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Volume XVI, Number 144 10th Waxing of Tawthalin 1370 ME Tuesday, 9 September, 2008

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participa-tion in terms of technical know-how and invest-ments from sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and pres-ervation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education standards

of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept – A ceremony to markInternational Literacy Day was held at the Ministry ofEducation here, this morning, with an address byChairman of Myanmar Education Committee Secre-tary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo.

Also present were the ministers, the deputy minis-ters, members of Myanmar Education Committee,diplomats, resident representatives of UN Agencies,the directors-general of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Office, departmental officials, the direc-tors-general of departments under the Ministry ofEducation, principals of education colleges, officialsfrom social organizations, township education officersin Nay Pyi Taw, schools heads, winners and guests.

Ma Chaw Chaw Gangaw Khaing and Ma Htet WunNandi Aye of No. 2 Basic Education High School in NayPyi Taw Pyinmana acted as masters of ceremonies.

Students from No. 6BEHS in Nay Pyi Taw sang asong “Doh-in-doh-ar”.

In his address, the Secretary-1 said the nations ofthe world accept the fact that literacy for all is a basicnecessity in efforts to enable the nation to develop itseconomy and to raise social standard.

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Thanks to assistance of local authority, cooperative efforts of socialorganizations, people, Myanmar’s literacy rate reaches 94.83 percent in 2008

Myanmar observes International Literacy Day

Senior General Than Shwe felicitates Chairmanof National Defence Commission of DPRKNAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept— Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and

Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His ExcellencyMr Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republicof Korea on the occasion of the Day of the Foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Koreawhich falls on 9 September 2008.— MNA

Senior General Than Shwe felicitates President ofPresidium Supreme People’s Assembly of DPRK

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept— Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His ExcellencyMr Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium Supreme People’s Assembly of the DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of the Day of the Foundation of the Democratic People’sRepublic of Korea which falls on 9 September 2008.— MNA

Prime Minister sends message of felicitations toDPRK counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept— General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, hassent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Kim Yong Il, Premier of the Cabinet of theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of the Day of the Foundation of theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea which falls on 9 September 2008.— MNA

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

People’s DesireTuesday, 9 September, 2008

High education status reflects the prestigeand integrity of a nation and its people. Thegovernment is making all-out efforts for theemergence of an education system that cancreate a constant learning society capable offacing the challenges of Knowledge Age.

Teachers play a pivotal role in producingqualified human resources making better useof good education environment established bythe government. It is incumbent upon teachersnot only to equip their students with educationand knowledge but also to inculcate them withthe five strengths.

Moral education is primary in ensuringall-round development of youth. Hence, effortsare to be made for students to be kind, honestand helpful and imbued with strong moralprinciples in addition to education.

At present, all the global nations are inthe process of fostering unity of their people,the strength of wealth and economy as well asthe strength of technology. At such a time, allthe teachers are required to widen the scope ofknowledge of their students while striving forstudents to be well-versed in science andtechnology in line with their talents.

Only when the students are morallyupright and endowed with education andknowledge, will they become good citizens onwhom the State can rely.

Therefore, we firmly believe that theteachers will be able to nurture and train theirstudents in accord with the national educationpromotion programmes. Only then, willintellectuals and technocrats equipped withfive strengths emerge.

Nurture and train youthsto be equipped with fivestrengths Chief of Armed Forces Training receives Indian guests

NAY PYI TAW , 8 Sept—Chief of ArmedForces Training Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win receivedan Indian delegation led by Commandant ofNational Defence College of the Republic of IndiaVice-Admiral S. Bhasin, AVSM,VSM, here thismorning.

Also present on the occasion were Vice-Chief

of Armed Forces Training Maj-Gen Zaw Win, DeputyCommandant of National Defence College Col TinSwe Win and officials, and Indian Military Attaché’Colonel Manoj Mukund Naravane.

Next, Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win and Vice-AdmiralS. Bhasin, AVSM, VSM exchanged gifts.

MNA

MOGE, Russian Co tojointly produce oil, gasNAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept

—Myanma Oil and GasEnterprise of the Ministryof Energy and Closed JointStock Oil Company“Nobel Oil” of the RussianFederation signedproduction sharingcontracts on explorationof oil and gas in Hukaungregion and U-ru regiononshore Myanmar at the

Ministry here on 6September.

Present were Ministerfor Energy Brig-Gen LunThi, Attorney-General UAye Maung, Ambassadorof the Russian FederationDr Mikhail Mgeladze,Managing Director ofMOGE U Myint Htay,President of Closet JointStock Oil Company NobelOil Mr G.S Gurevich andofficials.

The ministerdelivered an openingspeech and ManagingDirector U Myint Htay andPresident Mr G.SGurevich extendedgreetings.

Next, the productionsharing contracts weresigned. The ministerpresented the workpermits of the ministry andMyanmar InvestmentCommission to thePresident of Closet “JointStock” Oil CompanyNobel Oil.—MNA

YANGON, 8 Sep—AnIndian delegation led byCommandant of NationalDefence College of theRepublic of India Vice-Admiral S Bhasin,AVSM, VSM and wifearrived here by airyesterday evening. Thedelegation was welcomedat Yangon InternationalAirport by DefenceServices MedicalAcademy CommandantBrig-Gen Tun Nay Lin,Defence Services Nursing

Indian NationalDefence College

Commandant arrives

and ParamedicalAcademy CommandantBrig-Gen Hla MyintShwe, senior militaryofficers and MilitaryAttaché of IndianEmbassy Colonel ManojMukund Naravane.

Next, the Indiandelegation visited ZapharShah Tomb on ZiwakaStreet in Dagon Township.Then the guests visited theShwedagon Pagoda andmade cash donations.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept— According to the(12:30) hr MST observation today, the water levelof Dokehtawady river at Myitnge is (858)cm. Itmay reach its danger level (870) cm during thenext (48) hours.— MNA

Flood News

Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win receives Vice-Admiral S Bhasin , AVSM, VSM and party.—MNA

Energy Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi presentswork permits of the ministry and MEC toPresident of Nobel Oil company Mr.G.S

Gurevich.—MNA

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US presidential electionshifts into high gear

Barack Obama

KANSAS CITY (Mis-souri), 8 Sept— The USpresidential election wasset to shift into high gearMonday as RepublicanJohn McCain and Demo-cratic rival Barack Obamarallied supporters in bat-tleground states after arare day off.

McCain, a decoratedwar hero who had basedmuch of his early cam-paign on the strength of

his experience, wrestledlast week for Obama’smantle of change with thehelp of his surprise vicepresidential pick SarahPalin. The self-pro-claimed mavericks vowedto use their history offighting corruption toshake up and reformWashington at a series ofcampaign stops in thedays following theircrowning at the Republi-can National ConventionThursday.

“In politics, there aresome candidates who usechange to promote theircareers, and then there arethose like John McCain,who use their careers to

promote change,” Palin toa cheering crowd in Wis-consin Friday.

“We’re going to winthis election and let meoffer a little advancewarning to the old bigspending, do-nothing me-first country secondWashington crowd:change is coming. Changeis coming,” McCain saidthe next day in Colorado.

Obama ridiculedMcCain’s promise ofchange and hammered theArizona senator on thelimping US economy,saying the Republicanrepresented no changefrom Bush.

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US military deaths in Iraqwar at 4,155

WASHINGTON, 8 Sept—As of Sunday, 7 Sept, 2008, at least 4,155 members ofthe US military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, accord-ing to an Associated Press count.

The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,375died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.

The AP count is the same as the Defence Department’s tally, last updatedFriday at 10 am EDT. The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy, 33;Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salva-dor, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands,Thailand, Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, South Ko-rea, one death each.—Internet

Ike’s floods kill 58, add insult to Haiti’s misery

Residents stand on thesecond floor of a housedamaged by Hurricane

Ike in Cabaret, Haiti, on 7Sept, 2008. Five adults

and five children drownedovernight in Cabaret

north of Port-au-Prince,civil protection director

Maria-Alta Jean Baptistesaid, raising Haiti’s

overall death toll to 262from four tropical storms

in recent weeks.INTERNET

Villagers search for victims after two landslides, brought by heavy rainsburied more than 20 houses in a remote gold-mining village of Masara in thesouthern Philippines, leaving at least 11 people dead and 19 others missing,

officials said. —INTERNET

US drones kill 16 in missileattack in Pakistan

MIRANSHAH ( Pakistan), 8 Sept — Missiles fired by US drones killed 16 peo-ple, including Pakistani and Afghan Taliban fighters, on Monday in a strike tar-geting a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden, intelli-gence officials and Pakistani villagers said.

"There were two drones and they fired three missiles," said a resident of DandiDarpakheil, a village in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan bor-der. A military official said a house and madrasa founded by Taliban commanderJalaluddin Haqqani were the targets.

Haqqani is a veteran commander of the US-backed Afghan war against theSoviet invasion in the 1970s and 1980s, and his links with bin Laden go back tothe late 1980s.

