Volume XVI, Number 266 14th Waxing of Pyatho 1370 ME Friday, 9 January, 2009

Established 1914

All citizens must steadfastly uphold “Our Three MainNational Causes” to avoid recurrences of past bitter experiencesVice-Senior General Maung Aye addresses Graduation

Parade of the Sixth Intake of the Defence ServicesInstitute of Nursing and Paramedical Science

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Jan—The following is translation of the speech delivered by Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief (Army), at the Graduation Parade of the Sixth Intake of the Defence Services Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Science at the parade groundof the Defence Services Medical Academy in Yangon today.Comrades,

On this occasion ofthe Graduation Ceremonyof the Sixth Intake of theDefence Services Instituteof Nursing and Paramedi-cal Science, I would liketo give guidance solemnlyas to what you should beaware.Comrades,

The aim of the De-

Our national brethren, like a myriad of fruitsstemming from a single stalk, have lived in unitythrough weal or woe, with wisdom taught by bloodrelations.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye delivers an address at GraduationParade of Sixth Intake of Defence Services Institute of Nursing and

Paramedical Science.—MNA

fence Services Instituteof Nursing and Para-medical Science is toproduce skil lfulnurses, paramedicaland pharmaceuticalprofessionals withphysical and intellec-tual aptitude for theNational Tatmadawwhich will safeguardOur Three Main Na-

tional Causes.Comrades,

With a view to pro-viding training and edu-cation to you, more than20 departments of aca-demic subjects have beenset up in this Institute. TheDirectorate of Studies andthe Department of Para-medical Science havebeen effectively teaching

Myanmar, English, Math-ematics, Chemistry, Phys-ics, Botany and Zoologyas foundation subjects,Anatomy, Biochemistry,Physiology, Microbiologyand Computer Science assupplementary subjects,and Pharmacology, Pa-thology, Radiology andPhysiotherapy as majorsubjects. In addition, withregard to nursing, the sub-jects of Adult Care, Fam-ily Care, Nursing Aid,Public Care and Psychiat-ric Care are also beingtaught. Likewise, a libraryhas been set up for train-

ees with an aim for theirbroader studies.

To date, this Institutehas already produced atotal of 1,034 graduates,and the number will reach1,143 if your batch is con-cluded.

In terms of subjects,those graduates comprise935 nurses, 54 pathologists,52 radiologists, 46 physi-otherapists and 56 pharma-ceutical professionals.Comrades,

Your senior graduateshave earned a good repu-tation because of their firmbelief in Our Three Main

National Causes, their re-lentless endeavours to bequalified both physicallyand intellectually, theirfervent desire for furtherdutifulness in accordancewith the motto: “Enthu-siasm, Cetana (Good-will) and Sacrifice”. Withrespect to further studies,a graduate of the First In-take has already receiveda Master’s Degree inNursing Care, and thenumber of trainees cur-rently pursuing their stud-ies for Master’s Degreeshas reached 18.

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Friday, 9 January, 2009* 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

Millions of children throughout theworld suffer infantile paralysis due topoliomyelitis. The whole global community istrying to eradicate polio. The world saw poliocases in 125 countries in 1988, and only fourcountries in 2008.

Myanmar has conducted vaccinationcampaigns every year since 1978. At first,children were vaccinated against diphtheria,whooping cough, tetanus and TB. Then, polio,measles and hepatitis (B) vaccines were alsogiven to children.

The Ministry of Health regularly givesvaccines and holds National ImmunizationDays across the nation including border andrural areas in order that children do not fallvictim to polio.

Polio vaccines were given to under-fives on the National Immunization Daysheld in November and December 2007. Thefirst time covered more than 98 per cent, andthe second time, over 97 per cent.

National Immunization Days for 2009will be held soon. Polio vaccines will be givento more than seven million under-fives of 325townships from 10 to 12 January in the firststage, and from 7 to 9 February in the secondstage.

Polio disease is caused by poliovirus,and it makes victims have their legs andhands atrophied. The viral infections spreadperson to person primarily via excrement.Here, a notable point is that a person can beinfected with poliovirus through food andwater that are contaminated with poliovirusthrough human waste of a victim.

All mothers and regional socialassociations have to work together to ensuregiving polio vaccines to each and every under-five on National Immunization Days in orderthat all under-fives are free from the disease.

Give polio vaccine to allunder-fives

Knowledge Bank paper reading session on 17 JanYANGON, 8 Jan —

Organized by Myanmar YANGON, 8 Jan— Withthe aim of improvingTable-Tennis and for theemergence of newgeneration players,Horizon Open-2009Table-Tennis Cham-pionship to be held on 24-25 January jointlyorganized by MyanmarTable-Tennis Federationand Horizon SportsAcademy at KyaikkasamGymnasium.

The men’s event

Table-Tennis Championship on 24-25 January

includes U-13, U-16 andU-19, second class(Open) (States andDivisions Levels andAmateurs), first class(Open) (Myanma OldSelected players andPresent Selected players)and U-50 individualscontests and the women’sevents includes U-13, U-16 and individualscontests (Open).

The interestedpersons are to submit

original identity card (or)birth certificate (or)student identity card (or)and recommendation ofthe headmasters andheadmistreses applicationforms are available atMyanmar Table-TennisFederation (NationalSwimming PoolCompound) and HorizonInternational EducationCenter application formstogether with two photosare to be sent to Horizon

YIE Practising High School awards outstanding studentsYANGON, 8 Jan—The

Yangon Institute ofEducation Practising HighSchool of Higher EducationDepartment (UpperMyanmar) under theMinistry of Education heldits 11th prize presentationceremony for 2008-2009academic year at PyinnyaBeikman Hall of the schoolon Pyay Road in KamayutTownship, here, thismorning.

Present on the occasionwere wife of the Ministerfor Education

Studentsperform dances

at 11th prizepresentationceremony for

2008-2009academic year

of YangonInstitute

of EducationPractising High

School.MNA

International EducationCenter No. 25 Phoe SeinStreet , Bahan Township,Tel 543926, 541085 and728016 not later than at 3p.m on 20 January.

NLM

Writers and JournalistsAssociation, Know-ledge Bank PaperReading Session will beheld at noon at themeeting hall of thebuilding of theassociation on 17January (Saturday).Sayamagyi Daw Kyan(Ma Kyan) and U NgweThein (CompanyGuide) will presentpapers and anyone mayattend the session.

MNA

CorrigendumPlease read “KTK

distributes various kinds ofNTN Bearing made inJapan. The company is alsothe sole agent for HCH andTR Bearing to Myanmar”in the news item “KTKTrading Co Ltd opened”which appeared on page 9of the New Light ofMyanmar Daily issued on16-12-2008. Error isregretted.—Ed.

Dr Daw Sanda Aung,Director-General of HigherEducation Department(Upper Myanmar) U ZawHtay and wife, Director-General U Ohn Myint ofMyanmar EducationResearch Bureau, Director-General U Aye Kyu of No.3 Basic Education

Department, DeputyDirector-General U MyoMyint, Pro-rectors Dr DawLwin Lwin Soe and Dr MyoTint of Yangon Institute ofEducation, Principal DrNanda Tun of the PractisingHigh School and teachersand parent-teacherassociation, members of

school board of trustees andprize winners.

