breastfeeding mothersin the third week and movements on iodinedeficiencies in the fourth week.

The early breast milk is the best nutritionfor babies. Breast milk contains protein, starch,vitamin, mineral salt and water. Onlybreastfeeding can help babies healthy anddeveloped. Thus, educative talks have beengiven to give breastfeeding only to babiesunder six months.

Mothers have to carefully feed theirbabies with early breast milk within one hourafter giving birth so as to contribute towardshealth and fitness of babies. Some mothers feedtheir babies with liquid of instant milk powder.It is cautious that the contaminated milk powdercan cause diarrhoea, dysentery and otherdiseases to the babies.

The health staff and people are tocooperate in activities of Nutrition PromotionWeeks to broaden horizons of the motherswith nutritional knowledge in order to feedonly breast milk to their babies under sixmonths for health and IQ improvement oftheir offspring.

NAY PYI TAW, 3Aug—Union Minister forBorder Affairs and forMyanma IndustrialDevelopment Maj-GenThein Htay receivedPresident of ChinaElectronics TechnologyGroup Corporation(CETC) Mr. Yan Lijinand party at his officehere this afternoon.

They held discu-ssions about program-mes for bilateralcooperation for deve-lopment and productionof electronics.

MNA

Union Minister receives Chinese guests

Union Minister for Border Affairs and for Myanma IndustrialDevelopment Maj-Gen Thein Htay receives President of China Electronics

Technology Group Corporation (CETC) Mr. Yan Lijin.—MNA

YANGON, 3 Aug—Myanmar Computer Federationand brother associations have been holding ICT Awardcontests annually.

Myanmar Computer Federation in cooperationwith CIESF of Japan will hold IT Business Contest tobuild up IT industry and develop mobiletelecommunication technologies.

Ten selectees from the contest will have achance to take training course from Japan. After thecourse, the trainees will have to put up their projects.

Any interested persons may take part in thecontest. The projects will have to be sent to MyanmarComputer Federation during office hours no later than3 September. For further information, contact MCF,Myanmar Info-Tech in Hline Township, Yangon (Ph:01-652307).—NLM

IT Business Contest to be held

1. People Democracy Party headquarteredat No. 39/B in Yaythant Area ofTagundaing Ward in PyigyidagunTownship of Mandalay Region, on 3-8-2011 submitted its applications forregistration as a political party underArticle 5 of Political Parties RegistrationLaw. In its application, it is mentionedthat the party will use its name, flag, andseal described hereunder.

Public Announcement for remonstration2. It is hereby announced in accord with

Political Parties Registration Rules 14(d) that if there is anyone who wants toremonstrate about the name, flag andseal of the party, they may remonstratewith the Union Election Commissionwith firm evidence within seven daysfrom the date of the announcement.

Flag of People Democracy Party Seal of People Democracy PartyUnion Election Commission

Union EP-2 Minister receives Chinese guests

NAY PYI TAW, 3Aug — Union Ministerfor Electric Power No. 2

U Khin Maung Soe heldtalks with Mr. Zhang Hui,Chairman of China

National Complete PlantImport & ExportCorporation Limited

(COMPLANT) and party,yesterday at his office hereover cooperation inconstruction andmaintenance of a naturalgas-fired power plant.

Also present at themeeting were DeputyMinister for ElectricPower No. 2 U AungThan Oo, Director-General of Departmentof Electric Power U KhinMaung Zaw, ManagingDirector of ElectricPower Supply EnterpriseU Myint Aung andofficials.

MNA

Union Minister for Electric PowerNo. 2 U Khin Maung Soe receives ChairmanMr Zhang Hui of China National CompletePlant Import & Export Corporation Limited

(COMPLANT).—MNA

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A policeman climbed a truck, used to carry fuelfor NATO forces in Afghanistan, after it was

attacked in Khairpur, in Pakistan’s Sindhprovince on 1 August, 2011.—INTERNET

ISLAMABAD, 3 Aug—At least fourpeople were killed in a US dronestrike launched late Tuesday night inPakistan’s northwest tribal area ofNorth Waziristan, reported local UrduTV channel Samaa.

According to the report, the strikecame at about 9 pm when US dronesfired two missiles at an unconfirmednumber of vehicles suspected ofcarrying militants in the Miranshaharea of North Waziristan whichborders Afghanistan.

Four killed in US drone strike in NW PakistanSome local media reports said that

the US drones fired four missiles atthree vehicles and one house in theQuttub Khel area, a village some 4kilometers away from Miranshah, amain town in North Waziristan.

Tuesday night’s US drone strike isthe 45th of its kind ( counted on dailybasis) in Pakistan since this year. Todate, an estimated 412 people, mostof them suspected militants, have beenreportedly killed in such strikes thisyear.—Xinhua

DHAKA, 3 Aug—FiveBangladeshi roadworkers kidnapped inAfghanistan more thanseven months ago havebeen freed, the country’sForeign Minister DipuMoni said Tuesday.

“We’re very glad toinform you that the fiveabducted have beenreleased this morning,”the Foreign Minister toldreporters at a pressbriefing here in capitalDhaka. Armed men on17 Dec night last yearattacked a sub-camp ofa South Korean roadconstruction company“Samwhan Corporation”situated beside Majar-i-Sharif in Balkh provinceof Afghanistan where 17Bangladeshis wereworking.

During the attack,Bangladeshi nationalKazi Altab Hossain, anengineer, died on thespot, and nine of themmanaged to flee whilethe remaining seven wereabducted.—Xinhua

FiveBangladeshi

hostages freedin Afghanistan

14 militants killed in AfghanistanKABUL, 3 Aug—Afghan police

during operations eliminated 14Taleban and detained 43 more militantselsewhere in the country over the last24 hours, Interior Ministry said in astatement on Wednesday.

“Afghan National Police (ANP)with the assistance of the Afghan armyand Coalition Forces launched 12 jointand independent operations over thepast 24 hours in Nangarhar, Baghlan,Kandahar, Helmand, Maidan Wardak,Ghazni, Khost, Paktika and Paktiaprovinces,” said the statement issuedby Interior Ministry.

“As a result of these operations, 14armed militants were killed, fourwounded and 43 other armedinsurgents were arrested,”

Police also found and defused atotal of 17 Improvised Explosive

Device (IED) and anti-vehicle mineselsewhere in the country over the sameperiod of time, the statement furthersaid.

In a separate incident, two moreinsurgents, who had the intention ofplanting an anti-vehicle mine along aroad, were killed when their mineexploded prematurely in Dilaram districtof the country’s western Farah provinceon Tuesday, the statement added.

Taleban militants have yet to makecomments.

The Taleban outfit, fighting Afghanand NATO-led troops, have intensifiedtheir activities against governmentinterests and security forces sincebeginning May when the militants groupannounced to launch spring offensiveagainst security forces all over thecountry.—Xinhua

Afghan men stand near scene of a suicide attackin Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on 2Aug, 2011. A suicide car bomber blew up his

vehicle outside a small residential hotelfrequented by foreigners just after dawn

Tuesday, killing at least three guards in thelatest of a rising number of violent attacks in

northern Afghanistan.INTERNET

In this 25 Aug, 2010file photo, an Iraqi girlwears bandages after

being injured in abombing in Karbala,

50 miles (80kilometres) south of

Baghdad, Iraq.INTERNET

Iraqis inspect the site of an early morning carbomb attack in front of a Church in Kirkuk, 290kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq,

on 2 Aug, 2011.—INTERNET

Three policemen killed, ex-lawmaker woundedin bomb attacks in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, 3 Aug—Threepolicemen were killed and 14 peoplewounded in two coordinated bombexplosions in Baghdad late on Tuesdaynight, while an ex-lawmaker and twoof his bodyguards were wounded bya separate bomb attack, an InteriorMinistry source said on Wednesday.

A roadside bomb went off at aliquor store in al-Risala district insouthwestern Baghdad, the source toldXinhua on condition of anonymity.The second bomb detonated as theIraqi police arrived at the scene of thefirst blast, killing three policemen and

wounding six others, the source said.Eight civilians were also wounded

by the two blasts, the source added.Also in the night, Ayad Jamal-al-

Deen, a Shiite lawmaker of the formerIraqi parliament, was wounded when aroadside bomb detonated at his housein Baghdad’s central district ofJadriyah, the source said. Two of Jamalal-Deen’s bodyguards were woundedby the blast which also set fire to thehouse, he said. Sporadic attacks arestill common in the Iraqi cities despitethe dramatic decrease of violence overthe past few years.—Xinhua

US and allies kill, injureIraqi people

BAGHDAD, 3 Aug— There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the USand its allies have invaded the country.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleThe total number of casualties as from the day they invaded the

country to 3 Aug reached 706677 and the total number of seriously

injured people reached 1280349, according to the news on the Internet.

No. Subject Number

1. Death toll of Iraqi people 706677

2. The total number of seriously injured people 1280349

Internet

Casualties of Afghan people ininvasion of NATO troops led by USKABUL, 3 Aug—The NATO troops led by the US have invaded

Afghanistan and they are there for a long time.A number of Afghan people are killed and injured due to invasion of

the NATO troops led by the US.Casualties of Afghan people

According to the Internet news, a total of 34151 Afghan people werekilled and 41813 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troopsled by the US invaded Afghanistan to 3 Aug.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 34151

2. Seriously injured Afghan people 41813

Internet

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Scientistsdiscoverelusiveoxygen

moleculesin space

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug— Scientists havediscovered oxygen molecules in deep spacein a region of the Orion nebula, some 1,500light years from the Earth, the US NationalAeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) announced Monday.

The discovery was made with EuropeanSpace Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory,which used large telescope and infrareddetectors to find the elusive molecules.

Individual atoms of oxygen are commonin space, particularly around massive stars.But, molecular oxygen, which makes up about

Prehistoric icemeltings analyzed

EUGENE, 3 Aug—An analysis ofprehistoric discharges of icebergs inthe North Atlantic shows even slightwarming can trigger a collapse of iceshelves, US researcher say.