He is said to be in ill-health and his son, Sirajuddin, has been leading theHaqqani group. The missile strike killed 16 people, most of them Pakistani andAfghan Taliban fighters, though four women and two children were also killed,according to a senior intelligence officer.

"They belonged to Sirajuddin Haqqani group," said the officer, speaking oncondition of anonymity.

"No foreign militant was killed," he added, although a junior intelligence offi-cial had said earlier that Uzbek and Arab militants had been staying in the schoolcomplex. —Internet

Video shows dead Afghanchildren after US raid

KABUL (Afghanistan),8 Sept — The bodies ofseveral children lay deadin two videos that showthe aftermath of a US-ledoperation the Afghan gov-ernment and UN saykilled 90 civilians.

The video obtainedMonday, apparently takenby a cell phone, is grainyand details such as a pre-cise body count are diffi-cult to make out. A secondvideo shows gruesomedetail of children severelydisfigured.

The two videos, bothobtained by The Associ-ated Press, give weight toAfghan and UN findings

that scores of civilians,including 60 children and15 women, died in the 22Aug raid in the village ofAzizabad.

A US investigation

found that only seven ci-vilians died. But the USon Sunday said it wouldreopen the investigationbecause of emerging newevidence.—Internet

German FM nominated ascandidate for chancellorshipBERLIN, 8 Sept — Germany's Social Democratic

Party (SPD) announced Sunday the party had nominatedForeign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as thecandidate to challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel forthe chancellorship in the federal election next year.

The SPD made the announcement after leaders ofthe party held a meeting at Werder, south-west ofBerlin on the day.

Speaking at a Press conference, Steinmeier said hisparty was better equipped than many believed and wasready for the election campaign.— MNA/Xinhua

GONAIVES, Haiti, 8 Sept—Haitianstook to their roofs to escape risingfloodwaters for the second time in aweek on Sunday as squalls from Hurri-cane Ike killed 58 people and collapseda bridge that cut the last land route intothe starving city of Gonaives.

All but one of Sunday’s victims camein the Cabaret area north of Port-au-Prince, according to civil defence direc-tor Maria-Alta Jean Baptiste.

She said another three bodies werefound in Gonaives, victims of an earlierstorm. They pushed Haiti’s death toll to

at least 319 from four storms that havehit the country in less than a month.

Witnesses in Cabaret said floodwatersrushed into homes in the middle of thenight, crushing walls and reaching chest-high levels before receding Sundaymorning and leaving everything caked inmud.

In the Always Funeral Home, 21 mud-crusted bodies were piled in a smallroom, unclaimed. Two of them werepregnant, one still clutching a small girlto her chest.

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

Photo taken on 6 Sept, 2008 shows a dragon-themed artwork to be displayedduring the Shanghai Biennale at the Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai,east China. The 7th Shanghai Biennale will be opened on 8 Sept.—XINHUA

German students learn playing Chinese folkmusical instruments in Yaohua Binhai School in

north China’s Municipality of Tianjin,on 6 Sept, 2008. —XINHUA

A street painter draws a portrait at his roadside studio on Pintu Besar Streetin Jakarta, on 7 Sept, 2008. Street painters in Jakarta live on selling portraits

drawn for customers at their stalls on the sidewalk. —XINHUA

HOHHOT, 8 Sept—China’s Inner MongoliaAutonomous Region willset hand to preserve andprotect its local section ofthe Great Wall, the firstsuch kind of move in thelocal history, said theregional government onSunday.

Preservation and pro-tection will go to a 2-km-long section that locatesin the Beibao Village,Qingshuihe County,which was built in theMing Dynasty (1368 ADto 1644), governmentofficial told Xinhua.

Like any otherarchitectural site in theworld, the Great Wall is atrisk of damage caused bynatural and human acti-vities.

SEOUL, 8 Sept— Sam-sung Electronics, theworld’s top supplier ofliquid crystal display(LCD) panels, announcedthe plan of building itssecond LCD module plantin Suzhou, to meet thegrowing demand for flat-screen TVs in China, KoreaTimes reported Monday.

“The new plant willhave an annual productioncapacity of some 2 millionin the first phase. Weexpect the LCD modulefactory to start productionin the first half of nextyear,” said Samsung.

The company addedthat 150 million US dollarswill be invested for theconstruction of a new plantand it will handle the

CARACAS, 8 Sept— Venezuelan President HugoChavez said Sunday that Venezuela will send morehumanitarian aid to Haiti which has lately been affectedby hurricanes Fay, Gustav and Hanna.

Chavez said a plane is carrying food and bottledwater to Gonaives, a city in northern Haiti, after 18tons of food and commodities were sent by ship toHaiti Saturday.

“Here we pray to God to help not only the Cubanpeople but the Caribbean and also the US people. Thishurricane season has been evil,” Chavez said during hisweekly TV and radio programme “Hello, President.”

The hurricane season in the Atlantic has killed atleast 600 people in Haiti this year. —Xinhua

Samsung plans to build 2nd LCD moduleplant in Suzhou

investment alone withoutbringing in a strategicpartner.

Samsung already hasan LCD module plant inSuzhou built in late2002where it assembles panelsfor notebook computersand monitors.

“The expansion isnecessary for Samsung atthe current stage. Other-wise our rivals will catchup.

Samsung is trying tograb a bigger market sharein China,” said Samsung.

Xinhua

Venezuela to send morehumanitarian aid to Haiti

Inner Mongoliato launch GreatWall protection

project

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Scientists find heavy airpollution reduces rainfall

JERUSALEM, 8 Sept —A group of internationalscientists at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalemfound that heavy airpollution reducesrainfall, local daily theJerusalem Post reportedMonday.

The research team, ledby Prof Daniel Rosenfeldof the Institute of EarthSciences, developed amodel that shows howparticles in the airinfluence cloud formation

and rain. The findingswere published Friday inthe latest issue of thejournal Science.

The model showedthat a certain number ofaerosol particles in the airincreases rainfall, but anoverabundance of themretards it.

While some aerosolparticles form the nucleiof the clouds themselves,too many aerosols act as asunblock, keeping waterfrom evaporating to form

clouds. The research team

discovered that there wasa specific curve to theproduction: rainfall firstrises, then plateaus andthen sharply drops off inthe presence of too manyaerosols.

Rosenfeld said that theamount of aerosols is thecritical factor controllinghow the energy isdistributed in theatmosphere.

Xinhua

Russia says to send nuclearwarship to Caribbean

MOSCOW, 8 Sept —Russia said on Monday itwould send a heavily-armed nuclear-poweredcruiser to the Caribbeanfor a joint naval exercisewith Venezuela, its firstmajor manoeuvres on theUnited States’ doorstepsince the Cold War.

Russian officials deniedthe mission was in anyway linked to a navalstandoff with US war-ships in the Black Sea, butit will take place at a timeof high tension betweenMoscow and Washington

over the conflict inGeorgia.

Russia has criticized theUnited States for sendinga command ship and twoother naval vessels toGeorgia, on its southernborder, to deliver aid andshow support for PresidentMikheil Saakashvili afterMoscow sent troops intoGeorgia.

Kremlin leader DmitryMedvedev asked onSaturday how Washingtonwould feel “if we nowdispatched humanitarianassistance to the Carib-

bean...using our navy.”Russian Foreign

Ministry spokesmanAndrei Nesterenko said onMonday that the navalmission to Venezuelawould include the nuclear-powered battle cruiser“Peter the Great,” one ofthe world’s largest combatwarships.

Moscow’s most moderndestroyer, the “AdmiralChabanenko,” will alsosteam to the Caribbean,along with other ships,including a fuel tanker, headded.—Xinhua

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CHANGCHUN, 8 Sept — A total of 171investment contracts worth 106 billionyuan (about 15.5 billion US dollars)were signed during the 4th NortheastAsia Investment and Trade Expo, whichended here on Saturday.

Chen Weigen, vice governor ofnortheast China's Jilin Province, saidinvestment volume was up about 37

FRANKFURT, 8 Sept —Time is running out andtension is growing: thetakeover of Volkswagenby Porsche has sparkedunion anger and possibly

DETROIT, 8 Sept — Battered by weak sales, decliningmarket share and miserable credit ratings, Detroit'sBig Three automakers are now turning to the USgovernment for help.

General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and ChryslerLLC will be launching a campaign in the coming daysto secure at least 25 billion dollars in federal loans tohelp get past the current economic malaise.

“This isn’t a bail out,” said Greg Martin, Washingtonspokesman for GM, the largest US automaker whichhas been awash in speculation for months that it isrunning short of cash.

“These are direct loans that we have to pay back,”added Ford spokesman Mike Moran.

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BELGRADE, 8 Sept —Serbia’s oil monopolyNIS, set to be sold toRussian giant Gazprom,is worth 2.2 billion euros(3.1 billion dollars), aglobal consulting firmestimated in a reportpublished Saturday.

