Established 1914 Volume XVI, Number 255 3rd Waxing of ... · Volume XVI, Number 255 3rd Waxing of Pyatho 1370 ME Monday, 29 December, 2008 * Development of agriculture as the base

Volume XVI, Number 255 3rd Waxing of Pyatho 1370 ME Monday, 29 December, 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 participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be keptin the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integ-rity and preservation and safeguard-ing of cultural heritage and nationalcharacter

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

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Established 1914

Senior General Than Shweon inspection tour of Delta

Local people themselves to put more efforts intorehabilitation and reconstruction tasks

A bird’s eye view of houses built in Setsan Village, Bogale Township.— MNA

Senior

General

Than

Shwe

inspects

aids for

agricul-

ture to be

used in

rehabilita-

tion and

recon-

struction

in Thiri

Annawa

Hall in

Pyapon

Township.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28 Dec—Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe, accom-panied by member of SPDC General Thura Shwe Mann,Chairman of Natural Disaster Preparedness CentralCommittee Prime Minister General Thein Sein, mem-ber of SPDC Lt-Gen Tin Aye, Commander-in-Chief(Navy) Rear-Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief(Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, Maj-Gen Ko Ko and Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Ministry of Defence, Adjutant-Gen-eral Lt-Gen Thura Myint Aung, Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing ofthe Ministry of Defence, members of Natural DisasterPreparedness Central Committee ministers, senior mili-tary officers of the Ministry of Defence, the deputyministers, the director-general of the Government Of-fice and officials of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Office, arrived at Pyapon by helicopter at 9.45a.m. yesterday.

Senior General Than Shwe and party were wel-comed by Chairman of Ayeyawady Division Peaceand Development Council Commander of South-WestCommand Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe, Minister for Hotelsand Tourism Maj-Gen Soe Naing and departmentalofficials.

The Head of State and party inspected develop-ment of Pyapon, rebuilding of houses, offices andPyapon Bridge and its environs in a motorcade.

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Monday, 29 December, 2008

High qualification of teacherscontributes towards turning out humanresources that can maintain stability andenhance development in the time of building anew nation based on education.

With a view to ensuring equaldevelopment in states and divisions, thegovernment has built basic infrastructuressuch as roads, railroads and bridges andcreated education and health opportunitiesand favourable conditions.

The government has opened basiceducation schools and established universitiesand colleges in states and divisions in order toproduce human resources and providedschools and classrooms with modern teachingaids.

Teachers are to be well-versed ineducational theories and they are to equipthemselves with management and leadershipskills. They also are to improve theirknowledge of information and communicationtechnology and international languages in viewof social and economic challenges in the 21stcentury. By doing so, they can nurture youngergeneration to become national forces capableof facing the challenges of the 21st century.

It is necessary for the teachers to trainyounger generation to become good citizenswith high qualifications and to propagate theUnion spirit among the young.

Therefore, it is the duty of teachers tomake efforts to help perpetuate the Union,ensure peace and tranquility in the nation andhand down favourable conditions to theyounger generation.

Create better conditions forturning out good citizens

* 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 DesirePERSPECTIVES

Export Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement inkedYANGON, 28 Dec—

Sellers Myanma Oil andGas Enterprise of theMinistry of Energy,Daewoo InternationalCooperation of theRepublic of Korea,ONGC Videsh Ltd andGAIL (India) Ltd of Indiaand Korea GasCorporation of theRepublic of Korea andpurchaser ChinaNational United OilCorporation held aceremony to sign theExport Gas Sales andPurchase Agreement,Shwe Project, Myanmar,at Sedona Hotel, here, on24 December evening.

Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thidelivered an address.Managing Director UMyint Htay of MOGE,Chairman of DaewooI n t e r n a t i o n a lCorporation Mr. Jae-Yong Kim and Vice-Chairman of ChinaNational Petroleum

Corporation Mr. LiaoYongyuan gaveintroductory speeches.

Managing DirectorU Myint Htay, Chairmanof Daewoo InternationalCorporation Mr. Jae-Yong Kim, ONGCVidesh Ltd Vice-Chairman Mr. SharadTerway, Korea GasCorporation ExecutiveVice-Chairman Mr.

June-Sun Kil andChairperson Mdm WangLihua of China NationalUnited Oil Corporationand Director-General USoe Aung of EnergyPlanning Departmentsigned the agreement andexchanged notes.

The agreement wassigned to export naturalgas to China from Shwenatural gas project atBlock A-1 and A-3 atRakhine coastal region

through pipelines.Also present on the

occasion were Ministerfor Communications,Posts and TelegraphsBrig-Gen Thein Zaw,Attorney-General UAye Maung, DeputyMinister for EnergyBrig-Gen Than Htay,Korean Ambassador MrKey-Chong Park,Chinese AmbassadorMr Guan Mu andofficials.—MNA

YANGON, 28 Dec—Way Di shoe storeLaunched the sale of

Foreign-made shoes onsale at Wai Di shoe store

foreign-made shoes such asScholl, Walker, Ferrize,Maldeni, Kito, Adda, Lily,Patti, Ragazzo and LouiseDollar as part of pre-Christmas period. It isselling various kinds ofshoes at 10 to 50 per centdiscount from 15 Decemberto 5 January.

Unique programs willalso be launched for thecustomers. The interestedcustomers may buy shoesof Various descriptions atYuzana plaza, Junction-8,Dagon Centre, La Pyae WunPlaza, Junction Zawana,Capital Hypermarket, ChinaTown Point Center and GaMone Pwint Store (KabaAye) during the salespromotion period.—MNASales promotion of Wai Di shoe store in progress.— MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi attends signing ceremony of export gassales and purchase agreement.— ENERGY

YANGON, 28 Dec —Fire Services Departmentof the Ministry of SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement and RoadTransport concluded No.23/2008 basic drivingcourse at the departmenthere on 26 December.Director-General of thedepartment U Myint Tun

Basic driving courseconcluded

delivered an address at theconcluding ceremony. Atotal of 30 trainees fromstates and divisions tookthe six-week course.Present on the occasionwere officials concernedof the Fire ServicesDepartment and RoadTransport.

MNA

All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

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Bomb near Sri Lankancapital kills at least five

COLOMBO, 28 Dec—A suicide bomber killed at leastfive people in a blast near the Sri Lankan capital onSunday, police said.

The attack happened in Wattala town, a few miles(kilometres) from Colombo on Sunday morning, policespokesman Ranjith Gunasekara said. He gave no otherdetails, but said there could be more deaths and casualties.

Gunasekara did not say who was suspected to bebehind the blast and no one claimed responsibility.

Sri Lankan authorities have accused Tamil separatistrebels for suicide bombings in the past.

The Tamil Tigers have been fighting for anindependent state for ethnic minority Tamils since 1983,after suffering decades of marginalization by successivegovernments controlled by the Sinhalese majority. Theconflict has killed more than 70,000 people.—Internet

Three teen sisters killed in Kabulrocket attack

An Afghan man talks in front of the media representative after a rocket wasfired into a house in Kabul. A suicide car bomber killed five people at a police

checkpoint in southern Afghanistan on Saturday and a rocket attack in thecapital killed three civilians, officials said.—INTERNET

Three-year-oldNerjis Thamir liesnext to her motherIman Kadim in ahospital after theywere hurt in a car

bombing inBaghdad, Iraq,

on 27 Dec, 2008.At least 22 peopledied in the blast

and 54 werewounded, the Iraqi

army said.INTERNET

As Taleban nears Kabul,shadow Govt takes hold

Pakistan seeks to reduce tensionsafter troop move

KABUL, 28 Dec—A rarerocket attack in the Afghancapital on Saturday nightdemolished two rooms ofa mud-brick home andkilled three teenage sisters,the family and police said.

The rocket attack on thesouthern end of Kabullanded on a house adjacentto an Afghan policetraining centre. The attackcrushed a mud home andkilled three sisters, ages 13,15 and 16, said Sayed FarahMuz, the girls’ uncle.

“There are 40 countries

in Afghanistan, and stillwe are hit by rockets. Whatis the benefit?” said SayedShah Barat, a cousin of thethree girls. “The Iraqipeople hit (PresidentGeorge W) Bush with theirshoes, but we should dothe same with our leaders.”

There are 41 nationsinvolved in NATO’ssecurity coalition inAfghanistan.

The house hit by therocket was a simple six-room, mud-brick home thathoused some 20 people,

said Barat. Men swept upthe shattered bricks of mudwhile women mourned outloud in another room.

Gen Ali Shah Pak-tiawal, the head of criminalinvestigations for theKabul police, said tworockets were fired intoKabul after nightfallSaturday. Kabul oncesuffered greatly fromrocket fire, during thecountry’s 1990’s civil war,but such attacks have beena rarity the last severalyears.—Internet

WARDAK PROVINCE, 28Dec—Two months ago,Mohammad Anwarrecalls, the Talebanparaded accused thievesthrough his village, tarredtheir faces with oil andthrew them in jail.