Study lead author Shaun Marcottof the University of Oregon says theanalysis provides historical evidencethat warming of water by just 3 to 4degrees was enough to trigger massiveepisodic discharges of ice from theLaurentide Ice Sheet in what is nowCanada. The results are importantbecause of concerns warmer waterfrom global warming could cause acomparatively fast collapse of iceshelves in Antarctica or Greenland,increasing the flow of ice into the oceanand raising sea levels, an OSU releasesaid Monday.

If the West Antarctic Ice sheet, oneof the areas said to be most vulnerable torising temperatures, were all to melt itwould raise global sea level by about 11feet, the researchers said. “We don’tknow whether or not water will warmenough to cause this type ofphenomenon,” Marcott said. “But itwould be a serious concern if it did, andthis demonstrates that melting of thistype has occurred before.”—Internet

20 percent of the air we breathe, has eludedastronomers until now.

“Oxygen gas was discovered in the 1770s,but it’s taken us more than 230 years to finallysay with certainty that this very simple moleculeexists in space,” said Paul Goldsmith, NASA’sHerschel project scientist at the agency’s JetPropulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Goldsmith is lead author of a recent paperdescribing the findings in the AstrophysicalJournal. Herschel is a European SpaceAgency-led mission with important NASAcontributions.—Xinhua

Cybercrime costs rise 56 percent in 2011for companies

NEW YORK, 3 Aug—In a yearlystudy conducted by the PonemonInstitute and funded by Hewlett-Packard, the median cost of dealingwith prevention and the repercussionsof cybercrime rose from $3.8 million ayear in 2010 to $5.9 million a year in2011. Over the 50 companies in thestudy, the range of costs varied from$1.5 million to $36.5 million perorganization. Over the four-weekperiod of the study, all the organizationsput up with 72 successful attacks aweek. The majority of these attacks areattributed to web-based, denial ofservice, phishing, malicious code andmalicious insider attacks.

In addition, the majority of money

spent on cybercrime by organizationsis put into detection of attacks as wellas recovery efforts. The study foundthat companies spent an average of 18days responding to an attack with anastounding, average price tag of$416,00o. This is a 70 percent increaseover 2010 figures of $250,000 perattack with a 14-day response time.Denial of service attacks are the mostcostly at an average of about $187,000per attack.—Internet

Facebook nabs interactive digital bookpublisher Push Pop Press

SAN FRANCISCO, 3 Aug—OnTuesday Facebook announced theirnew acquisition of Push Pop Press, aSan Francisco-based startup thatpublishes digital books. The startup’sspecialty is interactive, movie-likebooks for the iPad and iPhone. Thefinancial details and the purpose behindthe purchase are as yet unconfirmed.

Co-founded by former Appleemployees Mike Matas and KimonTsinteris, Push Pop came out of stealth

mode in early 2011 and as they put it“set off to re-imagine the book”. They’rebest known for creating Al Gore’s Globalwarming e-book Our Choice for theiPad, an app that garnered great pressand won an award from Apple.

The company wrote in a pressrelease on their website that the Al Goree-book will still be available for purchaseand that the proceeds will be donated toThe Climate Reality Project. Aside fromthat exception, the Push Pop gates willbe closed to any further publishing. Thequestion is: why did Facebook buy astartup that publishes digital books? Inthe same Push Pop statement, Tsinterisand Matas put to rest any thoughts thatFacebook would be moving into theGoogle and Amazon dominatedpublishing territory.—Internet

San Francisco cab driver’s ‘dash camera’helps catch robber

SAN FRANCISCO, 3 Aug—A San Francisco cab equipped with a ‘dashcamera’ helped to apprehend a suspect following an alleged robbery in thecity last Friday.

It’s an unfortunate state of affairs when you can’t walk down the street andhave a conversation on your cell phone without someone coming along andwrenching it out of your hand. But that’s exactly what happened to a localwoman in the Russian Hills neighbourhood of San Francisco the otherevening. No doubt feeling rather shaken following her ordeal, she must havethought that was the end of it. And the assailant most probably believed he’dgot away scot-free. But, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle,as the perpetrator hightailed it away from the scene, from along the street camea taxicab – one that had just happened to catch the whole incident on a securityvideo camera mounted on its dashboard. —Internet

Space Needle contest aims to send personto space

SEATTLE, 3 Aug— Organizers wantto go beyond Earth to celebrate the50th anniversary of Seattle’s iconicSpace Needle.

On Monday, they announced amulti-tiered contest to send a memberof the public on a short ride into spaceusing a company from the burgeoningspace travel industry. “The privatebusiness of taking people to space isright in front of us,” said Ron Sevart,president and CEO of the PacificNorthwest landmark. “It felt so naturalfor us to build a contest around that.”

He said the idea came after eventorganizers explored the circumstancesaround the opening of the Space Needlein 1962.

Buzz Aldrin, former astronaut,centre, and Richard Garriott,first second-generation space

traveller, right, talk about spaceexploration outside the SpaceNeedle on Sunday, July 31,

2011, in Seattle as Ron Sevart,CEO of the Space Needle,

left, listens in.INTERNET

The Space Needle — with itshourglass tower and a top thatresembles a flying saucer — embodiedthe era. “It was an optimistic time, aforward-looking time, right in themiddle of the space race,” Sevart said.

To mark the occasion and helpcelebrate the future of space travel, theSpace Needle brought in a pioneer.

Buzz Aldrin, the second astronautto step on the moon, spoke at theformal contest announcement,recounting his Apollo mission anddetailing his vision of the future.

The Space Needle’s contest isanother step toward fulfilling his visionof the space program from more than50 years ago, he said.—Internet

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Healthy foods a growth industry as boomers age

STOWE (Vt), 3 Aug—Food andbeverage companies will need to gearup and churn out healthier food andproducts for aging baby boomers inthe United States, a group which trackseating habits said in a report onTuesday. Joe Derochowski, executivedirector of the NPD Group, told theannual meeting of the industry groupAmerican Sugar Alliance that the “nextagent of change” in food eatingpatterns will come from people turning50 or older.

Some of more than 8,000lbs oflocally grown broccoli from apartnership between Farm to

School and Healthy School Mealsis served in a salad to students at

Marston Middle School in SanDiego, California, on 7 March,

2011.—INTERNET

Foods rich in sugar has beenblamed in part for rising obesity ratesin the United States. But sugar industrygroups dispute that, saying that eatingtoo much food without exercise orphysical activity is also to blame aswell. NPD is a group that has beentracking the eating patterns ofAmericans for the past 30 years.Derochowski is with the group’s Foodand Beverage Services.

“With the populationaging...there’s going to be money tobe made selling health,” he said.“That’s the driver. It’s all these people50 plus (years old). It’s the boomersand the empty nesters.”

Baby boomers normally refer topeople born from 1946 to 1964,according to the US Census Bureau,and make up a surge in births afterWorld War Two. Boomers are definedas a demographic group whose tastesand consumption patterns were closelyfollowed because of their impact andsheer size in society. The first boomersare now retiring and their choice offood or health care is seen by analystsas having a huge impact in theeconomy.—Reuters

A nursing motherholds her son in frontof the Delta airlines

counter during aprotest over

breastfeeding on Deltaplanes at Fort

Lauderdale airport,Florida in this on 21November, 2006 file

photo. —INTERNET

US hospitals poor at breast-feedingsupport

ATLANTA, 3 Aug—UShospitals are not doingenough to encouragemothers to breast-feedtheir newborns, raisingthe risk of childhoodobesity, diabetes andother conditions,according to a federalstudy released onTuesday. Less than 4percent of the country’shospitals fully supportbreast-feeding, said areport issued by the USCentres for DiseaseControl and Prevention.

In nearly 80 percentof hospitals, healthybabies who are beingbreast-fed are givenformula even when thereis no medical need for it,making it more difficultto continue breast-feeding at home, thereport says. Only a thirdof hospitals have“rooming in” policies thatallow babies to stay inthe hospital room with

their mothers 24 hours aday, which can increaseb r e a s t - f e e d i n gopportunities.

Nearly 75 percent ofhospitals do not provideadequate support for

mothers once they leave,including follow-up visitsand phone calls, the reportsaid. The American Acad-emy of Pediatrics re-commends feeding babiesonly breast milk until theyare six months old andcontinuing breast-feedingfor at least a year. Only 15percent of motherscurrently breast-feedexclusively for sixmonths, CDC DirectorThomas Frieden toldreporters on Tuesday.“We’re a very long wayfrom where we need tobe,” he said. Failure topromote breast-feedingcosts the US healthcaresystem $2.2 billionannually, Frieden said.

If breast-feeding ishalted too early, babieshave a higher risk ofobesity, diabetes, re-spiratory and ear in-fections, and suddeninfant death syndrome,the CDC said.—Reuters

Asian stocks fall amid dim US economyprospects

A currency tradergestures in front of ascreen showing the

Korea composite stockprice index, left, and

the exchange ratebetween the US dollarand the South Korean

won at the KoreaExchange Bank

headquarters in Seoul,South Korea, on 3

Aug, 2011.—INTERNET

SEOUL, 3 Aug—Asian stocks fell sharplyWednesday as relief theUS averted a debtdefault gave way toincreasing pessimismover prospects for the

world’s biggest eco-nomy. Oil extendedlosses, trading near $93a barrel amid expect-ations slower USeconomic growth willcrimp demand for crude.

Japan’s Nikkei 225index slid 2.2 percent to9,627.12 and HongKong’s Hang Seng shed1.7 percent to 22,041.87.

South Korea’sbenchmark Kospi indextumbled 2.7 percent to2,064.84. Stock marketsin Australia, Taipei andSingapore also dropped.

There “seems to be alot of fear in the market,a lot of panic,” saidJackson Wong, vicepresident at TanrichSecurities in Hong Kong,citing worries that theterms of a deal signed byPresident Barack Obamaon Tuesday to avert aUS default may worsenan already slowingeconomy. China’s

Shanghai CompositeIndex, bucked the trend,gaining 0.3 percent to2,686.59. The declinesin Asia followed a sharpdrop on Wall Street onTuesday on a series ofweak economic reportsand poor earnings fromseveral big companies.