“Based on our research,examination and analysiswe estimate that fairmarket value of 100percent of capital of theOil Industry of Serbia(NIS)... is 2.2 billioneuros,” consultants

This undated pictureshows a petroleum

refinery in theindustrial town of

Pancevo, just outsideBelgrade. Serbia’s oilmonopoly NIS, set to

be sold to Russiangiant Gazprom, is

worth 2.2 billion euros(3.1 billion dollars), aglobal consulting firmestimated in a reportpublished Saturday.

INTERNET

Flying artist : AChinese artist performsat the National Stadium

during the openingceremony of the 2008Beijing Paralympic

Games in the Chinesecapital.—INTERNET

AirAsia X’s Airbus A330 long-haul aircraft is seen at the Kuala LumpurInternational Airport’s low-cost carrier terminal in Sepang. AirAsia X said it

will not hit the wall like other low-cost carriers, with ticket sales strongdespite faltering economies and high fuel costs.—INTERNET

NE Asia investment forum in Chinayields 106 bln yuan in contracts

percent from the 3rd Expo last year. The contracts mainly involved energy,

urban infrastructure projects, smelting andbuilding materials.

The contracted investment included2.57 billion US dollars from abroad.

The five-day expo was attended bybusinessmen from all over China and 12other countries and territories.—Internet

Consultants value Serbian oilmonopoly at 2.2 bln euros

Deloitte said in the reportpublished on the Serbiangovernment Web site.

The report, ordered bythe government, waspublished few days aheadratification in theparliament of the energyagreement with Russia

that included sale of NISto the energy giantGazprom.

Gazprom offered topay 400 million euros for51 percent of NIS and toinvest 500 million eurosin the company.

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Tension grows between Porsche andVW ahead of takeover

raised tempers within bothcompanies.

German media reportslast week spoke of apossible departure ofPorsche boss WendelinWiedeking, who could besacrificed by dealmakerFerdinand Piech toappease unions.

Piech, a co-owner ofPorsche and president ofthe VW supervisoryboard, was said to be

highly irritated by tenserelations betweenWiedeking, one of thebest-paid German bosses,and unions who play acrucial role at VW.

German industrialtradition that gives unionsan oversight capacity instrategic decisions isfirmly anchored inVolkswagen, the biggestEuropean car maker.

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Detroit’s sputtering Big Threeturn to Washington for help

CAIRO, 8 Sept— Oilministers in the Arab gaspipeline project haveagreed to extend thepipeline to the Europeanmarket, the EgyptianMENA news agency re-ported on Sunday. In ameeting here on Sunday,ministers of oil and energyof Egypt, Jordan, Syria andLebanon agreed to takemeasures to link the Arabpipeline to the Europeangas network following thecompletion of the project.

Egyptian Minister ofPetroleum Sameh Fahmi,who chaired the meeting,said they discussed theimplemented stages of theproject which extendsfrom Al-Arish in Egypt

Ministers agree to extend Arabgas pipeline to Europe

TEHERAN, 8 Sept —Iran said Saturday that itwill pursue a fair oil priceat the upcoming meetingof the Organization ofPetroleum ExportingCountries (OPEC), localEnglish-language PressTV satellite channelreported.

Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari made the

Official: Iran to pursue fair oil priceat OPEC meeting

remarks before leavingfor the OPEC meetingscheduled to be held inVienna on Tuesday, or 9Sept, according to thereport.

Iran, the secondlargest oil producer in theOPEC, is seeking a fairoil price as costs of oilproduction have in-creased nearly 25-30

percent while oilexporting countries facedeclining prices, Nozariwas quoted as saying.

Nozari said if thecurrent declining trend inoil prices continues, it willparalyze some producersdue to the high cost ofmaintaining oil pro-duction facilities.

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to Hims in Syria.In addition, experts

from the four countrieswill discuss in the comingthree days the timetablesand quantities of gas tobe sent to Lebanon, headded.

The Arab gas pipeline,with investments of morethan 800 million USdollars, stretches morethan 1,000 km from Egyptto Jordan and then Syria.

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NEWSALBUM

Sancho, the new Emperor Tamarin atBerlin’s Tierpark zoo, is seen in hisenclosure. This primate, living in thesouthwest Amazon Basin, east Peru,north Bolivia and in western Brazil,and possessing a huge moustache, wasallegedly named Emperor Tamarindue to his resemblance to German Emperor Wilhelm II.

BoonLua, a long-tailed macaque,lives with Toby, a rabbit, in

Ayutthaya province about 80 km (50miles) north of Bangkok. BoonLua,the six-year-old wild monkey, lost

both its legs and one arm during anattack by dogs three years ago. It

dragged itself to a nearby temple andreceived medical treatment. He now

lives in a custom built enclosure withthe rabbit.

A cow sculpture is displayed duringthe Cow Parade Tokyo Marunouchi2008 at the Marunouchi businessdistrict in Tokyo, Japan. A total of 73life size cow sculptures decorated byJapanese artists are displayed during the month-long art event.

8-foot mechanical ape missing, owner mystifiedBuy $169K Michigan dollhouse, getreal home ‘free’

Colorado deputy clocksVW Beetle at 115 mphA 27-year-old man was being held on

$10,000 bond in the Arapahoe CountyJail after allegedly speeding up Interstate25 in a Volkswagen Beetle. An ArapahoeCounty sheriff’s deputy arrested the manon Monday after the deputy said he wasclocked driving 115 mph.

The deputy attempted to pull over thevehicle, but said he abandoned the pur-suit when the driver wouldn’t stop. Thedeputy found the VW crashed on anofframp a few minutes later and sawthe suspected driver running through anearby parking lot.

Suspected car burglargets a dirty dumping

A 22-year-old suspected truck burglarmade a dirty mistake after he tried tohide inside a portable toilet. Tampa po-lice said the man broke into two pickuptrucks at a parking lot and the owner ofthe second truck fought the suspect andchased him to a nearby construction site.

The suspect tried to hide in the Port-O-Let, but the victim found him andturned it over, covering him in hugeamounts of human waste.

The man was been charged with autoburglary and possession of burglarytools.

Like manyh o m e o w n e r saround the coun-try, Gerry andCindy Mann havestruggled to selltheir house dur-ing the past year.

So they de-cided to use amore creativesales approach:

Buy a miniaturereplica of the homefor $169,000 andget the real thingthrown in for free.

“After a year Iwas thinking, ‘Idon’t know, I havethis dollhouse sit-ting in my base-ment; let me seeif I can do some

creative market-ing,’” GerryMann, 60, told theBattle Creek En-quirer for a story.

An 8-foot me-chanical gorillastanding outside aflea market storecould move itsarms but not much

else, and it washeavy.

Now it’s disap-peared—in broadd a y l i g h t — a n downer LowellMiller wondershow anyone couldmove it so easily.

The gorilla waslast seen Sunday infront of Sandy’sSales, and Millerrealized it wasmissing when hestarted to close up

at the end of theday. He thoughthis clerk hadwheeled it insideand the clerkthought Miller hadmoved it.

He didn’t sayhow heavy it wasbut said it had aconcrete base,with electric mo-tors inside thatmoved the arms upand down andturned it sideways.

Kadaffi opposes US militarypresence in Africa

TUNIS, 8 Sept — Libyanleader Moammar Kadaffiwarned in Libyan capitalof Tripoli that no USmilitary presence shouldbe in the Africancontinent, news reportsreaching here saidSaturday.

He made the remarkswhile meeting withvisiting US Secretary ofState Condoleezza Rice.

Talking about the issue ofUS Africa Command,Kadaffi said the Africanpeople regarded the USmilitary presence ascolonialism and wouldreject it. For her part, Ricesaid the United Stateswould not set up militarybase or any militarypresence in Africa.

The US top diplomatsaid her country was

willing to develop bilateralties in various fields withLibya, expressing hersatisfaction for the currentbilateral relationship.

She also hailed thepositive role Kadaffi hadplayed in Africa's peace,stability and development,especially in the normaliza-tion of relationship betweenSudan and Chad and in theissue of Darfur.—Internet

Li Yue (C), 12, who lost her left leg during the 12 May earthquake takes part

with other performers in the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008

Paralympic Games at the National Stadium, on 6 Sept, 2008. The stadium is

also known as the Bird’s Nest.—INTERNET

Air France-KLMlaunches boarding pass

on mobile phonesPARIS, 8 Sept —Air France-KLM, the

world’s biggest airline company, launchedboarding passes on mobile phones onThursday. The service is initially being offeredto passengers travelling on daily flightsbetween Paris and Amsterdam. This is thefirst time such a boarding pass has beenissued on an international flight.

In order to receive the service, passengersowning identity cards need to register on themobile phone website of Air France, and getan electronic boarding pass with a barcode ontheir mobile phone. The boarding passcontains all the information like boardingtime and seat number displayed on aconventional boarding pass.—Internet

McCain says he will have Democratsin cabinet if elected

WASHINGTON, 8 Sept— US Republi-can presidential nominee John McCainsaid Sunday that if elected, he will in-clude Democrats in his cabinet.