The public punishmentwas a clear sign tovillagers that the Talebanare now in charge. Andthe province they took

over lies just 30 milesfrom the Afghan capitalof Kabul, right on themain highway.

The Taleban has longoperated its own shadowgovernment in the mostdangerous parts ofAfghanistan, but its poweris now spreading north tothe doorstep of Kabul,according to AssociatedPress interviews with a

dozen governmentofficials, analysts,Taleban commanders andAfghan villagers. Morethan seven years after theUS-led invasion, theIslamic militia isattempting — at least inname — to reconstitutethe government by whichit ruled Afghanistan in thelate 1990s.

Internet

ISLAMABAD, 28 Dec—Pakistan told India onSaturday it did not wantwar and was committed tofighting terrorism — amove apparently aimed atreducing tensions afterPakistan moved troops

toward their sharedborder.

Intelligence officialssaid on Friday that thearmy was redeployingthousands of troops fromthe country’s fight againstmilitants along the Afghanborder to the Indianfrontier — an alarmingscenario for the West as ittries to get Pakistan toneutralize the al-Qaidathreat.

Islamabad alsoannounced it wascanceling all militaryleave — the latest turn ofthe screw in the risingtensions between thenuclear-armed neighboursfollowing last month’sterror attack on the Indianfinancial capital ofMumbai.

India has blamedPakistani militants for theterrifying three-day siege.

Pakistan’s recently electedcivilian government hasdemanded that India backup the claim with betterevidence but has also saidit is committed to fightingthe “cancer” of terrorism.

“We ourselves haveaccepted that we have acancer,” said PakistaniPresident Asif Ali Zardariin a televised speech onSaturday. “They areforcing their agenda onus.”

Zardari has pledgedto battle militancy,repeatedly remindingcritics that his wife,Benazir Bhutto, washerself killed in a gun-and-suicide bomb attackblamed on terrorists.

Tens of thousands ofPakistanis visited hergrave on Saturday to markthe first anniversary of herassassination.—Internet

An Iraqi policeman secures the site of a car bomb attack in the Shiite neighbourhoodof Kadhimiyah in Baghdad. A massive bomb tore through a crowd gathered neara bus station in a Shiite neighbourhood of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 22

people and wounding 54, security officials said.—INTERNET

A young Afghan man (C) cries after a rocket was

fired into his house in Kabul. A suicide car

bomber killed five people at a police checkpoint in

southern Afghanistan Saturday and a rocket

attack in the capital killed three civilians, officials

said.—INTERNET

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Cows in a field. TheEuropean Union on

Monday launched a freshchallenge at the WTO

against sanctions imposedby the United States andCanada on the EU for itsban on hormone-treated

beef from the twocountries.— INTERNET

Power blackout in Hawaii left Obamafamily in dark

US President-elect Barack Obama talkswith onlookers as his daughter Sashaand a friend sit down with their shaveice at Hawaii Kai shopping centre, on 26 Dec, 2008.—INTERNET

HONOLULU, 28 Dec —US President-elect Barack Obama was without electricityfor 12 hours at his vacation home on Oahuafter a suspected lightning strike blackedout Hawaii’s most populous island, an aidesaid on Saturday.

The outage on Friday night left hundredsof thousands of people, including Obamaand his family, in the dark as an electricalstorm rolled over the island. The Obamasare staying at a heavily guarded beachfrontvilla in eastern Oahu.

“Power was restored to the residenceduring the 6 o’clock hour this morning.The Obama family is grateful for the offersof assistance from local officials,” saidBen Labolt, a spokesman for Obama.

Those offers included a generator fromthe Hawaiian Electricity Company, but anObama aide said the family did not useone. It was not immediately clear why.

No additional security measures werevisible on Friday night at the compound,which is guarded by Secret Service agents,and no attempt was made to move theObamas through darkened streets to anearby Marine Corps military base.

Hawaiian Electricity Companyspokesman Peter Rosegg said power hadbeen restored to most of the island, home toabout 900,000 people, by Saturdayafternoon. Full restoration should becompleted by nightfall, he said.

The cause of the outage was still notknown, but it may have been due to anelectrical storm that knocked out four powertransmission lines, he said. Bill Brennan,spokesman for Honolulu, said Mayor MufiHannemann relayed a message to thepresident-elect’s beachfront villa between9 pm and 10 pm on Friday asking whetherthe Obamas needed anything.—Internet

An Israeli medic tendsto a man, who laterdied, after he was

injured by a rocket firedby Palestinian militantsin Gaza, in the southernIsraeli town of Netivot,near Gaza, on 27 Dec,2008. Israeli warplanes

retaliating for rocketfire from the Gaza Strip

pounded dozens ofsecurity compounds

across the Hamas-ruledterritory in

unprecedented waves ofairstrikes on Saturday,killing more than 200people and wounding

nearly 400 in the singlebloodiest day of fighting

in years.—INTERNET

Malaysia’sformer

king diesKUALA LUMPUR, 28 Dec

— Malaysia’s former kingTuanku Jaafar TuankuAbdul Rahman, who wasthe longest serving ruler ofhis southern state, has diedat age 86, a report said onSunday.

He died in hospital onSaturday after complainingof dizziness and chestdiscomfort, state secretaryNorzam Mohamad Norwas quoted as sayingby the Sunday Starnewspaper.

“Tuanku Jaafar was stillconscious when twodoctors reached the palace.He was rushed to thehospital’s intensive careunit,” the secretary said.

Norzam said he wasgiven emergency treatmentand several attempts weremade to revive him, but hewas pronounced deadabout three hours later.

Tuanku Jaafar, who tookover the state throne afterhis brother TuankuMunawir’s death in 1967,leaves behind his wife,consort Tuanku NajihahTunku Besar Burhanuddin,three sons and threedaughters.—Internet

Japan likely to drop plan to buyF-22 fighters

China’s first road tunnelunder Yangtze River

opens to trafficWUHAN, 28 Dec—China’s first road tunnel beneath

the Yangtze River was open to traffic on Sunday incentral China’s Hubei Province.

The 3.63-km, bi-directional four-lane road tunnelstarted a three-month trial operation at about 10 am inWuhan City.

The tunnel cuts travel time to seven minutes fromhalf an hour between the city’s major areas — Wuchang,where government offices and universities are based,and Hankou, the business centre.

The tunnel will allow 50,000 vehicles to travel at 50kilometres per hour each day. It can withstand flooding(300 year-flood plain) and an earthquake measuring upto six on the Richter Scale, Yin said.

The 1.7-billion yuan (250 million US dollars) projectbegan in November 2004 as one of the city’s efforts toimprove transportation infrastructure and relievecongested roads.

Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, is one of thelargest cities in central China with a population of eightmillion.

Malaysia’s AirAsia X to expand routesamid economic crunch

An AirAsia X aircraft at KualaLumpur’s international airport. TheMalaysian budget airline has said itcan weather the storm of a sharply

deteriorating global economy and ishiring pilots to expand its routes

across Asia.—INTERENT

KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Dec —Malaysianbudget carrier AirAsia X said it canweather the storm of a sharplydeteriorating global economy and ishiring pilots to expand its routes to China,India, South Korea and Japan.

Chief Executive Azran Osman Ranitold AFP that while it was a challengingperiod for the aviation industry as manycountries slip into a recession and carriersgo bust, there were “a lot of businessopportunities for us.”

Bookings for its direct London flighton its leased Airbus 340-300, due tobegin 11 March, were overwhelming, hesaid, with 30,000 seats sold.

Demand was great as ticket pricescost about 2,000 ringgit (580 dollars),less than half the price of a regular non-budget flight.AirAsia X will fly fivetimes a week between the Malaysiancapital Kuala Lumpur and StanstedAirport on the outskirts of London.

Azran said AirAsia X was looking to

expand its routes in 2009 into northernIndia including New Delhi, Amritsar andMumbai, and to Beijing.

In 2010 it aims to target South Koreaand to Tokyo, Hokkaido in northern Japanand Kyushu in the south.Azran said itwas taking on new staff for itsexpansion.—Internet

TOKYO, 28 Dec —Japan is likely to drop itsattempts to buy state-of-the-art US F-22 Raptorstealth fighter planes since

it expects the UnitedStates to stop producingthem, a newspaperreported on Sunday.

The Japanese govern-ment had been trying topersuade the United Statesto sell it F-22 Raptors toreplace its own aging F-15 fleet, despite Washing-ton’s reluctance.

Tokyo, however, is nowabandoning the plan amidsigns that US President-elect Barack Obama’s newadministration may haltproduction of the aircraft,the Daily Yomiuri said,quoting governmentsources. “We have a firmimpression that itsproduction likely wouldbe halted,” a high-rankingofficial at the defenceministry was quoted bythe daily as saying.

