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Volume XX, Number 106 2nd Waning of Second Waso 1374 ME Saturday, 4 August, 2012

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration ofthe Union

* Non-disintegration ofNational Solidarity

* Perpetuation ofSovereignty

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Chief Justice of the Union U Tun Tun Oo receivedvisiting UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Myanmar MrTomas Ojea Quintana and party at the anteroom of Supreme Court of the Unionhere this afternoon.

Mr Tomas Ojea Quintana and party paid separate calls on Union Ministerfor Home Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko, Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement U Aung Kyi, Union Minister for Population and Immigration UKhin Yi and Attorney-General of the Union Dr Tun Shin.

They also called on Deputy Minister for Education Dr Myo Myint andDeputy Minister for Health Dr Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin separately atrespective ministries.

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Chief Justice of Unionreceives UN Special

Rapporteur on HumanRights Situation in Myanmar

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—The ceremony to mark the WorldBreastfeeding Week 2012 and Nourishment Week Activityorganized by Myanmar Maternal and Child WelfareAssociation was held at the hall of the association inDekkhinathiri Township this morning, with an address byUnion Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin.

Also present on the occasion were Deputy Minister DrDaw Myat Myat Ohn Khin, patrons, responsible persons ofMyanmar Women’s Affairs Federation and MyanmarMaternal and Child Welfare Association, officials of Ministryof Health and other ministries, responsible persons of UNagencies and guests.

Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister Dr Pe ThetKhin said that in the tasks of the Ministry of Health to turnout healthy and fit citizens who are reliable human resourcesfor all-round development of the State, Myanmar Maternaland Child Welfare Association is playing a key role inundertaking of public-based nutritious development tasks.

MMCWA launches World Breastfeeding Week2012, Nourishment Week Activity

He said that only then, will the people become healthy andfit persons and the human resources develop. As such, headded the national will be a modern and developed one.

It is important that children under six months are to befed mother milk only. It is necessary to feed the children oversix months with nutritious foods to enable them to enjoy therights of a human with health and fitness, he said.

Next, the Union Minister and guests presented iodizedsalt, vitamins and diapers to the expectant mothers andviewed documentary photos of MMCWA (Central) andRegion/State MCWSCs.

Afterwards, the educative talks followed. President ofMMCWA Dr Mon Mon Aung extended greetings andofficials gave lectures on dos and don’ts for expectantmothers and care for children.

Later, the president of MMCWA and party held aroundtable talks with 40 MCWA members.

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Chief Justice of the Union U Tun Tun Oo receives UN Special Rapporteur on HumanRights Situation in Myanmar Mr Tomas Ojea Quintana and party.—MNA

NEW DELHI, 3 Aug—India plans to send a satellite viaan unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars next year, joining asmall group of nations already exploring the red planet, agovernment scientist said on Friday.

A rocket will blast off from the southeastern coast ofIndia, dropping the satellite into deep space, which will thentravel onto Mars to achieve orbit, the senior scientist said,asking not to be named because the project is awaiting finalapproval. A spokesman for the Indian Space ResearchOrganisation (ISRO) based in Bangalore would not confirmthe mission, but commented generally on the ambitions ofIndia’s space programme. “After the Moon, worldwideattention is now focused on finding out if there (are) habitablespots on Mars,” ISRO’s Deviprasad Karnik said. ISROscientists expect the satellite to orbit at less than 100 km (62miles) above Mars. Cabinet is expected soon to clear themission, according to media reports this week that said theprogramme will cost about $80 million.

The plan has drawn criticism in a country suffering fromhigh levels of malnutrition and power shortages. But Indiahas long argued that technology developed in its spaceprogramme has practical applications to everyday life.

India’s space exploration programme began in 1962.Four years ago, its Chandrayaan satellite found evidence ofwater on the moon. India is now looking at landing a wheeledrover on the Moon in 2014.—MNA/Reuters

India plans space mission tosend a satellite to Mars

LONDON, 3 Aug—Cuba’s Leuris Pupo proved he had thesteadiest arm in the Olympic men’s 25 metre rapid fire pistolfinal on Friday, grabbing gold with a record-equalling total.

The 35-year-old hit 34 of the 40 targets to finish ahead ofVijay Kumar of India in second with 30. Feng Ding of Chinawas third on 27 before being eliminated after 35 shots.

The Cuban, ranked 21 in the world, showed little emotionas he shook hands and calmly embraced his five rivals aftersecuring victory by matching the finals world record.

He had showed great consistency in hitting all fivetargets three times in the eight-round, time-constrained finalin which shooters were eliminated as the competition went on.

Having started poorly by hitting three in the openinground, Pupo regained his composure and, after his run offives, finished with four scores of four to claim victory.

The many Indian supporters at the Royal ArtilleryBarracks were rewarded for their support when 26-year-oldKumar claimed a surprise silver.

The army serviceman threw both hands in the air andpumped his fists as he was welcomed on to the podium to

Vijay Kumar wins men’s rapidfire pistol silver at Olympics

collect India’s second shooting medal of the Games.There was big disappointment for Russian Alexei Klimov

who had scored 592 to improve his qualifying world recordmark by one but was eliminated in fourth place after hitting 23of 30 targets. China’s world number three Zhang Jian wasanother to make an early exit, finishing fifth after hitting 17 of25 targets.—Reuters

Vijay Kumar competes in the men’s shooting25m rapid fire pistol qualification round at the

London 2012 Olympic Games at the RoyalArtillery Barracks on 2 Aug, 2012. —REUTERS

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)C-11 blasts off carrying India’s first unmannedmoon mission Chandrayaan-1 from the Satish

Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota, about 100km (62 miles), north of Chennai on

22 October 2008. —REUTERS

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PERSPECTIVES

Democracy and disciplineSaturday, 4 August, 2012

Hopes are springing up across thenation one year after the practice of longed-for democracy as the country has made a shiftto open-door policy, establishing and fosteringties with new and old partners worldwide.

Why do we want democracy? Inpractice, the answer is we want the rights fromdemocracy since it is universally supposed toguarantee freedom, equality and justice ofindividuals.

Discipline of each and every citizen isthe basic fundamental in exercise of democracy.Despite the fact that freedom is the essence ofdemocracy, one’s practice of freedom shouldnot violate the rights of others for the abuse ofdemocratic rights will lead to mobocracy andanarchy. Discipline is indeed the enjoyment offreedom and equality within the legal andsocial framework.

It is absolutely required to imposediscipline on Myanmar citizens at the verymoment. Relevant laws must be strictlyenforced to make sure there is no reckless andirresponsible action of the citizens, especiallyin the public place. It has been a long time thatwe have lived on regardless.

The role of the schools is crucial forinstilment of discipline into young brains.Breach of discipline is like an epidemic andspreads like wildfire among the people. Thenotion of freedom is often misinterpreted asanti-discipline in modern world. In reality,true freedom cannot be separated fromdiscipline.

The government on its part is strivingfor emergence of a discipline-flourishingdemocratic nation but discipline is muchconcerned with self-awareness and self-respect.Therefore, we need to show a sense of disciplineif we do not want alien countries look down onus. Furthermore, democracy is a practice andjust demanding its rights would not promote it.We also need to honour the statutory andmoral obligations.

NAY PYI TAW, 3Aug—Union Minister forLivestock and Fisheries UOhn Myint on 31 Julyvisited dairy productfactory in Insein of YangonRegion under LivestockBreeding and VeterinaryDepartment, calling forproduction of fresh milk anddairy products.

The Union Ministerunderscored the need tobreed more milch cows inall corners of the countryand conducting trainingsfor production of dairyproducts.

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—The President of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar has confirmed the appointmentof the following heads of service organizations on expiryof the one-year probationary period. Name Appointments

(a) U Cho Than Maung Managing Director Myanma Port Authority Ministry of Transport

(b) U Eikdi Hla Managing Director Myanma Posts and Telecommunications Ministry ofCommunications, Posts and Telegraphs

(c) Daw Thein Nyunt Director-General Civil Service

Affairs Department Union Civil Services Board

The President of the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar has appointed General Manager U Than Tun ofMyanma Airways under the Ministry of Transport asManaging Director of the same department on probationfrom the date he assumes charge of his duties.

L&F Minister calls forextensive production of fresh

dairy products

MYANMAR GAZETTE

The Union Ministerhighlighted the importanceof cooperation withinternational organizationsin manufacturing of qualityvaccines for foot-and-mouth disease.

The Union Ministermet the staff at the meetinghall of the department inInsein Township, urgingthem to lend helping handsto each other in serving theinterest of the country andthe people.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3Aug—The Ministry ofConstruction is taking aleading role in constructionof transport infrastructure,development of rural areasand improvement ofhousings; according to thereform strategy, the ministryassigned duties of mainconstruction tasks andurban and housingdevelopment tasks toprivate entrepreneurs; andthe Department of HumanSettlement and HousingDevelopment is drawing theconcept plan, structure plan

Minister for Construction UKhin Maung Myint at theceremony to assign duties ofurban housing plans for2012-2013 fiscal year ofDHSHD at the ministry, here,on 1 August.

In his speech,Deputy Minister U Soe Tintstressed the need toemphasize soil test for urbanand housing project. Qualitycontrol team is to checkfoundation of the building.Emphasis is to be placed onquality of constructionmaterials at the buildings.He said that it is necessaryfor Ministry of Constructionand companies to ensureundertaking housingprojects meeting setstandards.

Deputy MinisterU Kyaw Lwin in his addresshighlighted construction oflow-cost housings for thepeople, building ofadvanced structures,drawing of advanced plansin line with set norms andrules and regulations andcooperation of the ministryand companies with addedmomentum.

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MOHNYIN, 3 Aug— Bio-Diversityand Nature Conservation Association(BANCA) gave educative talks on bio-diversity and nature conservation atOhnsansai Village in Mohnyin Townshipon 27 July and at Helon Village on 29 July.

Opening a forward camp at NanmonVillage in Mohnyin Township, BANCA iscarrying out tasks for bio-diversity and natureconservation in and around Shwe Latt Pan,Leponlay, Lonsant, Ywathit, Manukhaw

Bio-diversity and nature conservation talkedVillages starting from eastern bank ofIndawgyi Lake.

Besides, the BANCA carried outsocial work such as opening socialeducational booths during Shwe MyintzuBuddha Pujaniya days, doing sanitationwork in Indawgyi Lake and distributing 700stoves to locals. Their social work would beextended in ten villages around IndawgyiLake.

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DHSHD holdsceremony to

assign projectduties to

companies

Union Minister forLivestock and

Fisheries U Ohn Myintinspects production ofmilk products.—MNA

and master plan in regionsand townships so as tosystematically supplynecessary housings and

infrastructures in conformitywith the increasing numberof urban population acrossthe nation, said Union

Bio-diversity and nature conservation talks,organized by Bio-diversity and Nature

Conservation Association, in progress inMohnyin Township of Kachin State.

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Ceremony to assign duties of urban housing plans for 2012-2013 fiscalyear of Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development in

progress.—MNA

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US nuclear bomb facility shut after securitybreach

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug — The USgovernment’s only facility for handling,processing and storing weapons-gradeuranium has been temporarily shut after anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-oldnun, breached security fences, governmentofficials said on Thursday.WSI Oak Ridge,the contractor responsible for protecting thefacility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is owned bythe international security firm G4S, which wasat the centre of a dispute over security at theLondon Olympic Games.

Officials said the facility was shut downon Wednesday at least until next week afterthree activists cut through perimeter fencesto reach the outer wall of a building wherehighly enriched uranium, a key nuclear bombcomponent, is stored.The activists paintedslogans and threw what they said was humanblood on the wall of the facility, one ofnumerous buildings in the facility known by

The East Tennessee Technology Park, a site within the Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory, is seen in an undated handout photo from the US Department of Energy.

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Papua New Guinea’s O’Neillendorsed as prime minister

PORT MORSBY, 3 Aug —Papua New Guinea’sparliament endorsedincumbent Peter O’Neill asprime minister after long-running national elections onFriday, ending a prolongedperiod of political uncertaintyin the Pacific island country.O’Neill won with support froman overwhelming 94 of thenation’s 111 members ofparliament after last weekjoining forces with politicalrival Michael Somare, endinga feud that left the countrywith two prime ministers formuch of 2011.

O’Neill was alsosupported by two other formerprime ministers, Paias Wingtiand Julius Chan, in a move thatshould give the country a newlevel of political stability as itmanages a boom in investmentin resource projects. “Thecoming together of O’Neill andSomare is likely to see areconciliation in the politicalprocess which the countryvery much needs,” Pacificanalyst Annmaree O’Keeffetold Reuters. “I think you’llhave that economic certainty,or reassurance.”

Papua New Guinea(PNG), an often volatile nationof 6.5 million people, is hometo a $15.7 billion Exxon Mobilgas export project, and the

Iran, EU agree to talk again on nuclear disputeBRUSSELS, 3 Aug — Chief

negotiators for the EU andIran agreed on Thursday tohold more talks aboutTeheran’s nuclear work, butthe European Union gave nosign progress was imminentin the decade-long dispute.Six world powers, representedby EU foreign policy chiefCatherine Ashton, havesought to persuade Iran toscale back its nuclearprogramme throughintensifying economic

A general view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, some1,200 km (746 miles) south of Teheran on 26 Oct,

2010.— REUTERS

Senateapproves newambassador toAfghanistan

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug —The Senate on Thursdayconfirmed career diplomatJames Cunningham asambassador to Afghanistan,replacing Ryan Crocker, whostepped down because of illhealth.

Cunningham has beenserving as deputyambassador at the USembassy in Kabul since June2011. Earlier, he was the USambassador to Israel; he alsoheld senior US posts in HongKong, NATO and the UnitedNations.

He was confirmed on avoice vote. Crocker said inMay that he was leaving thedemanding Kabul post forhealth reasons after a longcareer in Iraq, Afghanistan,Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait andLebanon.

Reuters

sanctions and diplomacy.They have failed to reach

a breakthrough in threerounds of talks since April.But neither side has beenwilling to break off talksbecause of concerns, in part,that this could lead to a newwar in the Middle East if Israelattacked its arch-foe. Anydeals are likely to be struckonly during political talksbetween Iran and the six—the United States, Russia,China, France, Germany and

Britain. But the sides hadbeen unable to decide when,or whether, to meet sincediplomacy hit an impasse inJune.

“I ... have exploreddiplomatic ways to resolveinternational concerns aboutIran’s nuclear programme,”Ashton said in a statementafter a phone conversationwith Iran’s chief negotiatorSaeed Jalili. “I impressed theneed for Iran now to addressthe issues we have raised inorder to build confidence. Iproposed, and Dr Jaliliagreed, that we talk again afterfurther reflection at the end ofthe month.”