Appearing in an interview with CBSNews, McCain hinted that he wouldprobably get more than one Democratinto his administration.

“It’s not going to be a single, ‘Well,

we have a Democrat now,’” he said.McCain’s words reflected his recent

pledge on government reform and bi-partisanship.

He also said the idea to have Demo-crats as cabinet members is in accordwith the practices of previous admin-istrations.

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S Korea, Latin America tohold business forum in Seoul

SEOUL, 8 Sept — South Korea andLatin American countries will kick offa two-day business forum in Seoul onTuesday, the Korea Times reported onMonday. The forum, the biggest SouthKorean-Latin American forum in his-tory, is expected to be an occasion forSouth Korea to deepen energy coop-eration as the current South Koreangovernment has placed strong empha-sis on diplomacy to secure oil supplies,the Korea Times said.

During the forum, participants willdiscuss trade and investment, coopera-tion in energy and infrastructure, andthe future of the Latin Americaneconomy and its potential, it said.

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 9 September, 2008 7

YANGON, 8 Sept—A ceremony to donate rice,edible oil, salt, medicines, gram and cash of Tatmadawfamilies (Army, Navy and Air) and wellwishers to 26monasteries in Thakayta and Dawbon Townships,Yangon East District, was held at Zinamanaung Pagodain Thakayta Township yesterday afternoon, attendedby Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence, andhe donated robes and provisions to the Sayadaw andmembers of the Sangha.

A total of donations were over 368 bags of rice,2115 viss of edible oil, 2115 viss of iodine salt, 452boxes of traditional medicine, 423 tubes of tooth paste,423 packets of tooth salt, 423 viss of gram, 320 boxesof mosquito repellent coin, 500 dozens of exercisebooks , 500 packets of chilli powder and K 25,298,000 for rice fund for 26 monasteries in Thakaytaand Dawbon Townships.

A similar donation ceremony to 16 monasteriesand one nunnery was held at Ywama PariyattiSarthintaik in Insein Township here at 4 pm.

A total of donations were over 372 bags of rice,over 269 viss of edible oil, 1978 viss of iodine salt, 421boxes of various kinds of traditional medicine, over398 viss of gram, 396 tubes of tooth paste, Oki soapcream 4 cartons, 288 tubes of tooth paste, 320 boxes ofmosquito repellent coin, 500 packets of chilli powder,50 packets of candle, 50 packets of tea and K 16,191,000for rice fund for 16 monasteries and one nunnery inInseinTownship.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept — CEC Member of USDAMinister for Rail Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Minattended annual general meetings of USDA conductedby Shwekyin, Nyaunglebin and DaikU townshipUSDAs yesterday.

He delivered opening addresses at annualgeneral meetings of USDA held at the hall ofShwekyin, Nyaunglebin and DaikU township USDAsseparately.

At the meetings, he heard reports on activitiesof the township USDAs in 2008 and presented prizesto outstanding members including students who wondistinctions in the matriculation examination for the2007-08 academic year. —MNA

YANGON, 8 Sept — Central Supply andTransport Team became a champion of the 16th

Supply and Transport Director’s Shield FootballTournament after defeating No. 323 Supply andTransport BattalionTeam 3-0 in Meiktila yesterday.

After the final match, officials concernedpresented medals to individuals and Maj-Gen ThanHtay presented the championship shield to CentralSupply and Transport Team.—MNA

Tatmadaw families(Army, Navy and Air) and

wellwishers donate cash andkind to 42 monasteries and one

nunnery in three townships

The wise outstrips the intoxicated

Not intoxicated among the intoxicated and wide-awakeamong the sleeping, the wise one outstrips them as a swifthorse outstrips a weak one.

Dhammapada-29

Shwekyin, Nyaunglebin,DaikU township USDAshold general meetings

YANGON, 8 Sept—Minister for ElectricPower No. 2 Maj-GenKhin Maung Myintinspected connection ofcable and constructionof switchyard ofKamanat (Bago) sub-power station inKamanut yesterday.

At the sub-power

Pylons erected between Bago and Thanlyinto supply power to Yangon, industrial zones

station, Project Managerof the power supplyproject (south) ofMyanmar Electric PowerEnterprise SeniorEngineer U Saw WinMaung and ProjectDirector U Thein Hlaingreported to the ministeron progress of works,construction of pylons

along 230 KV power gridfrom Kamanat (Bago) toThanlyin (Phayagon) andpower grid from Thaketato Thanlyin.

The ministerstressed the need fortimely completion of the230-KV power grid ofKamanat (Bago)-Myaungdaga andKamanat (Bago)-Phayagon (Thanlyin)which will supply powerto Yangon and industrial

zones.Next, the minister

arrived at Hlawga naturalgas power station andalso inspectedconstruction of sub-power station,switchyard, the entranceroad to the station, thesite for construction ofcapacitor bank,connection of input andoutput power line of thestation.

MNA

Minister for Electric Power No. 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint looks into construction of

230 KV power grid in Kamanat(Bago)-Myaungdaga.— MNA

Minister Maj-Gen AungMin presents prize to afour-distinction winnerin the annual generalmeeting of DaikUTownship USDA.—MNA

Maj-Gen Than Htaypresents cham-

pionship shield tochampion Central

Supply and Transportteam.—MNA

Central Supply &Transport Team

becomes champion

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 9 September, 2008

(from page 1) He said Myanmar is

a nation that has beenlaunching literacy move-ment. Being a member ofthe UN, Myanmar ob-serves International Lit-eracy Day yearly to hon-our the measures ofUNESCO cooperatingwith the nations of theworld which are carryingout literacy tasks. Themotto this year designated

Myanmar observes International …by UNESCO is “Literacyis the Best Remedy”.

He said better educa-tion foundations havebeen existed in Myanmarsociety in the earliesttimes because of stone in-scriptions, parabaiks, inkinscriptions on stucco andpalm leaf inscriptions, etc.In Myanma education sys-tem basic foundations forliteracy for all and moraldevelopment were laid

down, he said.He said the literacy

rate was consideratelyhigh in Myanmar in thesuccessive periods but itdropped to 35 per cent dueto colonial education sys-tem under the rule of theimperialists. After regain-ing her independence,Myanmar started to launchliteracy movement. Astudy of Myanmar’s lit-eracy campaigns showed

that the Education Act wasenacted in 1948. The MassEducation Council con-ducted mass educationtraining courses andThree-Rs courses begin-ning 1949. Therefore theliteracy rate increased upto 57 per cent.

He said from 1969 to1983 literacy movementswere carried out in Man-dalay, Yangon, Magway,Bago and Ayeyawady Di-visions and Mon State. Inrecognition of Myanmarliteracy success, she was

awarded Mohammad RizaPahlavi and Noma Prizesby UNESCO in 1971 and1983 respectively. Thestep-by-step Myanmareducational promotionporgrammes include en-suring the enrollment ofall school-age children,ensuring regular attend-ance and completion oftheir education, promotionof formal education, lit-eracy of over-school-agechildren and implementa-tion of non-formal educa-

tion and informal educa-tion.

For national educa-tion promotion, theproject of ensuring theenrollment of all school-age children was under-taken as a mass move-ment. As a result, theschool enrollment rate offive-year-olds increasedby 98.13 per cent in 2008-2009 academic year. Forthose children to continuemiddle and high schooleducation after primaryeducation, a total of40,574 schools have beenopened across the nation– 29,243 primary schools,6,463 post-primaryschools, 2,705 middleschools and 2,163 highschools.

Moreover, mobileschools have been openedfor the children of thosewho have to move to vari-ous places for businesspurposes. Likewise, theinclusive education pro-gramme is being carriedout for disabled children.

Meanwhile, basic lit-eracy campaign has beencarried out in rural andborder areas with addedmomentum. In 2008,18,424 reading roomswere set up and 868,432became literate. Thanks to

literary courses in borderareas in the summer,35,545 ethnic people be-came literate in 18 spe-cial regions.

Thanks to assistanceof local authority and co-operative efforts of socialorganizations and the peo-ple, the literacy rate of thecountry has increased andreached 94.83 percent in2008. Therefore, Myan-mar was included in (A)

group which consistscountries with high-liter-ary rate. As the basic lit-eracy rate has increased,“Continuing EducationProgramme” has launchedfor the sustainable devel-opment of literacy. To en-courage reading habit, in-come generation and live-lihood of the people, com-munity learning centreshave been set up.

(See page 9)

Mobile schools have been

opened for the children of

those who have to move to

various places for business

purposes. Likewise, the inclu-

sive education programme is

being carried out for disabled

children.

Secretary-1 of the

SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha

Thura Tin Aung

Myint Oo delivers an

address on 2008

International

Literacy Day.