Teachers and studentspresented songs and dancesto those present. Officialsconcerned presented prizesto teachers who hadattended school regularly,winners at internationallevel ASEAN competitions

and winners at the central-and-division level Englishand Mathematics skills andOlympic Mathematicscontests.

Prizes were alsopresented to district-andtownship-level outstandingstudents.

MNA

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US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan“will cost an additional $69bn”

Iraqi cleric urges attacks on US troops over Gaza

US military deaths inAfghanistan region at 560WASHINGTON, 8 Jan—As of Wednesday, 7 Jan,

2009, at least 560 members of the US military haddied in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as aresult of the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001,according to the Defence Department. The depart-ment last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 amEST. Of those, the military reports 407 were killedby hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defence Depart-ment reports 66 more members of the US militarydied in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Ofthose, three were the result of hostile action. Themilitary lists these other locations as GuantanamoBay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia;Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles;Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.—Internet

US military deaths in Iraqwar at 4,223

WASHINGTON, 8 Jan—As of Wednesday, 7 Jan,2009, at least 4,223 members of the US militaryhad died in the Iraq war since it began in March2003. The figure includes eight military civilianskilled in action. At least 3,402 military personneldied as a result of hostile action, according to themilitary’s numbers.—Internet

Troops kill 32 militantsin east Afghanistan

KABUL, 7 Jan—US-led forces raided a Talebanbomb-making cell in eastern Afghanistan, killing 32militants in a battle with scores of armed militantswho shot at them from rooftops and alleyways, themilitary said on Wednesday.

The firefight broke out Tuesday in Laghman prov-ince when as many as 75 armed militants convergedon the troops, who were searching a number of com-pounds in the area, the military said in a statement.The 32 insurgents were killed when coalition troopsreturned fire.

The troops destroyed two caches of weapons androadside bomb-making materials that were too unsta-ble to move to another location, the statement said.

Internet

Roadside bombs kill fiveIraqi soldiers in Diyala

BAGHDAD, 7 Jan—Police say two roadside bombshave struck an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad,killing five soldiers and injuring eight.

An official at the Provincial security headquartersin Diyala Province says the bombs exploded simulta-neously on Thursday at about 2 am as the patrol wasin a village near Jalula.

Insurgents have frequently targeted Iraqi securityforces in a bid to disrupt recent security gains thathave led to a sharp decline in violence.

The official read the report on the explosions oncondition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorizedto release the information.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 8 Jan—US Defence SecretaryRobert Gates has told leg-islators that the militarywill need an additional$69.7 billion (£47bn) thisyear on top of the $65.9billion (£44bn) alreadyapproved by Congress tocontinue the wars in Iraqand Afghanistan.

In a New Year’s Eveletter to the chairmen ofthe House and Senatepanels overseeing the

wars, which was pub-lished on Wednesday, MrGates estimated that thewars in Iraq and Afghani-stan will cost almost $136billion (£91bn) for the2009 budget year if theycontinue at their currentpace. Mr Gates added thatthe estimate would coverPentagon operations inIraq and Afghanistan, aswell as other elements ofWashington’s “war on ter-ror.” But he acknowl-

edged that the estimatedoesn’t account for a pro-posed escalation of mili-tary operations in Af-ghanistan.

“This estimate is my per-sonal assessment and doesnot reflect the position ofthe Bush administration orthe incoming Obama ad-ministration,” he wrote. Anofficial request for warfunding will follow a re-view by the Obama admin-istration.—InternetAn Afghan doctor stands by the bed of a man, who allegedly got wounded

during a US strike, in a hospital in Laghman Province, northeast of Kabul,Afghanistan, on 7 Jan, 2009.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 8 Jan—Anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday urgedreprisals against Ameri-can forces in Iraq to pro-test Israel’s Gaza offen-sive, as Arab anger growsover civilian deaths in thePalestinian territory.

The strongly wordedstatement signaled athreat by al-Sadr’s militiafighters to renew violence

against American troopsafter months of relativecalm. It was unclear, how-ever, just how much influ-ence the once-powerfulShiite leader — who isbelieved to be in Iran —still has. His fighters havebeen hit hard in US-Iraqimilitary operations overthe past year.

The US State Depart-ment dismissed al-Sadr’s

calls, describing them as“outrageous.”

“Any call for attacksagainst Americans is out-rageous and, frankly, notworthy of much morecomment,” deputy StateDepartment spokesmanRobert Wood told report-ers. “Outside calls to at-tack Americans for what'sgoing on in the region areoutrageous.”—Internet

Two men, at right, assist an injured man as

other victims lie in the street, after a suicide

attack inBaghdad’s northern Shiite

neighborhood of Kazimiyah, Iraq, on 4 Jan,

2009.—INTERNET

A Palestinian

mother and

her son with

dual

citizenship

wait outside

a bus before

they leave the

Gaza Strip

on 8

January,

2009.

INTERNET

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Waterfowl perch on a

fountain in front of a

frozen weeping willow

in St James’s Park in

London on 7 Jan,

2009. The Met Office

issued another severe

weather warning on

Wednesday but said

the cold snap will start

to ease towards the

weekend.

XINHUA

Chen Zhili (L), president of All-China Women’sFederation and vice chairwoman of the Standing

Committee of China’s National People’s Congress,selects a sweater for a student who lost parents

during the devastating earthquake hitting Sichuanon 12 May, 2008 at Tanghu High School in

Dujiangyan City, southwest China’s Sichuan Prov-ince, on 6 Jan, 2009. —XINHUA

Customers try third-generation (3G) mobile phones at a China Mobileexhibition hall in Beijing, China, on 7 Jan, 2009. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 8 Jan—Abridge linking HongKong, Macao and thePearl River Delta is ex-pected to start in 2009 andthe central governmentwill offer 5 billion yuan(730 million US dollars)

China to build bridge linkingHK, Macao, Pearl River Delta

on its main body.The plan was made

public by Du Ying, viceminister of the NationalDevelopment and ReformCommission at a newsconference on Thursday.

The main body of the

bridge stretches 29 km,the longest in the world.It will connect the coun-try’s three southernbooming places of HongKong, Macao andZhuhai.

Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 8 Jan—California, once regarded asa leader in the United States for its public higher edu-cation system, is quickly dropping in the rankings, saida report released on Wednesday.

California ranks next to the last in the US for itsnumber of adults with at least a high school diploma,according to the report, titled “California at the Edgeof a Cliff,” released by the California Faculty Asso-ciation.

Meanwhile, the state’s investment in public highereducation has dropped over the past three decades,and now ranks 22nd in the country. That’s despite hav-ing the country’s largest public higher education sys-tem, the report said. “It’s a collapse,” said ThomasMortenson, author of the report, who is an independ-ent analyst living in Iowa and a senior scholar at thePell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in HigherEducation in Washington, DC.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 8 Jan—Ja-pan’s Sony Corp saidWednesday it is planningto introduce the world’slightest 8-inch notebookPC, aiming at a sharpgrowth of market share.

The new notebook, asthin as a mobile phone,weighs 0.634 kg(1.4pounds), and can bepreordered on Thursday.

Priced about 900 dol-lars, the new Sony VaioPC will be equipped withMicrosoft Corp’s Win-dows Vista operating sys-tem, and sale will beginFebruary in the UnitedStates.