US Defence SecretaryRobert Gates, reappointedto stay in the post underObama, has said publiclythat he favours haltingproduction of the F-22.

Internet

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Arab League, Egypt push forArab unified measures

China to produce 189 mln tonnes ofcrude oil this year

Security beefed inNepali capital’s

Intl airport KATHMANDU, 28 Dec—

Security has been beefedup at the Tribhuvan Inter-national Airport in Nepalicapital Kathmandu follow-ing a minor explosion at theentrance gate of the airporton Saturday morning.

According to Sunday’sThe Rising Nepal, theGaushala Metropolitan Po-lice Circle said that awoman sustained injuries inthe incident and it causedminor damages to the coun-ter of Buddha Air’s office inthe airport, the only interna-tional airport in the country.According to Ganga Pant,Inspector at the GaushalaMetropolitan Police Circle,investigation of the crimi-nals involved in the incidentwas intensified.—Xinhua

Residents show paper-cuts made by themselves to mark the coming Year of Oxin Chinese lunar calendar, at Siping Street Community in Shenyang, capital

of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, on 27 Dec, 2008. — XINHUA

Members of the Macau Flying Eagle Associationwork on the field with the local students at ShatianTownship of Hezhou City, southwest China’sGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on 26 Dec,2008. More than 30 members of the association came

to Hezhou to experience the farm life. —XINHUA

UN Security Council to meet onIsrael-Palestine conflict

Russia urges India, Pakistanto prevent use of force

MOSCOW, 28 Dec —Russia on Saturday askedIndia and Pakistan to showrestraint to prevent the useof force amid the raisingtension between the twoSouth Asian neighbours.

“Russia urges India andPakistan to show maximumrestraint and prevent the useof force on the border,” theForeign Ministry said in astatement posted on its

official website. Tensionsbetween the two nuclear ri-vals increased since theMumbai attacks, as NewDelhi accused Pakistan-based Islamic extremists ofcarrying out the attacks andelements within the Paki-stani government and armyof complicity in supportingterrorism in the region.

The Pakistani govern-ment has denied the accu-

sations, warning India torefrain from waging anystrikes against Pakistan.

Moscow is “extremelyconcerned” by reports thatmassive concentration oftroops and military hard-ware is under way on bothsides of the India-Pakistanborder, said the statement,adding that tensions in thatregion have reached a dan-gerous level.—Xinhua

UNITED NATIONS, 28Dec—The UN SecurityCouncil is scheduled tomeet behind closed doorsat 10:00 pm EST on Sat-urday (03:00GMT onSunday) to discuss the lat-est violence and blood-shed in the Israel-Pales-tine conflict, diplomaticsources said here.

The 15-member coun-cil’s meeting came afterIsraeli warplanes poundeddozens of security com-

pounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unpre-cedented waves ofairstrikes on Saturday toretaliate for rocket firefrom the Gaza Strip, kill-ing over 200 people andwounding many more inthe single bloodiest day offighting in years.

Earlier on Saturday,UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon called foran immediate halt to theviolence in Gaza and

southern Israel, condemn-ing excessive use of forceleading to civilian casual-ties and ongoing rocketattacks by militants.

In a statement issuedby his spokesperson, Bansaid that he is “deeplyalarmed” by the heavyviolence and bloodshed inGaza, and the continua-tion of violence in south-ern Israel, and called for“an immediate halt to allviolence.”—Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING, 28 Dec—China is forecast to pro-duce 189 million tonnes ofcrude oil in 2008, a growthof 1.61 percent over the

186 million tonnes lastyear, according to a recentreport released by the na-tion’s leading oil producer,PetroChina.

The production wouldrank the nation fifth amongall the oil producing coun-tries around the world. Thereport said China had veri-fied oil deposits of 20.7 bil-lion tonnes over the past 30years.

In the three decades,Daqing Oilfield in north-eastern China pumped out1.576 billion tonnes ofcrude oil, or more than 40percent of China’s total on-shore crude output for theperiod. It kept annualcrude oil output at more

than 50 million tonnes for27 consecutive years.

Shengli Oilfield on theeastern coast produced805 million tonnes ofcrude in the 30 years, ormore than 20 percent ofthe onshore crude outputnationwide for the period.In 2007, it continued tomaintain annual crude pro-duction at 27.7 milliontonnes.

The report said China’sannual natural gas outputincreased from 13.9 billioncubic metres in 1978 to69.8 billion cubic metres in2007. This year the produc-tion would reach 76 billioncubic metres, the reportpredicted.—Xinhua

Photo taken on 22 Dec,2008 shows the plant ofShanxi Lu’an Group inTunliu county, northChina’s Shanxi Prov-ince. China is forecast to

produce 189 milliontonnes of crude oil in2008, a growth of 1.61percent over the 186million tonnes last

year. —XINHUA

CAIRO, 27 Dec—TheCairo-based Arab League(AL) has been busy pre-paring for an emergencymeeting of Arab foreignministers set to be heldnext Wednesday followingdeadly attacks by Israelitroops in the Gaza Stripthat killed more than 200Palestinians on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, ALSecretary General AmrMoussa told reporters theArab foreign ministers’meeting will be held either

on Sunday or Monday todiscuss the situation afterIsraeli strikes.

Meanwhile, Moussa’sspokesman Abdel-Aleemal-Obayyed also toldXinhua later in the day thatthe Arab foreign ministers’meeting is likely to be heldon Sunday evening, alsocalling for an urgent meet-

ing of the UN SecurityCouncil to adopt a stanceon the Israeli raids onGaza. But after a meetingof AL permanent delegatesin Cairo on Saturdayevening, the pan-Arabbody decided to hold theforeign ministers’ meetingnext Wednesday.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

A huge abacus made of sandalwoodis displayed at China Abacuses

Museum in Nantong, east China’sJiangsu Province. The abacus, 781

centimetres in length and 1.81centimetres in height, has been on

display here since Saturday.

Pocket-sized ultrasoundbreakthrough

An inexpensive, pocket-sized therapeu-tic ultrasound device has been developed bya graduate student at Cornell University inNew York. The university said the device“packs enough punch to stabilize a gunshotwound or deliver drugs to brain cancer pa-tients.”

George Lewis, a PhD student in bio-medical engineering, said the pocked-sizedprototype he designed can be built with$100, compared to current ultrasounds thatcan weigh 30 pounds and coast $20,000.His goal is to see therapeutic ultrasoundmachines in every hospital and medical re-search lab.

The device is detailed in the journal Re-view of Scientific Instruments.

Lewis said the ultrasound could be usedto treat conditions as prostate tumors or kid-ney stones. It could also be used to relivearthritis pressure and help treat brain cancerby pushing drugs quickly through the brainfollowing surgery.

His new devices are currently beingtested at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Hanna the mermaid swims in the newMermaid Lagoon display at the SydneyAquarium in Sydney, Australia, duringthe introduction of two dugongs. It is saidthat dugongs, an aboriginal word meaningyoung child, in olden times were mistakenlyidentified as mermaids to mariners that had been at sea for a long time.

Mexican woman fightsoff 500-lb lion with

macheteA Mexican woman said she used a

machete to fight off a 500-pound lionthat attacked her donkey on Mondaynear the resort city of Acapulco.

Celsa Aleman, 35, said she andher 7-year-old niece were riding adonkey along a road when the lion wentafter the animal’s legs.

The woman says she found thecourage to fight the lion because shethought it would attack her niece. Shehit the animal with a machete until thebeast ran away. Aleman and her niecewere unharmed.

A girl in a typical dress stands next to agiant cup containing the typical Mexicancocktail “margarita”, made with 200liters of tequila, lemon and sugar, in LosCabos, Baja California state, northernMexico,during an attempt to break aGuinness record of the biggest margarita in the world.

Arkansas family welcomes18th child, a girl

An Arkansas woman has given birth toher 18th child. Michelle Duggar deliveredthe baby girl by Caesarean section onThursday at Mercy Medical Centre inRogers. The baby, named Jordyn-GraceMakiya Duggar, weighed 7 pounds, 3ounces and was 20 inches long.

“The ultimate Christmas gift fromGod,” said Jim Bob Duggar, the father ofthe 18 children. “She’s just absolutelybeautiful, like her mom and her sisters.”

The Duggars now have 10 sons andeight daughters.

Jim Bob Duggar said Michelle startedhaving contractions on Wednesday night.She needed the C-section, her third,because the baby was lying sideways. JimBob said both baby and mother weredoing well on Thursday night. “We bothwould love to have more,” he said.

The cable network TLC broadcasts aweekly show about the Duggars, called“17 Kids and Counting.” Chris Finneganof TLC — which handles public relationsfor the Duggar family — said the show’sname would be updated to account for thelatest addition to the family. He said TLCalso will air a show on Monday on thebaby’s delivery.