MNA

Secretary-1 of the SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oopresents prize to Ma Hnin Hnin Aung who won first prize in BEHS

level essay contest marking International Literacy Day.—MNA

Dr MyoMyint

reads outmessagesent by

Director-General ofUNESCOon Inter-nationalLiteracy

Day.—MNA

UNDPActing

residentcoordinator

MrRamesh

Sheresthareads outUNSG's

message onInternational

LiteracyDay.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 9 September, 2008 9

Myanmar observes International…(from page 8)

As infrastructures foreducation have been builtand sustainable educationprogrammes have been im-plemented, the educationgoal — creating an educa-tion system which can cre-ate constant learning soci-ety capable of facing chal-lenges of IT era — wouldbe achieved.

In accordance with themotto of International Lit-eracy Day for 2008 “Lit-eracy is the Best Remedy”,completion of basic tasksfor literacy will bring fruit-ful results in political, eco-nomic and social sectors.

In conclusion, hecalled for cooperation forsustainable developmentof literacy works and urgedto cooperate with othercountries and organiza-tions in international lit-eracy campaign.

Afterwards, ActingResident Coordinator Mr

Ramesh Sherestha ofUNDP read UN Secretary-General Mr Ban-ki Moon’smessage on InternationalLiteracy Day 2008.

Next, General Secre-tary of MyanmarUNESCO National Com-mission Rector of YangonUniversity of Foreign Lan-guages Dr Myo Myint readUNESCO Director-Gener-al’s message on Interna-tional Literacy Day 2008.

After that, students ofNay Pyi Taw PyinmanaNo. 1 Basic EducationHigh School presented en-tertainment with“Zartiman” song.

Next, Chairman ofMyanmar Education Com-mittee Secretary-1 of the

State Peace and Develop-ment Council Lt-GenThiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo presented prizesto those who stood first,second and third in article,essay and poster competi-tions to mark the Interna-tional Literary Day, prizesto those who stood first,second and third in essaycompetitions (educationuniversity and educationcollege level), prizes tothose who stood first, sec-ond and third in essay com-petitions (basic educationlevel), and prizes to thosewho stood first, second andthird in poster competitions(basic education level).

After that, video onMyanmar literary activi-ties were shown.

Next, students of Nay

Pyi Taw No. 5 BEHS en-tertained those presentwith “ Education for All”song, and the ceremonycame to an end.

After the ceremony,Chairman of MyanmarEducation Committee Sec-retary-1 of the State Peaceand Development CouncilLt-Gen Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo cordiallygreeted those present onthe occasion including dip-lomats of foreign missionsin Yangon, resident repre-sentatives of UN agenciesand prize-winning stu-dents.

Next, the Secretary-1and party and guests lookedinto exhibits put on dis-play at the booths to markthe International LiteraryDay 2008.—MNA

1. Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

2. Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

3. Keeping genuine patriotism based on nationalsolidarity alive and dynamic

4. Turning out younger generation who willcontinue to safeguard the national cultureand character

Objectives of the 16th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing

Arts Competitions

Secretary-1 of the SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oocordially greets a guest.

MNA

Deputy Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Than Htay receives membershipapplications of 4 village-tracts in Hmawby township USDA.—MNA

FM sends message of felicitationsto DPRK counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept— U Nyan Win, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, hassent a message of felicitations to His Excellency MrPak Ul Chun, Minister of Foreign Affairs of theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea on theoccasion of the Day of the Foundation of the Demo-cratic People’s Republic of Korea which falls on 9September 2008.— MNA

Hmawby Township USDA holdsannual general meeting

YANGON, 8 Sept —Annual general meeting-2008 of Hmawby Town-ship Union Solidarity andDevelopment Associa-tion was held at the officeof the association inHmawby yesterday.

CEC Member ofUSDA Deputy Ministerfor Energy Brig-GenThan Htay delivered an

address and presentedcash to responsible per-sonnel to be spent on re-gional developmenttasks. He also accepted601 applications fromfour village-tracts formembership of USDA.

At the meeting, theCEC Member and respon-sible personnel awardedthe outstanding members

of the association and thejoint-secretary of the as-sociation accepted cashdonated by wellwishersin the township.

During the afternoonsession of the meeting,executives of the town-ship USDA presented re-ports and participated indiscussion sector-wise.

MNA

Kanbawza lift MyanmarLeague trophy seeing off

F&R 3-1YANGON, 8 Sept—

Kanbawza liftedMyanmar League trophysinking F&R in the finalshowdown for the 2008-2009 football season heldin Aung San Stadium yes-terday evening.

Before the finalmatch, footballers fromboth finalist teams tookpositions at designated

places and President ofMyanmar Football Fed-eration U Zaw Zaw andmembers shook hands.

After providing foot-balls with participatingteams, prize money K 1million was handed tochampion Kanbawza andK 500,000 to runners-upF&R.

MNA

Better education foundations have been existedin Myanmar society in the earliest times becauseof stone inscriptions, parabaiks, ink inscriptionson stucco and palm leaf inscriptions, etc.

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 9 September, 2008

Bago mountain range greening project in Bago District

Article & Photos: Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

In accord with the guidance of the Head of State,

the Forest Department under the Ministry of Forestry

has been implementing the greening plan of Bago

mountain range from 2004-2005 to 2008-2009

financial years.

Under the arrangements of Assistant Director U

Khin Maung Oo of Bago District Forest Department,

I left for Bago Township to observe the greening of

Bago mountain range. First, I arrived at the 7th mile

camp via Phayagyi Village near Yangon-Mandalay

Highway.

Forester U Win Than and Forest Ranger U Myint

Kyaw explained growing of village fuel-substitute

plantation on 100 acres of land at Block 256 of Salu

reserve forest. I witnessed thriving firewood

plantation.

I continued my trip to watershed plantation 2/

2006 of Wagadok Dam in Bago Township and blocks

251/ 252/ 253/ 264 and 265 of Salu reserve forest.

Padauk and other plants were keeping 300 acres of

land, ironwood trees lush and green.

There are many forests and mountains in the

western part of Bago Township. Furthermore, valuable

trees can be seen at the reserve forests at the higher

land in the northern part of the township.

In 2006-2007 financial year, 1,000 acres of

teak special plantation was established in South

Zamani reserve forest and 100 acres of village fuel-

substitute plantation, 300 acres of watershed plantation

and 200 acres of physic nut plantations at Salu

reserve forest. In 2007-2008 financial year, 1,250

acres of teak plantation was established in Shwelaung

reserve forest on a commercial scale. Of them, 94.50

per cent of plantations are thriving up to now. In

addition, 150 acres of village fuel-substitute plantation

have been established in Salu reserve forest and 450

acres of watershed plantations at blocks 251, 252/ 253

and 263 of the reserve forest.

Local people also grew the group-owned

plantations in the region. They planted 151 acres of

plantations at 26 villages from 2004-2005 to 2007-

2008 financial years. In Bago Township, the local

people used 9,338 A-1 brand stoves and paddy husk-

fired stoves from 2004-2005 to 2007-2008 fiscal years.

I continued my trip to Kyaukdaga Township of

Bago District. I saw 350 acres of teak plantation

established in 2007-2008 financial year on a commercial

scale at block No. 91 of Yenwe reserve forest at the

mile posts between 78/5 and 79/4 of Yangon-Mandalay

Express Way (New).

Furthermore, I witnessed thriving trees at village

firewood plantation near Daingtaya Village of

Thanbayakhon Village-tract. The plantation was set

up in 2004-2006 financial year.

In Kyaukdaga Township, 2,650 acres of teak

plantations was established at Baingda reserve forest

from 2004-2005 to 2007-2008 financial year.

In addition to teak and ironwood trees, various

kinds of hard wood trees and bamboo species are

thriving at the semi-deciduous plantations in

Kyaukdaga Township.

I left for DaikU Township to observe the

greening of Bago mountain range in Bago District. I

looked into thriving 1,000 acres of teak plantation and

750 acres of plantation established at Baingda reserve

forest in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 respectively.

Tree plantations were grown in DaikU

Township to maintain the watershed area of Kawliya

Dam. At 450 acres of fuel-wood plantations of Salu

reserve forest, I witnessed thriving various species of

hardwood trees. After establishment of the fuel-wood

plantations for five years, the Forest Department

handed over the plantations to Mautan, Bawni,

Ayemakha and Botelay villages to produce firewood

from the plantations as part of efforts to prevent the

depletion of forests.

Nowadays, tree plantations on Bago mountain

range are being established with the aims of covering

the lands and mountains with the greening of teak

plantations, preventing deforestation in line with the

Forest Law, systematically maintaining the dams and

watershed areas by growing trees and establishing the

public owned forests. I firmly believe that thriving

tree plantation will green Bago mountain range

forever.

*****

Translation: TTA

Kyemon: 6-9-2008

Thriving one-year teak

plantation beingestablished in

2007-2008financial year

on 350 acres ofland at block 90

of Yenwereserve forest in

KyaukdagaTownship of

Bago District.

Teakplantation

oncommercial

scale

Signboards put up at a forest on Bago mountain range to conserve reserve and protected public forestsof the region.

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McCain leads Obama by 4%after convention

Chavez postpones military exercises with Russia

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) speaks with China's ForeignMinister Yang Jiechi during their meeting in New Delhi on 8 Sept, 2008.