Xinhua

Sony to sellworld’s

lightest 8-inchnotebook PC

RIO DE JANEIRO, 8 Jan—The price of staplefoods jumped more than20 percent in nine Brazil-ian state capitals last year,according to a study re-leased on Wednesday.

The study by the Inter-Union Department of Sta-tistics and SocioeconomicStudies (Dieese) said thelargest price increase wasin Joao Pessoa, Paraiba

PHNOM PENH, 8 Jan—The Cambodian and Viet-namese government offi-cials have signed a memo-randum of understandingto inspect all animal car-goes crossing the border,said English-languagedaily newspaper thePhnom Penh Post onThursday.

The MoU stipulatedthat the construction of 11inspection facilities along

Study shows California’s deterioratingsituation in higher education

Staple food prices up over 20% in Brazil in 2008state, where costs rose29.3 percent in 2008.

In Natal, Rio Grandedo Norte state, in thenortheastern region,prices increased 26.7 per-cent in 2008. InFlorianopolis, southernSanta Catarina state,prices increased 25.2 per-cent, while in Fortaleza,Ceara state, prices wereup 24.6 percent.

The lowest increaseswere in Belem, Para state,in the northern region,where prices were up 4.7percent.

Food prices in Decem-ber increased in all 17state capitals evaluated bythe Dieese.

Joao Pessoa registeredthe highest increase at14.7 percent.

Xinhua

Cambodia, Vietnam ink MoU to inspectanimal cargoes across border

the border to separate theflow of animal cargoesand humans, in order tocontain spread of avianinfluenza and its contrac-tion from animal to hu-man.

“The agreement willhelp curb the disease fromspreading form animal toanimal and from animalsto human,” said Kao Phal,Director of the AnimalHealth and Production

Department of the Cam-bodian Ministry of Agri-culture, Forests and Fish-eries.

A 19-year-old Cambo-dian man was infectedwith the H5N1 virus inDecember, which is theonly confirmed infectionin the country last year,but non-fatal, not like the7 prior cases diagnosed inCambodia.

Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

Obama names “chiefperformance officer”

WASHINGTON, 8 Jan—US President-elect BarackObama Tuesday named a“chief performanceofficer”, a newly-createdposition that wouldoversee the federal budgetand reform government.

“We can no longerafford to sustain the oldways when we know there

are new and more efficientways to getting the jobdone,” Obama told a newsconference at his transitionheadquarters inWashington as he namedNancy Killefer for thepost, “an expert instreamlining processesand wringing outinefficiencies”.—Xinhua

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Dense smoke rises from Gaza city after Israeli bombardment on 8 Jan,2009.—XINHUA

A woman looks at a manometer set on a gas pipe at a compressor station inthe Ukrainian city of Boyarka. Envoys from Russia and Ukraine go to Brus-

sels on Thursday for emergency EU-brokered talks to resolve a bitter gasfight between the two ex-Soviet giants that has engulfed Europe in a major

energy crisis.—INTERNET

OTTAWA, 8 Jan—TheCanadian governmentblamed the Palestinianmilitant group Hamas forthe deaths of more than 40civilians who were killedby Israeli shells on Tues-day in some of the mosthard-line comments byany leading western na-tion on the deadly inci-dent.

Medical officials in

SNOQUALMIE, 8 Jan—Rain and high windslashed Washington stateWednesday, causingwidespread avalanches,mudslides, flooding androad closures as the heavysnowfall that has buriedparts of the state began torapidly melt.

More than 30,000 peo-ple were told to leave theirhomes in flood-endan-gered areas across west-ern Washington as au-thorities warned of heavyflooding.

“This is going to be a

In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Transporta-tion, water rushes past a washed out road near Blewett Pass on US highway

97 in Washington State on 7 Jan, 2009.—INTERNET

Hamas responsible fordeadly Gaza attack

SDEROT, 8 Jan—Few residents of the Israeli townof Sderot are on the streets these days. They prefer tosit out the war in safer parts of the country or barri-cade themselves at home as Palestinian rockets keepcoming despite Israel’s devastating military offensiveagainst Gaza’s Hamas rulers. One mile outside Gaza,Sderot was for years the top target of Palestinian rocketfire. Its residents have long demanded a military cam-paign to wipe out Gaza rocket squads, saying the cur-rent disruption of their lives is a small price to pay ifthe war brings what they long for: the ability to walkoutside without hearing the dreaded rocket alert.

Maxim Ben-Zikri runs one of the few thriving busi-nesses in the town of 24,000 people: His AlumMondial window business specializes in fixing housesthat have been damaged by rocket fire. “I have workall the time, but that doesn’t make me happy,” he says.

He used to fix windows in Jewish settlements inGaza before Israel pulled out of the seaside strip thatis home to 1.4 million Palestinians in 2005. Now thatGaza militants have taken over those former settle-ments and moved closer to Israel, he has his handsfull repairing windows in Israeli border communities.

Internet

BEIJING, 8 Jan—Chinaaims to more than doubleits annual natural gas out-put to 160 billion cubicmeters by 2015.

The country also wantsto increase its annual pro-duction of coal to morethan 3.3 billion tonnes andcrude oil production to

WARSAW, 8 Jan— Po-land’s National DefenceMinistry is mulling send-ing more troops to Af-ghanistan but no decisionshave been taken as yet,ministry’s spokesmanRobert Rochowicz saidon Wednesday.

“The decision will betaken after evaluation ofincoming analyses of thefunctioning of Polishforces in one province inAfghanistan,” Polishnews agency PAP quotedRochowicz as saying.

Poland’s DefenceMinister Bogdan Klichtold Gazeta Wyborczadaily that the number ofPolish troops in Afghani-stan should be increasedfrom the present 1,600 to2,000-2,200. The Polishgovernment is due to dis-cuss participation ofPolish troops in militarymissions next week, ac-cording to PAP.—Internet

Gaza said the civilianshad been sheltering at aUnited Nations school.The Israeli army accusedHamas of using the civil-ians as human shields andof firing mortars at itstroops from inside theschool.

“Hamas bears a terri-ble responsibility for thisand for the wider deepen-ing humanitarian trag-edy,” Canadian JuniorForeign Minister PeterKent told Reuters whenasked for Ottawa’s reac-tion to the attack.

“The burden of re-sponsibility is on Hamasto stop its terrorist rock-eting of Israel.”

Canada’s current Con-servative government,which took power in early2006, is an outspokensupporter of Israel.

“It is a tragedy andCanada is concernedabout the loss of civilianlife”, Kent said of theschool shelling, addingthat Ottawa did not yetknow much about the in-cident.

“Hamas’s record is touse civilians — the popu-lation and civilian infra-structure — as shields andit would seem quite pos-sible that this is yet an-other tragic instance,” hesaid.

Internet

China plans to double natural gas output by2015, eyes more coal, oil

200 million tonnes by2015, said chief plannerHu Cunzhi of the Minis-try of Land and Resourcesat a press conference onWednesday.

That represents an in-crease of about 30 percentand 7 percent for coal andoil output respectively

from the levels in 2007.Levels for 2008 have notbeen released.

In addition to the natu-ral gas output, 10-billioncubic meters of coal bedmethane will be producedeach year by draining gasfrom coal mines by 2015,said Hu.—Internet

Rocket fire defines life insouthern Israeli town

Poland mullingsending more

troops toAfghanistan

Melting snow causes heavy flooding in Wash Statememorable flood event,”said Andy Haner, a Na-tional Weather Servicemeteorologist in Seattle.