Internet

In this on 1 Oct, 2010 file photo,visitors inspect the new 2011 ChevroletCruze Hatchback during a press day of

the Paris Auto Show. —INTERNET

US auto industry uneasy after weak Julysales

DETROIT, 3 Aug—Auto sales roseonly slightly in July as skittish Americanconsumers pulled back on car buyingand threatened to derail the industry’sfragile recovery. With the economyweak, popular cars in short supply anddealers offering very few discounts,carmakers endured a third straightmonth of disappointing sales. Just over1 million new cars and trucks were soldin the month, up 1 percent from last July

and flat with June. Sales started strongthis year but have slowed as the economyfaltered and Japan’s earthquake leftToyota and Honda dealers short ofpopular models. Unemployment roseto 9.2 percent earlier this summer, thehighest level this year, and consumerconfidence is shaky.

“We’re still not back on the track ofrecovery yet,” said Jeff Schuster,executive director of global forecastingat JD Power and Associates. “There’sdefinitely some weakness kind oflooming out there.” Adding to buyers’worries in July was the governmentdebate over the debt ceiling.“Uncertainty, in our business, is alwaysbad for consumers,” GM Vice Presidentof Sales Don Johnson said.—Internet

Indonesia mulls to stop mineral commodityexport by 2014

JAKARTA, 3 Aug — In a bid to protect national industry andpreserve the country’s natural resources deposit, Indonesiaplans to stop mineral commodity export by 2014.

A senior official at Indonesian government said that theongoing massive mineral commodity export would drain outnatural resources deposits and exacerbate national industry dueto the lack of fuel originated from natural resources to runmanufactures.

Director General International Industry Cooperation at theindustry Ministry Agus Tjahajana said that the plan to stopmineral resources export would be applied to all countries towhich Indonesia used to export its mineral commodities, includingChina, India, Japan, the United States and South Korea.

Agus said that the ministry is recommending an issuance ofparticular regulation that charges higher levies for mineralcommodities export before the policy to stop mineral commodityis imposed in 2014.—Xinhua

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Man suspected in tourist deathsMan suspected in tourist deathsarrested in Mexico

Moises Montero, aka‘The Korean’, suspected

of being the leader ofthe ‘ Independent’ drug

cartel of Acapulco,walks down a vehicle

escorted by policeofficers before hispresentation to the

media in Mexico City,on 2 Aug, 2011.

INTERNET

MEXICO CITY, 3 Aug—An allegeddrug trafficker suspected of helpingabduct and kill 20 Mexican touristshas been arrested in the resort city ofAcapulco, federal police saidTuesday.

Moises Montero Alvarez,nicknamed “The Korean,” wascaptured Monday along with a 21-year-old and two teenagers believedto be accomplices. Alvarez issuspected of being a leader in thelocal Independent Cartel of Acapulco.

Alvarez, 42, is accused of helpingto carry out the 30 Sept kidnapping of20 vacationing men from Michoacanstate. Some of the men’s decomposedbodies were later found in a massgrave.

Authorities believe the tourists had

been mistaken by drug traffickers formembers of the rival La Familia cartel.

Alvarez is also suspected ofordering the killings of rival cartelmembers at in the port of Acapulco,the kidnapping of police officers andthe 7 April burning of a supermarketthat left at least one man dead. He waspreviously arrested in 1999 onextortion charges, police said.

Federal police have reported morethan a dozen killings have beenreported in the area in the last twodays. In one case, a 35-year-old man’storso and right arm were found on abusy street near the 23-storybeachfront Grand Hotel Acapulco. Inanother, a taxi was found with thebodies of three men in their 20s killedwith assault rifles.—Internet

Four UN peacekeeperskilled by mine in Abyei

ABYEI, 3 Aug—A landmine on Tuesday killedfour Ethiopian UN peacekeepers and badlywounded seven others on patrol in the disputedSudanese territory of Abyei, the UN said.

Most of the 4,200 Ethiopian troops in Abyeihave been in the territory on the border betweennorth and South Sudan for less than a week.

The Khartoum government, whose forces hadoccupied the village where the explosion occurred,has signed the Ottawa treaty banning the use ofanti-personnel mines.

A UN peacekeeping spokesman said the seveninjured had been airlifted to Kadugli, main city inthe Sudanese state of South Kordofan where thereis a UN medical facility.

The landmine detonated in the village of Mabok,which is southeast of the territory’s main town ofAbyei.

The village had been occupied by northSudanese forces.

The UN Security Council approved the sendingof the Ethiopian peacekeeping force to Abyei on 27June in a bid to douse tensions ahead of southernSudan’s split from the north.

The Ethiopian peacekeepers were to monitorthe withdrawal of north Sudan troops who occupiedAbyei on 21 May. More than 100,000 people fledthe territory, mainly to southern Sudan, after theoffensive.—Internet

A handout picture released by the UnitedNations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) shows UNpeacekeepers patrolling north of Abyei, in May

2011. A landmine on Tuesday killed fourEthiopian UN peacekeepers and badly woundedseven others on patrol in the disputed Sudanese

territory of Abyei, the UN said.—INTERNET

Australia pensioner arrested on ‘ice’drug charges

as ice, Australian police said onWednesday.

The man, from Sydney’s wealthynorth, was picked up by policeinvestigating the manufacture ofmethylamphetamine while he wasdriving north of the city on Tuesdayafternoon.

They said a search of the vehicleuncovered 24 litres of what was lateridentified as methylamphetamine oil.

It prompted a search of a home onthe New South Wales Central Coast,described as a “safe house”, whichallegedly contained another 26 litresof meth oil, two firearms andammunition.

“Nothing surprises me in relationto people involved in drugs,” saidDetective Superintendent DeborahWallace.

Internet

SYDNEY, 3 Aug—A 73-year-oldman has been arrested and chargedwith possessing enough chemicals tomake Aus$12.5 million (US$13.4million) of the stimulant drug known

A 73-year-old man has beenarrested and charged in Sydney

with possessing enough chemicalsto make Aus$12.5 million (US$13.4

million) of the stimulant drugknown as ice, Australian police

said.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug—One police officer waskilled and two otherswounded Tuesday in ashootout with a man inRapid City in the westernUS state of South Dakota,local media reported.

The shooting startedTuesday afternoon whenthree officers came intocontact with a group offour people, whosebehavior was “suspic-ious,” local police chiefSteve Allender wasquoted as saying.

One of the men laterpulled a gun andexchanged fire with theofficers, who woundedthe suspect, Allendersaid.

The unidentifiedsuspect was undergoingsurgery after being sentto a local hospital. Hiscondition remainsunknown.—Xinhua

One policeofficer killedin S Dakota

fatal shooting

RIO DE JANEIRO, 3 Aug—A Brazilian Air Forceplane crashed in the country’s southern state SantaCatarina Tuesday, killing all eight passengersaboard, the Brazilian military said.

The plane took off from Rio de Janeiro at 11:35am local time (1435 GMT) and disappeared fromthe radar screen before it crashed into a ravine andexploded 135 km away from Florianopolis, capitalof the state, the Brazilian Air Force said in a Pressrelease late Tuesday.

The C-98A Grand Caravan plane was from atransport unit of the Brazilian Air Force, it said.

A witness said that he saw the plane diving intothe ground before it exploded and caught fire.

This is the fifth accident involving Brazilian AirForce planes in 2011. The previous four crasheskilled five people.

The Brazilian Air Force said it had launched aninvestigation into the accident.

Xinhua

Norwegian stores withdraw violent videogames after attacks

to stumble upon violentvideo games whilebuying milk and breadin our stores,” he said.

In a 1,500-pagemanifesto posted online,Behring Breivik said hewas a fan of “World ofWarcraft” and “Call ofDuty - Modern Warfare”and that he had playedthe games whilepreparing his rampage.

Coop told itslocations which carriedvideo games — 50 of900 stores — to removeabout 50 products fromits aisles, including thegames cited by BehringBreivik.—Internet

withdrawn from anumber of stores acrossNorway, one co-opchain said Tuesday.

Coop Norge, one ofthe country’s majorgrocery store chains andits main co-op, said ittook the decision “out ofrespect” for the familiesof the 77 people slain inthe twin attacks.

The move waslaunched on 24 July “tospare people who, in oneway or another, wereaffected by the terroristacts,” the chain’s directorfor non-food items GeirInge Stokke told AFP.

“We don’t want them

OSLO, 3 Aug—Twovideo games used by far-right extremist AndersBehring Breivik inplanning his 22 Julykilling spree have been

The video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” isone of several video games that have been

withdrawn from a number of stores across Norwayin the wake of the 22 July killing spree.—INTERNET

Eight killed in BrazilianAir Force plane crash

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Pockets of high radiation remind ofFukushima plant danger

TOKYO, 3 Aug—Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected atJapan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a fresh reminder of therisks faced by workers battling to contain the worst nuclear accident sinceChernobyl.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) reported on Monday thatradiation exceeding 10 sieverts (10,000 millisieverts) per hour was found atthe bottom of a ventilation stack standing between two reactors.

On Tuesday Tepco said it found another spot on the ventilation stack itselfwhere radiation exceeded 10 sieverts per hour, a level that could lead toincapacitation or death after just several seconds of exposure.

The company used equipment to measure radiation from a distance andwas unable to ascertain the exact level because the device’s maximum readingis 10 sieverts.—Internet

Debris is seen at Unit 3 of the tsunami-crippledFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in

Fukushima prefecture, in this picture taken on 12July and released on 1 August, 2011.—INTERNET

No one injuredin Russian

military planeemergency

landingin Far EastVLADIVOSTOK, 3

Aug— A Russianmilitary plane made anemergency landing earlyWednesday morning inat the PetropavlovskKamchatsky airport inthe Far East after a failureof one of its four engines,but none of all the 23people onboard wereinjured. An A-50 — aRussian airbornewarning and controlsystem aircraft based onthe Ilyushin Il-76transport plane —landed after emptying itsfuel tanks, local reportssaid. In many aspects,the A-50 is comparableto the E-3 Sentry of theUS Air Force.