Jiechi is on a three-day visit to India.—INTERNET

South Korea Air Force F-4E Phantom fighter is frozen during a Snow andFreezing Rain Test and Climatic Environmental Test at the Agency for DefenceDevelopment in Seosan, south of Seoul, South Korea, on 8 Sept, 2008. SouthKorea opened a new aircraft testing centre Monday where its military will for thefirst time be able to measure the operational capabilities of aircraft and armouredvehicles in extreme weather, amid high electromagnetic waves and various other conditions, Yonhap News reported.—INTERNET

Unidentified warshipcaptures 14 Somali pirates

BOSASSO (Somalia), 8 Sept — A warship off pirate-ridden Somali waters captured 14 pirates and destroyedtheir boat, the fisheries minister for the northern Puntlandregion said on Sunday.

"About 14 pirates came across a warship that we thinkcould be American and all the pirates on board werecaptured and their boat destroyed," said AbdulqadirMuse Yusuf, the Fisheries Minister for the semi-autonomous region.

"We are still investigating the identity of the warship." Two French nationals were seized in their yacht in the

perilous waters on Tuesday and the French Navy has saidit is ready to try to free them although their safety camefirst. In April, French commandos launched a helicopterraid to arrest six Somali pirates after they freed the 30-strong crew of a luxury yacht they had hijacked daysearlier. — MNA/Reuters

A stranded car ishoisted from a

collapsed road surfacein Guangzhou,

Guangdong Province,on 7 September, 2008.The road collapsed onSunday afternoon and

trapped the car in ahole, which measured5 metres (16.4 feet) indepth and 15 metres

(49.2 feet) in diameter,local media reported.Further investigation

is underway.INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 8 Sept —Republican candidate JohnMcCain goes into the finalstretch of the USpresidential campaign 4percentage points ahead ofDemocrat Barack Obama,according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released onSunday.

McCain's 4-point leadwas his biggest sinceJanuary and a turnaroundfrom a USA Today polltaken just before lastweek’s Republican Party

convention opened, whenhe trailed Obama by 7percentage points. The newpoll, taken Friday throughSunday, showed McCainleading Obama by 50 percent to 46 per cent amongregistered voters with lessthan two months before the4 November election.

USA Today saidMcCain, a veteran Arizonasenator, got a significantboost from the Republicanconvention and theselection of Alaska

Governor Sarah Palin ashis vice presidentialrunning mate. McCain alsonarrowed Obama's wideadvantage on handling theeconomy, the top issue inthe campaign, USA Todaysaid. On the question ofmanaging the economy,Obama, a first-term IllinoisSenator, was favoured by19 points before theRepublican conventionbut now was favoured by 3points, USA Today said.

MNA/Reuters

CARACAS, 8 Sept —Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez announcedSunday that a series ofjoint military exerciseswith Russia, originallyscheduled for mid-November, will bepostponed.

"We are still at thepreparatory phase, (and)we are not ready yet forthese operations to takeplace in November,"Chavez said during hisweekly TV and radioprogramme "Hello,President". Noting theexercises could be held "at

the end of November orDecember", Chavez saidthe Venezuelan ArmedForces will be betterprepared by then ratherthan at the originallyscheduled time, as a jointanti-drug patrol operationwith Brazil was slated for2-14 November.

"We do everything ina transparent form, and we

emphasize that Venezuelais a strategic ally ofMoscow ... Venezuela isfree (to make its owndecisions)," said Chavezin reaction to oppositioncriticisms that themanoeuvres will bringRussian bases, nuclearsubmarines and atomicbombs to Venezuelanterritory.— MNA/Xinhua

MDC says deal must stripMugabe of some power

Sino-Egyptianfriendship

schoolinaugurated

in Egypt CAIRO, 8 Sept — A

Sino-Egyptian friendshipschool set up with Chinesegrants was inaugurated onSunday in the Egyptiangovernorate of the 6th ofOctober.

Visiting Chinese ViceMinister of Commerce FuZiying and EgyptianMinister of InternationalCooperation FayzaMohamed Abu Nagaattended the inaugurationceremony, said a Pressrelease of the Chineseembassy in Egypt. Themodel school, which wasestablished with a grant offour million US dollarsprovided by the Chinesegovernment, has the plan toteach Chinese language andhistory.—MNA/Xinnhua

GWERU (Zimbabwe), 8Sept — Zimbabwe'sopposition Movement forDemocratic Change(MDC) said on Sunday itwould not sign any power-sharing deal that givesPresident Robert Mugabesweeping powers.

“We are not going tocompromise with this oldman on that issue,” MDCSecretary-General TendaiBiti told a rally to cele-brate the party’s ninthanniversary in the city ofGweru in central Zim-babwe.

Post election talks aredeadlocked over how toshare executive powerbetween Mugabe andMDC leader MorganTsvangirai, putting offany chance of rescuingZimbabwe from its eco-nomic collapse.

"There are others whoare simply shouting thatwe should sign thisagreement. But we are notsimply going to sign. Thepeople must know thatwe will not negotiateaway the principle ofdemocracy," said Biti.

The MDC has lost faithin negotiations withMugabe and will leavehim to form a govern-ment alone rather thanbe forced into a deal, aparty official said onThursday.

MNA/Reuters

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 9 September, 2008

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV EMERALD CORAL VOY NO (25)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV EMERALDCORAL VOY NO (25) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 9.9.2008 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of MYANMA PORTAUTHORITY where it will lie at the consignee’s riskand expenses and subject to the byelaws and conditionsof the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up 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: EASTERN CAR LINER LTDPhone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV OLYMPIAN RACER VOY NO (114 N/S)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV OLYMPIANRACER VOY NO (114 N/S) are hereby notified thatthe vessel will be arriving on 9.9.2008 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 up 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

S Korean financial marketexpected to recover stability

Dubai records 54% growthin non-oil trade

ABU DHABI, 8 Sept—The volume of non-oildirect foreign trade ofDubai, the commercialand financial hub of theUnited Arab Emirates(UAE), reached 296.6billion dirhams (80.8billion US dollars) in thefirst half of 2008, up 54percent over the sameperiod of 2007.

The figures werereleased by the statisticsdepartment of the DubaiWorld, a holding company

that manages a portfolioof businesses and projectsfor the Dubai government.

According to therelease, Dubai’s exportsand re-exports stood at20.1 billion and 70.3billion dirhams re-spectively in the first halfof 2008, up 59.1 percentand 57.7 percent over the2007 period.

In the same period, theoverall imports of Dubaihit 206.2 billion dirhams,representing an increase

of 52.7 percent comparedwith 135.1 billion dirhamsin the 2007 period.

India was the largesttrading partner of Dubaiin the first half of 2008,with a volume of 54.3billion dirhams of bilateraltrade between the twoparties.

“This growth reflectsthe position Dubai nowenjoys in global trade,”said Saeed Al Qaizi, adirector of the DubaiWorld. —Internet

Anti-tank mine kills five,wounds three in Cambodia Boeing machinists walk off the

job as talks failNEW YORK/EVERETT

(Washington), 8 Sept —Boeing Co’s 27,000-strong machinists' unionwalked off the job onSaturday after the planemaker failed to improve itscontract offer after twodays of emergency talks.

At midnight, a crowdof more than 100employees gathered nearthe entrance of Boeing’s

factory in Everett,Washington, whistling,honking and wavingpicket signs as the strikegot underway.

A small police presenceensured the scene wascalm.

“Despite meeting lateinto the night andthroughout the day, con-tinued contract talks withthe Boeing Company didnot address our issues,”Tom Wroblewski, theIAM’s Seattle-area pre-sident, said in a letter tomembers. “The strike ison.”

The vast majority of theInternational Associationof Machinists and Aero-space Workers’ (IAM)members voted to rejectBoeing’s “best and final”offer on Wednesday, butpostponed a strikefor 48 hours to give

negotiators more time.Boeing and IAMnegotiators, along withfederal mediators, met nearOrlando, Florida in a last-ditch effort to hammer outan agreement.

“Over the past twodays, Boeing, the unionand the federal mediatorworked hard in pursuing ...options that could lead toan agreement. Unfor-tunately the differenceswere too great to close,”said Scott Carson, the headof Boeing’s commercialplane unit, in a statement.No further talks arescheduled. Both sides saidthey were waiting for theother to make the firstmove.

Boeing spokesman TimHealy said the companywas “open” to hearing fromthe IAM.

MNA/Reuters

Local residents look outover the scene, the day

after a rock slide from thetowering Muqattam cliffs

fell onto the sprawlingManshiyet Nasr slum on

the outskirts of Cairo,Egypt, on 7 Sept, 2008.At least 31 were killed

and countless more arebelieved still buried in

the rubble.INTERNET

Drivewithcare

SEOUL, 8 Sept—SouthKorean government saidthat the country’s financialmarkets are set to recoverstability this week, KoreaHerald reported Monday.

The government’spositive forecast cameout as it expects over-seas investors to regainconfidence in SouthKorean stocks and bonds.