Fire trucks rolledthrough Orting, about 10miles southeast ofTacoma, with loudspeak-ers advising everyone toleave the town and sur-rounding valley, home toabout 26,000 people.Sandbags were placedaround many downtownhomes and businesses asthe Puyallup River nearedrecord levels. It was fore-cast to crest on Thursday.

“They expect the townof Orting to go under wa-ter,” Pierce County sher-iff's Detective Ed Troyersaid, adding that theflooding could be theworst in more than a dec-ade. Tacoma Mayor BillBaarsma declared a civilemergency because offlood risks at PuyallupRiver.

Throughout the state,about 60 highways wereclosed, including all east-west passes across theCascade Mountains.

Internet

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Photo shows a set of tea ware carved outof the daffodil, at a daffodil nurserygarden in Zhangzhou City, southeastChina’s Fujian Province. Daffodilsculpture for indoor decoration hasbecome increasingly popular amonglocal people at the current high season of narcissus efflorescence.

A Russian company specializing inairships is planning to build a hard-shelled zeppelin capable of lifting 180tonnes at a time — more than anymodern cargo plane.

Exactly a century ago, in 1908, thefirst Russian airship blasted off in thethen capital St Petersburg.

Today, after successfully building

NYC man sells bubblycalendars for popping fansA New York City man has designed

a calendar that will drive Bubble Wrapfanatics popping-mad.

The Daily News of New York reportsin Thursday editions that StephenTurbek is selling a poster-size calendarcovered with the plastic bubbles.

Customers can pop a bubble eachday to mark the passage of time.

The Brooklyn man says he has soldthousands of Bubble Calendars.

A handmade calendar with paperbacking is available online for $30 anda plastic version costs $50.

Turbek says it makes a perfect giftfor obsessive people — as long as theydon’t pop the whole year on the first daythey get it.

The Polaroid Zinc instant print camera is demonstrated on 31 Dec, 2008 inNew York.—INTERNET

GAZA CITY, 8 Jan—Ilive alone in my office.My wife and two youngchildren moved in withher father after our apart-ment was shattered.

The neighborhoodmosque, where I haveprayed since I was a child,had its roof blown off. Allthe government buildingson my beat have been ob-literated.

After days of Israelishelling, the city and lifeI have known no longerexist.

AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubbleGaza City, with some

400,000 people, stoppedsupplying water when thefuel ran out for the powerstation driving the pumps.

We listen to battery-run radios for news, eventhough the outside worldwatches what’s happeningto us on television. TheHadi grocery where weonce shopped is closed.Food is scarce all overtown.

Three days after Israelbegan its airstrikes againstHamas militants on 27

Dec, my apartment build-ing was shaken by bombsaimed at a nearby Hamas-run government com-pound.

My brother took a pic-ture of the room where myboys, 2-year-old Hikmetand 6-month-old Ahmed,once slept. Their toyswere broken, shrapnel hadpunched through thecloset and the bedroomwall had collapsed. I don’tknow if we will ever goback.

Internet

Flight passenger subduedfor bomb threat

LOS ANGELES, 8 Jan— A man who allegedly yelled“I’ve got a bomb” was subdued by fellow passengerson a Los Angeles-bound airliner on Wednesday, avia-tion authorities said.

The suspect, whose name was not given, was ar-rested when Delta Flight 110 landed at Los AngelesInternational Airport on Wednesday morning, saidAlbert Rodriguez of Los Angeles World Airports.

“The passenger is reported to have made a threataboard the plane, and was subdued by (other) passen-gers,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said the man was handed to FBI agentsand Los Angeles Airport Police for investigation.

Passenger Bruce Worrilow told Fox TV that he andhis wife were aboard the airplane when the man“jumped up and started running ...(and) yelled ‘I’vegot a bomb’.”—Internet

CHICAGO, 8 Jan—Fire-fighters say they havefound three young sib-lings dead in an apartmentbuilding that caught fireon Chicago’s southeastside.

Fire Department spokes-woman Eve Rod-riguezsays the bodies of 7-month-old Jimmy Gates,2-year-old Tyrell Gatesand 3-year-old SharellGates were found Wed-nesday on the top floor ofa three-story building.

Officials were investi-gating possible causes,including the misuse of aspace heater.

A 4-year-old boyfound on the second floorwas hospitalized in seri-ous condition.

Rodriguez says themother of the childrenwas outside the buildingwhen firefighters arrived.

Neighbors say theyheard the childrenscreaming but couldn’treach them because of theheavy smoke.

Internet

Chicago fire killsthree children; one

sibling rescued

SAN FRANCISCO, 8 Jan—Six veterans who say theywere exposed to dangerous chemicals, germs andmind-altering drugs during Cold War-era experimentsfiled a federal lawsuit against the CIA, Department ofDefence and other agencies Wednesday.

The veterans say they volunteered for military ex-periments as part of a wide-ranging program startedin the 1950s to test nerve agents, biological weaponsand mind-control techniques, but were not properlyinformed of the nature of the experiments.

They blame the experiments for poor health andare demanding the government provide their healthcare. They also want the court to rule that the programwas illegal because its administrators failed to get theirconsent.—Internet

Vets sue CIA, DoD over militaryexperiments

NY man demands estrangedwife pay him for kidney

scaled-down zeppelins, the Russiancompany RosAeroSistemy is planingto realize the ideas of the rocket scientist- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The Russianpioneer of space theory predicted thatairships with hard shells could be highlyreliable and maneuverable once the righttechnology was developed.

The DT-N1 (Dirizhabl (zeppelin)Tsiolkovsky - 1) project is about buildingan airship 268 meters long, 64 meterswide, capable of carrying a 180-tonnecargo. Its maximum speed willbe 179 km/h, with a cruising speed of120 km/h. It will have a range of5,000km.

The airship’s all-metal body willhave a total volume of 400,000 cubicmeters.

NEWS ALBUM Zeppelins set for comeback

A Long Island surgeon embroiledin a nearly four-year divorce proceedingwants his estranged wife to return thekidney he donated to her, although hesays he'll settle for $1.5 million incompensation.

Dr. Richard Batista, a surgeon atNassau University Medical Center, toldreporters at his lawyer's Long Islandoffice Wednesday that he decided to go

public with his demand for kidneycompensation because he has grownfrustrated with the negotiations with hisestranged wife. He claimed he has beenprevented from seeing their children,ages, 8, 11 and 14, for months at a time.

He said he gave his kidney toDawnell Batista, now 44, in June 2001.

She filed for divorce in July 2005,although he claims she began having anextramarital affair 18 months to twoyears after receiving the kidneytransplant, his attorney, Dominick

Barbara said.Douglas Rothkopf, the attorney

representing Dawnell Batista, did notreturn telephone calls seeking comment.

Matrimonial attorneys were quickto shoot down any possibility Batistawould succeed.

“I’ve been in this business over 40years and I’ve never heard of that,” saidSeymour J. Reisman, a Long Islanddivorce lawyer. “It’s not maritalproperty, not a marital asset you can puta price tag on.”

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NAY PYI TAW, 8 Jan—The following are messages of felicitations from foreign Heads of State sent to Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peaceand Development Council, on the occasion of the 61st Anniversary of Independence Day of the Union of Myanmar.