It is fitted with anaerial refueling systemand electronic warfareequipment, and candetect targets up to 400km away. —Xinhua

Homeless man arrested for climbingover White House fence

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug—A homeless man wasarrested on Tuesday forclimbing over the WhiteHouse fence, the USSecret Service said.

The man, identifiedas James Dirk Crudup,41, was taken intocustody Tuesdayevening by SecretService agents who areguarding the WhiteHouse complex aroundthe clock. He has been

Passengers check the exchange rate outside acurrency exchange shop in Geneva, Switzerland

on 2 Aug, 2011. The exchange rate for Euroversus Swiss francs hit record low on Tuesday,at around 1.10, the lowest ever since the debut

of Euro in 1999.—XINHUA

Debris from space shuttle Columbia disasterfound in Texas

LOS ANGELES, 3 Aug—A piece ofdebris from NASA’s space shuttleColumbia has been discovered inTexas, eight years after the 2003disaster that destroyed the spacecraftand killed its seven-astronaut crewduring re-entry, NASA officialsconfirmed today (2 Aug).

The debris was discovered lastweek in eastern Texas. It is a roundaluminum power reactant storage anddistribution tank from Columbia,which disintegrated over Texas as itre-entered Earth’s atmosphere near theend of a 16-day science mission.

This Aug. 1, 2011 handout photoprovided by the Nacogdoches

Police Department shows a 4-feetin diameter sphere found

in Lake Nacogdoches,Texas on 1 Aug.

XINHUA

The tank was discovered in anexposed area of Lake Nacogdoches,in Nacogdoches, Texas, about 160miles northeast of Houston.

“The only reason it’s exposed isbecause there’s a drought going onand the tank was under the lake,” LisaMalone, a NASA spokeswoman at theagency’s Kennedy Space Centre inFlorida, told SPACE.com. “The tankitself is full of mud.”

Nacogdoches police informedNASA of the find and sent pictures foridentification.

Internet

US Coast Guard crew members from the CutterOak offload some of the 15,000 pounds ofcocaine worth more than $180 million on 2August, 2011 in Miami Beach, Florida. The

cocaine was seized from a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel in the western Caribbean

Sea on 31 July.INTERNET

Tropical storm Emilythreatens

Puerto Rico,Dominican Republic,

HaitiMEXICO CITY, 3 Aug— Tropical

Storm Emily Tuesday continued itsway to the northeast of the CaribbeanSea and brought heavy rains andwinds to Puerto Rico on its way to theDominican Republic and Haiti.

The US National Hurricane Centre(NHC) said the storm which was still“little organized,” could bring 15centimeters of rain to Puerto Rico andthe Dominican Republic, enough tocause flooding and landslides in areasthat had already received considerablerainfalls.

The storm, which formed onMonday, marks the beginning of themost active months of the hurricaneseason in the Atlantic Ocean.

Emily passed near the DominicanRepublic. On Tuesday morning, NHCmeteorologists said that Emily waslocated at 425 km southeast of SanJuan, Puerto Rico, and had winds of65 km per hour (KPH).

The rain hit hardest western PuertoRico, largely sparing the capital. Localgovernments have declared a state ofemergency and most governmentoffices were closed.

Xinhua

Heat claims 12 lives in US city of DallasHOUSTON, 3 Aug— Twelve people have died from the heat in

the US city of Dallas this summer, as a record-breaking heatwave is scorching many US states, officials said Tuesday.

Dallas, the third largest city in Texas, has had over 100degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) for 32 straight days asof Tuesday, with 12 heat deaths confirmed since mid-June,according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s office.Temperatures are expected to reach record highs this week inseveral major Texas cities, including Dallas, Austin and SanAntonio. Parts of at least 14 US states have been suffering fromextremely high temperatures, according to the National WeatherService. Moreover, the blazing temperatures have caused dozensof deaths across the central United States, US media reported.

For example, in Oklahoma, high temperatures have killed 11people, CNN quoted a state health official as saying. An excessiveheat warning has been issued until Friday for most of Oklahoma.

Xinhua

transferred to District ofColumbia police forprocessing, SecretService spokesman EdDonovan said.

Crudup had abackpack with him, andit was examined forpossible explosivematerial. He facescharges of unlawfulentry and contempt ofcourt for violating a courtorder to stay away fromthe White House,

Donovan added.US President Barack

Obama was believed tobe in the White House atthe time.

Secret Serviceagents were leadingCrudup across the NorthLawn on thePennsylvania Avenueside of the White House,according to a videoreport by the US TV newsnetwork CNN.

Xinhua

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Agriculturists to takepart… (from page 1)briefed them on arrangements for broadening thehorizon of farmers from rural areas with 14-pointgood agricultural methods through TV, Radio andnewspapers.

Managing Director U Kyaw Win of MyanmaAgriculture Service conducted the students round thehigh yield paddy, sunflower and sugarcane plantations.

The students viewed farming equipment andvehicles.

The 420 students and faculty members ofexcursion group observed facts about the integratedfarm.—MNA

Union Mines Minister receivesChinese delegations

NAY PYI TAW, 3Aug—Union Minister forMines U Thein Htaikreceived Vice-President ofPoly Mining Co Ltd inBeijing, the Republic ofChina, Mr. Liu Jie andparty at his office here thismorning.

The talks focusedon bilateral cooperation for

mining explorations.The Union minister

also received ChairmanMr. Zhang Hui of ChinaNational Complete PlantImp & Exp. Yunan CoLtd (COMPLANTYUNAN) in Kunming,Yunan Province, China,and party at the samevenue at noon today.

Also present at thecalls were the directors-general of the MiningDepartment and theGeological Survey andMinerals ExplorationDepartment, and themanaging directors of No.2 Mining Enterprise andthe Myanma GemsEnterprise.—MNA

Union Minister U Thein Htaik receives Vice-President Mr Liu Jie andparty of Poly Mining Co Ltd in Beijing, the Republic of China. —MNA

Students from Yezin University of Agricultureobserving model integrated farm in Zabuthiri

Township, Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Bago Region held a workcoordination meeting atBago Region governmentyesterday.

In his address, BagoRegion Chief Minister UNyan Win called forgrowing rice in the fieldsthat had been floodedrecently, and increasing

Bago Region meets to coordinateagricultural work

use of heavy machinery inthe harvest season.

The secretary of BagoRegion governmentreported the lists of theflooded rice paddies andthe fields put under riceagain.

Attendees reported onagricultural work,conditions of the dams,

flooded rice paddies andthe fields in compensationof flood areas.

At the opening ofAyeyawady Bank (BagoBranch) on Yangon-Mandalay Highway inBago this morning, thechief minister unveiled thebank and inspected thesections around it.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug— At the meetinghall of Chin State Government, UnionMinister for Forestry U Win Tun on 1August made a donation for a BasicMiddle School in Chonkyone Village, HakaTownship, Chin State, with a ceremonywhich Chin State Chief Minister U Hong

Plywood sheets donated for school in Haka

Ngai addressed.On behalf of the Union Minister,

the Chief Minister presented a total of375 Plywood sheets to be used inrepairing the school’s ceilings throughthe headmaster and members of schoolboard of trustees.—MNA

On behalf of Union Minister U Win Tun, Chin State MinisterU Hong Ngai presents plywood sheets to headmaster and members

of school board of trustees.—MNA

YANGON, 3 Aug—The selected team ofMyanmar WushuFederation will take partin the 6th Asian YouthWushu Championship inShanghai of the People’sRepublic of China from16to 20 August.

The team led byPresident of the federationDr Sai Hsam Tun withmanager U Tun Tun Oo in

Myanmar to compete inAsian Youth Wushu C’ship

Sanshou event and UKhun Ja Aung in Taoluevent will comprise twoforeign coaches andMyanmar coaches UAung Lwin in Sanshouevent and U Naing NaingAung in Taolu events,referees U Khin Soe andU Aung Sithu, menathletes Kyaw Zin Thit,William Thein Tun, SeinThiha Aung, Win Maw

Oo and Wai Lyan Lin andwomen athletes Myat ThetHsu Wai Phyo, ThantSusan, Aye Thitsa Myint,Thu Htoo San and HsuHlaing Oo.

President Dr SaiHsam Tun and managersU Tun Tun Oo and UKhun Ja Aung will attendthe technical committeemeeting of Asian WushuFederation.—MNA

YANGON, 3 Aug—President of the Republicof the Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambersof Commerce andIndustry U Win Aung left

RUMFCCI President leaves for Cambodiahere by air for Cambodiaon 1 August morning toattend Greater MekongSub-region (GMS) 17th

Ministerial Conference tobe held at Phnom Penh

from 2 to 4 August.He was seen off at

Yangon InternationalAirport by Vice-PresidentsU Zaw Min Win, U TunAung and officials.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug— Bago RegionChief Minister U Nyan Win receivedIsraeli Ambassador to the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar Mr YaronMayer at Bago Region governmentoffice here this morning.

Also present at the call wereRegion Minister for Finance andRevenue U Myint Lwin Oo and

Bago Region Chief Minister receives IsraeliAmbassador

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug — UnionMinister for Agriculture and IrrigationU Myint Hlaing met the principal,lecturers and trainees at MeiktilaAgricultural Mechanization TrainingSchool yesterday afternoon.

After hearing report submitted byManaging Director U Thein Swe ofMyanma Industrial CropsDevelopment Enterprise at the hall of

Research: key to exceeding rice and oildemands

Shwedaung agricultural researchfarm, the Union Minister called forextracting the fruits of research infulfilling rice and oil demands.

An official reported the UnionMinister on research works of thefarm.

The Union Minister left necessaryinstructions and inspected the researchfarm.—MNA

Secretary of the Region GovernmentU Maung Maung Than.

MNA

Kyeeni Lake designed...(from page 16)

and from the watercourses whose sources are onwestern central Yoma mountain ranges flows intothe lake. The spilled water from the lake flows tosouthern Nawin and northern Samon. The lake hasfive sluice gates. The catchment areas of the LephyuCreek, the Kyauktin Creek that rises upstreamMyaungmadaw, and the Pothudaw Creek total 68square miles. The full surface area of the lake is1525 acres. It is 15 feet high with 12,300 feet longembankment (north) and 9500 feet long

embankment (south). It can store as many cubicacre feet of water as 8066. Its arable acreage is6500.