Worries about themarket mainly stemmedfrom foreigners’ short-term debt holdings worth

of 6.8 trillion won (6.7billion US dollars) whichwill mature in September.Fears of massive outflowof foreign investment afterthe expiration date lostground over the weekend,as financial authoritiesasserted that talk of anotherfinancial crisis wasexaggerated, the reportsaid.

Credit ratings agenciessuch as Fitch and StandardN Poor’s along with theIMF said that South Korea

will not go through afinancial crisis, referringto the country’s 243.2billion US dollar worth offoreign reserve as well asthe improved financialhealth. According to theFinancial SupervisoryService, overseas in-vestors’ net purchase ofSouth Korean bondreached 1.8 trillion wonfrom 1st to 4th September,supporting the stability ofthe South Korean mar-ket.—Internet

PHNOM PENH, 8 Sept—A truck hit an anti-tank minein a former stronghold of Cambodia’s ultra-CommunistKhmer Rouge guerillas, killing at least five people andwounding three, police said on Sunday.

The victims of Friday’s accident in the north-western district of Anlong Veng included women andchildren who were travelling in a truck carrying rice toa mill, police said. The area near the Thai border, wasonce a base for Khmer Rouge guerillas and is wherethe group’s chief, Pol Pot, died in 1998.

Recent heavy rain could have loosened the soil andshifted the mine onto the road, provincial police chiefMenn Ly said. Decades of civil war, especially in theformer battlefields of Khmer Rouge, left Cambodia asthe world’s most mined country—an estimated 4-6million landmines are believed to be still planted in thecountryside. —MNA/Reuters

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A pedestrian chooses lanterns for the Mid-Autumn Festival at a store inHong Kong, south China, on 7 Sept, 2008. The Mid-Autumn Festival, a

traditional Chinese holiday for family reunion and mooncakes, falls on 14Sept, this year. —INTERNET

A giant mechanicalspider weighing 37 tonsand standing 15 metreshigh, part of a piece of

“free theatre” byFrench company La

Machine entitled “LesMecaniques Servants,”

parades along theLiverpool waterfront onFriday as a componentof the city’s European

capital of culturecelebrations.

INTERNET

A Neolithic piece of leather found at the 2,756 metre-high Schnidejoch pass.Some 5,000 years ago a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the

Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bowand arrows.—INTERNET

For giant bug, size mattersWELLINGTON, 8 Sept—

Female giant weta cricketsare huge. At about 0.7ounces (20 grammes),they’re one of the world’sheaviest insects. But themales are about half theirsize. Now scientists knowwhy.

In a surpising way, sizereally matters in thisspecies.

Males that are lighterand have longer legs aremore successful at mating.The reason: They cantravel farther to find afemale.

The most successfulmales can walk the lengthof a football field in onenight in their native NewZealand, the researchersfound by attaching radio-tracking devices to thebugs. That would amountto more than 4 miles(7,000 metres) for ahuman, given theproportional differences.

Small, long-leggedmales walked farther,acquired more mates, andtransferred more sper-matophores to femalesduring the multiple day-

time copulations com-mon among these insects.

“Our findings are a rareexample of sexual se-lection favouring a suiteof traits that promotegreater mobility in one sexonly,” said biologist ClintKelly of the University ofToronto. “This is excitingbecause it suggests thatsexual selection forsmaller, more mobilemales could be re-sponsible for some of theimpressive sexual dif-ference in body size in thisspecies.” —Internet

Colon cancer patients not getting follow-up careNEW YORK, 8 Sept —

Many colon cancer pati-ents aren’t getting thescreenings recommendedafter surgery to makesure the disease hasn’treturned, new researchshows.

Only about 40 percentof the 4,426 older patientsin the study got all thedoctor visits, blood testsand the colonoscopyadvised in the three yearsafter cancer surgery,

according to the resultsreleased Monday by thejournal Cancer.

While nearly all madethe doctor visits andalmost three-quarters gota colonoscopy, manydidn’t get the blood teststhat can signal a return ofcolon cancer, accordingto the researchers atUniversity Hospitals CaseMedical Centre inC l e v e l a n d . W h e t h e rdoctors didn’t offer the

tests or patients failed toget them isn’t known, saidDr Gregory Cooper, wholed the study. He saidperhaps the follow-upcare was being providedby doctors who aren’tspecialists and who aren’tfamiliar with the guide-lines.

“I would probably putmost of the blame on theproviders,” said Cooper,a gastroenterologist at thehospital.—Internet

The space shuttle Atlantis leaves the vehicleassembly building on its way to launch pad 39A at

Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida,on 4 Sept, 2008.—INTERNET

Shuttle flight to Hubble faces higher debris risk

CAPE CANAVERAL, 8Sept—Next month’sshuttle flight to the Hubble

Space Telescope faces anincreased risk fromorbiting debris.

The shuttle Atlantiswill be flying in a higheraltitude where there'smore space junk.Managers at NASA'shighest levels will need tosign off on the missionbecause of the higher risk.

New numbers put theodds of a catastrophicstrike by a micrometeoriteat about 1-in-185. Shuttleprogramme director JohnShannon said Monday thatcompares to 1-in-300 oddsfor a shuttle flight to theinternational space station.

Internet

South Korea to recruit 7,000workers from Bangladesh

DHAKA, 8 Sept—South Korea will recruitover 7,000 skilled andsemi-skilled workers fromBangladesh in the next 16months, the country'sambassador to Bangladeshsaid here on Monday.

Ambassador Suk-Bum Park said around3,000 Bangladeshis wouldget jobs in South Korea'sconstruction, textile,fisheries, agriculture, elec-

tronics and machinerysectors this year and therest in 2009.

“We would recruitaround 3,000 workersunder the first'Employment PermitSystem (EPS)' system thisyear. In 2009, the numberof recruitment will bearound 4,000,” he said.

He said, "We need ahuge number of overseasworkers as the population

growth in South Korea hasbecome stagnant. Thereare jobs available in almostevery sector."

Over 5.6 millionBangladeshis are nowliving and working inmore than 100 countriesin the world.

Southeast Asiancountries and the MiddleEast countries are the maindestinations.

Internet

Isreal’s Rafael wins $ 200m missile deal from IndiaJERUSALEM, 8 Sept—

The Israel ArmamentDevelopment Authority(Rafael) has won a contractof 260 million US dollarsfrom India whose AirForce intends to buy 18Spyder Low Level QuickReaction Missiles, localdaily Ha’aretz reportedhere Sunday.

The contract was inkedon 1 September, a seniorIndian Defence Ministryofficial was quoted assaying. Israeli DefenceMinistry sources confirmedthat the deliveries of theSpyder missiles will beginin two and half years and becompleted within fouryears. According to Rafael,

Spyder, which wasdeveloped in cooperationwith the Israel AerospaceIndustries, is a quickreaction, low level surface-to-air missile systemdesigned to effectivelycounter attacks by aircraft,helicpoters UAVs andprecision guided muni-tions.—MNA/Xinhua

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S P O R T S

Brazil’s Robinho, left, fights for theball with Chile’s Gary Medel duringa World Cup 2010 qualifying soccer

match in Santiago, on 7 Sept,2008.—INTERNET

Andy Murray returns a shot during hissemi-final match to Rafael Nadal ofSpain at the US Open tennis tourna-ment at the USTA National TennisCentre in New York City. Murray won6-2, 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-4.—INTERNET

Mexico and US win as politicsmix with soccer

BUENOS AIRES, 8 Sept — The United States andMexico reeled off wins in CONCACAF World Cupqualifiers on Saturday on a day that mixed soccer withpolitics. The United States beat Cuba 1-0 in Havana,their first visit to the Caribbean island for 61 years, witha first-half Clint Dempsey goal.

The third round Group A match took place against thebackdrop of a 46-year-old US trade embargo againstCuba, imposed after Fidel Castro took power in a 1959revolution and allied the country with the Soviet Union.

However, the US players came out onto the pitch afterthe match at the rickety Pedro Marrero stadium andapplauded the Cuban fans in what coach Bob Bradleysaid was a spontaneous gesture of appreciation.

Internet

Pats QB Brady hurts kneein victory over ChiefsFOXBOROUGH, 8 Sept — Tom Brady

went from the disappointment of a SuperBowl loss to the devastation of an injurythat could keep him out for the rest of theseason. After missing the entire preseasonwith an unspecified foot injury, Brady leftSunday's season opener against the Kan-sas City Chiefs in the first quarter afterbeing hit on the left leg by Chiefs safetyBernard Pollard. Coach Bill Belichickprovided no information on the injury,but Pollard had a diagnosis of his own.