Foreign Heads of State send felicitationsto Senior General Than Shwe

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Jan—The following is the messageof felicitations sent from President Felipe CalderonHinojosa of the United Mexican States to GeneralThein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar,on the occasion of the 61st Anniversary of IndependenceDay of the Union of Myanmar.

On behalf of the people and the Government ofMexico, I have the high honour to convey to YourExcellency, my warmest regards on the occasion of

From President H.E. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa ofthe United Mexican States

It is an honour to convey to Your Excellency,on behalf of the people and the Government ofMexico, our warmest regards on the occasion of theIndependence Day of the Union of Myanmar.

I would like to take this opportunity to ratify

my will to continue strengthening in every area theBilateral Relations between the Union of Myanmarand Mexico.

Wishing for your personal well-being and theprosperity of the people and the Government of theUnion of Myanmar, I avail myself of this opportunityto renew to Your Excellency, the assurances of my

highest consideration.From His Majesty King Mohammed VI of theMoroccoExcellency,

As the Union of Myanmar celebrates itsIndependence Day, it gives me great pleasure toextend my heartfelt congratulations to YourExcellency, along with my best wishes to you forgood health and happiness, and to the Myanmarpeople for continued progress and prosperity.

I should like to take this opportunity to tell youhow keen I am to continue working with you toconsolidate the ties of friendship and cooperationbetween our countries, for the mutual benefit of ourpeoples.

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Mexican President sends felicitationsto Myanmar Prime Minister

the Independence Day of your Country.I am firmly convinced that our Bilateral Relations,

characterized by the friendship, dialog and cooperation,will continue developing toward the benefit of ourNations.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew toYour Excellency, the assurances of my highestconsideration.

MNA

YANGON, 8 Jan—Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung received

Forestry Minister receives Executive Directorof ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

Executive Director MrRodrigo Urdaneta Fuentesand party of ASEAN

Centre for Biodiversity-ACB) at the ministry, here,this morning.—MNA

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung

receives Executive Director Mr Rodrigo

Urdaneta Fuentes and party of ASEAN

Centre for Biodiversity-ACB)—MNA

UNITED NATIONS, 8Jan—The United Nationshuman rights agency hasurged Nepal's governmentto search for girls whowent missing after theirparents sold them intodomestic service, andurged an end to thepractice.

Traditionally girls asyoung as six or seven fromthe ethnic Tharucommunity in five districtsof west Nepal have beensent to work with familiesin towns and cities for aslittle as 1,500 Nepalirupees ($20).

The girls, known as"kamalaris" or indenturedlabourers, are often taken

UN urges Nepal to search formissing slave girls

MOGADISHU, 8 Jan—Gunmen killed a UNWorld Food Programme(WFP) worker onThursday as his teamdistributed aid inSomalia's anarchic capitalMogadishu, the secondstaff member murderedthis week.

Resident HalimaAhmed told Reuters theattackers struck as the

Gunmen shoot editor of Sri Lankan opposition paperCOLOMBO, 8 Jan—An

unidentified gunman on amotorbike shot the editorof a newspaper that hasbeen highly critical of theSri Lankan government onThursday, leaving him incritical condition with headinjuries.

Sunday Leader ChiefEditor Lasantha Wickra-matunga was in a car onhis way to work when hewas attacked, Wickrama-

tunga's brother Lal said.“The gunman

smashed the window ofthe vehicle and shot athim," Lal Wickramatungatold Reuters.

Doctors said he was incritical condition and wasbeing resuscitated beforebeing transferred to thetrauma unit at ColomboNational Hospital. Policespokesman SeniorSuperintendent of Police

Ranjith Gunasekara saidthe attack was beinginvestigated.

The Sunday Leaderhas been locked in a courtbattle with the president'sbrother, Defence SecretaryGotabaya Rajapaksa, overstories it published allegingcorruption in defenceprocurement. Rajapaksahas denied anywrongdoing.

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away by middlemen andmade to work for about 20hours a day without pay.

Although thegovernment abolished thepractice eight years agoand charities have rescuedabout 5,000 girls, activistssay thousands of girls arestill illegally employed.

"Parents send theirdaughters to be kamalarisas a last resort when theyare under extremepressure to settle debts;many of them end up beingtrafficked," RichardBennett, from the U.N.High Commission forHuman Rights in Nepal,said late on Wednesday.

"I urge the

government to takeconcrete steps to prohibitthis practice, search for themissing kamalaris, andprovide for rehabilitationto those who have beenvictims of this practice."

Hundreds of girls,rescued after working asindentured labourers foryears, began protests inKathmandu this weekdemanding education,training and jobs.

They want thegovernment to determinethe fate of the missinggirls, and seek justice forthose who suffered sexualexploitation, torture, rapeand other abuses.

Reuters

WFP aid worker killed, his carhijacked in Somalia

WFP team handed outsupplies in the area, whichis 10 kms (6 miles) northof the city.

"They opened fire andhijacked the official's carafter killing him. They alsotook guns from hisbodyguards," she said.

Hijacking cars arecommon in Somalia.

"Gunmen shot andkilled a staff member, the

second in three days, asthey carried out fooddistribution at Daynile,"said Peter Smerdon,WFP spokesman inKenya.

A WFP food monitorwas shot dead on Tuesdayby masked gunmen at aschool near a town in thesouthwestern region ofGedo.

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 9 January, 2009

All citizens must steadfastly uphold “Our Three Main National Causes”…

After assuming the responsibilities of the State, theTatmadaw has systematically implemented the infrastruc-tures projects in every corner of the country including theborder areas for the human resource development and thedevelopment of the State.

(from page 1)There will also be op-

portunities for outstandinggraduates to continue theirfurther studies for Doctor-ates. In this connection, Iwould, first of all, like tourge you to do your utmostbearing in mind andfulfillment of the objec-tives of the Mother Insti-tute.Comrades,

If I may expound OurThree Main NationalCauses, namely Non-dis-integration of the Union,Non-disintegration of na-tional solidarity and Per-petuation of Sovereignty,these causes have beenour national responsibili-ties handed down by thehistory. You would havelearnt bitter lessons froma number of world events,in which certain Stateshave become weaker af-ter disintegration of theirunion owing to the exter-

nal intervention in themidst of their conflictsresulting from the disin-tegration of national unityas well as those whichhave become puppet gov-ernments after losing theirsovereignty.Comrades,

If we look back to theorigin of our national races,there were bodies of evi-dences which showed thathuman races have inhab-ited in our country since 40million years ago. How-ever, complex geographi-cal location hindering com-munication, divergence ofclimates has resulted inemergence of various lan-guages, and diverse cos-tumes, cultures, customs,and traditions and this hasled to the emergence ofmore than a hundred na-tional races.

However, our nationalbrethren, like a myriad offruits stemming from a sin-

their divide-and-rulepolicy, resulting in separa-tist mentalities creepinginto their minds since thecolonial time. This is why,as you all are aware, ourindependence was re-gained only after forgingnational unity throughpainstaking efforts.Comrades,

However, as nationalunity was not fully con-solidated even after regain-ing independence, armedinsurgencies mushroomedaccompanying the inde-pendence.