Since political talksreached an impasse in June inMoscow, experts from the twosides have held technicaldiscussions aiming to clarifyaspects of Iran’s nuclear work,which the world powers fearaims at producing weapons.However, the technical talkshave produced scant results,diplomats say.—Reuters

Residents wade through a flooded street to buy drinkingwater during heavy downpour in Malabon, Metro

Manila on 1 Aug, 2012. — REUTERS

giant OK Tedi copper minewhich began production in1987, as well as the Frieda Rivercopper project, run by Swiss-based global miner Xstrata.Exxon’s liquefied natural gasproject is expected to startproduction in 2014 and boostgross domestic product byabout 20 percent.

Despite its resourcewealth, the country hasstruggled to pass ondevelopment benefits to itspeople, with about 80 percentof the population living onsubsistence village farmingand small cash crops.O’Neill,the son of a law officer, wasraised in a remote village,northwest of the capital, PortMoresby. As a child, he hadto walk 15 km (9 miles) toschool. He wore his first pairof shoes when he was 16. HisPeople’s National Congressparty won 27 seats at theelections, the most of anyparty, on the back of his pushto deliver more free healthand education services.

O’Neill’s former deputy,Belden Namah, a formermilitary officer who in May ledsoldiers and police into thenation’s courts to arrest thechief justice for allegedsedition, now becomes themain opposition leader.

Reuters

the code name Y-12 that it was given duringWorld War Two, officials said.

While moving between the perimeterfences, the activists triggered sensors thatalerted security personnel. But officialsconceded the intruders were still able to reachthe building’s walls before security personnelgot to them.Ellen Barfield, a spokeswoman forthe activists who called themselves“Transform Now Plowshares,” said three werearrested and charged with vandalism andcriminal trespass.She said the three, identifiedas Megan Rice, 82, Michael Walli, 63 and GregBoertje-Obed, 57, were being held in custodyand appeared for a hearing before a USmagistrate judge in Knoxville, Tennessee, onThursday. A detention hearing is set for Fridayafternoon, when prosecutors must show thedefendants are a flight risk and a danger to thecommunity in order to keep them in custody,according to court officials. —Reuters

Indonesia, Australia to strengthen cooperationon fighting human trafficking

JAKARTA, 3 Aug.—Indonesian Defence MinisterPurnomo Yusgiantoro saidthe Indonesian andAustralian governments willstrengthen militarycooperation in humanitarianfields, media reports said hereon Friday. Minister Purnomosaid that both countries evenhad concern for humanitariancooperation such as inemergency cases that occurin the waters bordering thetwo countries.

Activities could be in theform of emergency treatmentin case of a ship accident, hesaid. ooperation will also bedone in dealing with cases ofillegal immigrants, saidPurnomo. If these immigrantsare stranded in the Australianwaters but the signal is

Girls queue to buybread at the only

bakery serving theoutskirts of Idlib

Province on 1 Aug,2012.

REUTERS

received by Indonesia, thenIndonesia would handle it,”he was quoted by Antaranews agency as saying. heefforts would be taken by bothcountries through jointpatrols that have been carriedout in the Timor Sea.

Secretary General of theMinistry of Defence, ViceMarshal Eris Herryanto, saidthat in such cooperationefforts, Indonesia woulddeploy the National SearchAnd Rescue Agency team.The cooperation will befurther carried out at themeeting scheduled inSeptember 2012. The meetingwill also discuss details ofcooperation, including theplacement of the troubledship.” he said. ndonesian andAustralia had signed a

bilateral agreement of theLombok Treaty agreement onjointly fighting illegal humantrafficking. — Xinhua

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & TechnologyGreenland’s ice‘melts in spurts’

The stabilization scenariomay present a rainbow of

hope for Greenland’sice.— INTERNET

LONDON, 3 Aug — Iceloss from Greenland’s vastsheet may happen mainly inshort bursts, research byDanish scientists suggests.They used aerial photosdating back to the 1980s toplot shrinking of glaciersaround the island’s northwestcoast. In the journal Science,they show that most of the iceloss happened in two periods— 1985-1993 and 2005-10 —with relative stability inbetween.They say it will behard to project sea levelchanges from Greenland icemelt until these patterns aredeciphered.

A complete melt of the icesheet would raise sea levelsglobally by about 7m, but it

could take centuries for this tooccur.Last month, NASAreleased evidence showingthat ice melting had beenobserved across virtually thewhole extent of the Greenlandice sheet, unprecedented inthe satellite era.Days earlier,an iceberg twice the size ofManhattan broke away fromthe Petermann glacier innorthwest Greenland.Dramatic though those eventswere, neither means much onits own for the long-termpicture.The last global climateassessment by theIntergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) in 2007said that “dynamic” melting— where ice loss suddenlyaccelerates, for examplebecause sea temperatures rise— was too poorly understoodto be accurately modelled.

The new Danish paper isone of a number that haveemerged since in an attempt toimprove understanding.

In recent years, satelliteshave found fast rates of retreatin a number of Greenlandicglaciers, as well as an overallloss of mass as measured bythe Grace mission, whichdetects minuscule changes inthe Earth’s gravitational field.

But other studies suggestedthe rapid retreat was notconsistent. With the two mostimportant satellite missions —Grace and ICESat — datingback less than a decade, thereis obviously a danger thatscientists will decipheraccurately what is happeningnow and assume this is aconstant pattern.

The Danish team realisedthey could effectively extendthe measurement record backin time, by using imagesobtained during aerial surveymissions to compile a model ofhow the coastal region of theice sheet behaved over time.

“We’ve used acombination of old aerialphotographs from the 1980sto construct a digital elevationmap, and recent satellite data,”said Shfaqat Abbas Khan ofthe Technical University ofDenmark, one of the projectteam.”In this way we’ve beenable to gain an overview of thethinning of the ice sheet overthe last 30 years innorthwestern Greenland.”

The overall trend is a“pronounced” thinning — by100-150m in most of the glacieroutlets, by much less inbetween them.In parallel, the

The giant slab that brokeoff the Petermann glacier

is continuing itsjourney.— INTERNET

glacier snouts have retreatedby up to 12km.

Within that there is a lotof variation, with manyexamples where one glacierhas thinned much more thanits neighbour. About three-quarters of the ice mass lostacross the northwest regionduring the second period ofrapid decline — 2005-10 —occurred in the coastal zone.

The researchers were ableto show that there was arelatively stable spell inbetween the two periods ofrapid loss, and suggest thatthis part of Greenland may beentering another stableinterlude.

Until the long-termpattern is resolved, theysuggest, it will not be possibleto forecast sea level rise fromGreenland’s water store withany accuracy.— Internet

Samsung to unveil new GalaxyNote in late August

SEOUL, 3 Aug —Samsung Electronics is set totake the wraps off a sequel toits popular Galaxy Notesmartphone at an event on 29August, about two weeksbefore the possible debut ofApple’s new iPhone. The twoarch rivals are bracing for afull-blown battle with theexpected rollouts of the twokey models coming as theylock horns in a high-stakespatent trial in the UnitedStates.”We plan to unveil thenext Galaxy Note at theSamsung Mobile Unpackedevent in Berlin on 29 August,”a Samsung spokesman saidon Friday, withoutelaborating. The event willtake place two days beforethe opening of Europe’sbiggest consumerelectronics trade fair IFA.

South Korean mediareports speculate the newGalaxy Note may feature anunbreakable, 5.5-inch display— slightly larger than thecurrent one — as well as afaster processor and a muchbetter camera.Samsung, oncea laggard in the smartphonemarket, overtook Apple lastyear to become the world’s

largest smartphone maker.The South Korean firm islooking to defend itssupremacy by refreshing itsline-up ahead of the launch ofthe fifth version of Apple’siPhone, widely expected to bereleased in October.Samsunglaunched its flagship GalaxyS III in May, while Apple isplanning a major productlaunch on 12 Sept, stokingspeculation the company mayannounce the sale of itsredesigned iPhone.

Samsung is estimated tohave increased smartphoneshipments to 50.5 million inthe April to June quarter ofthis year, nearly double the 26million iPhones sold.Appleshipments in the June quartertumbled 26 percent on theprevious quarter as theEuropean economy saggedand consumers held off onbuying ahead of the releaseof the iPhone 5. The two techtitans also started a trial in aUS court this week in a patentbattle triggered by Apple’slawsuit last year claiming thatSamsung slavishly copiedApple’s smartphones andtablets. Samsung hascountersued.— Reuters

A man useshis mobilephone at aSamsung

Electronicsstore in thecompany’smain officebuilding inSeoul on 27July, 2012.

REUTERS

US resists control of Internet passing to UN agencyWASHINGTON, 3 Aug —

The US has confirmed it wouldresist efforts to put the internetunder the control of the UnitedNations. At present severalnon-profit US bodies overseethe net’s technicalspecifications and domainname system. They operate atarms-length from the USgovernment but officiallyunder the remit of itsDepartment of Commerce.There has been speculationthat other nations will pushfor a change later this year,but they cannot force the USto comply. The US has set outits position in documents filedwith the InternationalTelecommunications Union(ITU) — the UN agencyresponsible for encouragingthe development ofcommunications techno-logies.

The ITU is hosting aconference in December inDubai to whichrepresentatives from 178nations have been invited toreview the InternationalT e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n sRegulations (ITR). The ITR isa 1988 treaty which set outrules for how traffic shouldflow between different telecomnetworks, and how to calculatecharges for traffic exchangedbetween carriers in different

The UN’s Dr Toure saysany change to governance

of the Internet must besupported by all

countries.— INTERNET

countries. The rise of theinternet and mobile deviceshas led to calls for it to berevised, but countries areexpected to disagree over thechanges needed.The US’sambassador to the conference,Terry Kramer, outlined hisworries in a statementpublished by the country’sDepartment of State.

“The US is concerned thatproposals by some othergovernments could lead togreater regulatory burdensbeing placed on theinternational telecom sector,or perhaps even extended tothe internet sector,” hewrote.”The United States alsobelieves that existing multi-stakeholder institutions,incorporating industry andcivil society, have functionedeffectively and will continueto ensure the health andgrowth of the Internet and allits benefits.”

The ITU does not publishsubmissions by each country— leaving it up to theindividual states to decidewhich material to release. Buta site called Wcitleaks.org hasposted proposals leaked to it.They include a submissionfrom Russia suggesting theITU could becomeresponsible for allocating atleast some of the internet’saddresses as well as the“determination of thenecessary requirements”. Atpresent US-based Icann(Internet Corporation forAssigned Names andNumbers) co-ordinates thecodes and numberingsystems, deciding which newinternet address endingsshould be allowed as analternative to .com. It thenleaves it to ISPs (Internetservice providers) to assign

individual addresses.President Vladimir Putin

has signalled Russia’s finalsubmission could go further.In 2011 he said he was keen todiscuss “establishinginternational control over theInternet using the monitoringand supervisory capabilitiesof the InternationalTelecommunication Union”.The Russia Today newsservice has since reported thatChina and India had backedthis stance. But the ITU hasmade it clear that any changesto the treaty must haveunanimous support, and itwould block members tryingto put any matter to a vote.“We never vote becausevoting means winners andlosers and you can’t affordthat,” Dr Hamadoun Toure,the ITU’s secretary-generaltold the BBC.—Internet

The ITU conference will take place in Dubai from 3 to12 December.— INTERNET

Deforestation in Brazil’sAmazon rainforest down 23 pct

RIO DE JANEIRO, 3 Aug— Deforestation in theBrazilian Amazon rainforestfell 23 percent in the 12 monthsending in July 2012 from theprevious year, the Braziliangovernment announced onThursday.

According to theBrazilian Ministry of theEnvironment, 2,040 squarekm of woods were cut downfrom August 2011 to July2012, meaning that almost 700square km of woods werespared, compared to thesame time frame lastyear.Logging in almost allstates within the Amazonrainforest area in Brazil fellwith Roraima in the northernborder as the only exception,where deforestation rose 218percent in this period. The

sharpest decrease, 67 percent,was registered in Maranhaostate.

According toEnvironment MinisterIzabella Teixeira, the reductionin deforestation was a directresult of the enforcement oflaws against illegal loggingand the improvement ofmonitoring systems.Theminister explained that thesatellite monitoring system toverify deforestation in someregions did not function welllast year due to clouds.Brazil’s National Institute forSpace Research will launch anew satellite, which isscheduled to be operationalby January 2013. With thenew equipment, monitoringis expected to improvefurther.— Xinhua

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & Health

.FRANKFURT, 3 Aug —The European Central Bankindicated on Thursday it mayagain start buyinggovernment bonds to reducecrippling Spanish and Italianborrowing costs but theconditions it set and thedissenting voice of its keyGerman memberdisappointed markets. In thelatest move to contain theeuro zone crisis, ECBPresident Mario Draghiindicated that anyintervention would not comebefore September — andonly if governmentsactivated the euro zone’sbail-out funds to join the ECBin buying bonds.”TheGoverning Council ... mayundertake outright openmarket operations of a sizeadequate to reach itsobjective,” Draghi told anews conference after thecentral bank’s monthlymeeting, using the centralbank’s code for bond-buying.

The ECB kept euro zoneinterest rates at a record low0.75 percent but Draghi said

ECB signals may buy euro zone bonds European Central Bank(ECB) President Mario

Draghi.—REUTERSthe council did consider afurther rate cut on Thursdayamid signs that an economicrecession in peripheralEuropean countries isspreading across thecontinent. A Reuters poll ofnearly 50 economists afterDraghi spoke found that mostexpect the ECB to startbuying Italian and Spanishbonds in September and tocut rates to 0.50percent.Draghi was underintense pressure frominvestors, European leaders

But shares and the eurofell after the ECB chief’sremarks, and Spanish andItalian bond yields jumped,with Spain’s 10-year papervaulting over the 7 percentdanger level.”It is quitedisappointing ... There is alack of any action so he hasbasically passed the buckback on to politicians,” saidIoan Smith, strategist atKnight Capital. Draghi saidthree ECB committees wouldnow work on detailedmethods of intervention and

Theheadquarters

of theEuropeanCentral

Bank (ECB)is pictured

in Frankfurton 30 July,

2012.REUTERS

concerns raised when itasserted seniority overprivate bondholders byrefusing to join a writedownon Greek debt this year,Draghi said. He did not sayhow.The ECB would alsoconsider other “non-standard” measures to rein inthe euro zone crisis, he said,hinting it might move toquantitative easing—orprinting money—by notwithdrawing all the money itcreates to buy bonds.

Unlike the US FederalReserve and the Bank ofEngland, which haveengaged in QE since 2008 bycreating money to buysecurities, the ECB has so far“sterilized” all its purchasesby taking in an equivalentamount in interest-bearingdeposits.—Reuters

Apple applies for patent oniPad Smart Cover with

embedded displayApple appliesfor patent oniPad SmartCover withembeddeddisplay.XINHUA

SAN FRANCISCO, 3Aug —Documents made public onThursday showed that Applehas applied for a patent oniPad Smart Cover with anembedded secondary displaydesigned to enhance thefunctionality of the tabletcomputer.