Racial disparities in hospice use

Man sets self on fire duringstunt to impress date

STOCKHOLM, 28 Dec — A Swedish man’s attempt toimpress his date went horribly awry on Friday, as he endedup lighting himself on fire and going into shock.

The 33-year-old man also faces allegations of endan-gering the public as he recovers from serious burn injuriesin a hospital in Vastervik, The Local reported.The uniden-tified man’s girlfriend said he was attempting a stunt whenhe poured gasoline over his arm and set the fuel on fire.

“It obviously didn’t go well. He burned his arm andother parts of his body and was in a state of shock,” Kalmarpolice spokesperson Reine Johansson told the TT newsagency. “Don’t ask me what the point of the trick was sup-posed to be.” Police told The Local the man will likelyneed specialized care at the burn clinic of Linköping Uni-versity Hospital.—Internet

Palestinian youths throw stones towards Israeli border police officers in thevillage of Issawiya in Arab East Jerusalem in Gaza on 27 Dec, 2008.

INTERNET

PHILADELPHA, 28 Dec— Rules on hospice carefor those with limited lifeexpectancy restrict usageby those most in need, dis-proportionately affectingblacks, US researcherssaid.The study, scheduledto be published in the 1Feb issue of Cancer, saideligibility criteria for hos-pice services should be re-considered.

To enroll in hospice,

patients must have a prog-nosis of six months or lessif their illness runs its usualcourse. They must also ac-cept the palliative nature— reducing the severity ofsymptoms instead of striv-ing to cure the disease —of hospice care.

Dr David Casarett andcolleagues at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania inter-viewed 283 patients whowere receiving cancer

treatment at six oncologyclinics.Patients wereasked about their per-ceived need for five hos-pice services and theirpreferences for continuingcancer treatment, and theywere followed for sixmonths or until death.

Casarett’s team foundthat African-Americanpatients had stronger pref-erences for continuingtheir cancer treatments aswell as greater perceivedneeds for hospice services— poorer patients wantedmore services.—Internet

Malaysia uses satellite tofight illegal logging

KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Dec – Malaysia is zooming inforests with a satellite in order to fight illegal loggingwhich its government says is harming the major tim-ber exporting country, a report said on Sunday.

Darus Ahmad, deputy director-general with theMalaysian Remote Sensing Agency, said the “eye inthe sky” programme was put in place in October.

“There is always criticisms that our forests are di-minishing,” he was quoted as saying by the New Sun-day Times newspaper. Darus said that using satelliteimages the authorities can establish a national forestinventory of the country’s total area of forest cover.

They can then check whether logging in a particu-lar area is legal or not, he said, adding that the facilitywas currently available in the western peninsular partof Malaysia only.

Darus also said the system can be used to preventair pollution by detecting forest fires and illegal landclearing.—Internet

Quintuplets born at New York hospitalNEW YORK, 28 Dec — A set of quintuplets was born

on Saturday at Staten Island University Hospital,spokesman Christian Preston said. He said the fourgirls, one boy and their mother were doing well.

Preston declined to give the family’s name, but TonyScherillo told the Staten Island Advance the parentsare his daughter and son-in-law, Jamie and KevinFerrante.

“Everybody was ecstatic” on learning that the newparents were expecting five babies, said Scherillo, 67.“Nobody could believe it.”

The babies — delivered within 6 minutes of eachother by Caesarean section — ranged in weight from1 pound, 8 ounces, to about 2 pounds, 4 ounces, thenewspaper said. It gave their names as Allesia Louise,Amanda Frances, Ella Lilliana, Emily Ann and Mat-thew Sabatino.—Internet

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YANGON, 28 Dec— Aceremony to open theConcrete Sleeper Factory(Mottama) built byMyanma Railways underthe Ministry of RailTransportation inMottama, PaungTownship, Mon Statetook place in front of thefactory this morning withaddress by Chairman ofMon State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of South-East Command Maj-GenThet Naing Win andMinister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min.

Also present on theoccasion were DeputyMinisters for RailTransportation Thura U

Newly opened concrete sleeper factory will help meet local demand

Thaung Lwin and U PeThan, senior militaryofficers, departmentalofficials, socialorganizations, localpeople and others.

In his address,

Commander Maj-GenThet Naing Win said thatthe opening of a concretesleeper factory inMottama, PaungTownship, Mon State willsatisfy the demand for

sleepers in building anetwork of railroads thelength and breadth of thenation in line with theguidance of thegovernment. Theemergence of the facilityis something to be proudof not only for Mon Statebut also for the State, headded.

The Head of State hasgiven guidance, sayingthat only when there isbetter transport willeconomic, social andadministration sectorsbetween one region andanother improve; and thatbetter transport betweenone region and anotherwill contribute a lot toboosting socio-economicstatus of the people andforging friendshipsamong national brethren,he said.

In view of theguidance of the Head ofState, it is found that bettertransport plays animportant role in buildinga modern and developednation. It is safe to say thatthe factory will contributemuch towards ensuringbetter transport as it willproduce a large number ofsleepers needed inconstruction of railroads,he disclosed.

In conclusion, thecommander stressed theneed for local people inMon State to strivetogether for regionaldevelopment by doingtheir bit.

In his address, Minsterfor Rail TransportationMaj-Gen Aung Min saidthat as the construction ofthe concrete sleeperfactory started on 15-7-2007 and the facility wasopened today, the projecttook one year and fivemonths in total.

The life of woodensleeper is three years andits one square inch canbear 800 pounds of weightwhile the life of concreteis 60 years and its onesquare inch can bear 7,000pounds of weight. As thelife of concrete sleeper is20 times the woodensleeper and its bearingcapacity is nine timesmore that of the latter,steps were taken tosubstitute concretesleepers for woodensleepers, he said.

In accord with theguidance of the Head ofState, three more sleeperfactories each of which inKhinU, Sagaing Division,Pakokku, MagwayDivision and Otshitpin,Bago Division are beingconstructed, he said.

He said that theMyanma Railways hasalready opened theconcrete sleeper factory(Myitngwe) and theconcrete sleeper factory(Pyontaza), and theopening of the concretesleeper factory (Mottama)today adds the totalnumber of sleeper factoryto three.

Next, U Ye Kyaw Ya,on behalf of local people,expressed thanks for theopening of the new sleeperfactory.

At the auspicioustime, Commander Maj-Gen Thet Naing Win andMinister Maj-Gen AungMin formally opened thenew concrete sleeperfactory and had adocumentary photo takentogether with local people.

After the openingceremony, thecommander and theminister and guestsinspected the productionline of sleeper factory.

The MyanmaRailways has beenconstructing a network ofrailroads and is renovatingthe old ones for regionaldevelopment and bettertransport in accord withthe guidance of the Headof State. As a result, thecurrent total length ofrailroads has reached4288.9 miles, therebyneeding 9,332,646sleepers in total. The useof concrete sleepers hashelped prevent thedeforestation.

The newly openedsleeper factory will be ableto produce 600 sleepersper day on average and200,000 sleepers per yearon average. The factorywill supply sleepers toBago, Mawlamyine, Yeand Dawei where sleepersare required.

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NAY PYI TAW, 28Dec—Minister forInformation Brig-GenKyaw Hsan hosted a dinnerin honour of life-timeachievement literary awardand Sarpay Beikmanmanuscript award winnersfor 2007 and members of

Information Minister hosts dinnerin honour of literary award winners

prize scrutiny and selectioncommittee at ShwenantawHotel of Nay Pyi TawHotel Zone, here, thisevening.

Present at the dinnerwere Minister for LabourU Aung Kyi, heads ofdepartment under the

Ministry of Information,doyen literati, Chairmanof Myanmar Writers andJournalists Association UHla Myaing (Ko Hsaung),the Vice-Chairmen andCEC members, committeemembers, winners andguests.—MNA

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Commander Maj-Gen Thet Naing Win and Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min view production process of concretesleeper factory.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan greets literary award winnersat the dinner.—MNA

Prizes presentation for Yangon DivisionSchool Sports Competitions

YANGON, 28 Dec —Aprize presentationceremony of YangonDivision School SportsCompetitions of No 3Basic Education

Department for 2008-09academic year was held atAung San Stadium hereyesterday.

At the ceremony,students demonstrated

their skills and officialsconcerned presentedchampionship shields towinning schools of thedistricts and townships.