National developmentefforts were not able to becarried out as armed insur-

gencies were rampantthroughout the country.Development projectswere done in vain as theroads, bridges and schoolsconstructed were de-stroyed by the insurgents.Education and health lev-els of the national races inthe remote border areaswere seriously affected asthe staff in these sectorswere quite reluctant toserve in the border regionsfor lack of security there.This is why the human re-source development of theState lagged behind tosome extent.Comrades,

After assuming theresponsibilities of theState, the Tatmadaw hassystematically imple-mented the infrastructures

(See page 9)

gle stalk, have lived inunity through weal or woe,with wisdom taught byblood relations. They havebeen moving around fortheir livelihood in thecountry as freely as theydesire. In this way, ournational brethren have in-habited the length andbreadth of the countrymaintaining theundividable unity and soli-darity. Notwithstandingtheir cohesiveness, seedsof discord were sowedamong our national breth-ren by colonialists and co-lonial historians through

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye takes the salute of the DSINPS companies.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye presentsExcellence in Training Award to Trainee

Naing Naing.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye presentsExcellence in Study Award to Trainee

Chit Ko Ko Win.—MNA

Distinguished guests seen at Graduation Parade of Sixth Intake of Defence Services Institute ofNursing and Paramedical Science.—MNA

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the duties of medical carein the battlefields, you musthave the spirit of goodTatmadawmen to learncombat experience will-ingly.Comrades,

To become a goodTatmadawmen, you muststrictly observe the codesof conduct of theTatmadawmen. Similarly,you must have the five ba-sic qualities such as spirit,discipline, loyalty, unityand three capabilitieswhich are of necessary re-quirements for each armedforce and Tatmadawman.You must also have thedesire to carry on the twelvetraditions of the Tatmadaw.In this way, you will beable to fully serve threemajor responsibilities ofthe Tatmadaw, namely tocombat, to undergo train-ing and to carry out nation-building task for the peo-ple.

Similarly, in your pri-mary duties of medicalcare, you have to keeprecords of significant ex-periences. In encounter-ing some difficulties in thefield, you have to learnfrom experts. In addition,your have to provide con-tinuous medical care toeach and individualTatmadawman, their fam-ily members, and the pub-lic by systematically keep-ing their health records.Comrades,

Today, the Tatmadawhas exerted relentless ef-forts for the simultaneousdevelopment of the whole

All citizens must steadfastly uphold “OurThree Main National Causes”…

(from page 8)projects in every corner ofthe country including theborder areas for the humanresource development andthe development of theState. The Tatmadaw’s re-lentless efforts for the na-tional reconciliation haveachieved significant im-provements. As of now, 17major national race armedgroups and many smallsplintered groups have re-turned to the legal fold andhave been working to-gether with the TatmadawGovernment for the devel-opment of their respectiveregions. Therefore, all thenational races nowadaysare enjoying the fruits ofpeace and stability.

In order to avoid re-currence of the bitter ex-periences of the past, allthe citizens of the Statemust steadfastly uphold“Our Three Main NationalCauses” as a nationalpolicy.

Comrades,Let me continue to

touch upon the physicaland mental prowess. Thesetwin capabilities are quali-ties that must be acquiredand exist together. As pa-triotic Tatmadawmen, youmust have physicalstrength and military

knowledge to be able tosafeguard the State. Like-wise, you must also havecourage, bravery andstrong will to crush yourenemies. You can carryout your duties well in thebattlefield with your medi-cal knowledge and exper-tise. Likewise, if required,

you must be able to com-mand your troops to com-bat and to defeat your en-emy. Therefore, you willbe given further trainingsuch as Platoon Com-mander Course, CompanyCommander Course andCommanding OfficerCourse in compatible withthe respective ranks.Comrades,

There have been manyfine examples of the mem-bers of the TatmadawMedical Corps who werehonoured for their distin-guished bravery and sacri-fice in the battlefields sincethe pre-independence pe-riod. As you have alreadycommitted to sacrifice thelives and limbs for thecountry, you must have theright attitude in demon-strating your courage tosacrifice your life. As youmust work hand in handwith the infantry troops for

country by laying downThree Special Projects.They are Project for theDevelopment of BorderAreas and National Races,Project for Developmentof Special Regions andProject for Developmentof the Rural Areas. Whileserving duties at the as-signed places, you willhave to take care of thehealth and well-being ofthe public in order to con-tribute to the success ofthe health sector of thethree special developmentprojects.Comrades,

In conclusion, I wishto urge you to- Protect “Our Three

Main NationalCauses” by sacrific-ing your own lives,

- Try to become aTatmadawman withsound physical andmental prowess,

- Strictly observe thecodes of conduct ofthe Tatmadawmen,

- Try to be endowed withthe five basic qualitieswhich are essential re-quirements for everyarmed force andTatmadawman,

- Try to acquire muchbattlefield experience,

- Serve the interests ofthe people by partici-pating in the develop-ment activities of theState, and

- Continue your furtherstudy in nursing andpharmacology to be-come specialists.

MNA

Distinguished guests seen at Graduation Parade of Sixth Intake ofDefence Services Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Science.

MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye cordially meets with three outstanding trainees of Sixth Intake of Defence Services Institute of Nursing andParamedical Science and their parents at the main lecture hall of the Defence Services Medical Academy.—MNA

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 9 January, 2009

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Jan – The graduation dinner of the6th Intake of Defence Services Institute of Nursing andParamedical Science was held at the auditorium ofConvocation Hall of Defence Services Medical Acad-emy in Yangon this evening, attended by Vice-Chair-man of the State Peace and Development CouncilDeputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye.

Present also were Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Quartermaster-General Lt-GenThiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo; SPDC members Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win, Lt-Gen Maung Boand Lt-Gen Aung Htwe; SPDC member Lt-Gen TinAye of the Ministry of Defence, Commander-in-Chief(Navy) Rear-Admiral Nyan Tun and Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein; Maj-Gen Ohn Myint,Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, Lt-Gen Tha Aye, Lt-GenMyint Swe and Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of the Ministry ofDefence; Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thura Myint Aung,Defence Services Inspector-General Maj-Gen TheinHtaik, Military Appointment-General Maj-Gen HsanHsint and Judge Advocate-General Maj-Gen SoeMaung; Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing and Lt-Gen Ye Myint ofthe Ministry of Defence; Chief of Armed Forces Train-ing Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win; Commander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen Win Myint; the ministers, seniormilitary officers, the Yangon mayor, the deputy minis-ters, officials of SPDC Office and departmental heads,the commandant of DSMA, the rector of the institute,advisers, the professors and heads of departments, thefaculty members and trainees and their parents and

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye attendsgraduation dinner of 6th Intake of DSINPS

Victorious Mon State Myanma TraditionalBoxing and Women’s Judo teams honoured

relatives.After the graduation dinner, artists of Myawady

YANGON, 8 Jan – Aceremony to honour vic-torious Mon StateMyanma Traditional Box-ing team and women’sJudo team who won in 10th

State/Division MyanmaTraditional Boxing Com-petition and 13th State/Di-vision Women’s JudoEvent was held atRamanya hall of MonState PDC Office, at-tended by Chairman of

Mon State Peace and De-velopment Council Com-mander of South-EastCommand Maj-Gen ThetNaing Win.

U Kyaung Thar, coachof traditional boxing team,and U Myo Win Yu, teamleader of women’s Judoteam, gave accounts oftheir experiences.