“A tablet device with aflexible cover is disclosed.Thin flexible displaytechnology can be integratedinto the flexible coverwithout affecting the overallform factor of the cover ortablet device.

Adding the integrateddisplay to the flexible covergreatly enhances the overallfunctionality of the tabletdevice,” said Apple in a patentapplication released by theUS Patent and TrademarkOffice.

According to the file, atleast one portion of the futureSmart Cover’s flexible flapwill take power and data froma connector on the side of theiPad and present visualinformation.

The embedded display

and the United States todeliver on a pledge he madelast week to do whatever ittakes to preserve the euro bybringing high borrowingcosts down.

a decision on whether to goahead would be taken at alater stage.

If the central bank didstep in to buy bonds, it wouldact to assuage investors’

could be used to show someextra icons, operate as aseparate media controlinterface or displaynotifications, said Apple inthe file.

Meanwhile, a batterycould be incorporatedwithin the Smart Cover tocut down batteryrecharging, and this batterycould take many forms, suchas solar panels and radiofrequency energy collectionantennas.

Resembling Microsoft’snew Surface tablet cover thathas a keyboard, parts ofApple’s flexible flap in thefuture may also include akeyboard or serve as a separatetouch pad to bring the tabletexperience closer to aconventional laptopcomputer.

Some analysts noted thatpatents like the new SmartCover can offer a glimpse intoApple’s fancy ideas for itsproducts in the future,although they don’t alwayslead to a final product.

Xinhua

US researchers find potential target fortreating diabetes, obesity

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug —US researchers at WashingtonUniversity School ofMedicine in St Louis haveidentified a potential targetfor treating diabetes andobesity, according to a studypublished online onThursday in the journal CellMetabolism.Studying mice,the researchers found thatwhen the target protein wasdisabled, the animals becamemore sensitive to insulin andwere less likely to get fateven when they ate a high-fatdiet that caused their

littermates to become obese.They studied how the

body manufactures fat fromdietary sources such ascarbohydrates. That processrequires an enzyme calledfatty acid synthase (FAS).Mice engineered so that they

don’t make FAS in their fatcells can eat a high-fat dietwithout becomingobese.”Mice without FASwere significantly moreresistant to obesity than theirwild-type littermates,” saidfirst author Irfan Lodhi. “And

it wasn’t because they ateless. The mice ate just as muchfatty food, but theymetabolized more of the fatand released it as heat.”

To understand why thathappened, the researchersanalyzed the mice’s fat cells.Mice have two types of fat:white fat and brown fat. Whitefat stores excess calories andcontributes to obesity. Brownfat helps burn calories andprotects against obesity. Inmice genetically blocked frommaking fatty acid synthase infat cells, the researchers noticedthat the animals’ white fat wastransformed into tissue thatresembled brown fat.

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USresearchers

find potentialtarget fortreatingdiabetes,obesity.XINHUA

Sharp shares fall 30% after itwarns losses will grow

TOKYO, 3 Aug — Sharesin Japanese television makerSharp have dropped 30% afterit warned that losses this yearwould be eight times biggerthan first thought.

The firm said it nowexpects a full-year loss of250bn yen ($3.2bn;£2.05bn), up from its earlierestimate of 30bn yen.

Sharp and otherJapanese firms have been hitby a strong yen and tougher

Japanese electronics firms have been losing groundto rivals from South Korea and China.

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foreign competition.On Thursday, Sharp said

it would cut 5,000 jobs toreduce costs.Sharpannounced its lossadjustment as part of itsquarterly earnings report.

During the three monthsrunning from the start of Aprilto the end of June, the firmreported a net loss of 138.4bnyen, compared with 49.3bnyen the previous year.

Internet

LONDON, 3 Aug — A “spray-on skin” which coats awound with a layer of skin cells could help healing, accordingto US and Canadian researchers. The spray was tested on 228people with leg ulcers, which are painful open wounds thatcan last for months. The findings, published in the Lancet,showed that ulcers treated with the spray were more likely toheal and did so more quickly.Experts said faster healingcould save money despite the cost of the spray.

Leg ulcers are hard to treat. The best treatment,compression bandages, will heal only about 70% of ulcersafter six months. Other options include taking skin fromsomewhere else on the body and grafting it over the wound.

Instead the spray puts a coating of donated skin cells andblood-clotting proteins over the ulcer.In the study, patientswho were given the spray-on-skin every 14 days showed themost improvement.

The researchers said the size of the wound “began todecrease rapidly” as soon as the treatment started. In thepatients who had the spray, 70% were healed after threemonths compared with 46% who received other treatment.Thespray was developed by Healthpoint Biotherapeutics in theUS, which also funded the research.

One of the scientists involved, Dr Herbert Slade, said:“The treatment we tested in this study has the potential tovastly improve recovery times and overall recovery from leg

‘Spray-on skin’ helps heal leg ulcers ulcers, without the need for a skin graft. “This means not onlythat the patient doesn’t acquire a new wound where the graftis taken from, but also that the spray-on solution can beavailable as soon as required—skin grafts take a certainamount of time to prepare, which exposes the patient tofurther discomfort and risk of infection.”

The study largely tested the safety of the spray and thebest dose to use, further studies will decide if it is a practicaltreatment for leg ulcers. Leg ulcers are most commonlycaused by high blood pressure in the veins of the legs whichdamage the skin, causing it to break down and develop intoan open wound. —Internet

A “spray-on skin” which coats a wound with a layer ofskin cells could help healing, according to US and

Canadian researchers..— INTERNET

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Facebook shares dive as deadline for insidersales nears

SAN FRANCISCO, 3 Aug— Facebook shares crumbledagain on Thursday, sendingthe once-feverishly sought-after name below $20 for thefirst time as investorsscrambled to get out of theway of a potential sharedeluge in coming weeks.

Thursday marked a five-day losing streak for the stock.Facebook has shed almost$50 billion in value since itsdebut — more than the total

Pedestrians walk near the NASDAQ Marketsite at thestart of the listing for Facebook in New York on 18 May,

2012.—REUTERS

valuation of Hewlett-PackardCo or Starbucks Corp. Thestock debuted at $38 and hasheaded south since,pummeled by growing doubtsabout its lofty valuation,growth prospects, high-profile departures.

Now, investors arestruggling to understand theimpact of the expiry on 16August of a lockup period oninsiders’ sales. That’s whenthe first restrictions barring

employees and earlyinvestors from selling goesaway, opening a spigot toroughly 1.88 billion additionalshares for trading by year’send.Some investors said thestock’s downward slide mayactually lessen the deadline’simpact as insiders opt to wait.But at the very least, doubtsabout Facebook’s businesspermeating Wall Street willkeep the shares constrainedfor some time. “Just becausethe lock-ups expire doesn’tmean people are going to rushto the exits,” said TopekaCapital Markets analystAnthony Victor. But he sawlittle upside in the near term.Predicting whether Facebookinsiders will sell their shares,even as the stock plumbs newlows, is a tricky. MostFacebook employees haverestricted stock units —considered a major draw infast-growing Web powers’drive to attract top-flighttalent — but are given yearsto sell them.—Reuters

NASA confident ahead of nail-biter Marslanding

HOUSTON, 3 Aug — NASA said all waswell ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars,with its most advanced robotic rover poisedto hunt for clues about past life and water onEarth’s nearest planetary neighbour.

On a two-year journey to seek out signsof environments that once sustained life, thelanding of the Mars Science Laboratory andthe largest and most sophisticated rover everbuilt, Curiosity, is set for 1:31 am 6 August(0531 GMT).”The mission is going extremelywell,” said Pete Theisinger, director of theEngineering and Science Directorate atNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory inPasadena, California.

“Everything is really on track... so we arereally good to go three days out. “If allcontinues to go well, the unmanned rover willtouch down in Gale Crater, one of the lowestpoints on Mars, where scientists believe thewaters of ancient rivers flowing downhill oncepooled.

The crater also contains a mountain thatrises higher than any in the 48 continental USstates, and should provide loads ofinformation about the past through itssedimentary layers.

“When we do (land), we will have startedan era of a whole new dimension of spaceexploration on the surface of another planet,and this is the dimension of deep time,” said

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratorylanding site as well as previous

touchdowns for rovers and landers on theRed Planet.— INTERNET

John Grotzinger, project scientist for theMars Science Laboratory. Describing Marsas a “planet that is kind of like our cousin,”Grotzinger said he was hopeful that manyquestions would be answered on the mission,including how the once wet planet becameso dry. The mountain, Mount Sharp, is nearMars’ equator and may hold as much as abillion years of history in its layers, datingback some three to four billion years ago“when the planet may have been more likeEarth,” he told reporters.

Internet

Apple seeks severe punishment for Samsunglawyer’s actions

SAN FRANCISCO, 3 Aug— Apple Inc asked a USjudge on Thursday to punishSamsung Electronics Co Ltdfor a Samsung attorney’sconduct by ordering that theSouth Korean company hasinfringed Apple’s phonedesign patents, according toa court filing. However,Samsung called Apple’sdemand “frivolous” and“unprecedented” in a legalbrief filed later in the day.Trialbegan this week in a highstakes litigation between thetwo companies. Apple suedSamsung last year in San Jose,California federal court,accusing Samsung ofcopying the iPhone and iPad.Samsung has countersued.

US District Judge LucyKoh on Tuesday had barred

Attendees sit in front of anApple logo during the

Apple WorldwideDevelopers Conference2012 in San Francisco,California on 11 June,

2012.—REUTERS

Samsung’s attorneys frompresenting some evidenceduring opening statements.Later that afternoon, Samsungemailed reporters links to thatmaterial, along with astatement that “fundamentalfairness requires that the jurydecide the case based on allthe evidence.”Samsungattorney John Quinn, of thelaw firm Quinn EmanuelUrquhart & Sullivan,acknowledged in a court filingthis week that he authorizedthe press statement but said itwas not designed to influencethe jury.

“The members of the juryhad already been selected atthe time of the statement andthe transmission of thesepublic exhibits, and had beenspecifically instructed not to

read any form of media relatingto this case,” Quinnwrote.Apple called his

Knight’s future in balanceafter trading disaster

NEW YORK, 3 Aug —Knight Capital Group Incfought for survival onThursday after a $440 milliontrading loss caused by asoftware glitch wiped out muchof its capital, forcing Knight toseek new funding as its sharesplunged as much as 80 percentin two days. Many of thecompany’s biggestcustomers, including TDAmeritrade, the No 1 US retailbrokerage by trading volume,and fund giants Vanguard andFidelity Investments, stoppedrouting orders through Knight.One of the biggest fears is thatthe company will collapse,landing trading clients andcreditors with losses.

“They have about 48hours to shore up confidence,”said James Koutoulas, head

A trader works at theKnight Capital kiosk onthe floor of the New York

Stock Exchange on 1 Aug,2012.—REUTERS

of an advocacy group forformer customers of failedbrokerages MF Global andPeregrine Financial. Knightsaid it is “actively pursuing itsstrategic and financingalternatives,” raising thelikelihood the firm will be soldor face bankruptcy because ofthe loss, which is about fourtimes its annual net earnings,and the subsequent damageto its business as customers

conduct “egregious, becauseit impugned the integrity ofthe court,” according to itslegal brief on Thursday.

A typical sanction forattorney misbehavior is a

monetary fine, but Apple isasking Koh to rule thatApple’s phone designpatents in the case are valid,and that Samsung hasinfringed them.—Reuters

and others question itsstability.As one of the leadingmarket makers in US stocks,Knight is among the firms thatare critical to smooth, orderlytrading. Market makers matchorders from buyers and sellersand often provide liquidity bystepping into the marketthemselves. The speed atwhich Knight has unraveledhas been particularlyunnerving for investors andmarkets. It resulted fromproblems with the firm’s tradingsoftware that sent bogus,rapid-fire trades into the marketfor 45 minutes on Wednesdayand left Knight with big losseson numerous stocks it boughtat inflated prices.—Reuters

Iraq attacks kill 33 people

BAGHDAD , 3 Aug — Iraqattacks mainly targetingsecurity force personnel killedat least 33 people on Thursday,officials said, after governmentfigures showed July was the

Iraqi police and internalsecurity forces stop cars at

a checkpoint in centralBaghdad in July 2012.

Iraq attacks mainlytargeting security force

personnel killed at least 33people on Thursday.

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bloodiest month in almost twoyears. At least 39 people havebeen killed in violence in thefirst two days of August, whichhave seen a number of attackson security forces and theirfacilities, including a prison, amilitary site and checkpoints.At least nine people were killedand at least 32 wounded in acar bombing in theHusseiniyah area of northBaghdad, medical officialssaid.

In the northern oil city ofKirkuk, militants attacked thehome of a Turkmen family,cutting the throats of a father,mother and two daughters, anAFP correspondent reported.Gunmen killed seven soldiers

and wounded 11 others in threeseparate attacks south of thecity, according to security andmedical officials and ShalalAbed Ahmed, mayor of TuzKhurmatu, where one of theattacks took place.Gunmenalso shot dead four police inTikrit, north of Baghdad, whilethree members of the Sahwaanti-Qaeda militia were killedby a bomb near Balad, alsonorth of the capital, securityand medical officials said.

And gunmen attacked acheckpoint near a police stationnortheast of Samarra, killingone police and one Sahwamember, a police captain and ahospital source in Samarrasaid.—Internet

Oklahoma is so hot that streetlamps are melting

NEW YORK, 3 Aug — It’shard to not be concerned withglobal warming when itseffects are right in front ofyour eyes. Sure, it’s one thingwhen the ocean begins toreclaim islands, but when youcan see the effects in yourhome town, well, that’s anotherstory altogether. Case in point:KFOR TV in Stillwater,Oklahoma is reporting thattemperatures are so high thatthe street lamps have begunmelting. To be sure, Stillwateris suffering from one heck of aheatwave. It’s expected toreach 115 there today, 108 onFriday, and 109 on Saturday.

And warmer temperatures arenothing new: July representedthe 23rd month out of the last28 that came in warmer thanaverage.

It’s possible the heat itselfisn’t responsible for the event— it’s being reported onFacebook that a nearbydumpster fire may have beenthe cause of the melting plasticlight housings. Still, thatdumpster fire was caused andaggravated by the record heatand dryness. And ifdangerous, spontaneous firesaren’t reason enough to gogreen, we don’t know whatis.— Internet

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 4 August, 2012 7

Learning of English for me, is indeed a life-long studybeginning from early years of childhood through highschool, continuing to the four-year the first degree andsupposedly ending with post-grad Masters academic coursesin the Universities. Actually real life learning did not endwith the University degree Q.E.D! Whimsically it startswhere the other ends and still continues, enriched bynature’s teachings around us. In my prime years of adulthoodand maturity, after years of reading, I took up writing tobroaden my outlook and also to share with other like-minded learners in devoted self-improvement.