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Senior General ThanShwe on inspection …

(from page 1)At the Thiri Annawa

Hall, Minister Maj-GenSoe Naing, who is closelysupervising the rehabili-tation and reconstructiontasks, reported on popula-tion of Pyapon, locationof villages and wards inthe townships, loss anddamage during the storm,accomplishment of reliefand rehabilitation tasks,resuming of agriculture,fisheries and salt indus-try, reconstruction ofbuildings in education andhealth sectors, measurestaken for ensuring bettertransport in the region,

Senior General Than Shwe greets local people at Thiri Annawa Hall in PyaponTownship.— MNA

In his guidance, Sen-ior General Than Shwesaid the storm-hit areashave now much improved.Achievements have beenmade in relief and reset-tlement and care serviceswith the efforts of all thenational people. Measurescould be taken to preventthe outbreak of infectiousdiseases.

Moreover, resettle-ment tasks are being car-ried out with greater mo-mentum.

He spoke of the needto complete the construc-tion of schools, hospitals,dispensaries, houses, cy-

Machinery at work at construction project of Cyclone Shelters at Kadonkani Village inBogale.— MNA

Storm-hit areasmust develop morethan the condition be-fore the storm. Reha-bilitation and con-struction and prepar-edness of natural dis-aster are the nationalproject and system-atic arrangements areto be made.

comparison of conditionsafter the storm and presentconditions, output ofmonsoon paddy for 2008-2009, cultivation of sum-mer paddy, establishmentof villages and construc-tion of houses with thecontribution of well-wishers and assistance ofWorld Food Programme(WFP), UNICEF, non-governmental organiza-tions such as Save theChildren, World Vision,Care International inMyanmar, IOM andPACT Myanmar.

Commander Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe reportedon harvesting of monsoonpaddy in the township andarrangements for summerpaddy to meet targets andrehabilitation tasks.

clone shelters, establish-ment of road networks intime in the open season.

Storm-hit regionalbusinesses such as agri-culture, fishery and saltindustry have resumed andthe businesses are in thepositions that it should be.Therefore, efforts are tobe made for business con-ditions to return to nor-mal, he said.

Continuing, he said,the objective is that thestorm-hit areas must de-velop more than the con-dition before the storm.Rehabilitation and con-struction and preparednessof natural disaster are thenational project and sys-tematic arrangements areto be made, he added.

(See page 9) Houses at Kadonkani Village.`— MNA

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A bird’s eye view of houses in Kadonkani Village in Bogale Township.—MNA

New buildings of primary school in Kadonkani Village, BogaleTownship.—MNA

A library in Kadonkani Village.— MNA

A clinic in Kadonkani Village.—MNA

SeniorGeneralThan Shwe oninspection …

(from page 8)All-out efforts are to

be made for boosting pro-duction and improvingeconomy with the combi-nation of natural resourcesand workforce and harmo-nious cooperation of thegovernment, the people and

the Tatmadaw asAyeyawady Division is richin land and water resources.He said after the storm, thepeople from all parts of thecountry including entrepre-neurs provided assistancein relief and resettlementtasks with goodwill, hu-manitarian spirit and patri-otism.

He said strenuous ef-forts are to be made forregional development, in-crease of per capita incomeand security of social life incooperation with the gov-ernment, the people and theTatmadaw.

He also spoke of theneed for not only the gov-ernment but local peoplethemselves to put more ef-

forts into the tasks.Senior General Than

Shwe and party inspectedPyapon-Bogale Road andcultivation of crops and ar-rived in Bogale by helicop-ter.

They were welcomedby Minister for ForestryBrig-Gen Thein Aung anddepartmental officials.

Senior General ThanShwe and party inspectedconditions of Bogale andrehabilitation tasks in amotorcade.

At the office of Town-ship Maternal and ChildWelfare Association, theminister reported onprogress of work, area ofthe township, losses, recon-struction of houses, yield

of monsoon paddy for2008-2009, cultivation ofsummer paddy, provisionof power tillers, fuel andcattle, maintenance of em-bankments that preventflowing of salt water, culti-vation of cold season cropsand stockpiling of seeds,cultivation of kitchen crops,distribution of poultry andpigs, fishing boats and nets,repair of storm-hit schools,reoperation of rice mills andhullers, supply of drinkingwater, construction ofBogale-Kyeingyaung-Kadonkani Road, arrange-ments for construction ofcyclone shelters andrecultivation of mangroveand study tour of diplomatsand delegates of INGO and

ASEAN.Commander Maj-Gen

Kyaw Swe and MinisterMaj-Gen Htay Oo gavesupplementary reports.

Senior General ThanShwe gave guidance on fulldevelopment of agricultureand fisheries in the region,cultivation of kitchen cropsfor sufficiency of house-holds, creation of basic datathat can be counted for re-gional economic growth,completion of houses andcyclone shelters in time,construction of roads in thetownship as shelter em-bankments andrecultivation of mangrove.

Senior General ThanShwe and party left Bogalefor Kadonkani Village byhelicopter. They inspecteddevelopment of Sethsan,Kyonkadon, Kalahteik,Dawnyein, Naukmye,Seikma and Amar Villages,construction of Sethsan-Kyonkadon road, Pyapon-Kyonkadon-Amar road,thriving of paddy and coldseason crops and mangroveand windbreak plants fromthe helicopter.

On arrival at the vil-lage, Senior General ThanShwe and party were wel-

comed by officials and en-trepreneurs.

They inspected recon-struction of the village andconstruction tasks byDagon International Co andHtoo Trading Co and cor-dially greeted the local peo-ple.

Senior General ThanShwe and party went to thebriefing hall where Minis-ter Brig-Gen Thein Aungreported on arrangementsfor natural disasters prepar-edness and shelters and thechairman of Htoo TradingCo on model of cycloneshelters and land prepara-tions.

Commander Maj-GenKyaw Swe and Com-mander-in-Chief (Navy)Rear-Admiral Nyan Tunreported on requirements

for construction of cycloneshelters.

Senior General ThanShwe gave guidance onsome points to be careful inconnection with tidal wavesin construction of cycloneshelters and offices near thesea and resuming of busi-nesses of the local people.

They inspected devel-opment of the village andthe villagers welcomedthem.

Senior General ThanShwe and party left the vil-lage and inspected Eya,Kyeingyaunggyi andHlaingphone villages, al-lotment of houses and con-struction of Kyeingyaung-Kadonkani Road, man-grove, windbreak plantsfrom the helicopter.

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All-out efforts are to bemade for boosting productionand improving economy withthe combination of natural re-sources and workforce andharmonious cooperation ofthe government, the peopleand the Tatmadaw.

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Throughout history,Myanmar has existed…

(from page 16)Being able to publish more Myanmar journals and

magazines that have been good in terms of both qualityand quantity year after year are the efforts of theMyanmar literati. Throughout the long history,Myanmar has existed in the world with her ownliterature, culture, customs and traditions. The fact thatMyanmar is able to stand firm in the world with herown national character is thanks to the Myanmarliterature achievements.

The Secretary-1 went on to say that owing to theefforts of the patriotic literati including monks and laypeople of all successive periods, the national peoplehave been filled with thoughtfulness and good moraleand morality. Even in the period of independencestruggles, the literati organized the national peoplewith the might of literature, and that led the entirenation to regain independence after the national peoplefought back the imperialists unitedly.

Nowadays, some powerful countries are attempt-ing to influence the global nations in various waystaking advantage of the advancing information tech-nology. They are trying to export their cultures and life

styles which are not fit for other sovereign nations.Therefore, the national literati are to be vigilant anddefend against their instigation and ill attempts withnational awareness. Likewise, they also need to pro-mote and maintain the national culture.

The Secretary-1 added that the government isstriving in all aspects for perpetuity and peace anddevelopment of the nation. Physical infrastructures arebeing built nationwide to promote the living standardand socio-economy of the people. At the same time,measures are being taken for human resource develop-ment and physical and spiritual development of thepeople.

In accord with the motto of Myanmar Writers andJournalists Association ‘to promote the national pres-tige and literature, the association is found to bestriving for the successful realization of its motto incollaboration with other social organizations. In doingso, it is incumbent upon them to produce their works ofliterature that are filled with national essence helpingthe people to develop both technologically and men-tally.

The journalists, writers, cartoonists, artists, de-signers and publishers are to make all-out efforts fordevelopment of the Myanmar literary world. The literatiare also to participate in development projects, na-tional level education and health plans being under-taken in respective regions of the union while imple-menting the aims and objectives of the MyanmarWriters and Journalists Association, he said.

The Secretary-1 added that at a time when the newnation is being built by centring the education sector,the education learning centres have been opened tocontribute to livelihoods of the people and develop-ment of the regions. With the assistance of the Ministryof Information, the self-reliant village libraries havebeen established for widening the scope of knowledgeof the people and for enabling them to better serve theinterest of the State.

He continued to say that indeed, the literature is thenational and cultural character portraying the liveli-hoods of the people. All the people took the lessonsfrom the historical events through the literature. There-fore, the literati are to compile their works with thenational outlook.