Next, Chairman ofMon State Myanma Tra-ditional Boxing subcom-

mittee Director of MonState Forest DepartmentU Thaung Tin and Chair-man of Mon State Judosubcommittee Deputy Di-rector U Moe Myint ofMon State Transport De-partment handed overChampionship Shields tothe commander.

Afterwards, the com-mander and officials pre-sented prizes to athletes ofvictorious teams.—MNA

(from page 16)Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye took the sa-lute of the trainee compa-nies and inspected them.

The graduationtrainee companiesmarched past Vice-Sen-ior General Maung Aye.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye presentedBest Trainee Award toTrainee Sit Myat Htet, Ex-cellence in TrainingAward to Trainee NaingNaing and Excellence inStudy Award to TraineeChit Ko Ko Win.

Afterwards, Vice-Senior General MaungAye left the paradeground.

After the graduationparade, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye met withthree outstanding traineesand their parents at thehall of the main lecturehall of the DSMA.

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Vice-SeniorGeneralMaung Ayeattends…

YANGON, 8 Jan—Aceremony to open prod-ucts show preliminary tothe Annual General Meet-ing (2008) of MyanmarEngineering Society washeld in front of MES build-ing in Hline Campus herethis morning. It was at-tended by Deputy Minis-ter for Construction Brig-Gen Myint Thein, DeputyMinister for Rail Trans-portation Thura U ThaungLwin, Deputy Minister forElectric Power No.2 Brig-Gen Win Myint, Commis-sioner Mr Rocky H.T

Wong of ASEAN Federa-tion of Engineering Or-ganizations, Chairman ofMES U Than Myint andmembers of Central Com-mittee, members andguests.

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Myint Thein, Com-missioner Mr Rocky H.TWony and MES ChairmanU Than Myint opened theproducts show by cuttingthe ribbon and viewed thebooths.

Afterwards, Chair-man U Than Myint madea greeting speech at re-search and engineeringpaper reading session pre-liminary to the AGM(2008), held at the hall ofMES. Resource personsread out the papers.

The paper reading ses-sion will be held up to 9January and the productshow up to 11 January.Interested persons mayvisit the show and theAGM 2008 will be heldon 10 January.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye attends graduation dinner of Sixth Intake of Defence ServicesInstitute of Nursing and Paramedical Science at auditorium of Convocation Hall of DSMA.—MNA

Deputy MinisterBrig-Gen Myint Thein,

CommissionerMr Rocky H.T Wongof ASEAN Federation

of EngineeringOrganizatons and MES

Chairman U ThanMyint open productsshow preliminary tothe Annual General

Meeting-2008 of MES.MNA

Music Band and Myanmar Music Asiayon and MyawadyAnyeint Troupe performed entertainments.—MNA

Myanmar Engineering Society holdsproducts show and paper reading session

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Plywood Factory of Myeik creating jobs for local peopleArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)

Timber logs being lifted by crane for making plywood.

Plywood sheets being produced from timber logs with the use of heavy machinery.

Plywood for export seen at a warehouse.

Taninthayi Divisionis earning foreignexchange by exportingaquatic and forestproducts.

Since few days, thenews crew of the MyanmaAlin Daily has been inMyeik of TaninthayiDivision to cover thedevelopment of Myeik.Recently, members of thenews crew visited MyeikPlywood Company Ltd inMyeik.

The plywood factoryof the company is locatedin Myeik South Ward inMyeik. In the eveningwhen the news team

arrived at the factory,sheets of plywood werebeing produced.

The building of thefactory is a large one.We, members of thenews team, witnessed thelifting of logs by cranefrom a creek near thefactory, the cutting oflogs and the process ofmaking plywood. Theplywood makingmachine made in India isworth K 1,000 millionand US$ 600,000.

In-charge of thefactory U Hla Myaingexplained, “Our plywoodcompany is carrying outthe tasks in accord withthe rules and regulationsof the Forest Law.

Our factory isexporting 200 tons ofplywood to India monthly.Moreover, the factory isproducing the plywood tosupply the demand of themarket. Depending on theprofits, we paid the tax inforeign exchange to theState.”

He added, “Further-more, thanks toestablishment of the

factory, jobs could becreated for 120 localpeople. In 2004-2005financial year, the factorystarted the production ofplywood.

“We receive neces-sary raw materials for thefactory from the protectedpublic forests in Bokpyinand Kyunsu townships inline with the rules andregulations of the ForestLaw.”

The plywood can beproduced from Kanyin tree

(Dipterocarpus alatus).At present, the factory

is manufacturing varioussizes of plywood such as& feet by 4 feet, 7 feet by4 feet, 7 feet by 4 feet, 6feet by 4 feet, 8 feet by 3feet, 7 feet by 3 feet and 6feet by 2 feet.

According to theinformation from the in-charge of the factory, a planis under way to makeadvanced plywoodproducts soon.

For ensuring theemergence of a modernand developed nation, thegovernment is givingpriority to development ofthe private economicsector.

“Development of theeconomy invitingparticipation in terms oftechnical know-how andinvestments fromsources inside thecountry and abroad” isone of the EconomicObjectives of the State.

The collaborationbetween the State-ownedindustries and the private-run businesses in theState’s economicinfrastructure willcontribute much to theeconomic developmentof the nation.

*****Translation: TTA

Myanma Alin: 3-1-2009

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 9 January, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI MAJESTIC VOY NO (-)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI MAJES-TIC VOY NO ( - ) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 9.1.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie atthe 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 GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SUPA BHUM VOY NO (123)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SUPA BHUMVOY NO (123) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 9.1.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm 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 REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Woman burned to death forpracticing witchcraft

HIGHLANDS , 8 Jan — Ayoung Papua New Guineawoman was burned todeath in what authoritiesfear is the latest witchcraftkilling in the remote andlawless interior of thecountry. The woman, be-lieved to be between 16and 20 years old, wasstripped naked, gaggedand tied to a truck loadedwith firewood— whichwas driven to a town dumpand doused with gasoline— before being set aflame,

according to witnesseswho saw the act nearMount Hagen in the West-ern Highlands.

“The girl was strippednaked and could not shoutfor assistance or resist asshe was tightly strappedand her mouth gagged,”Jessie James, a man whosaw the girl’s death, toldthe local Post CourierMail.”I don’t know theright words to describe itbut it’s barbaric. Can youfind the best words to de-

scribe such acts that arerampant here?” said High-lands police chief SimonKauba.

PNG police believe thegirl was either accused ofbeing a witch or that shehad been blamed for in-fecting one of her killerswith HIV/AIDS, both ofwhich are punished by thedeath penalty by the jun-gle justice practiced by theindigenous communitiesof the Highlands.

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Canadian chargedin cousin’s 1970 deathKIRKLAND LAKE, 8 Jan—It took them 38 years, but

police say they have solved the mystery of a 12-year-old Canadian girl’s disappearance, charging her cousinwith murder. Ontario provincial police said onWednesday that Barry Vincent Manion, 60, has beencharged with kidnapping and first-degree murder inthe 1970 disappearance of his cousin, Katherine MayWilson of Kirkland Lake, the Canadian BroadcastingCorp. reported.Manion will appear in court inHaileybury, near Kirkland Lake, Friday, the CBC said.

Wilson vanished while walking home from a gasstation convenience store about 5 pm, shortly after talk-ing by phone with her mother, who sent her two sis-ters to meet her half way.Despite weeks of searching,her body has never been found.The CBC said authori-ties have not divulged how they broke the case. Butfor Wilson’s mother, Manion’s arrest brought relief.