"He was in a lot of pain," he said."When you hear a scream, you knowthat." Various reports Sunday night saidBelichick told the players that the injurywas serious. The Patriots were alreadylooking for a possible replacement forBrady.—Internet

Bears’ D turns tables on Colts in 29-13 victory

Chicago Bears running backMatt Forte (22) breaks a tackle

by Indianapolis Coltslinebacker Freddie Keiaho in

the second half of an NFLfootball game in Indianapolis,

on 7 Sept, 2008. —INTERNET

South Africa’s Natalie du Toit startson her way to winning her heat of theWomen’s 100 metres Freestyle S9 atthe 2008 Beijing Paralympic Gamesin Beijing on 8 Sept, 2008.—INTERNET

Phoenix Mercury guard DianaTaurasi drives to the basket pastHouston Comets centre Michelle

Snow, right, in the fourth quarter ofa WNBA basketball game on 7 Sept,2008, in Phoenix. Taurasi scored 33points as the Mercury defeated the

Comets 99-74.—INTERNET

INDIANAPOLIS, 7 Sept — Chicago rediscov-ered its winning formula Sunday night. Playtough defence, control the ball and make nomajor mistakes.

Chicago's win ended Indy's remarkablestreak of 21 consecutive victories in Septem-ber and October, the league's longest run sincethe Green Bay Packers won 23 pre-Novembergames from 1928-32. It's also the first timesince 2004 the Colts won't start at least 7-0.

How did the Bears do it? With an old styleand a new look.

Matt Forte, the first Chicago rookie to startat running back since Walter Payton in 1975,ran for 123 yards — 50 on a first-quarter TDrun in which he broke one tackle and thenoutran Bob Sanders, last season's defensiveplayer of the year, to the end zone.

Kyle Orton, who wrested the starting jobfrom Rex Grossman, was 13-of-21 for 150yards and had no turnovers.

Internet

Red Star Belgrade sackcoach Zeman

BELGRADE, 8 Sept — Red Star Belgrade have sackedtheir Czech coach Zdenek Zeman after a string of poorresults, the Serbian first division club said on Sunday.

Asked by SOS sports television if Zeman had beendismissed, Red Star’s interim president DobrivojeTanasijevic said: “Yes. We have parted company withMr Zeman in an orderly manner and we will name areplacement in the next two or three weeks.

“We won’t rush things because whoever we ap-point will stay here until the end of the season,” he said.

MNA/Reuters

Serena Williamsbeats Jankovic

for 3rd Open titleNEW YORK, 8 Sept —

Serena Williams flung herracket straight up andjumped for joy, hopping andskipping and screaming andgenerally looking likesomeone who had just wonher first US Open title orearned her debut at No 1.

It sure had been a while,though.

Displaying the talent andtenacity that allowed her todominate tennis earlier inthe decade, Williams out-lasted Jelena Jankovic 6-4,7-5 Sunday night in a thrill-a-minute match chock fullof marvelous strokes andmomentum swings to winher third US Open champi-onship and ninth GrandSlam title.—Internet

Romania coach under fireafter loss to LithuaniaBUCHAREST, 8 Sept — Romanian

soccer coach Victor Piturca's job couldbe in danger after a "shameful" homedefeat against Lithuania in their WorldCup qualifier, officials and the mediawarned on Sunday.

“It was a shameful result but it's notthe time to discuss Piturca's dismissalnow,’ Romanian Football Federation(FRF) president Mircea Sandu told re-porters. "We'll review the case after thematch (against Faroe Islands) inTorshavn, for sure." —MNA/Reuters

Gattuso pulls out of Italysquad with wrist injury

ROME, 8 Sept — AC Milan midfielderGennaro Gattuso has pulled out of Italy'ssquad for Wednesday's World Cup quali-fier against Georgia after injuring hiswrist in training on Sunday.

"Gattuso has been operated on andwill be forced to skip the encounter withGeorgia," the Italian Soccer Federationsaid on its website (www.figc.it).

Italy coach Marcello Lippi is alsowithout defenders Alessandro Gamberiniand Fabio Grosso, both of whom wereinjured at the start of the world champi-ons’ 2-1 win over Cyprus in their GroupEight opener on Saturday.

MNA/Reuters

Liverpool skipper stillrecovering from surgeryLONDON, 8 Sept—Liverpool

skipper Steven Gerrard has ruledhimself out of Saturday's PremierLeague clash with ManchesterUnited, live on Sky Sports 1 andHD1. The talismanic midfielderis recovering from a double groinoperation which forced him towithdraw from Fabio Capello'ssquad for England's World Cupqualifiers against Andorra andCroatia.

Having played through thepain barrier as Rafa Benitez's sidescraped into the UEFA Champi-ons League group stages with ahard-fought victory over Stand-ard Liege, Gerrard is eager to be

100 per cent fit when he returns.With star striker Fernando

Torres also a major doubt for theAnfield encounter after suffering ahamstring injury against AstonVilla, Benitez could be withouttwo of his key men.

Too soonGerrard told the Liverpool

Daily Post: "The United game istoo soon.

"I've a decent chance for theChampions League game in Mar-seille (on 16th September) but I'vespoken to the manager and toldhim I'd like to do a certain amountof training before I come back.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated in lower Sagaing Division, scattered in upperSagaing and Bago Divisions, fairly widespread in Magwayand Yangon Divisions and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions with isolated heavyfall in ShanState.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were NayPyi Taw (Yezin) (0.40) inch, Nay Pyi Taw (Thapyaygone)(0.94) inch, Lashio (3.38) inches, Kawthoung (2.17) inches,Mawlamyine and Kyaikkami (2.12) inches each, Ye (1.77)inches, Sinphyu Kyun (1.65) inches and Myingyan (1.46)inches.

Maximum temperature on 7-9-2008 was 90˚F.Minimum temperature on 8-9-2008 was 72ºF. Relative hu-midity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-9-2008 was 100%. Totalsunshine hours on 7-9-2008 was (5.5) hours approx.

Rainfall on 8-9-2008 was (0.41) inch at Mingaladon,(0.71) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.32) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (81.81) inches at Mingaladon,(92.68) inches at Kaba-Aye and (110.67) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from South at (09:30) hours MST on 8-9-2008.

Bay inference: Monsoon is generally weak in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 9-9-2008: Rain orthundershowers will be widespread in Shan State, fairlywidespread in Kachin, Chin, Rakhine, Mon, Kayin andKayah States, upper Sagaing, Bago, Yangon andAyeyawady Divisions and scattered in the remaining areas.Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofthundery conditions in the Central Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 9-9-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for9-9-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for9-9-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of cer-tainty is (80%).

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Asleep in JesusRev. Father Edwin David

Age 64 yearsPriesthood 36 years

Parish Priest of St. Francis of Assisi Church, TamwayBeloved son of late Mr. Anthony David and

Mrs. Susan David, eldest brother of Andrew-Priscilla(India), Clement-Rachel, Pamela, Cyril-Jacintha,Raymond-Daisy, Bernadette-Raphael (Canada),Cecilia-Luke Joseph (India) and Winston-Beatrice(Canada), Parish Priest of St. Francis of Assisi ChurchNo. 131, Kyaikkasan Road, Tamway, Head ofEducation Commission, Yangon Archdiocese, (FormerYouth Chaplain of Yangon Archdiocese) passed awaypeacefully at 7:50 pm on 5th September 2008 atShwegondine Specialist Centre, Yangon. The funeralservice will take place at St. Francis of Assisi Church,No. 131, Kyaikkasan Road, Tamway on Tuesday, the9th of September, 2008, at 1:00 pm. Bereaved Family

Georgia to ask Hague courtto end Russian abuses

Europe wants to workwith US on Georgia

CERNOBBIO (Italy), 8Sept — The EuropeanUnion wants to workclosely with the UnitedStates in resolving theGeorgian crisis, Italy’sforeign minister saidafter meeting US VicePresident Dick Cheney onSunday.

The United Statesand Europe havedemanded that Russia pullforces out of Georgia asset out in a French-brokered peace agree-ment, but Moscow has notyet fully complied.

On Saturday,Cheney delivered thesharpest US criticism ofRussia since its brief warlast month with Georgia,accusing Moscow of

reverting to Cold Wartactics of intimidation.

“The most importantelement that I think I canbring you is the commonwish, the vice president’sand mine, for an intensecollaboration betweenEurope and the UnitedStates,” Italian ForeignMinister Franco Frattinitold reporters aftermeeting Cheney on themargins of an economicconference.

“This Caucasiancrisis won’t be resolvedif there is not an intensecollaboration, thatEurope wishes for, thatthe United States wishesfor, and we will carryout,” he said.

MNA/Reuters

THE HAGUE, 8 Sept —Georgia will seek a rulingfrom the UN’s highestcourt in The Hague onMonday ordering Russiato stop what it claims arehuman rights violationsagainst ethnic Georgiansin the breakaway pro-vinces of South Ossetiaand Abkhazia.

In an emergencythree-day hearing at theInternational Court ofJustice, which investigatesdisputes between nations,Georgia will also ask thatRussia allow the safereturn home of Georgianrefugees displaced by

violence. The court is expected

to give a provisional orderor injunction within twoto three weeks if it decidesit has jurisdiction to hearthe case. Rulings haverecently become binding,legal experts said.

Last month Georgiafiled a suit to demand that