He said that the development or downturn of anation and the people depends on the quality of theliterati who are disseminating the educative knowl-edge to the nation and the people concerned. Thepreservation of cultural heritage that had been handeddown by the forefathers through the variety of litera-ture is the historical duty of all the literati. At the sametime, they are to try hard to disseminate the classicalliterature of Myanmar and the world to the Myanmarreaders for widening their knowledge scope. Moreo-

ver, the literati are also to strive for enabling thenational people to realize the changing world eventswith the national outlook and for enabling the newgeneration youth to have access to advancing technol-ogy. Therefore, the literati are always to uphold thenational duties for serving the interest of the people.

In conclusion, the Secretary-1 urged them to handdown the Myanmar cultural heritage to the new gen-eration while preserving the fine traditions; for theliterati to harmoniously try hard for progress of theMyanmar literary world; to strive for serving theinterests of the State and the people in the nationalculture sector; and to make utmost efforts for flourish-ing of the Union Spirit among the national people byupholding Our Three Main National Causes.

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint presentsthird prize to Aung Kyaw Hsan.—MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo presents Life-time Achievement

National Literary Award to U Kyi Aye(Hsinbyukyun Aung Thein) through Secretary

of National Literary Award ScrutinizingCommittee U Maung Hlaing (Maung Swe

Nge).—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin gives awardto Maung Myint Tun.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan presents awardto Maung Than Swe (Dawei).—MNA

Chief Justice U Aung Toe gives first prize toLu Mon (Pakokku).—MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung MyintOo presented Life-time Achievement National Liter-ary Award to U Kyi Aye (Hsinbyukyun Aung Thein)through Secretary of the National Literary AwardScrutinizing Committee U Maung Hlaing (ManugSwe Nge).

The Secretary-1 also presented prizes to Hsu Hngetin the novel genre, Nay Win Myint in the collectiveshort stories genre and Than Aung (Anyamye) in thecollective poems genre.

Commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin awarded prizes to Tekkatho Sein Tin in thebelles-letters genre, Sanda Khin in the Myanmar cul-ture and fine arts genre, Manug Myint Tun in the childliterature genre and Linkar Yikyaw in the youth litera-ture genre.

Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsangave prizes to Hlaing Thin in the translation (generalknowledge) genre, Tin Maung Myint in the translation(aesthetics) genre, Maung Than Swe (Dawei) in the

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YANGON, 28 Dec—Under the aegis of MyanmarMotion Picture Asiayon, a documentary film entitled“Nanook of the North” marking the World Film Daywas screened at the hall of Myanmar Motion PictureAsiayon on Wingabar Street, Bahan Township, herethis afternoon.

In 1920, director Robert J. Flaherty, script writer,cameraman and producer, went to the north of Canadawhere Eskimo are residing, and made himself the docu-mentary film at his own risk.

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Throughout history,Myanmar has existed…

(from page 10)general knowledge (arts) and Dr. Chit in the gen-eral knowledge (applied science) genre of theNational Literary Award.

Next, the winners were awarded in the SarpayBeikman Manuscript contest. Minister for Industry-2 Vice-Admiral Soe Thein presented first, second andthird prizes to Thu Theim, Min Bay Dah (Pwintbyu)and Myaylat Min Lwin in the novel genre; and ThweHtar Nyo (Thakkala), Khin La Pyae Wun and MyatNoe Ein (Zwegabin) in the collective short storiesgenre.

Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myinthanded first, second and third prizes to Aye Kyi Sein,Kyaw Zeyar Hlaing (Institute of Economics) andMaung Ni Hmaing (Kyauktan) in the collective po-ems genre, Htin Lin Kyaw, Saw Kyu Maung(Yawmyay) and Maung Yin Hline (Pyinmamyaing)in the general knowledge (arts) genre.

Minister for Labour U Aung Kyi presented first,second and third prizes to Aung Soe (Agriculture-107), Maung Maung Myint Thein (Sethmu Takkatho)and Goal Hla Maung (Myoma) in the general knowl-edge (science and applied science) genre; Aung Soe,Thaung Nyunt Thit and Aung Min Myint in the belles-letter genre.

Chief Justice U Aung Toe gave first, second andthird prizes to Ma Aye Chan (Myanmarsar), TheinThan Win (Mahlaing) and Aung Nyein Chan (MannUniversity) through U Khin Soe in the Myanmar cul-ture and fine arts genre; and Lu Mon (Pakokku),Tekkatho Taw Thar through U Nyunt Han and MyatWai Toe (Institute of Education) in the child litera-ture genre.

Deputy Minister for Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint awarded first,second and third prizes to Maung Kyi Thant, Maung

Soe Htaik (Thonze) and Aung Kyaw Hsan in theyouth literature genre; first prize to U Aung Soe Ooin the translation genre; and second and third prizesto Zin Min (Thameinhtaw) and Maung Hsanda(Lewe) in the drama literature genre.

On behalf of the winners, Dr. Chit spoke wordsof thanks.

Next, the Secretary-1 and party posed for docu-mentary photo together with the winners in the Na-tional Literary Award and Sarpay Beikman Manu-script Award.

Afterwards, the Secretary-1 and party greetedthe award winners and literati.

Later, they viewed the documentary photos ofthe Life-time Achievement National Literary Awardwinners, National Literary Award and SarpayBeikman Manuscript Award winners for 2007, prizewinning books, winners of Myanmar movie out-standing award from 1952 to 2005, the documen-

tary photos on prize presentation of the Myanmarmotion picture outstanding award and academy statu-ettes.

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Minister U Aung Kyi gives third prize to GoalHla Maung ( Myoma).—MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo presents prize to Than Aung

(Anyamyay).—MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo and party pose together with literati.—MNA

Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein gives thirdprize to Myaylatt Min Lwin.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint presentsthird prize to Maung Ni Hmine (Kyauktan).

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Documentary film “Nanookof the North” screened tomark the World Film Day

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A young boy dies in grassslasher accident

BRISBANE, 28 Dec—A young boy has been killedafter being run over by a grass slasher on a farm westof Brisbane. Police were called to the farm just out-side Gatton today.

The four-year-old boy had been run over by a grassslasher at about 5.30pm (AEST) and died at the scene,ABC radio reported.

The boy’s family and emergency service workerswho went to the farm were receiving counselling, thereport said.—Internet

‘Imad the killer’ shot dead by copsRAMADI, 28 Dec—A member of al-Qaeda in Iraq

who broke out of jail has been killed in a firefight whiletwo other prisoners on the run have been surroundedby police.

“We killed ‘Imad the killer’ and he is lying on thestreet in front of me,” an officer said. “We are exchang-ing gunfire with the other two who are hiding in ahouse in Street number 20 in the centre of the city.”

The man killed by Iraqi forces, Imad Ahmed Farhan,was nicknamed “Imad the killer” because police sayhe has admitted to murdering at least 100 people.

Internet

Worshippers walk past the gate of the AsakusaSensoji temple in downtown Tokyo, Japan,

on 28 Dec, 2008.—INTERNET

MP3 player saves lost touristsZURICH, 28 Dec—The light from an MP3 player

saved two lost tourists from a chilly night stuck out inthe snowy Swiss mountains, rescue authorities saidon Saturday.

The two — a skier and snowboarder, both fromFrance — had got lost late in the day on Friday out-side marked runs near the resort of Savognin in south-east Switzerland, said Gery Baumann, spokesman formountain rescue service Rega.

They were able to alert authorities using a mobilephone, but it then ran out of battery power, Baumannsaid.—Internet

Australian supermaxi ‘Wild Oats XI’, skippered byMark Richards, enters Storm Bay as it approachesthe finish line of the 64th annual 628-nautical mileSydney Hobart Yacht Race, on 28 December. ‘WildOats XI’ won Australia’s premier blue water classicfor a record fourth consecutive year in an elapsed

time of one day, 20 hours, 34 minutesand 14 seconds.—INTERNET

Train derailment in Nevadato disrupt rail service

NEVADA, 28 Dec—A freight train derailed in north-ern Nevada, triggering a bridge collapse and majordisruptions in rail service on one of the country’s maineast-west lines, Union Pacific officials said.

The derailment occurred on Saturday morning in aremote area along the Humboldt River about 10 mileswest of Carlin and 260 miles east of Reno, UP spokes-woman Zoe Richmond said.

She said 13 cars containing grain were involved inthe derailment, and she was unsure how many carsthe westbound locomotives were hauling. No injurieswere reported.

The 102-year-old bridge spanning the river col-lapsed a couple of hours after the derailment, Rich-mond said, and railroad officials are unsure how longit’ll take to restore it. —Internet

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Elderly people chat in Tokyo’s Sugamo district. The area’s retailers arefocusing on the interests and needs of the elderly with shops aimed at anincreasingly ageing population where one in five of Japan’s 127 million

people is 65 or older.—INTERNET

Rescuers suspect shark grabbedmissing snorkeler

Missing nurse wasstuffed in car boot

PERTH , 28 Dec — Afull-scale search is on for aman in Australia believedto have been taken by ashark while out snorkellingwith his son.