No. 1 Canal has been straightened, rock-filledretaining walls of No. 1 Canal and No. 2 Canalhave been built. And a two-foot rock-filled guardrails have been built to ensure that motorbikes andbicycles do not slew into the lake accidentally.The road leading to the lake and the bridge havebeen built. So, the project really bringsconsiderable benefit to local residents. Ruralproducts can be delivered promptly to other regionsonly with smooth transport. So, priority has given

to repair to the road. As a result, local peopleenjoy smooth transport from and to school, marketand work.

Yamethin Township gets higher-than-everrainfall in the late monsoon, thus filling the damsand lakes in it with water. In the 2011 season, localfarmers grew 2333 acres of summer rice, wellexceeding the target of 1800 acres.

Therefore, local farmers are getting well onwith their agricultural farming and will soon makegreater profits.

Translation: MSKyemon: 3-8-2011

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—DeputyMinister for Culture Daw Sanda Khinon 31 July met departmentalpersonnel of Mandalay Region at theNational Theatre (Mandalay).

The deputy minister visited U PeinBridge, Tilawkaguru Cave,Ariyawuntha Monastery, stoneinscription in the precinct of HtupayonPagoda, Asaykhan Fort, BuddhologyMuseum and Culture Museum.

On 1 August, she observed muralpaints at ancient pagodas in Inwa region,Gugyi Thonlo pagodas in Pinya regionand Inwa archaeological museum.

Deputy Culture Minister on tour of Mandalay,Amarapura, Sagaing, Pinya, Inwa

In the evening, she viewed rehearsalof cultural show to be presented to thepublic at the National Theatre(Mandalay).

The deputy minister met MandalayRegion Development MinisterU Phone Zaw Han and discussedcultural tasks.

Yesterday morning, the deputyminister visited ShwenandawMonastery, Maha Atula Waiyan(Atumashi Monastery), MyananSankyaw Golden palace andAmarapura Kyauktawgyi Pagoda andThudhamma public rest houses.—MNA

Union Minister U Myint Hlaing inspects agricultural implements atMeiktila Agricultural Mechanization Training School.—MNA

Bago Region Chief Minister U Nyan Win receives Israeli AmbassadorMr Yaron Mayer.—MNA

Deputy Minister for CultureDaw Sanda Khin views stoneinscription in the precinct of

Htupayon Pagoda in Sagaing.MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug — On-jobtraining course No.34 for auditors ofthe Union Auditor-General Office wasopened at the office here today.

At the opening ceremony, UnionAuditor-General U Lun Maungdelivered an opening address, calling

Over 100 auditors receive auditing skills

for the trainees to stand with the peopleand stay away with corruption whenthey carry out auditing work and tobecome good audits.

A total of 104 audits are attendingthe course.

MNA

Union Auditor-General U Lun Maung addresses opening of on-jobtraining course No.34 for auditors.—MNA

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Union A&I Minister receives Chinese guestsNAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Union Minister for

Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing receivedChairman Mr Yan Lijin and party of CETCInternational Co Ltd of China at the ministry, here,this morning.

They discussed cooperation in modern agriculturalcomprehensive development programme ofMyanmar.

They coordinated development of production ofpaddy in Myanmar, development of sugarcane crop,investment of CETC Co in construction of 200,000-ton sugar mill and fertilizer plants, long-term mutualinterest for cooperation in agricultural technology.

Also present at the call were Deputy MinisterU Ohn Than, and departmental heads of departments andenterprises.—MNA

Union Minister receives Indian AmbassadorNAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—

Union Minister forCommunications, Postsand Telegraphs U TheinTun received Ambassadorof the Republic of India tothe Republic of the Unionof Myanmar Dr VillurSundararajan Seshadri at

his office here thismorning.

They talked aboutmatters for boostingbilateral cooperation inmobile communication,upgrading Mandalay-Kalay-Tamu comm-unication link, seeking fields

of companies of the twocountries to work togetherin IT, and technologicalcoope-ration.

Also present at thecall were Deputy MinisterU Tint Lwin anddepartmental heads.

MNA

Mine blast injures one monk, one personNAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—A mine on

Namhan-SiU village road in MansiTownship planted by insurgentsexploded at about 9 am on 19 July,causing injuries to one monk andone person.

Sayadaw U Agga Dhamma, sonof U Nyein, from the monastery ofNamthan Village of Mansi Townshipand U Aung Min, son of U HlaMaung, from the same villagedriving off on a motorcycle on theirway from Namthan Village to

Tonkwa Village of Mabain Township hitthe mine. The mine blast caused theminjuries (not serious). The two injuredwere rushed to Mabain TownshipPeople’s Hospital and being provided withnecessary requirements.

The insurgents are committingrebellious acts persistently to destabilizepeace and stability of the State andcause public panic. Officials requestthe people to come forward withinformation if they find anysuspicions.—MNA

Family members of former soldier Reyes CollinGualip (C, back facing camera), on trial foraccusations of massacre during the civil war,

embrace after his sentence was read at theSupreme Court in Guatemala City on 2 Aug,2011. Guatemala on Tuesday sentenced four

soldiers, including Gualip, who belonged to anelite unit known as the Kaibiles, to 6,060 years

of prison each, in the first conviction for amassacre during the country’s brutal 36-yearcivil war. More than 200 people were killed

when Guatemalan soldiers attacked thenorthern village of Las Dos Erres in 1982 at the

height of Guatemala’s civil war.—XINHUA

Promising ovarian cancer drug trialBLOOMINGTON, 3

Aug—An experimentaltwo-drug combination totreat late-stage ovariancancer is producingstrong results, IndianaUniversity researcherssay.

Kenneth Nephew, acancer researcher in theIndiana UniversityMedical SciencesProgramme-Blooming-ton, says a surprising 70percent of patients in thephase II trial show apositive effect from thenew therapy.

The researchers saythey may have discoveredbiomarkers that couldhelp identify women whowould respond best to thetherapy. “The potentialthat this regimen isefficacious, combiningdecitabine with thecarboplatin therapy, isvery exciting,” Nephewsays in a statement. “It’swell tolerated and didn’thave any dose-limitingtoxicities. We couldenroll patients withconfidence because ofthese results.”

Lead investigator Dr

Daniela Matei, anoncologist and associateprofessor of medicine atthe Indiana UniversitySchool of Medicine, saysthe women in this phaseII study had alreadyundergone otherexperimental therapiesonce their cancer hadbecome resistant to

carboplatin, so the highrate of womenexperiencing a positiveeffect from theircarboplatin-decitabinecombo was surprising, aswas the number ofwomen who remained inremission after sixmonths.

Internet

Mexico police detain prison director, four guards

A car runs on a highway in northChina’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous

Region on 2 Aug, 2011. The totallength of highways in Inner Mongolia

stands at 157,000 kilometers,including 2,365 kilometres of

freeways, which will extend to 6,000kilometres in 2015.—XINHUA

CIUDAD JUAREZ, 3A u g — M e x i c a nauthorities say theyhave detained thedirector and four guardsat a prison in CiudadJuarez where 17 inmateswere killed in fightinglast week.

Chihuahua stateprosecutors say in aTuesday statement thatCiudad Juarez state

prison director LucioCuevas is accused ofgiving privileges tosome inmates and thefour guards of coveringup for inmates andcorrupting minors.Authorities in the bordercity said 16 male and 1female inmates werekilled in a fight at theprison.A surveillance video

shows two inmatesopening doors to allowarmed prisoners into aroom where the slainvictims were reportedlyholding a party.Prosecutors areinvestigating reports thatguards brought fourwomen, including aminor, into the prisonbefore the shootings.

Internet

Union Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs U Thein Tunreceives Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Dr Villur Sundararajan

Seshadri.—MNA

Union Minister for Agriculture and IrrigationU Myint Hlaing receives Chairman Mr Yan Lijinof CETC International Co Ltd of China.—MNA

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China’s steel industry rakesin higher output but weaker

profitability in H1BEIJING, 3 Aug—China’s steel output grew by

9.6 percent year-on-year in the first half to 350million tonnes, but its sales-profit ratio dropped to2.42 percent, the lowest in years, the Ministry ofIndustry and Information Technology (MIIT) saidTuesday.

The ministry said on its website that the soaringprice of iron ore was the main reason for the weakerprofitability. Chinese steel producers’ average sales-profit ratio stood at 7.26 in 2007. Since then, thefigure began to slip.

The transformation and upgrading of theindustry are urgently needed to enhance steelproducers’ competitiveness, MIIT said. In the firsthalf of this year, China imported 334 million tonnesof iron ore, 8.1 percent more that the same periodlast year, with the average price up by 42.4 percentyear-on-year to 161 US dollars per tonne.

MIIT predicted steel output will hit a newrecord high of 690 million to 700 million tonnes in2011. “The whole industry will maintain highoutput but low profit for quite a long time,” MIITsaid.—Xinhua

Horn of Africa shows family planningneed

A displaced family

from Somalia

stand in front of

their makeshift

shelter in south

Mogadishu in

Hodan district on

1 August, 2011.

INTERNET

DAKAR, 3 Aug—TheHorn of Africa food crisisshows the need toprovide the world’s poorwith better access tofamily planning as partof efforts to prevent futuretragedies, the head of theUnited Nations Popula-tion Fund (UNFPA) said.The United Nations hasdeclared a famine in tworegions of southernSomalia, where 3.7million are going hungry,with over 12 millionpeople now in need ofurgent aid throughoutareas including northernKenya, Djibouti andEthiopia. Despite regularfood shortages and high

Brazil sets up securityagency for 2014 World

CupBRASILIA, 3 Aug—The Brazilian government

published on Tuesday in the Official Journal adecree creating the Special Secretariat of Securityfor Major Events, a body that is responsible for thesecurity in events such as 2014 World Cup.

According to Brazilian Justice Minister JoseEduardo Cardozo, the new secretariat will beresponsible for coordinating federal, state andmunicipal efforts in the field of public safety.