The university had opened up my adolescent mindsetto exciting new avenues of learning scope and discipline.In my two-year intermediate course in the newly openedAnyar University College of Mandalay(1947-49), Englishwas my favourite subject, Sayagyi John Moonie was theEnglish Lecturer, Saya Ko Ko Gyi was the Tutor, andEnglish poetry was my passion.In fact poetry was introducedin the high school years with two texts: ‘Poetry for Pleasure’and ‘The Golden Gate’. Our generation of oldies whoattended post war matriculation classes and ensuing 1947University will not forget ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by poetTennysonor ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, by poet Keats.

In 1949 I moved to the Yangon University to attend thetwo-year Bachelor of Arts course (1949-51), taking EnglishLiterature as one of the subjects. The foremost scholar andRector, the late Dr.HtinAungwas teaching us Poetry. Thiswas my first year B.A. class in the Yangon University ofregional fame and the first time to face the famous guru ofthe world of letters. I was tense and thrilled knowing notwhat to expect. There was a little ruffle outside, and a shortportly lecturer with black flowing academic gown and thickrimmed glasses entered the classroom. He climbed theraised platform and stood at the lectern facing the class.Hundreds of eyes focused on the eminent teacher andwaited expectantly. He gave a casual glance, opened thepoetry text: ‘The Golden Treasury’ and began his lectureon Omar Khayyam beginning with the first line: ‘Awake!For Morning in the Bowl of Night…’

For the entire 50 minutes he read the verses, explainedsimple understandable prose for all to follow. Presently thebell rang. The teacher looked up, stopped his lecture,closed his textbook and quietly left the classroom to moveon to another class. I was completed enthralled. The class,so silent and attentive, was now full of din and commotionas all rushed out to attend other subject combinations. Ialso moved with the jolting students, but the poetic melodyand magic still chimed deep in my mind. Day after day forweeks on end Sayagyi taught us the classical verses, therhythms flowing sometimes like gentle streams, sometimeslike roaring waterfalls, sometimes so calm without ripples,following the mood, tempo, meter and rhyme of the poems.The Persian philosopher poet Khayyam totally bewitchedme with the beautiful strains of verses, pulsated my heart

MY POETIC RECOLLECTIONS By Ba Than

and showed me his Paradise:A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and ThouBeside me singing in Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

Many more of Omar’s philosophy indulging in theecstasy of poetry with appeal to enjoy the pleasures of lifewithout too much reflections, were taught wittily by Sayagyiwith unmatched eloquence. Omar was better known asmathematician and astronomer than as a poet. He hadcomposed around 500 rubais or quatrains in Persian languageduring his life time. An English country gentleman EdwardFitzGerald (1809-1883) translated Rubaiyat into English 50years later and brought instant fame.

It was too precious to let the magic and eloquence ofthe Scholar fade away. Thus I attentively followed thelectures as quick as my hands could write. Back in the hostelafter class, I fair-copied the lectures into an orderly form ina new exercise book. The note was already lost but thelectures remained, to readily recallat will. It was amazingthat Sayagyi brought only the textbook he was to teach atthe class. All these marvelous stanzas, paraphrases andexplanations came out like tinkling bells naturally; clear,precise and to the point. There was no dictation, no handouts,no language drills. He might have been propheticallyteaching us, guiding us to the methodology of the universalopen university he had studied in institutes of higherlearning years before, for development of our future studentsnot yet born. He showed us the ideal path and wisely left usto our own means to perfect ourselves.

‘Listen to the Brook’, the famed Teacher might havesaid in his mind as he called us to follow Lord Tennyson’sBrook from source, ‘through coot and hern; then, slip, slide,gloom and glance among skimming swallows’; assouthward bound it goes. I followed the magical musicalchimes, rhythm and rhymes, meter and melody of thebeautiful verses. Then along the landscape he toured us tothe river thus:

I chatter, chatter as I flowTo join the brimming river;For men may come and men may go.But I go on forever.

I was so absorbed with Omar and Tennyson that I didnot notice the shuffle of feet, the swish of the gown andmomentary silence in the room. I looked up. Sayagyi hadalready left a little early before the class bell had rung.

Recalling my dimmed memory of the past sixty years Ihad never missed Sayagyi’s poetry sessions for the twoyears of the B.A.classes. The same routine followed wherehe taught us classical poems composed for posterity byfamous poets: Shakespeare, Milton, Lord Tennyson, Byron,Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, Brownings (Robert andElizabeth), and the Rossettis (Dante and Christina), ThomasHardy and many others.

In our University students’ days of the ‘50s, campuslife was part and parcel of our social activities. There wereso many to move around apart from the academic studies:in hostels, sporting grounds where students excel intennis (blues and half-blues); football where Varsity X1team were venues for upcoming talent, and won manycups and shields in national tournaments with the chorus‘Varsity,varsity…ra..ra..ra’ echoing the AungSanStadium as spectators boisterously cheered. There werealso debates where students displayed their wits andProme Hall always emerging as leaders. All these extra-curricular activities, point out to the fact that the Universitywas good training ground to make a University graduatean all-round adult in the work years ahead. There were otherco-ed activities too as two ladies’ dorms,Inya and Bentonreceive their counterparts from central hostels, Wellington,North, Prome and Tagaung. Social dinners followed wheredainty damsels, dressed in all their finery a la mode attended,and in turnsreciprocated, entertained by A-Nyeint dancesand jokes. It was also here that boy met girl, made steadydate for future partner to live happily ever after.

There were also intellectualactivities such as BrainTrust sessions where professors, public dignitaries, scholarssat at the panel to answer questions posed by studentsamidst much fun and laughter. It was also a well-roundedtraining to groom students to meet any challenges andeventualities. On one session where I attended a jovialstudent challenged the panel to compose an impromptuverse about Pho Toke, wearing a ragged pasoe and goingto Mogok. He might have spotted the unmistakableSayagyi Dr Htin Aung among the illustrious panel. Sayagyiwillingly obliged thus:

‘My name is Pho Toke,Wearing a pasoe-zoke;I go to Mogok,With gyo-gyogyokegyoke,And I play with my gyo-yoke…

Tumultuous roar of laughter and applause echoed theopen ground cheering the witty versification, joined bythe great scholar poet and panel members. It was indeeda never -to-be-forgotten experience. In addition to PoetryI learned Shakespeare’s classical dramas, modern plays,and prose taught by equally excellent teachers.

All these academic and intellectual pursuits has laidin limbo since 1953 till 2010 when I started to translateclassical English poems into Myanmar verse forThutaPadetha monthly magazine. This was my eulogy. Indeep devotion I paid obeisance to the Late Sayagyi DrHtin Aung my perpetual Guru for making me what I amtoday, albeit a mere ripple in the vast expanse of theuncharted ocean.

May he enjoy the virtues of Pyinnya charity and attainpeace through end of suffering!

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YANGON, 3 Aug—WorldBreastfeeding Week andNourishment Week ofYangon Region kicked off atUniversity of Nursing inLanmadaw Township, hereon 1 August, with an addressby Yangon Region ChiefMinister U Myint Swe.

Head of Yangon RegionHealth Department Dr AyeKo Ko explained activitiesof World Breastfeeding Weekand Nourishment Week.Deputy General Manager ofYangon Region MyanmarSalt and Marine ChemicalEnterprise U Ohn Mya

Breastfeeding Week andNourishment Week kick off in

Yangon Regionexplained ongoing workplans under nationwideiodization programme.

Patron of the regionMaternal and Child WelfareSupervisory Committee DawKhin Thet Htay awardedmembers who won prizes inquiz in commemoration ofthe weeks.

The region chiefminister and party viewed thecommemorative booth onactivities of breastfeedingweek and nourishment weekand sample testing of thequality of iodized salt. Theyfed Vitamin-A tablets to U-5

children and distributed irontablets and Vitamin B-1tablets to expectant mothers.

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Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe speaking at launchingceremony of World Breastfeeding Week and Nourishment Week of

Yangon Region.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlainginspected thriving 100-acre Palethwe hybridpaddy plantation of KMA Co in the irrigatedarea of No.2 canal of Ngalaik Dam , here, thismorning.

The Union Minister viewed preparationfor cultivation of groundnut on 10 acres offarmland and thriving Palethwe hybrid paddyplantations on 17 acres and 10 acres offarmlands.

Speaking on the occasion, the UnionMinister stressed the need to accelerateagricultural educative works to farmers in this

Palethwe paddy, high yield groundnutplantations inspected

cultivation season while establishing the paddyplantations in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area. Hesaid that 100-acre model paddy plantations inall eight townships of Nay Pyi Taw CouncilArea to enable the local farmers to observe theadvantages of paddy farms. Depending on themarket, farmers are to be organized forcultivation of groundnut as cash crop in additionto paddy, he said. At present, monsoongroundnut is to be grown on 10-acre farmlandin time to be able to use it as quality strain forcold season crop, he added. He urged thefarmers of regions and states to cultivate cashcrops in addition to paddy.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—The inter-ministry men’sfootball tournament 2012 kicked off at the pitch of Nay PyiTaw FC in Paunglaung Sports ground, Pyinmana Townshipthis evening, attended by Secretary of Myanmar NationalSports Committee Deputy Minister for Sports U Aye MyintKyu, deputy ministers of various ministries, officials andstaff personnel and special guests.

The tournament is the sixth of its kind with a view tocreating relaxing environment and unity and friendshipamong the staff of ministries, contributing to national healthand refreshing the staff to be able take more duties.

Players of 28 contending teams took positions in thepitch and the deputy minister made an opening address.

Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation team playedagainst Ministry of Immigration and Population team in thedebut in which the former beat the latter 2-1.

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YANGON, 3 Aug—Wellwishers continued to donatecash and foodstuff for locals of Rakhine State, at FireServices Department (Head Office)in Mayangon Townshiphere this morning.

Dr U Aung Myat Kyaw and Dr Daw Shin Moe Thucontributed K 210,000 and three bales of cloth, U ThwayMyint and Daw Htay Htay of Dagon Myothit (North)Township K 100,000, U Tin Maung Lwin and Daw Kyin Winof Sangyoung Township K 50,000, U Aye Tun and Daw MyaMya Kyi of Dagon Myothit (North) Township K 30,000,Padaung Township Fire Services Department membersK 10,000, Social Vision Service items, story books andclothes worth K 2,354,000, U Myat Moe (a) U OoKyin Hla ofKyauktada Township K 10,000 and two bales of cloth andU Maung Maung and family of Dagon Myothit (North)seven bales of cloth. Director-General of Fire ServicesDepartment U Tin Moe and personnel accepted the donationsand returned them certificates of honour. The donations sofar made at the Fire Services Department (Head Office) hasamounted to K 313037823.

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—A ceremony to honour themembers of Fire Brigade in Mandalay Region for theircontributions to rehabilitation of Rakhine State was held atYunnan Buddhist Temple on 80th street between 31st and 32nd

streets in Mandalay on 30 July.Mandalay Region Planning and Economic Minister U

Aung Zan on behalf of the Mandalay Region Governmentexpressed his thanks for those participating in rehabilitationof Rakhine State. Deputy Head of Mandalay Region FireServices Department U Htet Aung recounted his experiencesin rehabilitation.

After that, Secretary U Win Sein donated K 2 millionfor the members of Mandalay Region Fire Brigade, the Boardof Directors of Zaygyodaw Cooperative Ltd gifts worth K120,000 and Company Commander U Aye Ko of EindawyaFire Brigade of Chanayethazan Township 150 bottles of softdrink to the officials.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Mandalay Region ChiefMinister U Ye Myintaddressed agriculturaldevelopment workshop ofMandalay Region at RegionAgriculture Department on1 August.

He said cultivation of

Quality strains key to higher per acre yield,says chief minister

quality strains suited for theland of the region wouldboost per acre yield.Although the region hasonly 65 per cent of foodsufficiency, the cultivationof cotton, beans and pulses,and edible oil crops wouldbe encouraged.

The chief minister saidthe region is an agro-basedone. Agriculture could boostits chances for economicdevelopment. Requirementsof the people and farmersmust be fulfilled.

The shift to qualitystrains could generate moreincomes for farmers than thatof conventional farming.

Their industrious effortsdeserve right prices.Mechanized farming couldsave labour, cost and time,facilitating agriculturaldevelopment which alsodemands associations. Hetipped that the workshopwould profit the farmers.

Region Agriculture andLivestock Minister U MyintThan, who chaired theworkshop, also delivered anaddress. Officials, agricul-turalists and farmersparticipated in discussionwhere increasing yield andmechanized farming wereput on table.

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Fire Brigade members ofMandalay Region honoured

Local people of Rakhine Stateprovided with cash and

foodstuff

Inter-ministry men’s footballtournament 2012 kicks off

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug— Relief and ResettlementDepartment (Head Office) under the Ministry of Social Welfare,Relief and Resettlement accepted donations for the people inRakhine State who lost their houses and property in order torelieve their sufferings.

Ma Khin Pa Pa Win donated K 50,000 to mark the ninthbirthday on 29 July, Ko Ye Yint Aung-Ma Moe Thida Aungand family K 40,000 in memory of late Daw Khin Kyi on 30 July,Daw Tin Tin Aye (helper of copying machine) of Relief andResettlement Department various clothes worth K 2,500 on 31July, U Than Win (Retd Staff Officer of Irrigation Department)-Daw Than Than Myint and family various sorts of clothesworth K 218,200 on 1 August, Dr Khin San Nwe (AssistantDirector) of the Department of Atomic Energy, Ministry ofScience and Technology, K 20,000.

Officials of Relief and Resettlement Departmentaccepted cash and kind donations, gave certificates of honourto the wellwishers and spoke words of thank.—MNA

Cash donation for locals ofRakhine State continues

Myanmar National Sports Committee DeputyMinister for Sports U Aye Myint Kyu enjoysinter-ministry football tournament opener.

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Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing visits100-acre farmland of Palethwe hybrid paddy plantation of KMA Co.

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Union Minister for Immigration and PopulationU Khin Yi receives UN Special Rapporteur on

Human Rights Situation in Myanmar Mr TomasOjea Quintana and party. (News on Page 1)—MNA

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MONGYU, 3 Aug—Heavy rains hit Mongyu ofMongpyhat District from 24to 26 July.

In consequence, tenhouses on both sides of theroad, communication

Heavy rains hit Mongyu of Mongpyhatstation, Forest Departmentand Pre-Primary Schoolwere flooded with two feetdeep water.

A total of 39 floodvictims were evacuated tothe safe places with the

assistance of the Sub-Township Administrator,departmental personnel andlocal people. At present,duties are assigned topersonnel and people forwater sentry.—Kyemon

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Due to change of watercourse in AyeyawadyRegion, bank erosionoccurred in Singu andMadaya townships ofMandalay Region.