Brian Guest, 51, waslooking for crabs early onSaturday morning with his24-year-old son off a beachin Port Kennedy, about 30miles south of Perth, whenhe suddenly disappeared.

His son told police hesaw a “commotion” in thewater before his fathervanished. He quickly

swam to shore andsounded the alarm.”It’sbelieved he’s been takenby a shark,” WesternAustralia state policeSergeant Greg Lambertsaid.Witnesses spoke ofseeing flashes of fins inthe area and the water wascoloured by blood.

The beach wasimmediately closed, andpolice on jet skis, severalmarine rescue patrols andat least three helicoptersbegan scouring the watersfor the missing father of

three.Searchers have founda piece of a wet suitbelieved to be that of themissing swimmer in thewater, not far from wherehe vanished, Sgt Lambertsaid.The 6-mile beach is apopular swimminglocation and there weremany people out becauseof the early morning warmweather conditions.IfGuest has been taken by ashark, it would be thesecond such incident inAustralia this year.

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LONDON , 28 Dec — Anurse found in the boot ofher car suffering fromhypothermia anddehydration could havebeen there for up to 10days, British police saidtoday.

Magdeline Makola, 38,was wearing nightclothesand had been tied up soshe could not escape. Shewas discovered in hervehicle in the town ofAirdrie, east of Glasgow,on Friday.

The nurse, a SouthAfrican-born Britishcitizen, was said to besuffering from minorinjuries and “extremelytraumatised” by herordeal, making it difficultto interview her.

Ms Makola, fromLivingston, east of Edin-burgh — 37km fromAirdrie — had not beenseen since she left work atEdinburgh Royal In-firmary on 15 December .She was reported missing

after failing to turn up forwork on 18 December.Her bank card had beenused in Airdrie and apolice officer searchingthe town’s streets heardher cries for help. Officerssmashed the car windowsto get to the boot.

He said police believeMakola could have beenin the boot for up to 10days. Police said it wasfortunate that tem-peratures last week hadbeen reasonably mild forwinter time.

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Bird flu found in poultry innorthern Vietnam

Erratic weather hurtsBritain’s wildlife

LONDON, 28 Dec — Britain’s puffins are among the wildlife suffering from asecond year of erratic weather, the National Trust said on Saturday.

This year’s cold spring, wet summer and dry autumn have made tough going forpuffins, the marsh fritillary butterfly and lesser horseshoe bats, the media reported.Awet summer in 2009 could be disastrous for insects — an integral part of the wildlifefood chain, the National Trust said.

Bees struggled though frost and snow in April, while birds, including blue andgreat tits, failed to nest because of heavy rain in late May and a lack of insects forfood. The puffin population of the Farne Islands was reported down by 35 percentwhile the common autumn cranefly was nearly non-existent, the organization said.

“Climate change is not some future prediction of what might happen, it’shappening now and having a serious impact on our countryside every year,” saidMatthew Oates, a spokesman for the National Trust.—Internet

Too muchbeer, winelinked tocancer

LONDON, 28 Dec —Downing a pint of beer orlarge glass of wine everyday increases the risk ofliver and bowel cancer,says the World CancerResearch Fund in Britain.

While some studiessuggest moderate alcoholconsumption can reduceheart disease, the sameamount of alcohol maydamage a person’s DNA,increasing their risk ofcancer by 20 percent, saidDr Rachel Thompson, aspokeswoman for thecancer research fund.

“When you considerhow many cases of thesetypes of cancer arediagnosed in the (UnitedKingdom) every year, it isclear that drinking evenrelatively small amountsof alcohol can make asignificant difference,”Thompson said.

Internet

People dance throughthe streets in Santiago

de Cuba on 27 Dec,2008. Thousands of

people paradedthrough the streets to

the rhythms of theConga in celebrationof the year’s end andthe 50th anniversary

of the Cubanrevolution to be

celebrated on 1 Jan,2009.—INTERNET

HANOI, 28 Dec — Birdflu has resurfaced inpoultry in northernVietnam after manymonths without any cases,killing ducks and chickensat two farms, a state-runnewspaper reported onSunday. Animal healthofficials confirmed onSaturday the H5N1 virushad killed several birdsamong a flock of more than100 ducks in Thai Nguyencity, 80 km (50 miles) northof Hanoi, the Ho Chi MinhCity Communist Youth

league-run Tuoi Trenewspaper said.

Officials had alsodetected the virus in deadchickens at a farm in thesame city and nearly 4,200chickens had beenslaughtered to prevent thevirus from spreading, thereport said without givinga timeframe.

Deputy Health MinisterTrinh Quan Huan said thisweek that there was a veryhigh risk of bird flureturning during the winterand spring in northern

Vietnam. The H5N1 strainseems to thrive best in lowtemperature.

Five Vietnamese havedied of bird flu so far thisyear out of six reportedH5N1 infections and allwere found in northernVietnam during the firstquarter of the year.

Vietnam has 106infections, the secondhighest number of casesamong 15 countries withknown human cases afterIndonesia.

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File photo showsa White Pointer

shark. Australianauthorities havesaid they will notattempt to huntdown a shark

believed to havekilled a swimmer,

as reports saidthe victim wouldnot have wantedthe predator todie.—INTERNET

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S P O R T S

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Great Scott leads Aussie SPL chargeCapello shrugs off Ramseycomparisons

Redknapp rules out Defoe return

Tottenham coach HarryRedknapp said on

Saturday that he willnot be forced to pay aninflated transfer fee tobring England striker

Jermain Defoe, back toWhite Hart Lane fromPremier League rivals

Portsmouth.—INTERNET

Sbragia is new coach at Sunderland

Ricky Sbragia (right) shakes handswith Blackburn Rovers managerSam Allardyce before their match

on 26 Dec, 2008.—INTERNET

PSV Eindhovenand FC Twente playout goalless draw

EINDHOVEN, 28 Dec—PSV Eindhoven and FCTwente both failed tomake a significant gain onthe Eredivisie leaders AZAlkmaar after playing outa goalless draw.

In the first half, bothsides had many opportu-nities to win the match butthey both proceeded to hitthe woodwork more oftenthan they did the goal net-ting. The second half sawfar fewer chances as theyboth settled for a pointeach.—Internet

Wanderlei Silva begins to fall after a knock outpunch by Quinton Jackson, right, during their

UFC light heavyweight mixed martial art matchon 27 Dec, 2008 at The MGM Grand Garden

Arena in Las Vegas.—INTERNET

Fabio Capello, insistedon Saturday that he doesnot yet deserve to be com-pared to Sir Alf Ramsey,

the man he hopes toemulate by transform-

ing England into world-beaters.—INTERNET

Berbatov voted best Bulgarianfootballer, again

Dimitar Berbatov

LONDON, 28 Dec—Fabio Capello insisted onSaturday that he does notyet deserve to be com-pared to Sir Alf Ramsey,the man he hopes to emu-late by transforming Eng-land into world-beaters.

Ramsey coached Eng-land to their only WorldCup success back in 1966but Capello’s impressivefirst year in charge of thenational squad already hasmany observers tippingthe Italian’s team aschampions in South Af-rica in 2010.

But Capello says thereis plenty of work ahead ifthe England of RioFerdinand, John Terry,Theo Walcott and WayneRooney are to be kings ofthe world.

“Someone spoke to meabout this big manager(Ramsey) but we have towait. He’s up here - I’mstill down here,” saidCapello.

“It’s a very long way toarrive at the level of SirAlf Ramsey — it is diffi-cult and very, very long.”

Internet

LONDON, 28 Dec—Tottenham coach HarryRedknapp said on Saturdaythat he will not be forcedto pay an inflated transferfee to bring England strikerJermain Defoe back toWhite Hart Lane from Pre-mier League rivals Port-smouth.

Redknapp took Defoe toPortsmouth in Januarywhen he was in charge atFratton Park, but admittedhe may now switch his at-tention to Middlesbrough’sinternational winger StuartDowning.

“I think they have a mas-sive offer from somebodyfor him (Defoe). I paidabout nine million poundsfor him,” Redknapp said.

“He is a good player butwe’re not going to pay over

the top for anyone. I likeDowning but I don’t knowwhether Middlesbroughwant to sell him.”

Internet

LONDON, 28 Dec—English PremierLeague side Sunderland on Saturday ap-pointed Ricky Sbragia as manager follow-ing a successful short spell in charge as

caretaker coach. The 52-year-old Scot haswon an 18-month contract from chairmanNiall Quinn on the back of his four gamesin charge since the resignation of RoyKeane earlier this month.

Those games saw Sunderland claw theirway out of the relegation zone with twovictories, a draw and a single defeat, awayto Manchester United.