The body is also responsible for security at the2013 Confederations Cup, but not in Rio 2016Olympic Games, which remains under thejurisdiction of the Olympic Public Authority.

The decree provides the extinction of thesecretariat in July 2015, although a request forextension may be sent to Brazil’s Presidency, ifnecessary.

Under the command of the Federal Policecommissioner, Jose Ricardo Botelho, the secretariatwill have its own budget and will receive proposalsfrom all the states that will host the 2014 World Cupmatches.

Botelho said that the next steps will be thetraining of security forces, the purchase ofequipment and specific technologies.—Xinhua

Box at London’s Albert Hall on sale for $900,000LONDON, 3 Aug—A

five-seat box at theworld-famous RoyalAlbert Hall in London isup for sale for a princely£550,000 (630,000euros, $900,000), theestate agents saidTuesday.

Harrods Estatesdescribed the box, whichit is claimed contains thebest seats in the concerthall, as the “ultimate gift”for a loved one.

Although the samemoney would buy a two-bedroomed flat in theexclusive Chelseadistrict not far away, the865-year lease shouldgive the owner and theirdescendants enoughtime to make itworthwhile.

The box is the only

one left in the hall stillfeaturing its originaltimber veneer andmirrored panels, whileits location on the secondtier on the eastern side ofthe auditorium offersspectacular views of themain stage.

Shirley Humphrey,

sales and marketingdirector at HarrodsEstate, said: “The boxesat the Royal Albert Hallare extremely rare andthose with originalfeatures are even rarer,so we anticipate toreceive a high level ofinterest.

“This five-seat boxis perfect forentertaining, whether itis business or pleasure.”

The Royal AlbertHall was part of a planenvisaged by QueenVictoria’s consort PrinceAlbert to create an estateto promote theunderstanding andappreciation of the artsand sciences in the SouthKensington area ofLondon. When he diedin 1861, the plans wentahead and the hall wasopened in March 1871.Since then it has becomeone of Britain’s topmusic venues, hostingeverything from theseries of classicalconcerts known as theProms to gigs by Jay Z.

Internet

A five-seat box at the world-famous RoyalAlbert Hall in London is up for sale for a

princely £550,000 (630,000 euros, $900,000),the estate agents said Tuesday—INTERNET

Anime fans dressthemselves as theirfavourite animation

characters at theHong Kong

Convention andExhibition Centre insouth China’s Hong

Kong, on 2 Aug,2011. The 13th Ani-

Com & Games HongKong closed here

Tuesday.XINHUA

Saudi billionaire to build world’s tallest tower

RIYADH, 3 Aug—Saudi billionaire PrinceAlwaleed bin Talalunveiled plans Tuesdayto build the world’s

infant mortality, theregion’s population hasmore than doubled sinceit was hit by majordroughts in 1974, spurredby factors such as limitedcontraception use and atradition of large families.While stressing the rootcause of the crisis was therecent rain failures,UNFPA Ex-ecutiveDirector Ba-batundeOsotimehin said ithighlighted the plight ofthose living in parts ofthe world where the landstruggles to supporthuman life.

“We need to improvefood production ... andto work with member

states to ensure womenand particularly younggirls have access toeducation, includingsexual education, andaccess to health servicesand reproductive healthservices including familyplanning,” Osotimehintold Reuters in atelephone interview.

Reuters

tallest tower in the RedSea port city of Jeddah,signing a 4.6 billion riyal(755.52 million pounds)contract with Bin Laden

Group.The proposed tower,

which will rise more than1,000 metres and takejust over five years tocomplete, is thecentrepiece of theplanned Kingdom Citydevelopment being builtoutside Jeddah by PrinceAlwaleed’s KingdomHolding.

“Building this towerin Jeddah sends afinancial and economicmessage that should notbe ignored,” PrinceAlwaleed told reporters.

“It has a political depthto it to tell the world thatwe Saudis invest in ourcountry despite what ishappening around usfrom events, turmoil andrevolutions even.”

When completed,the tower would replaceDubai’s 828-metre BurjKhalifa as the tallesttower in the world. TheBurj Khalifa was builtby Emaar Properties fora total cost of $1.5 billion(921.3 million pounds).

Reuters

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Music fans enjoy them-selves at the ZhangbeiGrassland Inmusic Fes-tival held in ZhangbeiCounty, north China’sHebei Province, on 31July, 2011. The thirdZhangbei GrasslandInmusic Festival, lastingfrom 29 to 31 July, gath-ered 56 bands and artistsfrom at home and abroadand attracted tens of thou-sands of fans.—XINHUA

Man who found$200 convicted

of stealingPERTH, 3 Aug—An Aus-

tralian man was convictedof stealing for picking up$200 on a casino floor, offi-cials say. Adrian Lamonica-Miraglio, 22, was foundguilty in Perth Magistrate’sCourt on Monday on onecount of stealing,PerthNow.com reported.Lamonica-Miraglio, an ap-prentice refrigeration me-chanic, was having drinkswith friends at theBurswood Casino in Perth,Australia, March 27th whenhe noticed the $200 on thefloor. “I noticed there was anote on the floor … I putmy foot on it and draggedit,” Lamonica-Miraglio toldthe court. “Once I picked itup there were not that manypeople around. I hadn’t de-cided to do anything withit.” —Internet

Ancient Egypt was destroyed bydrought, discover Scottish experts

Snake rides car bonnetNEW YORK, 3 Aug — A family from

Tennessee had an unexpectedpassenger during a trip down a busyhighway. A large snake emerged fromthe windscreen wiper vents of their carand slithered across the bonnet beforefalling off the wing mirror.

Rachel and Tony Fisher, who filmedthe incident, think the snake had beenresting inside the car’s engine.

Internet

The researchers say their findingscould be applied to habitats around

the globe.— INTERNET

Study shows pollinators lured away by farmlandLONDON, 3 Aug—A study has chal-

lenged the idea that areas such as farm-land provide pollinating insects with a“corridor” between fragmented habitats.Researchers suggested that the pollinatorsin their survey were “fickle foragers” andwould concentrate on areas rich in pollenand nectar. The team warned that thesebehaviour could have an impact on rarenative plants that are pollinated by insects.The findings have been published in thejournal Current Biology.

The team of researchers from OxfordUniversity and Earthwatch UK said theirfindings were a surprise, as the resultchallenged the long-held assumption thatareas that were rich in resources wouldencourage the movement of pollinatorsfrom one group of native trees to another.However, they added, it actually created abarrier effect for non-specialist feeders.“Looked at from an insect’s point of view,it makes sense,” explained co-authorDavid Boshier.— Internet

Giant fungus discovered in China

Small fragments have brokenoff the single giant fungus.

INTERNET

LONDON, 3 Aug — The most massive fruitingbody of any fungus yet documented has beendiscovered growing on the underside of a treein China. The fruiting body, which is equivalentto the mushrooms produced by other fungispecies, is up to 10m long, 80cm wide andweighs half a tonne. That shatters the recordheld previously by a fungus growing in KewGardens in the UK.

The new giant fungus is thought to be atleast 20 years old. The first example of the newgiant fungus was recorded by scientists in 2008in Fujian Province, China, by Professor Yu-Cheng Dai of the Herbarium of biology at theChinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyangand his assistant Dr Cui.

Internet

EINBURGH, 3 Aug —They built the iconicpyramids and the GreatSphinx of Giza, whichstill stand as a monumentto their skills and tenacityto this day.

But the fall of the greatEgyptian Old Kingdommay have been helpedalong by a commonproblem which remainswith us now — drought.esearchers from theUniversity of St Andrewshave confirmed that asevere period of droughtaround 4,200 years ago.

Using seismicinvestigations with sound

waves, along with carbondating of a 100-metresection of sediment fromthe bed of Lake Tana inEthiopia, the team wereable to look back manythousands of years.

They were able to seehow water levels in thelake had varied over thepast 17,000 years, with thesediment signalling lushperiods but also times ofdrought. Lake Tana — thesource of the Blue Nileriver — flows to the WhiteNile at Khartoum andeventually to the NileDelta.

Internet

SUV crashes into bankROCHESTER, 3 Aug—A sport utility vehicle crashed

through the front doors of a bank in Rochester, NY,injuring five people, officials say. The SUV crashedthrough the glass doors of the Citizens Bank in WaringPlaza shortly after 9 am EDT on Monday morning, theRochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.

Rochester Police Lt Frank Alberti said the driver ofthe vehicle was backing out of a parking space afterleaving the bank. The driver then decided to pull backin to correct her angle and her foot slipped off the brakeand hit the gas. The SUV shattered the glass doors ofthe bank, coming to a halt against a counter in thebank’s main room.

Of the five people who were injured, four werestruck by the car. All were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Although still investigatingthe crash, police believe it to be an accident. — Internet

Smokers may feel depressedafter quitting

OTTAWA, 3 Aug—Researchers in Canada, usingan advanced brain imaging method, say they maybe able to explain why smokers are at high risk forclinical depression. Senior scientist Dr Jeffrey Meyerand colleagues at the Centre for Addiction andMental Health discovered that MAO-A levels in thebrain regions that control mood rose by 25 percent8 hours after withdrawal from heavy cigarettesmoking.

MAO-A “eats up” chemicals in the brain, suchas serotonin, that help maintain a normal mood.When MAO-A levels are higher, as in early cigarettewithdrawal, it means this removal process is overlyactive, making people feel sad. For this study,MAO-A was detected using a brain imagingtechnique called positron emission tomography.These levels were much higher than in a comparisongroup of non-smoking study participants.—Internet

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LOS ANGELES, 3 Aug—Leonardo DiCaprio is Hollywood’shighest-earning actor, making $77 million between May 2010 andMay 2011, Forbes.com said Monday.

Coming in at No 2 during the same period was Johnny Deppwith $50 million, followed by Adam Sandler with $40 million atNo 3, Will Smith with $36 million and Tom Hanks with $35million.

Rounding out the top tier are Ben Stiller with $34 million at No6, Robert Downey Jr with $31 million at No 7, Mark Wahlbergwith $28 million at No 8, and Tim Allen and Tom Cruise with $22million at No 9.