Bank of the river is beingeroded in Singu Township.The water eroded 15 housesin Sagyet Village and 98houses in Hinthama Villagein Singu Township, sevenhouses in Nandawgon

Bank eroded in Singu,Madaya townships

Village, seven in KondanlayVillage, two in Thaphan-daunt Village and 400 feetwide area in ThonzepayVillage in MadayaTownship.

Mandalay RegionGovernment providedassistance for reconstructionof houses for eroded villagesand evacuation of erodedvictims and preventionagainst change of watercourse.—Myanma Alin

COMBINE HARVESTERPRESENTED: TownshipAdministrator U Maung

Maung presented acombine harvester for

farmers in paddyproduction in Ingyinkan

Village of YamethinTownship on 21 July. The

chairman and party ofFarming Development

Group accepts donation.MYANMA ALIN

South Okkalapa BEPS No 10 facilitated withnew building

YANGON, 3 Aug—Aceremony to hand over newschool building namelyKyanyopan was held at No11 Basic Education PrimarySchool in Ward 10 of SouthOkkalapa Township of

Yangon Region on 22 Julymorning.

Yangon Region Ministerfor Social Affairs Dr MyintThein, Director U Myint Soeof No 3 Basic EducationDepartment and wellwisher

Daw Khin Kyi formallyopened the new schoolbuilding.

The donor explained thepurpose of donation andhanded over documentsrelated to the school buildingto Township EducationOfficer U Ye Tint.

The school building is120 feet long and 30 feet wideone-storey RC facility.

The building wasconstructed at a cost of K 65million.

Myanma Alin

YANGON, 3 Aug—Aceremony to launch self-reliant supply of electricitywas held in Mahasi extendedward in Htamonkan Village-tract of Meiktila Townshipof Mandalay Region on 26July.

Supply of electricity extended in Meiktila

SAGAING, 3 Aug—AToyota car plunged into theroadside and went upsidedown due to out of brakecontrol in Bagan ward ofSagaing on 23 July.

A Toyota Dyna drivenby U Kyaw Win, 60 ofNyaungbinwun Village ofSagaing Township, togetherwith bus conductors Zaw Oo,24, son of U Hmi and U ShweMaung, 65, left Nyaunbinwun

Dyna plunges into roadside, leaving one dead inSagaing Township

Village for Mandalay.In front of the monastery

in Bagan Ward of Sagaing onMonywa-Mandalay Road,the car could not control thebrake and then plunged intothe left roadside. Busconductor U Shwe Maungwas under the car and diedon the spot with the injuriesof ear, head and face andfracture of leg.

Myanma Alin

Accident onthe road

Outstanding students, teachershonoured in Shwegyin

SHWEGYIN, 3 Aug—Aceremony to honouroutstanding students in the2011-2012 academic yearmatriculation examinationand outstanding teacherswho turned out outstandingstudents was held at PyinnyaYadana Hall in ShwegyinTownship of Bago District inBago Region on 20 July.

On the occasion,Township Administrator UKhin Thein Maung explainedconditions of education andsocial sectors in line with the

process of reform period.The Township

Education Officer reported onprogress of townshipeducation.

After that, wellwishersdonated cash to the townshipadministrator and officialswho returned certificates ofhonour.

Next, the townshipadministrator and officialspresented prizes to 35outstanding students and 28outstanding teachers.

Myanma Alin

PONNAGYUN, 3 Aug—Under the arrangements ofthe Ministry of Agricultureand Irrigation of RakhineState, Palethwe hybridpaddy are put on farmlandsand now the saplings are

Palethwe hybrid paddy plantation thriving inPonnagyun Township

thriving.On 21 July, Head of

Rakhine State AgricultureDepartment U Khin MaungWin showed the saplings toobservers at the farmlandsof farmer U Thein Maung in

Yebyukan Village inPonnagyun Township.

Later, the head of statedepartment explainedadvantages of the paddystrain.

Myanma Alin

NATTALIN, 3 Aug—Nattalin Township InternalRevenue Department of BagoRegion and TownshipEducation Office jointly gavea talk on taxation at BasicEducation High School No 2in Nattalin of Bago Region on18 July.

At the talk, Head ofTownship Internal RevenueDepartment Daw Oo Shwe Yinand Deputy Head ofDepartment Daw Tin Tin Htayexplained tax system ofMyanmar, purpose of levyingtaxes, responsibility of everycitizen to pay tax, mattersrelated to commercial tax,income tax, stamp tax andAungbalay Lottery tax toteachers and students.

Myanma Alin

Taxationknowledgeshared toteachers,

students inNattalin

KALAY, 3 Aug—Ademonstration on cultivationof monsoon paddy throughgood agriculture pattern washeld on the farmland of farmerU Khun Hsat in MauklinVillage-tract in KalayTownship on 15 July.

Monsoon paddy grown through goodagriculture pattern in Kalay

Head of DistrictAgriculture Department UThaik Soe explained use ofways and means for boostingproduction of paddy per acreyield.

Head of TownshipAgriculture Department U

Maung Maung briefed thosepresent on 14-point goodagriculture pattern.

Staff of the departmenttogether with female paddytransplanters participated indemonstration of growingpaddy.—Myanma Alin

MYINGYAN, 3 Aug—Myingyan DistrictInformation and PublicRelations Department ofMandalay Region organizedthe book fair at its office on 16July morning.

Chairperson ofMyingyan District Women’sAffairs Organization DawKhin Hla Wai and Staff Officerof District IPRD Daw MyaWin Kyi formally opened the

Book Fair staged in MyingyanDistrict

book fair.After that, Deputy

Commissioner U Hla Win Tin,Township Administrator UShwe Maung, district andtownship level departmentalpersonnel, members of districtand township WAOs andMaternal and Child WelfareAssociations, wardadministrators and localpeople visited the book fair.

Myanma Alin

DistrictNews

Chairman of WardElectricity Supply CommitteeU Chit Hla explained the tasksfo the committee andtownselder U Zaw Htayspoke words of thanks.

Next, officials formallylaunched the electricity

supply.The local people

installed a 315WA 11/0.4KV11000 voltage transformer ona self-reliant basis at MahasiExtended Ward by spendingK 51.8 million.

Kyemon

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Rare baseball cards from Ohiosell well at auction

TOLEDO, 3 Aug —Century-old baseball cardsfound in an Ohio attic havebeen sold at auction for acombined $566,132.The saleon Thursday night at theNational Sports CollectorsConvention in Baltimore,Md, featured cards depictingHall of Famers Honus Wagnerand Ty Cobb.The 37 baseballcards exceeded the $500,000they were expected to fetch.The prices included buyer’spremiums.

Family memberscleaning out theirgrandfather’s attic earlier thisyear in Defiance, Ohio, cameacross what experts say is oneof the most exciting finds inthe history of sports cardcollecting. The cards are froma rare series issued around1910 that was given out withcandy.The family thatdiscovered the stockpile is

This undated file photoprovided by Heritage

Auctions of Dallas, showsa 1910 Honus Wagner

baseball card found in theattic of a house in

Defiance, Ohio.— INTERNET

evenly dividing the cards andmoney among 20 cousins.

Internet

Top US commander in Afghanistan visits PakistanISLAMABAD, 3 Aug — The

top US commander inAfghanistan discussedborder coordination withPakistan’s army chief onThursday during his first visitsince Islamabad ended itsseven-month blockade ofNATO troop supplies.Pakistan closed its Afghanborder to NATO in Novemberin retaliation for Americanairstrikes that killed 24Pakistani soldiers, and thetwo sides have held a series ofmeetings since then to try toprevent such an incident fromoccurring again.Pakistanreopened the route in earlyJuly after the US finallyapologized for the deaths,which Washington said werean accident. Both countrieshave made public statementssince then about the need tomove forward and patch uptheir troubled relationship,but major disagreementscontinue.

“We are makingsignificant progress towardbuilding a partnership that isenduring, strategic, carefullydefined, and that enhancesthe security and prosperity ofthe region,” a press releasequoted Gen John Allen assaying after his meeting withPakistan’s army chief, GenAshfaq Parvez Kayani. TheUS has long been frustratedby Islamabad’s refusal totarget Afghan Talebanmilitants and their allies usingPakistani territory to stageattacks against troops inAfghanistan. Many analystsbelieve Pakistan is reluctantto target groups with which ithas strong historical ties andcould be useful allies inAfghanistan after foreignforces withdraw. Pakistan hasdenied this, saying its forcesare stretched too thin fightingPakistani Taleban militantsat war with the state.

It has also criticized

NATO and Afghan forces fornot doing enough to stopPakistani militants holed upin Afghanistan fromlaunching attacks across theborder into Pakistan.Pakistanhas also demanded the USstop drone strikes targetingmilitants in its northwesttribal region, althoughofficials within thegovernment and the militaryhave supported these attacks

in the past. The strikes areunpopular in Pakistanbecause many people believethey mostly kill civilians —an allegation denied by theUS. The months-longdispute over the deaths of thePakistani troops inNovember and thesubsequent closure of theNATO supply line intensifiedfeelings of anger and distruston both sides.—Internet

Pakistani NATO oil tanker drivers, break their fast ontop of the tankers, during the Muslim holy fasting month

of Ramadan, in a compound in Karachi, Pakistan,on 31 July, 2012.— INTERNET

Philippine typhoon death toll rises to 37MANILA, 3 Aug — The

death toll in the Philippinesfrom Typhoon Saola has risento 37 and is expected to goeven higher as new rainsworsened flooding, thegovernment said on Friday.Monsoon rains continued tobatter the northern and centralparts of the Philippines withsome towns remainingflooded for the sixth day in arow, despite the typhoonhaving moved away from thearchipelago. Earlier reports

Residents wade through aflooded street in the townof Navotas in suburbanManila on 2 Aug, 2012,

after heavy rains andstrong winds werebrought about byTyphoon Saola.

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said 23 had been killed butcivil defence chief BenitoRamos said more deaths hadbeen reported, including 11youths who drowned in fourdifferent parts of the countryon Thursday.

“They were probablyenjoying the big waves,riding on them. They did notexpect a storm surge,” he toldAFP. The death toll is likelyto go even higher, he added,citing four more swimmerswho went missing in the

north.The Ramos-led

National Disaster RiskReduction and ManagementCouncil said that althoughSaola had passed, it was stillenhancing the monsoon rainsand warned of continuedpossible flash floods andlandslides. In the coastaldistricts near Manila, knee-high floods persisted Friday,said Jeremy de Ocampo ofthe capital’s flood controloffice.—Internet

Togo cotton output seen up 25 pct amid higherprices

LOME, 3 Aug — Togowill produce 100,000 tonnesof cotton during the 2012-13growing season, up from79,700 last year as prices haverisen and planting area hasincreased, according toNSTC, the firm that overseesthe industry in the WestAfrican state.Output couldreach 150,000 tonnes withinthe next five years, accordingto Essowe Batana, deputymanaging director of NSTC,which is run jointly by thestate and producers.

“This increase is due togrowing popularity of cottonproduction and to returningconfidence in the sector, allhelped by an improvementin prices during the 2012-13season,” Batana said.Cotton,alongside phosphates, is one

A farmershows

cotton ona farm inEgypt, on22 Sept,2011.

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of Togo’s key export earners.Its production has leapedfrom a low of 29,000 tonnesin 2009-2010.Prices for thecurrent season, which beganat the end of May, have beenfixed at 230 CFA francs perkg for top quality cotton and210 CFA francs for second-grade cotton.

The top price last yearwas 215 CFA francs per kg,which was an improvement

on the level of 185 CFA francsin the 2010-11 growingyear.Batana said 110,000hectares were dedicated tocotton farming during thecurrent crop year, up fromjust under 100,000 hectareslast year.” Within two yearsproduction should hit130,000 (tonnes) and reach150,000 tonnes in five years,”he added.

Reuters

One of five

crushed

Newport,

Vt, police

cruisers.

INTERNET

Vermont man arrested after crushingfive police cruisers with giant tractor

NEWPORT, 3 Aug — A Vermont farmer, apparently unhappy with his arrestlast month, crushed five police cruisers parked at a police station with a gianttractor on Thursday. The man, 34-year-old Roger Pion, was arrested byNewport police two miles away after he abandoned the red tractor andattempted to flee on foot. According to the Burlington Free Press, at leasteight police vehicles, included an unmarked car and transport van, sustaineddamage.”It’s more than half our fleet,” Phil Brooks, Orleans County sheriff’sdeputy, told the Burlington Free Press. “We have 11 cars.”

According to Burlington’s WCAX-TV, there were no injuries. Accordingto the Newport Express, the tractor weighed approximately 15 tons.Pion wasarrested on 3 July for marijuana possession and resisting arrest. Vermont statepolice and the US Border Patrol are assisting in the investigation. Newport,Vt, is approximately five miles from the Canadian border.— Internet

Megabus crash in Illinois: At least one dead, more thanthirty injured

CHICAGO, 3 Aug — At least one person was killedafter a double-decker Megabus crashed on Thursdayon a highway between Chicago and St Louis with morethan 60 people aboard, said the bus company.IllinoisState Police said the dead passenger was a woman whohad been seated in the front upper section of the bus,above the driver. More than 30 people were transportedto area hospitals.Authorities told ABC News that theybelieved the cause of the wreck was a blown tire.

The bus, which had 64 passengers listed on itsmanifest, according to the state police, slammed intoa concrete bridge support on Interstate 55 on Thursday

First responders work the scene of a charter buscrash on Interstate 55 near Litchfield, Ill. on

Thursday, on 2 Aug, 2012.—INTERNET

afternoon near the town of Litchfield, Ill. Thecompany said it was headed to St Louis and thenKansas City.Police said they expected the highwayto remain closed until late Thursday evening andpossibly into Friday morning.Thirty ambulances,five helicopters and seven fire departments were sentto the scene, the state police said.A spokesperson forSt. Francis Hospital in Litchfield told ABC News thatit had received 21 patients.Three other passengerswere taken to Staunton Hospital and another three toHillsboro Hospital. In addition, some passengerswere taken to Memorial Hospital in Springfield.

The bus, according to a Megabus spokesperson,was traveling along a route between Chicago, StLouis, Columbia and Kansas City. Litchfield, thesite of the wreck, was about 55 miles north of St.Louis.The National Transportation Safety Boardsaid it was monitoring the situation, but had yet tomake a decision on whether to launch a fullinvestigation.In a statement, Megabus said: “Safetyremains our number one priority. The throughts andprayers of our entire staff go out to the passengersinvolved. Megabus.com will continue to providemore details as they become available.”—Internet

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Senate panel passes tax bill in rare bipartisan showWASHINGTON, 3 Aug —

Senate tax writers approved a$205 billion package of taxbreaks in a rare show ofbipartisan unity on Thursday,but across Capitol Hill in theHouse of Representatives,sniping over taxes betweenDemocrats and Republicanswas in full force.Hours beforeleaving for a five-week break,the Senate FinanceCommittee passedlegislation including a $15billion business research taxbreak. It also contained apopular $132 billionprovision to prevent thealternative minimum tax,targeted at the rich, from

File photo shows the US Capitol building is seen as thesun begins to set under heavy cloud cover in Washington.