Former Manchester United skipperKeane stood down after 27 months incharge at the Stadium of Light saying hehad taken the club as far as he could.

“Ricky Sbragia is a thoroughly profes-sional football person,” Quinn said.

The appointment comes had on theheels of Friday’s Boxing Day 0-0 homedraw with Blackburn, which followed vic-tories over West Brom and Hull.—Internet

GLASGOW, 28 Dec—Scott McDonald andDanny Invincibile madeAustralian strikers head-line news on Saturday inthe Scottish PremierLeague. McDonald, withhis eighth goal of the sea-son, was on target asCeltic defeated city rivalsRangers 1-0 in the OldFirm derby at Ibrox as thechampions opened up aseven-point lead.

Celtic manager GordonStrachan describedMcDonald as “phenom-enal” after seeing the Aus-tralian score in the 58thminute after linking withGeorgios Samaras beforeturning Kirk Broadfootand volleying past Rang-ers goalkeeper AllanMcGregor.

“I thought McDonald

was phenomenal”,Strachan said whose teamare comfortably on coursefor a fourth successiveleague title. McDonaldsaid he couldn’t describehis memorable strike asthe best goal of his career.

Meanwhile, Invincibilemarked his return from in-jury with two goals for10-man Kilmarnock in a4-2 victory at Hibernian.

Internet

SOFIA, 28 Dec—Dimitar Berbatov hasbeen voted best Bulgarianfootballer for the thirdtime in a row. The Man-chester United player beatLevski Sofia keeperGeorgi Petkov and SlaviaSofia midfielder BlagoyGeorgiev.

Berbatov, who is only27 years old and has awhole future ahead ofhim, has now won the tro-phy five times and movesinto joint first place withBulgarian legend HristoStoichkov.

Berbatov began his ca-reer at CSKA Sofia in1999 and moved to BayerLeverkusen in January2001. While not that suc-cessful in the Bundesligaduring his first months in

Germany, he did help tolead Bayer to the Cham-pions League final.

After five years, theforward tried his luck inthe Premiership where hejoined TottenhamHotspur. With 27 goals in70 games, he eventuallyattracted the interest ofManchester United thissummer.—Internet

(28-12-2008)

Arsenal 1 - 0 PortsmouthBlackburn 2 – 2 Manchester CityBolton 0 – 1 Wigan AthleticEverton 3 – 0 SunderlandFulham 2 – 2 ChelseaNewcastle 1 – 5 LiverpoolWBA 2 – 0 TottenhamWest Ham Utd 2 – 1 Stoke City

LONDON, 28 Dec—Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinhois a target for Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners.

The Mail on Sunday says current manager MarkHughes is believed to have until the end of the seasonto convince Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, of AbuDhabi’s ruling family, that he is the man to satisfytheir lofty football ambitions.

But if Hughes fails, then City will make seriousefforts towards securing a big-name appointment.

City’s new target is former Chelsea boss Mourinho,now in Italy with Inter Milan. —Internet

Man City owners target Inter Milanboss Mourinho

Scott McDonald

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, light rain or thunder-showers has been isolated in Shan State and MandalayDivision, weather has been partly cloudy in Rakhine andKayah States, upper Sagaing, Yangon and Bago Divi-sions and generally fair in the remaining areas . Nighttemperatures were (6˚C) below December average tem-peratures in Chin State and Magway Division, (3˚C) to(4˚C) above December average temperatures in Kachinand Shan States, Bago Division and about Decemberaverage temperatures in the remaining States andDivisions.The significant night temperatures was Hakha(-2˚C). The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Lashio (0.24) inch and PyinOoLwin (0.20) inch.

Maximum temperature on 27-12-2008 was 92˚F.Minimum temperature on 28-12-2008 was 63˚F. Rela-tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 28-12-2008 was67%. Total sunshine hours on 27-12-2008 was (9.0) hrsapprox.

Rainfall on 28-12-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (110.31) inches at Mingaladon,(120.95) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (140.94) inches at Central Yangon. Maxi-mum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southeast at (14:30) hours MST on 27-12-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and Southeast Bay and generally fair else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 29th December2008: Possibility of isolated light rain in Kachin and ShanStates and Taninthayi Division, weather will be partlycloudy in Chin and Rakhine States, upper Sagaing, Man-dalay and Yangon Divisions and generally fair in theremaining areas. Degree of certainty is (40%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight increase of night temperatures in the whole coun-try.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 29-12-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 29-12-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 29-12-2008: Partly cloudy.

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Residents look at a destroyed vehicle after abomb attack in Kadhimiya district of

northwestern Baghdad on 27 Dec, 2008.INTERNET

Philippine rebel bombexpert nabbed

COTABATO, 28 Dec—A suspected Muslim rebelbomb expert was caughtby Philippine securityforces in the restivesouthern Mindanaoregion, local policereported on Saturday.

Badrudin AmbaoBalawag, 45, believed tobe working with the MoroIslamic Liberation Front(MILF) commanderAmeril Ombra Kato, wasnabbed in a raid at hishideout in the township ofLambayong in SultanKudarat on Wednesday,said local policecommander Super-intendent Joel Limson.

“He is a suspect inprevious attacks in theregion. A fragmentationgrenade was alsorecovered from hispossession,” Limsonsaid. Manila hassuspended peace talkswith the MILF andordered a massive assaultafter two rebelcommanders launched astring of deadly attacksall over Mindanao.

The military auth-ority on Saturday said themost wanted rebel leaderKato might have beenkilled in one of the recentmilitary operations.

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Morocco seizes largesthaul of drug in 2008

RABAT, 28 Dec—Customs in the northernMoroccan port of Tangieron Saturday seized 4.11 tonsof hashish aboard a TIRtruck that was about to leavefor Spain, local MAP newsagency reported. This catch,the largest hashish haul thisyear, was loaded on a truckthat belongs to a Spanishcompany operating in theAtlantic city of Agadir inMorocco, the report said.

According to thereport, the load wasdiscovered thanks to thescanner imaging thatshowed suspicious formsinside the trailer, andcustoms and police agentsthen unloaded the peppercases to find large hashishbundles at the bottom of thetrailer. The driver of thetruck, a 60-year-oldSpanish, was arrested.

Internet

The newly built Bobrovnytska gas compressor andholding station near Kiev on 16 Dec, 2008. Thereis a “50-50” chance that Russia will cut off gassupplies to Ukraine on January 1 over Kiev’sfailure to pay its debts, Russian energy giant

Gazprom said on Saturday.—INTERNET

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Winner to receive Life-time Achievement National Literary Award at homeNAY PYI TAW, 28 Dec—Secretary of National Literary Award Scrutiny and Selection Committee U

Maung Hlaing (Maung Swe Nge) accepted the Life-time Achievement National Literary Award for 2007 onbehalf of winner U Kyi Aye (Hsinphyugyun Aung Thein) because he was ill and could not attend the prizepresentation ceremony.

Officials concerned will visit the winner’s house in Yangon to present the award.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28 Dec—A ceremony to presentLife-time AchievementNational Literary Award,National Literary Awardand Sarpay BeikmanManuscript Award tookplace at the Ministry of

Throughout history, Myanmar has existed in the worldwith her own literature, culture, customs and traditions

Secretary-1 addresses ceremony to present Life-timeAchievement National Literary Award, National Literary

Award and Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award

Information here with anaddress by Secretary-1 ofthe State Peace and De-velopment Council Lt-Gen Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo.

It was also attendedby Commander of Nay Pyi

Taw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin, ministers, thechief justice, deputy min-isters, the director-generalof the SPDC office, de-partmental heads, mem-bers of Myanmar Histori-cal Commission, mem-

bers of the committees forselecting award winners,literati, journalists, prizewinners, the staff of theministry and guests.

Speaking on the oc-casion, the Secretary-1said being the ones who

have cherished their lit-erature throughout the his-tory, the Myanmar peoplehail the month of Nadaw,one of the 12 Myanmartraditional seasons, byadmiring and praisingthose from the literary

world. And this is a sig-nificant characteristic ofMyanmar among theworld’s nations. He saidsuch a ceremony to awardthe literati has been heldannually, adding that hewas very pleased to havethe opportunity to awardthe literati.

The literati are na-tional forces striving forMyanmar to be able tostand tall among the in-ternational community bypreserving the national lit-erature that is the life-blood of the country andthe people. The aims ofawarding the brilliantliterati yearly are to praisethe goodwill of the literati,who have been maintain-ing and preserving thenational literature, to pro-mote the standards of thenational literature and lit-erary world and to turnout the literati of new gen-erations.

(See page 10)Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo poses for documentary photos together with winners.—MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo delivers an address at presentation ceremony of Life-time Achievement National LiteraryAward, National Literary Award and Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award.—MNA

Measures are being taken for

human resource development and

physical and spiritual develop-

ment of the people.

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