Internet

Really hungry

An US marathon racer braved a sore hip and a closeencounter with a caribou to become the first athlete on record torun the 92 miles (148 kms) of the road stretching through DenaliNational Park.

Bill VonderMehden, 34, a chef who works at one of thepark’s lodges, finished the run in a little over 25 hours spanning21-22 July. Running the entire road — the only one that goesthrough the park — was an unusual experience, even forsomeone accustomed to long-distance foot races, he said.

“It’s one thing to do a road race where there are aid stationsand people cheering you on,” he said. “Out there, there’s no aidstations. It’s just you and the moose and the bears.”

At one point, he said, he nearly had a head-on confrontationwith a caribou, but the animal veered off before the two collided.

Aside from the wild animals and mountain scenery, the onlycompany VonderMehden had for the entire run was a friend ona bicycle. VonderMehden first tried to run the length of the parkroad last year, but had to stop because of an injured ankle. Thisyear, he had similar problems with a hip, but persevered at aslower pace.

A Swedish man saidhe was detained bypolice for attempting tobuild a nuclear reactorin the kitchen of hishome.

The 31-year-oldAngelholm man, whosename was not released,told the HelsingborgsDagblad newspaper hehad been interested innuclear physics since hewas a teenager andrecently beganexperimenting at homewith radioactivematerials he obtainedfrom overseas and fromtaking apart a fire alarm,The Local reportedTuesday.

The man said hemade no effort to hidehis activities and evenblogged about hisexperiments.

However, he said

A 21-year-old Aberdeen, Wash,woman was admitted to the hospitalafter her mother allegedly bit off partof her ear, police say.

The incident began Fridayevening when the 21-year-old andher mother got into an argument,police told KXRO News Radio, inAberdeen. The daughter then wentout for the night and returned

Man detained overnuclear plans

Man runs 92 miles of Alaska’sDenali park road

Mother bites daughter’s ear offSaturday afternoon.

The daughter told police she andher 43-year-old mother then got intoa physical fight, which led to thedaughter biting her mother’s arm andthe mother biting off a substantialpart of the daughter’s right earlobeand causing damage to her outer ear.

The daughter was hospitalized.Medical personnel could not reattachthe severed ear part because it couldnot be found, the radio station said.

N e w s A l b u m

police contacted himafter he inquired to theSwedish RadiationAuthority about thelegality of constructinga nuclear reactor in hishome.

The man said theagency responded bysaying someone wouldbe sent to measure theradiation levels in hisapartment.

“When they camethey had the police withthem. I have had aGeiger counter and havenot detected a problemwith radiation,” the mansaid.

The man said policetook him in forquestioning, but he waslater released.

The resident said hewill focus on“theoretical” nuclearresearch in the future.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attendsa Japan premiere for the film“Inception” in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 July, 2010.—INTERNET

DiCaprio is highest-earning actor In this 22 Nov, 2010publicity image released

by ABC, CapriAnderson, the woman

who was found locked ina bathroom of actorCharlie Sheen’s hotel

room on 25 Oct, 2010 isshown during an

interview on “GoodMorning America,” in

New York.INTERNET

SANTA MONICA, 3 Aug—Court records show ajudge has granted Charlie Sheen’s request todismiss a lawsuit filed against a woman wholocked herself in the bathroom of an upscale NewYork hotel room that the actor left in tatters.

Sheen claimed Capri Anderson locked herselfin the bathroom of the Plaza Hotel because shehad taken one of his watches valued at $165,000.His lawsuit sought reimbursement.

Anderson told police the actor put his handsaround her throat during the raucous evening inlate October, but she managed to slip away.

Sheen sued Anderson for attempted extortionin November after she recounted her version ofevents on “Good Morning America.”

Court records show Sheen’s attorney weregranted a dismissal of the case without prejudiceon Friday, which means the actor could re-file.

Internet

Sheen withdraws lawsuitover NY hotel incident

The Irish band U2performs in July 2011in Montreal, Canada.Irish rock band U2has closed out what

was described as “themost successful

concert tour of alltime” over five

continents and twoyears, according to

concert promoter LiveNation.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 3Aug—Irish rock bandU2 has closed out whatwas described as “themost successful concerttour of all time” overfive continents and twoyears, according toconcert promoter LiveNation.

Liz Morentin, a LiveNation spokeswoman,told AFP Tuesday thefinal numbers are notyet in from the U2 “360degree Tour” but said“it surpassed $700million, beating theRolling Stones record”from a 2005-2007 tour.

Billboard magazine

U2 caps biggest concert tour eversaid the tour hauled insome $736 million,topping the $558million established byMick Jagger’s Stones,and also breaking therecord for tourattendance. The tourbegan 30 June inBarcelona, days afterthe death of MichaelJackson, and included110 events, ending 30July in Moncton,Canada.

During the tour, U2performed in theBalkans for the first timesince 1997 and playedthree home townconcerts at Dublin’s

Croke Park, beforeheading to California toperform in front of97,000 fans at the RoseBowl. A secondEuropean leg started inAugust 2010, featuringU2’s first appearancesin Russia and Turkeyand was followed byevents in Australia andNew Zealand.—Internet

Unbelievable! One out of tenworld’s most bizarre

relationship:Erica Eiffel, a soldierwho lives in San Fransisco, fell in

love with the Eiffel Tower. Shemarried it and changed her

surname to Eiffel.

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Soccer legends, New York Cosmos’Honorary President Pele signs a signa-ture sheet during the announcement ofthe New York Cosmos Opus in London, on 2 Aug, 2011.—INTERNET

Pele denies feud with Brazilian soccer chief

Colombia’s Jose Valencia, center,celebrates with teammates after

scoring during a U-20 World Cupgroup A soccer match against Mali in

Bogota, Colombia.— INTERNET

Host Colombia progresses at Under 20 World Cup

Portugal’s NelsonOliveira (C) celebrateswith teammates Pele(L), and Luis Martinsafter scoring during aU-20 World Cup groupB soccer match against

Cameroon in Cali,Colombia, on 2 Aug,

2011.—INTERNET

Palermo’s Argentinianmidfielder Javier Pastore

Pastore: ‘I am going to bea PSG player’

Everton attacking midfielder Tim Cahill(R) and Fulham goalkeeper MarkSchwarzer return to the Australianline-up for their friendly against Wales on 10 August in Cardiff.—INTERNET

Cahill and Schwarzerback for Wales clash

LONDON, 3 Aug—Everton attackingmidfielder Tim Cahill and Fulham goal-keeper Mark Schwarzer return to theAustralian line-up for their friendlymatch against Wales in Cardiff, but HarryKewell is missing.

The England-based pair spearheadan 18-man squad announced Tuesdayby coach Holger Osieck for the August10 clash, but out-of-contract strikerKewell was overlooked.

Osieck said the former Liverpool starwas “not in very good shape”. BothKewell and captain Lucas Neill havebeen released by their Turkish clubGalatasaray but while Neill has main-tained a training regime, Kewell has notbeen as diligent.

“There is a slight difference betweenthe two of them - one is fit and one is notfit,” Osieck told reporters.—Internet

Sharapova unchallenged as world’s topearning female athlete

Russia’s MariaSharapova reacts

during her StanfordClassic tennis match

in Stanford, California,on 29 July.INTERNET

Thes file photo taken 29July, 2011, Australian

cyclist of the BMC teamand winner of the Tourde France, Cadel Evans

competes during the3rd Cibel race in

Sint-Niklaas,Belgium.—INTERNET

Woods returns to Firestoneafter 3-month break

Tiger Woods hits to theninth green during

practice for theBridgestone Invitational

golf tournament atFirestone Country Club

in Akron, Ohio on 2Aug, 2011.—INTERNET

Barcelona,Guadaljara tomeet in Miami

MIAMI, 3 Aug—Barce-lona soccer players got toswim with the dolphinsduring their stay in theUnited States.

David Villa, SergioBusquets, Victor Valdesand Pedro hopped in thetank Tuesday at the MiamiSeaquarium during a photoshoot. They’re enjoyingtheir downtime before thematch against Mexicanclub Chivas of Guadalajaraon Wednesday night at SunLife Stadium.

Barcelona will play thesecond game of its three-match U.S. tour. ManagerPep Guardiola knows therewon’t be many opportuni-ties to relax once the sea-son starts and his team be-gins defense of its Cham-pions League and SpanishLa Liga titles. “We arehappy to be here and playfar away from our home,”Guardiola said. — Internet

PARIS, 3 Aug—Argen-tine international JavierPastore’s protracted trans-fer to Paris Saint-Germainseems finally set to go

through after the playerannounced the move onhis own website.

“It can now officiallybe said that I am going tobe a Paris Saint-Germainplayer, all that remains isfor me to have my medi-cal and sort out some otherdetails,” the 22-year-oldtold javierpastore-dodici.blogspot.com.

PSG and Pastore’s cur-rent club Serie A sidePalermo have alreadyagreed a fee that could re-portedly reach 43 millioneuros, a French record.

Internet

AKRON, 3 Aug—TigerWoods was on the prac-tice range just as the sun

began to rise Tuesday overFirestone, his first time ona PGA Tour golf course innearly three months.

Even as the seasonheads toward a conclu-sion, Woods can’t wait toget started.”I’m excited tocompete, to play,” Woodssaid. “And hopefully, towin the tournament.”Thatpart about Woods hasn’tchanged.

It’s everything else inthe world of golf he onceruled that is so much dif-ferent. Woods showed upat the BridgestoneInvitational at No. 28, hislowest world rankingsince the start of his firstfull season on the PGATour.

Internet

BARRANQUILLA, 3 Aug—Host nationColombia became the first team to reachthe knockout stages of the Under 20 WorldCup by beating Mali 2-0 on Tuesday.Colombia has two convincing wins in itstwo games and even with one group gameto go, it is guaranteed of finishing either in

the top two in Group A or being amongthe best of the third-place teams. The hostnation’s form also signaled it was a legiti-mate contender for the title along withteams such as Spain, Brazil, Nigeria andsix-time champion Argentina.