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hitting the middle class.“This is a strong sign

that we mean business,” saidRepublican Senator PatRoberts who voted for thelegislation, that passed 19-5in a committee hearing filledwith mutual praise.The billwould need to besubstantially changed,however, to stand a chance ofwinning approval in the morepartisan House ofRepresentatives, whereRepublicans hold a bigmajority.There, whilesenators praised one another,the usual bickering was inhigh-gear during the debateover a Republican effort to

“fast track” tax reform with abill that would slash the topincome tax rate to 25 percentfrom 35 percent and imposeother changes that areanathemas to Democrats.

Democratic Represen-tative Barney Frank said thebill would give too muchpower to Republican Waysand Means CommitteeChairman David Camp, andcriticized its specificity ontax cuts and vagueness onpaying for them withoutbloating the deficit. Campwill “single-handedly put onhis cape and fly down herewith this bill that will helpthe rich and do some

unmentioned thingsregarding popular tax breaksthat they don’t want tomention,” Frank said in histypically blunt style.TheHouse bill would set up

Chinese navytraining vesselvisits French

PolynesiaPAPEETE, (French

Polynesia), 3 Aug — AChinese Navy training vesselarrived at the capital city ofFrench Polynesia for a four-day good-will visit onThursday. The visit to theFrench overseas territories inthe southeastern PacificOcean is part of Zhenghe’sfive-month global voyage,the second of such sailsorganized by the ChineseNavy in a decade.

Zhenghe, named after afamed Chinese maritimeexplorer about 600 years ago,has a scheduled route of morethan 30,000 nautical miles(58,000 km) and is expectedto pay port calls to 11countries and working visitsto three countries during itsglobal voyage.Before itsarrival at Papeete, Zhenghehas already made a number ofstops at Italy, Spain, Canada,Jamaica, Ecuador, andothers.— Xinhua

procedures to let lawmakersmove quickly to revamp thetax code in 2013. It passedthe House with backing fromnot one House Democrat onThursday.— Reuters

Jobs seen weak in July, may help push Fed to actWASHINGTON, 3 Aug —

US employment probablyonly inched up in July as theeconomy struggled to regainmomentum, strengtheningexpectations of additionalmonetary stimulus from theFederal Reserve. Nonfarmpayrolls likely rose 100,000last month, according to aReuters survey, after gaining80,000 in June.The closelywatched employment reportcomes two days after the UScentral bank sent a strongersignal that a new round ofmajor support could be onthe way if the falteringrecovery does not pick up.Job growth in recent monthsmissed expectations andeconomists say otheremployment indicators

recently suggest that July willshow a similar picture.

“If the data comes inweaker-than-expected, it’sgoing to give the Fed politicalcover, given how close weare getting to the Novemberelections, for them to easemonetary policy,” said SamBullard, a senior economistat Wells Fargo Securities inCharlotte, North Carolina.Most economists expect theFed will launch a third roundof bond purchases, possiblyat its next policy meeting onSeptember 12-13. That’sdespite the approach of theUS presidential and con-gressional elections inNovember which could leavethe central bank open tocriticisms from Republicans

who have made the weakeconomy a centerpiece oftheir campaigning.The Fedhas held interest rates closeto zero for nearly four yearsand pumped about $2.3trillion into the economy,Bythe time of the Fed’s meetingin September, policymakerswill also have had a chance tosee August’ s payrolls report.

Reuters

People speak with recruiters from jewelry and gemcompanies during the Gemological Institute Of America

(GIA)’s Jewelry Career Fair in New Yorkon 30 July, 2012. — REUTERS

James Penman (C), the city attorney of San Bernardino,California, talks to the media at the city council

chambers in this 11 July, 2012 file photo. — REUTERS

Pension debt overwhelmsbankrupt San Bernardino,

CaliforniaLOS ANGELES, 3 Aug —

San Bernardino, the thirdCalifornia city to seekbankruptcy protection sinceJune, is saddled with hugepension debt and willproduce details of thoseunfunded obligations within15 days, its mayor said onThursday. The city filed forbankruptcy protection onWednesday, citing over $1billion in estimated liabilitiesand up to 25,000 creditors,many of whom are the city’sown employees. The city, 65miles east of Los Angeles,also listed estimated assetsas over $1 billion. Patrick JMorris, San Bernardino’smayor, said in a telephoneinterview that the bulk of thecity’s debt was due to“unfunded liabilities relatedto pension and benefits” forthe city’s employees, and“obligations to employeegroups in labor contracts.”

In the past two months,the cities of Stockton andMammoth Lakes have alsofiled for Chapter 9 bankruptcyprotection, a specialbankruptcy provision formunicipalities. Stockton,which like San Bernardino hassuffered from the housing crashthat was particularly acute insouthern California, filed forbankruptcy in June, becomingthe largest US city to do so.Other cities in California arealso in deep fiscal trouble.Richard Larkin, senior vice

president and director of creditanalysis at bond underwritingfirm HJ Sims and an expert inmunicipal bonds, concludedin a recent study that “becauseof the fiscal environment inCalifornia ... many of thosedefaults yet to come this yearare likely to be in California.”

In late July, SanBernardino reported that ithad $56 million inindebtedness payable from itsgeneral fund, the main budget,including payments on a $50million pension bond. Thereis an additional $195 millionin unfunded pensionobligations, $61 million inunfunded retiree healthcare,and $40 million of workerscompensation, compensatedabsences and generalliabilities.The city is not alonein struggling to meet pensionobligations, particularly forpolice and firefighters. In otherCalifornia cities and inmunicipalities nationwide,retirement costs promised tocity employees in good timesare wreaking havoc withbudgets in the wake of thehousing market crash and highunemployment.

The city of about 210,000residents declared a fiscalcrisis last month after a reportthat local government hadtapped out its reserves andprojected that spendingwould top revenue by $45million in the fiscal year thatbegan on 1 July.—Reuters

Philippine police arrest foursuspected kidnappers of

Japanese boy

Yemen tribesmen releaseItalian officer: official

SANAA, 3 Aug — AnItalian embassy securityofficer kidnapped by Yemenitribesmen has been releasedunharmed, a governmentofficial said on Thursday, thesame day the country’sinformation ministersurvived an assassinationattempt.

The incidents highlightcontinuing instability inYemen five months afterformer leader Ali AbdullahSaleh was formally replacedby his deputy under a plandesigned to forestall a slideinto lawlessness.

During the uprising thattoppled Saleh, militantsassociated with al-Qaedastrengthened their positionin areas of south and eastYemen, further testing central

government control in acountry riven with tribalismand regionalism.”

The Italian diplomat washanded over to the governorof Maarib and he is in goodhealth and will be transferredto Sanaa later to be handedover to the Italianambassador,” the official toldReuters.

The abductors whodetained the security officerin the oil-producing provinceof Maarib had demanded tobe compensated for thedetention of one of theirrelatives and the return ofland they say they own in thecapital Sanaa, a tribal sourcesaid, adding they werepromised their demands willbe met.

Reuters

MANILA, 3 Aug— Police said on Friday that they hadarrested four people allegedly involved in the kidnapping ofa Japanese boy in Balanga city in the northern Philippineprovince of Bataan. Bataan provincial police spokesmanDennis Orbita identified the suspects as Jonathan Benicarlo,his father Pedro, his sister Veronica and one Clarita Benicarlowhose relation with the three was not immediatelyknown.Police filed charges of kidnapping and serious illegaldetention against the suspects for the abduction of six-year-old Paul Kajiwara at Cupang village last Tuesday.

Kajiwara was taken along with the daughter ofVeronica.Orbita said the boy’s Filipina mother, Amelia Raninwho is married to a Japanese, received a text message initiallydemanding a ransom of 150,000 pesos (3,584 US dollars). Theransom was then reduced to 30,000 pesos (717 US dollars).Raninreported the abduction of her son to police and an entrapmentoperation was set up. Jonathan Benicarlo was the first to bearrested after he agreed to meet the boy’s mother for the payoff.

The Japanese boy was later rescued and underwentdebriefing under the care of his mother. “Investigators laterdiscovered that Jonathan is the son of Pedro Benicarlo andbrother of Veronica. Soon the investigators tied pieces ofinformation linking the Benicarlo family to the kidnappingwith the supposed kidnapping of Veronica’s daughter tohide their involvement,” said Orbita.The three other suspectswere arrested in succeeding follow-up operations.— Xinhua

Policetroopersguard

outsidethe Italianembassyin Sanaa

on 30July,2012.

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The Republic of the Union of MyanmarMinistry of Transport

Myanma Port AuthorityInvitation to an Information Session Regardingthe Upgrading and Renovation of Sule Pagoda

Wharf No. 1 to 4 including Related PortTerminal Facilities and the Other PortDevelopment Projects in Yangon Port

Myanma Port Authority, Ministry of Transport is planningto implement the up grading and renovation of the SulePagoda Wharf No. 1 to 4 comply with International Standardand the construction and development of other port relatedinfrastructures and marine structures in Lammadaw ForeshoreArea, Pansodan Jetty Compound and Botataung ForeshoreArea with Private Participation through Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) or Joint Venture (JV). In order to clarify and make transparent the basicrequirements for implementation of the above projectsunder the Myanma Port Authority, interested foreign andlocal investors and/or firms are invited to attend aninformation session to be held according to the followingprogram:Date/Time : 9, August 2012 (Thursday), 10:00 AMVenue : Meeting Room (1), Myanma Port Authority,

No. 10, Pansodan Street, Yangon, Myanmar. Managing Director Myanma Port Authority

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV TRANS PACIFIC 5 VOY NO (335)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV TRANS PA-CIFIC 5 VOY NO (335) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 4.8.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W(3) where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: FORTUNE SHIPPING AGENCYPTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV TURTLE BAY VOY NO (103)Consignees of cargo carried on MV TURTLE BAY

VOY NO (103) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 3.8.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of H.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S SAMUDERA SHIPPINGLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV HANNA MARIE VOY NO (1232)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV HANNAMARIE VOY NO (1232) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 4.8.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Photo taken on 1 Aug,2012 shows a flooded

road in Chiping Countyof Liaocheng City, east

China’s ShandongProvince.—XINHUA

1.9 mln peopleaffected by

E ChinarainstormsJINAN, 3 Aug— Nearly

1.9 million people in eastChina’s Shandong provincehave been affected by heavyrains since 29 July, localauthorities said onWednesday.

Downpours havebattered the eastern provincesince last Sunday, killing twopeople, according to theprovincial civil affairsdepartment.In the city ofDezhou, heavy rains haveaffected more than 1.23 millionresidents and caused directeconomic losses of 650 millionyuan (102 million US dollars),the civil affairs department ofDezhou said. According tostatistics released by thedepartment, 137,500 hectaresof crops have been damagedand 2,213 houses have beendestroyed. A total of 6,200residents in Pingyuan countyof Dezhou have beenrelocated to avoid possiblenatural disasters triggered byrainstorms. —Xinhua

Bahraini Director of Public Security Tariq Al-Hassanholds a Press conference in Manama. Bahraini policehave arrested three suspects over “terrorist activities”

after seizing materials that can be usedto manufacture explosives.

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Bahrain says 3 arrested over‘terrorist activities’

MANAMA, 3 Aug —Bahraini police have arrestedthree suspects over “terroristactivities” after seizingmaterials that can be used tomanufacture explosives, thepublic security chief said onWednesday. Major GeneralTariq al-Hassan said inremarks to the Press thatpolice are still searching forthree other suspects.“Bahraini police and ScotlandYard are investigating theissue,” Hassan said.

Following a raid on aresidential area in a Shiitevillage, “police have seizedmore than five tonnes ofmaterials that could be usedto manufacture explosives,”he added.

Hassan acknowledged,“some police officers couldhave acted inappropriately,”after the Shiite oppositionaccused the public securityof abuse.”Any officer that isfound guilty of violatingappropriate procedures will

be punished,” he said.”Suchabuses, if they are proved, areunacceptable.

They contradict themission of the interiorministry.”Hassan said 10 out14 complaints against policeand the ministry “have beenreferred to competentauthorities, including thecourts.

The other four are stillbeing probed.”In July, more

than 240 people were arrested,while dozens were hurt inclashes with the police, themain Shiite opposition group,Al-Wefaq, said.

The authorities accuseyoung Shiite protesters ofusing petrol bombs againstsecurity forces duringfrequent demonstrations invillages outside the capitalManama.

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‘Goat man’ was hunter in disguiseA Utah wildlife official

said the mysterious “goatman” photographed crawlingnear some goats was aCalifornia hunter testing outa goat stalking disguise.

Phil Douglass,conservation outreachmanager for the Division ofWildlife Resources, said hewas contacted recently by a57-year-old California manwho revealed he had donneda goat suit on 15 July andappeared in Coty Creighton’sphotograph near Ben Lomond

Fake $100 bills had Lincoln watermark

A real $100 bill.

Police in Arizona saidthey were trying to identifya suspect who allegedlytried to pass two counterfeit$100 bills bearing awatermark of AbrahamLincoln.

Prescott police said theman first attempted to use aphony $100 bill about 8 pmon 18 July at a Goodwill store.

A worker noticed thesecurity strip was incorrectand the watermark bore theimage of Lincoln instead of

Woman arrested trying to get into jail

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Authorities in Ohio saidthey arrested a womanaccused of trying to breakinto a jail while shouting, “Iwant to be arrested.”

The Butler CountySheriff’s Office said Tiffany

Peak just north of Ogden, theOgden Standard-Examinerreported on 31 July.

Douglass said the man,who did not give his name,gave information substan-tiating his claims and said hewas testing out the goat suitfor an upcoming hunting trip.

“He gave me details thatconvinced me it was him,”Douglass said.

“I’m satisfied that thiswas a person preparing for ahunt and did it with knowledgeand experience.” Creighton

said he had enjoyed themystery about the goat man’sidentity.

“I thought I wantedanswers, but I was naive. Ishould have left well enoughalone.

Now I just want themystery back,” he said.

Hurd, 36, was spottedattempting to climb over abarbed wire fence earlymorning of 29 July at the jailin Hamilton and a correctionsofficer was unable toconvince her to leave, the

Cincinnati Enquirerreported on 30 July.

“I want to be arrested,”Hurd allegedly shouted.Deputies said she appearedto be intoxicated. Hurd wasarrested on misdemeanour

charges of criminal trespassand disorderly conduct.

“Prisoner arrestedtrying (to) get back (into) jail... She got her wish.