In other games on Tuesday, Francebeat South Korea 3-1, Portugal defeatedCameroon 1-0 and Uruguay drew 1-1with New Zealand.

Jose Valencia scored for Colombia inthe 23rd minute and James Rodriguezadded another in the 90th, giving theSouth Americans six points in two matchesfollowing a 4-1 opening game victoryover France.

“I’m happy not only for the goal butbecause I helped the team reach our firstgoal which was to advance to the nextround,” Colombia’s James Rodriguezsaid. — Internet

ceive an official invitation for the 2014World Cup qualifying draw last week.

The Brazilian great needed an honor-ary ambassadorship from the govern-ment to attend the Rio de Janeiro eventon Saturday.

However, Pele said Tuesday fromLondon that he has “not had a fightwith Ricardo Teixeira” and he respectshim.

Teixeira also is the president of theWorld Cup’s local organizing commit-tee. He has been regularly attacked bythe Brazilian media for alleged irregu-larities while running soccer in the coun-try. A march in protest against his reignwas held before the draw.

Internet

LONDON, 3 Aug—Pele denies he’sfeuding with Brazilian soccer chiefRicardo Teixeira despite failing to re-

Cadel Evans to be honored with parade in AustraliaMELBOURNE, 3 Aug—Tour de France champion Cadel Evans will be welcomed home to

Australia next week with a parade through the capital of his home state of Victoria.It was initially thought Evans, the first Australian — and only third non-European — to win

the Tour, would not have time to return to Australia, but will make a brief trip home ahead of theinaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge starting 22 Aug in Colorado. The Victoria state govern-ment said Wednesday that Evans would be “honored with a public celebration of his achievementat Federation Square” in downtown Melbourne on 12 Aug.— Internet

NEW YORK, 3 Aug—Maria Sharapova may nothave won a grand slamtitle since 2008, but theRussian tennis player re-mains unchallenged as theworld’s highest paidwoman in professionalsports.

For the seventh straightyear, Sharapova toppedthe annual list providedby Forbes magazine, de-spite failing to add to herthree grand slam titles, al-though she did make theWimbledon final in July.

Sharapova’s earnings,mostly off-court endorse-ments, were estimated at$25 million, twice as much

as her nearest rival,Denmark’s CarolineWozniacki, the currentwomen’s world numberone.

American racing driverDanica Patrick was thirdwith $12 million followedby tennis players VenusWilliams, Belgium’s KimClijsters and SerenaWilliams.

Internet

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Local Transmission* Opening* News* A Visit to Htam Hsan Cave: A Miraculous Place* News

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MST

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Programme Schedule(4-8-2011) (Thursday)

* A Traditional Dish of Myanmar Lads* News* Song For You* A Gateway for Business Opportunities* News* “Pantomine In Yangon” Silent Comedy Show

(Episode-III)* Booming Business of Rakhine Coastal Region

Overseas Transmission* Opening* News* A Visit to Htam Hsan Cave: A Miraculous Place* News* A Traditional Dish of Myanmar Lads* News* Song For You

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

* A Gateway for Business Opportunities* News* “Pantomine In Yangon” Silent Comedy Show

(Episode-III)* Booming Business of Rakhine Coastal Region* News* Youth of The Future (Episode-10)* News* AGE Transformer Industry* News* MI People’s Celebrities “Stars in 2011”* IWT... Getting Ready for the People & the Country

(Part-1)* News* Music Gallery* Myin Ma Hti Natural Cave* Myanmar Movies “That’s why We’re”

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Region MissionarySayadaw

7:10 am

2. Morning News

7:20 am

3. FIFA U-20 WORLD

CUP 2011 (Live)

(Australia Vs

Costarica)

3:30 pm

1. Myanmar National

League MNL Grand

Royal Cup 2011

(Delay) (Yangon

United & Nay Pyi

Taw)

5:00 pm

2. Musical Programme

5:15 pm

3. Cute Little Dancer

5:25 pm

4. University of

Distance Education

(TV Lectures)

-First Year (Match)

5:35 pm

5. Songs for

Upholding

National Spirit

5:40 pm

6. Science and

Environment

6:00 pm

7. Evening News

Weather forecast for 4th August, 2011

6:15 pm 8. Weather Report6:20 pm 9. Myanmar Series6:35 pm10. Approachaing

Science Discovery World

7:00 pm11. TV Drama Series8:00 pm12. News13. International

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Jennifer Lopez talksabout split from Marc

AnthonyBEIJING, 3 Aug—Newly single mother of

two, Jennifer Lopez, recently explained herdecision to divorce from Marc Anthony on theSeptember cover of Vanity Fair.

“To understand that a person is not good foryou, or that that person is not treating you in theright way, or that he is not doing the right thingfor himself-if I stay, then I am not doing theright thing for me,” the “American Idol” hostsaid.

Lopez explained her decision to separatefrom Marc Anthony, saying “Sometimes itdoesn’t work and that’s sad.”

Tourist bus flips over inTurkey, 15 injured

ISTANBUL, 3 Aug—A tourist bus flipped overon Wednesday and injured 15 passengers inTurkey’s Mediterranean province of Antalya.

The bus carrying 25 tourists flipped over inthe Tasagil region of the province enroute to arafting center, the Turkish DHA news agencyreported, adding that one passenger was inserious condition.

The wet and slippery road is believed to bethe reason why the driver lost control of the bus.

According to the report, the 25 passengerscame from Iran, Russia and Britain.

Road safety in Turkey is poor and lots ofcasualties are reported annually.

Xinhua

Jennifer Lopez and her husband, MarcAnthony, posed at the news conference toannounce “The Jennifer Lopez and Marc

Anthony” collections.INTERNET

She told Vanity Fair that both she andAnthony wanted their seven-year marriage tolast longer. She felt as though her marriagewas robbing her of her identity: “Sometimeswe don’t realize that we are compromisingourselves.”

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthonyannounced their shocking split on July 9,2011. Married three times previously, Lopezalso divulged that the divorce was the hardestdecision she has ever made.

Xinhua

Sr.

No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 33/91 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershower 100%

2 Kayah 26/79 20/68 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 100%

3 Kayin 28/82 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershower (IH) 100%

4 Chin 20/68 13/55 Widespread rain or thundershower 100%

5 Upper Sagaing 30/86 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershower 100%

6 Lower Sagaing 36/97 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershower 100%

7 Taninthayi 29/84 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershower (IH) 100%

8 Bago 27/81 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershower (IH) 100%

9 Magway 32/90 27/81 Scattered rain or thundershower 100%

10 Mandalay 37/99 28/82 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 100%

11 Mon 31/88 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershower (IH) 100%

12 Yangon 31/88 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershower (IH) 100%

13 Rakhine 30/86 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershower (IH) 100%

14 Southern Shan 22/72 19/66 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 100%

15 Northern Shan 30/86 20/68 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 100%

16 Eastern Shan 27/81 21/70 Fairly widespread rain or thundershower 100%

17 Ayeyawady 30/86 25/77 Widespread rain or thundershower 100%

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 32/90 26/79 One or two rain or thundershower 100%

19 Neighbouring Yangon 31/88 23/73 Some rain or thundershower 100%

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 37/99 28/82 One or two rain or thundershower 100%

Summary of observations at 09:30 hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershower have been isolated in Lower Sagaing Region, scattered in Mandalay and Magway Regions, Kachin and Kayah States fairly widespread in Bago Region and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with regionally heavy falls in Mon State and isolated heavy falls in Kachin and Kayin States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Mudon (5.47) inches, Myitkyina (4.88) inches, Kawkareik (3.43) inches, Theinzayat (3.19) inches, Thandwe (2.87) inches, Yangon (Kaba-Aye) (2.72) inches, Taungup (2.64) inches and Bago (2.56) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is vigorous in the Andaman Sea and South Bay and strong elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Occassional squalls with rough seas will be experienced off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (40 to 45) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days

Increase of rains in the Costal Myanmar Areas.

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

5th Waxing of Wagaung 1373 ME Thursday, 4 August, 2011S

Kyeeni Lake designed for all-rounddevelopment in agricultural sectordevelopment in agricultural sectordevelopment in agricultural sector

By Reporter Nyunt Shwe

Being inspired by the good news that theIrrigation Department is taking steps fordevelopment Kyayni or Kyeeni Lake, south ofYamethin Township, I made a trip to the irrigationfacility together with Head U Sai Wunna ofYamethin Township Irrigation Department severaldays ago.

The lake was dug in the times of Myanmarmonarchs. The green light was given in early April2011 to launch Kyeeni Lake Project with

government funds. Unlike other dams each ofwhich is constructed by damming a watercourse,Kyeeni Lake is being built in a watershed area bydamming the Samon Creek that flows northwards,by the Nawin Creek that flows southwards. TheSamon Creek empties into the Ayeyawady River,and the Nawin Creek, into the Sittoung River.The water from the Lephyu Creek whosesource is on the eastern Shan Yoma mountain ranges,

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The summer paddy of farmer U Ko Ko Latt that is grown with the water from Kyeeni Lake inYamethin Township.

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Meteorology andHydrology Department announces that accordingto the 12.30 hr MST observation today, the waterlevel of Thanlwin River at Hpa-an 818 cm hasexceeded by 68 cm (about 2.2 ft) above its dangerlevel. It may remain above its danger level 750 cmduring the next 72 hours commencing noon today.

According to the 12.30 hr MST observationtoday, the water level of Sittoung River at Madauk1090 cm has exceeded by 20 cm (about 0.7 ft)above its danger level. It may remain above itsdanger level 1070 cm during the next 48 hourscommencing noon today.

According to the 12.30 hr MST observationtoday, the water level of Ngawun River atNgathainggyoung 1167 cm has exceeded by 37 cm(about 1.2 ft) above its danger level. It may remainabove its danger level 1130 cm during the next 72hours commencing noon today.

MNA

Flood warnings

Noteworthy amounts of rainfall

(3-8-2011)

Mudon 5.47 inches Myitkyina 4.88 inches Kawkareik 3.43 inches Theinzayat 3.19 inches Thandwe 2.87 inches

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