Not the norm. Got itbackwards,” Sheriff RickJones posted on his Twitteraccount.

Benjamin Franklin, TheDaily Courier, Prescott,reported on 30 July.

Police said the man leftthe store before officersarrived and attempted touse a similar bill less than ahalf hour later at a Safeway

store, where a managernoticed the flaws in theforgery.

The suspect again leftbefore police arrived. TheSafeway manager said theman left in a black, four-door passenger car.

‘Brady Bunch’ reboot on the wayLOS ANGELES, 3 Aug—

Vince Vaughn and PeterBillingsley are producing anupdated version of the classicsitcom “The Brady Bunch”for CBS, The HollywoodReporter said.

The multicamera comedy

Vince Vaughn, a castmember in the motionpicture sci-fi comedy“The Watch”, attends

the premiere of the filmat Grauman’s Chinese

Theatre in theHollywood section of

Los Angeles on 23 July,2012.

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Report: Swiftdating RFK’s

grandsonNEWYORK, 3 Aug—

Country music star TaylorSwift has been seen enjoyingdates with Robert FKennedy’s grandson, Conor,in Hyannis Port, Mass,witnesses told the New YorkPost.

The pair recently havebeen spotted kissing, holdinghands, eating pizza, jumpingon a trampoline, sailing,

Pattinson staying atWitherspoon’s ranch

Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon

OJAI, 3 Aug—RobertPattinson is staying at ReeseWitherspoon’s ranch in Ojai,Calif, after Kristen Stewartpublicly confirmed shecheated on him,UsMagazine.com said.

Pattinson andWitherspoon co-starredtogether in 2011’s “Water forElephants.”

Pattinson has beenstaying at Witherspoon’svacation home since news

broke last week that Stewart,his longtime girlfriend and“Twilight” leading lady, hadan affair with film directorRupert Sanders, who ismarried with two children.

It is unclear whetherWitherspoon, who ispregnant, and her husbandand two kids are also at theOjai estate or if Pattison isthere by himself.

A source close toPattinson and Stewart toldUsMagazine.com the 26-year-old actor is “a total

mess.”“He’s questioning

everything,” the insider said.Stewart, meanwhile, is

“inconsolable” and has beentrying to reach Pattinson bytext message and phone afterpublicly declaring her love forhim and begging for hisforgiveness last week.

“She’s dying to save therelationship. It’s the onlything she cares about,” asource close to the 22-year-old actress told the magazine.

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Musician Taylor Swift

Steve Harvey to perform laststand-up show

Radio and

TV

personality

Steve

Harvey

will focus on Bobby Brady, acharacter from the originalshow, who is now a divorceddad starting a new family withhis second wife, theentertainment industry tradenewspaper said.

The original ABC sitcom

about a widower with threesons — the youngest of whomwas Bobby — marrying adivorced woman with threedaughters ran from 1969-74.

No casting for thecontemporary version hasbeen announced.—Internet

Producer Hawk Koch electedAcademy president

BEVERLY HILLS, 3 Aug—Producer Hawk Koch hasbeen elected president ofHollywood’s Academy ofMotion Picture Arts and

Sciences. The organization’sboard of governors selectedKoch on Tuesday night. Thiswill be his first term in theoffice.

Koch’s producer creditsinclude “Losing Isaiah” and“Gorky Park.” He recentlyserved as executive produceron “Source Code” and isexecutive producer on theupcoming “Very Good Girls.”

The Academy honorsthe year’s best in film with itsOscars each winter.

InternetHawk Koch electedAcademy president.

Rep slams Culkin drug addiction reportNEWYORK, 3 Aug— Macaulay Culkin’s

publicist is denying a tabloid report that theUS actor is battling an addiction to heroin andprescription drugs.

The National Enquirer said the 31-year-old former child star of “Home Alone” onlyhas six months to live, but Culkin’srepresentative told E! News on Wednesdaythe report is “not only categorically withoutmerit, but it is also impossibly and ridiculouslyfictitious.” “We beseech the responsiblemedia to consider the source and itsreputation, and to please not perpetuate this

Actor Macaulay Culkin and actressMila Kunis

LAS VEGAS, 3 Aug—Author and actor SteveHarvey says he will performhis final stand-up comedyshow on 2 August at theMGM Grand Garden Arena inLas Vegas.

Harvey’s 2-hour farewellshow will air live on Pay-Per-View telecast available oncable systems around theUnited States.

After the liveprogramme, fans will still beable to access the special viacable PPV for several months

and also on Video OnDemand, beginning on 3August. “The road to thisfinal show has been anamazing journey doing stand-up for the past 27 years, andI can’t thank fans enough afterreflecting on all those yearson stage, and the

unforgettable moments andjokes we’ve shared,” Harveysaid in a statement. “It’s beena wild ride over these years onstage, radio, TV and more,and taking the stage for myfinal show, I will have a specialblowout performance in storefor everyone in Las Vegasand watching at home thatwill be bigger than any showI’ve done so far.”

Harvey is the host ofradio’s “The Steve HarveyMorning Show” and is thebest-selling author of “Think

Like a Man.” His relationshipguide was adapted as a hitfilm set to premiere on 28August cable’s Movies OnDemand. He also is host ofthe game show “Family Feud”and upcoming new daytimeprogramme “Steve Harvey.”

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attending a party and goingto church in Kennedy’shometown, the newspapersaid on Tuesday.

Swift, 22, previouslydated singer John Mayer andactor Taylor Lautner.

Conor Kennedy, 18, isthe son of Robert F KennedyJr. and his ex-wife, Mary, whocommitted suicide in May.

Internetdestructive and insulting story by pursuing itany further,” the publicist said.—Internet

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Premier League Trophy Tour comes to ManchesterInteractive experience arrives in England to celebrate the beginning of the 2012/13

campaignLONDON, 3 Aug — Fans

are now being invited tosample the Barclays PremierLeague experience forthemselves when the BarclaysPremier League Trophy Tourcomes to Manchester later thismonth.The Trophy Tour is afree interactive family-friendlyevent that gives fans of allages the chance to get up closeand personal with the world’smost popular footballleague.Over the last two yearsthe Trophy Tour has visitednine cities across the MiddleEast and Asia and it is nowstopping off in England forthe first time to mark the startof the of 2012/13 BarclaysPremier League season.

Supporters are takenthrough four zones where theycan learn more about theLeague, its clubs, its playersand its history while they willalso have the opportunity toget a picture of themselveslifting the iconic BarclaysPremier League Trophy withthe help of green screentechnology.The Tour will takeup residence in Albert Square,Manchester from 16th-19thAugust — opening from11am-7pm each day — andyou can be there.To book yourfree priority place for thisunique event, visit the TrophyTour website:www.bpltrophytour.com

“Tens of thousands of

fans across the globe havealready enjoyed the BarclaysPremier League Trophy Tour,now it’s the chance ofsupporters in England toexperience what is at the heartof our competition: the Trophyitself, as this is what everyplayer and manager competesto get their hands on,” saidPremier League ChiefExecutive RichardScudamore.”

The Tour also celebratesthe fantastic football playedby our clubs, because that iswhat excites hundreds ofmillions week-in week-out athome and abroad; and thehistory and tradition of Englishfootball, as this is afundamental part of whatdrives the huge interest in theBarclays Premier League.”

David Wheldon, Head ofBrand, Reputation andCitizenship at Barclays, added:“It is fantastic news thatManchester, a hotbed ofEnglish football and clubrivalry, is the first port of callfor the Tour this season.”

The Barclays PremierLeague Trophy is a globalicon, so this tour is a greatopportunity for our customers,clients and our colleagues toget closer to one of the mostsought after trophies infootball.” The Tour is part of aweekend of events celebratingthe start of a new thrilling

The Barclays Premier League Trophy Tour has been abig success with fans of all ages. — INTERNET

season of the Barclays PremierLeague. As well as thenumerous interactivedisplays, including theopportunity to test your speedagainst Arsenal winger TheoWalcott, Barclays PremierLeague legends will also be inattendance, including formerManchester United andManchester City goalkeeperPeter Schmeichel.

The Great Dane, whowon the League title five timesin a glittering career in England,will be at the event on Friday,17th August from 11am. “Mylink with Manchester goesback for decades and I lovethe city,” he said.”Local fanswill get to understand more ofthe history and experience allthe aspects of the mostexciting league in the world.I’m looking forward to

meeting some of the BarclaysPremier League’s mostpassionate fans inManchester.” There will alsobe a fan zone around theTrophy Tour which will givefans the exclusive opportunityto play the brand new EASports FIFA 13 game, whichis not released in England untilOctober. A Sky Sports Newspod will feature a replica oftheir studio, so supporters canpretend to be Jim White orKirsty Gallagher.

Manchester City willbring the spirit of City Squareto Albert Square as ‘Fan ZoneDanny’ gives out Citygoodies, Manchester Unitedwill be offering performancesfrom its official choir, and boththe Liverpool and Evertonstreet dance crews will beattending.— Internet

Douglas wins all-around title,giving her 2nd gold

LONDON, 3 Aug — Makeit a pair of golds for GabbyDouglas, who added the all-around title to the one shewon with the US team twonights ago.

Douglas became the thirdstraight American to wingymnastics’ biggest prize,taking the lead on the veryfirst event on Thursday nightand never really lettinganyone else get close. She

US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas performs on the balancebeam during the artistic gymnastics women’s individualall-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics,

on 2 Aug, 2012, in London.— INTERNET

finished with a score of 62.232,less than three-tenths aheadof Viktoria Komova of Russia.

Douglas brought thehouse down with her energeticfloor routine, and USteammates Jordyn Wieber,McKayla Maroney and KylaRoss jumped to their feet andcheered when she finished.Douglas flashed a smile andcoach Liang Chow lifted heroff the podium.— Internet

Fish advances to quarterfinalsin Washington

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug —Mardy Fish knows what he’dhave to do for his ankle to heal.He’s just not interested in doingit. Still feeling the effects of aright ankle injury sustained twoweeks ago in Atlanta, the top-seeded American beatRicardas Berankis 6-3, 6-1 onThursday night to advance tothe Citi Open quarterfinals. Fishsaid the injury doesn’t hamperhis movement, and he can playthrough the discomfort.’’That’sa tough thing, because it needsrest and I’m just not going togive it rest,’’ Fish said. ‘’I can’tgive it rest. I’m not going to missthese tournaments.’’

Fish already missed timethis year after he underwent aheart procedure in May to

Mardy Fish

Tirunesh Dibaba ofEthiopia runs in the

women’s 5000 metersrace at the Diamond

League New YorkGrand Prix athletics

meet on 9 June,2012.— REUTERS

Athletics: Battle of distancequeens highlights day one

LONDON, 3 Aug — Thebig men of the shot put open10 days of athletics action atthe London Olympics onFriday morning with the moreslender frames of the EastAfrican distance runnersclosing out the day in themuch-anticipated women’s10,000 meters final. Distancequeens Vivian Cheruiyot ofKenya and Ethiopia’sTirunesh Dibaba will go head-to-head for the second goldmedal in athletics in what isexpected to be a thrilling finalat the OlympicStadium.Dibaba won the5,000-10,000m double at theBeijing Olympics beforetaking a couple of years offbut looked back at her bestwhen her fearsome finishdrove her to the fastest timeof the year in Oregon in June.

Cheruiyot matchedDibaba’s double at the worldchampionships last year andshe and Sally Kipyego, whois also running both races inLondon, are gunning forKenya’s first Olympic goldmedal in the event.Jamaicaand the United States willrenew their rivalry in thewomen’s sprints in Londonwith Olympic championShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce andworld champion CarmelitaJeter spearheading theirrespective bids for the 100mtitle.The top women will have

the morning off, however,with the preliminary roundsorting out the also-ransbefore the big names get goingin the first round of heats inthe afternoon.Britain’sJessica Ennis will be lookingto the home crowd to give hera boost as she begins herquest for heptathlon gold inthe first four of the sevenevents.

The former worldchampion should get a goodstart in the 100m hurdles andis expected to fight for the titlewith Ukraine’s defendingOlympic champion NataliyaDobrynska and Beijingbronze medalist RussianTatyana Chernova.The firstgold medal of the Games willbe won by a shotputter andReese Hoffa, ChristianCantwell and Ryan Whitingare all out to win the title backfor the United States.TheAmericans also went toBeijing four years ago withhigh hopes of gold only forrelative unknown PoleTomasz Majewski to steal theirthunder.Germany’s worldchampion David Storl shouldalso be in the frame, whileMajewski returns to defendhis title.— Reuters

correct an arrhythmia. Now he’smore concerned about regaininghis match fitness than about hisankle.’’I need matches,’’ he said.‘’I need to play.’’ Fish will faceXavier Malisse on Friday.Malisse beat sixth-seededJeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-2.

The No 13-ranked Fishknows he isn’t at top form, buthe also believes he’s not too faraway. “I feel like I can go outagainst someone like I playedtonight and not lose,’’ he said.‘’That’s important. You’d besurprised, in years past I feltlike I could really beat anyone,but I could also lose to anyoneon any given day. And I feellike if I play relatively normalright now—I have theconfidence, anyway, it mightnot be true—I have theconfidence that I don’t losemany matches like thatanymore.’’ Eighth-seeded SamQuerrey also advanced,finishing off Benjamin Beckerwith his eighth ace of the matchin a 6-4, 6-3 victory. Querrey,the Farmers Classic winner inLos Angeles on Sunday for hisfirst title of the year, won all 24of his first-serve points and on22 of Becker’s 33 secondserves.— Internet

Phelps wins 20th medal, Hoytops British gold rush

LONDON, 3 Aug —Michael Phelps stormed to a20th Olympic Games medalon Thursday while Britishcyclist Chris Hoy claimed arecord-equalling fifth careergold to top off a memorableday for the hosts. Phelps wonthe 200m individual medleyto become the first man totake the same individualswimming gold at threestraight Games.The US star,denied trebles in London inthe 400m medley and 200mbutterfly, delivered a vintageperformance to win in 1min54.27sec and collect his 20thcareer Olympic medal — and

Gold medalist USswimmer Michael Phelps

listens to his nationalanthem on the podiumafter winning the men’s200m individual medleyswimming event at theLondon 2012 Olympic

Games in London.INTERNET

his 16th gold.”It is a relief towin an individual gold. I fellshort in the first couple ofevents, it is cool to dosomething no other maleswimmer has done,” saidPhelps.

American Rebecca Sonibroke the women’s 200mbreaststroke world record forthe second time in two dayswhile compatriot Tyler Clarywon gold in the men’s 200mbackstroke, denying team-mate Ryan Lochte a repeatvictory. Ranomi Kro-mowidjojo of the Nether-lands prevented an Americanswim sweep by taking goldin the women’s 100mfreestyle.World 100mfreestyle champion JamesMagnussen’s Olympic debutsuffered another miserableouting when the Australianfailed to make the final of themen’s 50m freestyle.

On a wild day of recordsand controversy at theLondon Velodrome, trackcycling king Hoy equalledformer rower SteveRedgrave’s British record haulof five golds after winning themen’s team sprint.

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(4-8-12 09:30 am ~5-8-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV(4-8-2012) (Saturday)

Focus Myanmar TV ProgrammeWeather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 4th August, 2012

* News* Welcome to Naga

Land* News* Exquisite Silver

Jewellery* News* Youth & Career* News* Kanbawzathardi

Golden Palace* News* Greenish Beauty

from Aried Zone* News* International

Standard of ChefExam

* News* To Turn Out New

Generation Golfers* News* Myanmar Movie

“Lover Between TheDevil And The DeepBlue Sea”

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw- Uppatasanti Paritta

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy Exercise7:40 am 3. Dhamma Puja Song7:50 am 4. Nice & Sweet Song8:15 am 5. Poem Garden11:00 am 6. Martial Song11:10 am 7. Musical Programme11:25 am 8. Game For Children11:50 am 9. Round Up Of The

Week’s TV Local News1:40 pm10. Dance of National

Races4:20 pm11. Cultural Dances5:30 pm12. Solo Favourities5:50 pm13. Beautiful “ASEAN”6:35 pm14. Celebrity and Dinner8:00 pm15. News16. Cartoon Series17. TV Drama Series19. Gitadagale Phwinfbaohn

Agricultural technologyshared to farmers in Pwintbyu

Agricultural InstitutePWINTBYU, 4 Aug—At Agricultural Institute in Pwintbyu,

Township Administrator U Thet Oo Swe made a speech at theeducative talks on 17 August morning.

Principal Daw Yi Yi Htay explained cultivation ofPalethwe hybrid paddy through good agriculture patterns,cautions for use of pesticides and breeding of goat and sheep.

After that, the officials presented documentary photosand pamphlets to breeders.—Myanma Alin

DAW HMEE HMEE LIN(VALERIE SAN LIN)ADB (RTD-MANILA)

(67) YEARSDaw Hmee Hmee Lin, daughter of ( U San Lin) and

Daw Soe Soe (Sally San Lin), sister of Douglas Soe Lin andMyadali, aunt of Wyn Soe Lin and Amara Thiri Myaing,passed away at Pun Hlaing Hospital on August 2, 2012(Thursday) at 10:00 pm.

Cremation will be at Yay Way on Saturday, August4, 2012.

Boxing: Singh soldiers on as scoring criticism continues

India’s Vijender (L)leaves the ring afterwinning in his fight

with Terrell Gausha ofthe U.S. in their Men’sMiddle (75kg) Roundof 16 boxing matchduring the London

2012 Olympic Gameson 2 Aug, 2012.

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LONDON, 3 Aug — Theposter boy of Indian boxing,Vijender Singh, camethrough a close battle withAmerican Terrell Gausha onThursday to make the lasteight of the middleweightsas the grumbles aboutofficiating at the LondonGames continued.

The powerful 26 year-old edged a close contest,which could have gone eitherway, 16-15 with his stiff leftjab probably catching the eyeof the judges more than thespeed of Gausha. Roared onby a partisan crowd at theExcel arena, Vijenderadmitted to feeling thepressure of carrying the hopesof billion people back home.

“I stayed calm and Ifought in very close and Iwon the fight,” said thepoliceman, who fought infront of former heavyweightchampion Evander

Holyfield. “All Indiawatching.

They love me and I lovethem and long may theysupport me,” added theIndian, whose left cheek wasmarked from the bout. Gaushasaid he was proud of hisdisplay in defeat, theAmerican team’s seventhconsecutive loss this weekafter opening with four wins.

The 24-year-old thenreplicated his fast footworkin the ring by trying to dancearound questions about

whether he thought the resultwas fair.

“I knew it was a closefight, I wasn’t sure which wayit was going to go, I was justhoping I got the nod butunfortunately I didn’t,” hesaid. “I didn’t feel bad as Iknew I had given everythingI could and the world waswatching.

“Not to take away frommy opponent, he did good,but I felt I was edging him alittle bit.”

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Beach volleyball—British women eliminatedLONDON, 3 Aug — British

women’s beach volleyballplayers Shauna Mullin andZara Dampney lost a suddendeath play-off on Thursdaythat ended their Olympictournament, while teams fromBrazil and the United Statesmaintained 100 percentrecords.

Austrian sisters Dorisand Stefanie Schwaiger beatthe British duo 2-0 (21-15,21-12) to end the host’sparticipation in beachvolleyball, held at HorseGuards Parade, a spectacularvenue a stone’s throw fromLondon landmark Big Ben.”

We’ll look back at thisand really enjoy it - but we’rejust a bit dazed and confusednow it’s over,” Mullin said.“We won a match here in ourfirst Olympics — but whatwe’ve really achieved heremaybe won’t be evident untilwe’re able to sit back andlook at it.”

Britain’s men wereeliminated on Wednesday.Beach volleyball is notplayed by many people inrainy Britain. Dampney andMullin both started out inindoor volleyball and usedto played against each otherwhen Dampney was in theEngland team while Mullinplayed for Scotland.

The pair have received

Britain’s Zara Dampney reacts as she fails to save apoint against Russia’s Ekaterina Khomyakova and

Evgeniya Ukolova during their women’s preliminaryround beach volleyball match at Horse Guards Parade

during the London 2012 Olympic Games on 2 Aug,2012.— REUTERS

attention from the Britishtabloid press, not leastbecause they sport miniBritish flags on the back oftheir bikini bottoms and havepainted their nails inelaborate patterns of patrioticblue, white and red.”

The Olympics ishopefully a springboard forbetter things for beachvolleyball in this country,we need to start a petition toget a grand slam event here,”Dampney said.

Teams from Brazil andthe United States maintained100 percent records onThursday as they cruisedthrough to the knock-outphase.

Men’s favourites

Emanuel Rego and AlisonCerutti of Brazil breezedthrough a clash againstItalians Paolo Nicolai andDaniele Lupo to come top oftheir pool after three wins.

Five-time OlympianEmanuel won gold with hisformer team mate RicardoSantos in Athens in 2004.Ricardo is also competing inLondon with his own newpartner, Pedro Cunha, andthey too emerged undefeatedfrom the pool phase.

Olympic championsTodd Rogers and PhilipDalhausser of the US had acomfortable victory onThursday over Petr Benes andPremysl Kubala of the CzechRepublic.—Reuters

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow Sr.

No. Regions/States Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 31/88 25/77 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

2 Kayah 27/81 20/68 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

3 Kayin 26/79 21/70 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

4 Chin 21/70 16/61 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

5 Upper Sagaing 27/81 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

6 Lower Sagaing 33/91 25/77 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

7 Taninthayi 26/79 20/68 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

8 Bago 26/79 20/68 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

9 Magway 33/91 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

10 Mandalay 36/97 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

11 Mon 27/81 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (RH) (100%)

12 Yangon 31/88 21/70 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

13 Rakhine 27/81 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (RH) (100%)

14 Southern Shan 23/73 19/66 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

15 Northern Shan 23/73 19/66 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

16 Eastern Shan 23/79 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

17 Ayeyawady 30/86 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 31/88 22/72 One or two rain (100%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 31/88 21/70 Some rain (100%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 36/97 26/79 Isolated rain (80%)

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Lower Sagaing, Mandalay Regions and Kayah State, scattered in Magway Region, fairly widespread in Kachin and Rakhine States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with regionally heavy falls in Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady, Taninthayi Regions, Rakhine, Kayin and Mon States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Shwegyin (6.81) inches, Theinbyuzayat (6.77) inches, Launglon (5.12) inches, Bago (5.50) inches, Thandwe (4.88) inches, Gwa (4.65) inches and Naunglaybin (3.94) inches.

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

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

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Continuation of strong monsoon.

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—According to the observations at 5.30pm MST today, a low pressure area has formed over Northwest Bayof Bengal.

Under the influence of low pressure area, rain orthundershowers will be widespread in Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawadyand Taninthayi Regions, Rakhine, Kayin and Mon States withregionally heavy fall in Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady and TaninthayiRegions and Kayin State. Occasional squalls with rough sea willbe experienced off and along Myanmar coasts. Surface wind speedin squalls may reach 40 m.p.h, announced Department of Meteorologyand Hydrology.—MNA

Lower pressure area on NorthwestBay of Bengal

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—According to the 12.30hr M.S.T observation today, the water level ofThanlwin River at Hpa-an 881 cm has exceeded by131 cm (about 4.3 feet) above its danger level. Itmay remain above its danger level 750 cm duringnext three days, announced Department ofMeteorology and Hydrology.—MNA

Flood bulletin for ThanlwinRiver

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug —According to the 12.30 hr M.S.Tobservation today, the water level of Bago River at Bago is 881 cm.It may reach its danger level 910 cm during next 24 hourscommencing this noon, announced Department of Meteorologyand Hydrology.—MNA

High tide warning at Bago River

Chairman of Fundamental Rights of Citizens, Democracy and HumanRights Committee U Htay Oo receives UN Special Rapporteur on Human

Rights Situation in Myanmar Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—A moderate earthquakeof magnitude 5 Richter Scale with its epicenterinside Myanmar (about 80 miles northwest ofMyitkyina), about 280 miles north of Mandalayseismological observatory was recorded at 1 hrs 35min 50 sec M.S.T today, announced Department ofMeteorology and Hydrology.— MNA

Slight earthquake hits 280miles northwest of Myitkyina

Publication of bills under debate at Hluttawsprior to enactment contributes to listening of

public opinion: UN Special Rapporteur onHuman Rights Situation in Myanmar

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Chairman of Pyithu HluttawFundamental Rights ofCitizens, Democracy andHuman Rights Committee UHtay Oo received UN SpecialRapporteur on Human RightsSituation in Myanmar MrTomas Ojea Quintana atPyithu Hluttaw CommitteeHall No. 1 in HluttawComplex here this morning.

Speaking on theoccasion, CommitteeChairman U Htay Oo saidthat he had to receive theguests together withchairpersons of committeesconcerned and commissionmembers on behalf of thePyithu Hluttaw Speaker as hewas on a tight schedule. Hesaid Mr Quintana would knowthat Hluttaws were activelytaking part in democratizationprocess in the form of

legislature since he had oftenbeen to Myanmar. He addedthat Mr Quintana wouldunderstand the overallsituation in Rakhine State ashe had visited there incompany with diplomaticcorps. Pyithu Hluttawrepresentatives’ team led byPyithu Hluttaw Speaker ThuraU Shwe Mann went toRakhine State to comfort thesufferers.

Mr Quintana expressedhis thanks to Myanmarauthorities for thearrangement of observationvisit to Rakhine State. Hesaid he learnt that Hluttawswere playing an importantrole in Myanmar with muchenthusiasm. Publication ofbills under debate at theHluttaws to the people priorto enactment is a nice system,contributing to collection of

public opinions wide and far.It had transparency enablingpeople use their rights.

Mr Quintana putquestions about functions ofthe committee andcooperation with MyanmarHuman Rights Commission.Chairman U Htay Oo repliedthat the committeespecifically handledpetitions on human rightsviolation cases. It was learntthat the Human RightsCommission was also takingcare of such issues on it own.The committee was alsoestablishing relations withhuman rights committeesfrom internationalparliaments.

Mr Quintana thenenquired about five detaineesat Buthidaung Prison andChairman U Htay Oo repliedthat they were detained

because they broke theexisting laws. They had legalrights to defend at courts.Authorities concerned tookaction under the law and theywould be urged to do so.

Chairman U Htay Ooelaborated on functions ofthe National Races Affairsand Internal Peace-makingCommittee and concentratedefforts for restoration ofnational unity.

Also present at the callwere Chairman ofInternational RelationsCommittee U Hla Myint Oo,Chairman of SocialDevelopment Committee UMaung Maung Swe, Chair-

man of Bill CommitteeU T Kun Myat, members ofLegal Affairs and SpecialCases AssessmentCommission and personnelof Hluttaw Office.

MNA

London 2012 Olympics medal tallyRank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 China 19 11 9 392 United States 18 9 10 373 South Korea 7 2 5 144 Great Britain & N. Ireland 6 6 7 195 France 6 5 6 176 Germany 5 8 6 197 Italy 4 5 2 118 North Korea 4 0 1 59 Russian Federation 3 7 8 18

10 New Zealand 3 0 2 511 Kazakhstan 3 0 0 311 South Africa 3 0 0 313 Japan 2 6 11 1914 Netherlands 2 1 3 615 Hungary 2 1 2 516 Ukraine 2 0 4 617 Australia 1 8 4 1318 Romania 1 3 2 619 Cuba 1 2 1 420 Brazil 1 1 3 521 Belarus 1 1 1 322 Slovenia 1 0 2 323 Venezuela 1 0 0 123 Lithuania 1 0 0 123 Georgia 1 0 0 126 Mexico 0 3 1 427 Canada 0 2 5 728 Colombia 0 2 1 329 Sweden 0 2 0 229 Czech Republic 0 2 0 231 Denmark 0 1 2 332 Belgium 0 1 1 232 Spain 0 1 1 232 Indonesia 0 1 1 232 India 0 1 1 232 Mongolia 0 1 1 232 Norway 0 1 1 232 Poland 0 1 1 239 Egypt 0 1 0 139 Croatia 0 1 0 139 Thailand 0 1 0 139 Chinese Taipei 0 1 0 143 Slovakia 0 0 3 344 Qatar 0 0 1 144 Greece 0 0 1 144 Singapore 0 0 1 144 Serbia 0 0 1 144 Uzbekistan 0 0 1 144 Azerbaijan 0 0 1 144 Moldova 0 0 1 1

LONDON, 3 Aug—World number one JavierCulson of Puerto Rico setthe fastest time as hequalified for the semi-finals of the men’s 400mHurdles in 48.33 at theOlympic Stadium.

World champion DaiGreene of Great Britain wasthe fourth fastest in 48.98.

Culson leads the way in 400m HurdlesLONDON, 3 Aug—Jonas

H o g h - C h r i s t e n s e ncontinued his battle withOlympic champion BenAinslie for Finn gold today,with the Dane winning thefirst duel of the afternoon.

The pair are vying forglory at Weymouth andPortland, with Hogh-Christensen leading theway, thanks in no small part

Dane delivers first Finn blowto finishing ahead of hisBritish rival for the first sixraces.

Ainslie dramaticallyboosted his chances of goldon Day 6 by narrowing hisrival’s lead from 10 pointsto three, although it wasthe latter who came off thebetter in race nine thisafternoon.

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world champion, andOlympic championChristine Ohuruogu wereamong the qualifiers in thewomen’s 400m, with USA’sSanya Richards-Ross only12th fastest after easing downconsiderably when winningher heat.

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