“Now we’ll have some closure,” an emotional AlineWilson said. “It’s been a long time not knowing.”

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Northeast, Northwest endure stormsNEW YORK, 8 Jan—Twin storms are making it miserable in the United

States’ Northwest and Northeast.AccuWeather com reported a nasty mixof snow, ice and rain over much of the Northeast Wednesday night. Thestorm was delaying travelers both on the ground and in the air from theGreat Lakes to the mid-Atlantic, New England and north into Canada,AccuWeather meteorologists said.Up to one-half inch of ice coated treesand power lines in parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New England. TheThursday morning commute potentially could be brutal with slush and blackice possible from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia and New Yorkup to Boston.The wintry mess is expected to continue into Friday.Meanwhile,snow was expected to spread eastward across the northern Plains and moreprecipitation could trigger flooding in the Northwest. Internet

Lottery ‘misprints’ costman $135,000

TORONTO, 8 Jan—A Toronto-area man who won$135,000 on four scratch-off lottery tickets has beentold they were printing mistakes, and he won’t be giventhe prizes.Thomas Noftall, 27, told the Toronto Sunhe scratched the four tickets on New Years’s Eve andwas ecstatic to see his winnings.

He contacted the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corpin Toronto by telephone, and a claims representativesaid he would be paid, but that he had to come to thelottery headquarters, the Sun said.That’s whenNoftall’s luck turned sour.

“One guy pulled me into his office and said, ‘Be-tween me and you, they’re going to void your tickets.They’re not going to pay,’” Noftall told thenewspaper.A lottery spokesman told the Sun there were1,000 misprinted tickets distributed throughout theprovince.

Noftall didn’t disclose his intentions concerning thetickets.”I’ve gone from the highest of highs to the low-est of lows in the past few days,” he said. —Internet

A security guard smiles

as he stands watch at

Central Market in

Phnom Penh, Cambo-

dia on 8 Jan , 2009.

The market, which

features an art-deco

style building, has

been serving the

Cambodian capital

since 1935.—INTERNET

Mexican soldiers and policeexamine a car related to an at-tack on the offices of broad-caster Grupo Televisa inMonterrey city, Mexico, on 7Jan, 2009.Gunmen threw agrenade and opened fire out-side the television news stationduring its evening broadcastin Mexico on Tuesday and lefta message warning journalistsfrom reporting on drug war

violence.—INTERNET

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International experts probe intopig virus in Philippines

The manly ferry passes behind the 100 percent biodiesel, 100 percent carbonneutral Earthrace at Manly wharf in Sydney, Australia, on 8 Jan , 2009.

Earthrace smashed the round-the-world record by almost 14 days, completingalmost 24,000 nautical miles in just 60 days 23 hours and 49 minutes.

Earthrace is a 24-metre (78-foot) tri-hull wavepiercer that has been designedand built specifically to get the record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the

globe.—INTERNET

MANILA, 8 Jan.— Ateam of international ex-perts are investigating theEbola Reston virus foundin pigs at two farms in thenorthern Philippines, theWorld Health Organiza-tion (WHO) said on Thurs-day.

Experts from theUnited Nations Food andAgriculture Organization,the World Organization forAnimal Health and theWorld Health Organiza-tion are now working withtheir Philippines counter-parts “to address, throughfield and laboratory inves-tigation, important ques-

tions as to the source of thevirus, its transmission, itsvirulence and its naturalhabitat, in order to provideappropriate guidance foranimal and human healthprotection,” according to astatement released by theManila-based WHO West-ern Pacific RegionalOffice.This is the first timethat the virus has beenfound outside monkeys,and the first time ever,worldwide, that it has beenfound in swine, a food-producing animal.

The joint mission willlast ten days and testingresults will come out

weeks later, said Caroline-Anne Coulombe, a techni-cal officer of WHO, in aphone interview.

Meanwhile, WHO saidthat it remains safe to con-sume pork meat, as long asit is purchased in accred-ited outlets and it is han-dled and cooked properly.Meat from suspect pigs,sick pigs or pigs founddead, should not be eatennor fed to other animals,and proper hygiene pre-cautions and protectionshould be taken to disposeof sick or dead pigs, healthexperts warned the pub-lic.—Internet

A great white shark is prepared for dissection byClinton Duffy from the Department of Conservation(DOC) at the Auckland Museum in Auckland, NewZealand, on 8 Jan, 2009. During the autopsy, DOCworkers looked at the shark's stomach contents andmeasured its internal organs which was broadcast to

over ten million people on the internet. The sharkdied accidentally after being entangled in a gill net

last week.—INTERNET

Sudden veer tookjetliner into field

Thousands evacuatedahead of wildfire

BOULDER, 8 Jan — Two wildfires whipped by windsapproaching 75 mph on Wednesday forced theevacuation of more than 11,000 homes near Boulder,Colo, authorities said.Cmdr Phil West of the BoulderCounty Sheriff’s Department said the evacuation linewas within a half-mile of the north side of the city, TheDenver Post reported.

West said firefighters couldn’t stop the fires so wereconcentrating on protecting structures.“Firefightersare having severe wind issues,” said Steve Segin, apublic information officer for the Rocky MountainArea Coordination Center.

“Strong winds can really push the fire along andmakes it difficult to fight.”Volunteers and first-responders were trying to rescue 100 horses at theGreen Tree Equine Facility, the Post reported.

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DENVER, 8 Jan — Ajetliner that roared intoa field on takeoff in Denverlast month veered suddenlyoff the runway despitethe pilot’s efforts, areport issued on Wed-nesday said.The NationalTransportation SafetyBoard investigatorsreported the ContinentalAirlines Boeing 737-500“suddenly diverged to theleft” while taking off 20Dec at Denver InternationalAirport, The Denver Postreported.

“Attempts to correct thedeviation with the rudderwere unsuccessful,” thereport stated.The incidentleft 38 of the 110 passengersand five crew membersinjured. All those hurt arenow out of the hospital, thePost reported.The reportwent on to say the veteranpilot briefly tried to turn the

aircraft back to the centerof the runway with his tillerbut was unable to controlit.The jetliner, speeding atmore than 100 mph,traveled 2,300 feet across asnow-covered field,bounced through a gully andwent over an airporttaxiway and raised airportservice road beforestopping. It then burst intoflames, the NTSBreported.Crosswinds wereat least 31 mph just prior totakeoff and may havegusted higher. —Internet

Everest trip helps critically illLONDON , 8 Jan — The

lessons learned by medicsfrom a trip to Everest couldhelp the treatment ofcritically ill patients.Theteam that braved theHimalayan summit to studythe body’s responses toextreme adversity has

recorded the lowest everhuman blood oxygenlevel.The results could seetreatment plans for somepatients with similarly lowblood oxygen levels re-evaluated.

The “Caudwell XtremeEverest” work has been

published in the NewEngland Journal ofMedicine.The blood rea-dings established what haslong been suspected — thathigh-altitude climbers haveincredibly low levels ofoxygen in their blood,which at sea-level wouldonly be seen in patientsclose to death.The averagearterial oxygen level was3.28 kilopascals or kPa -the lowest was 2.55 kPa.

The normal value inhumans is 12-14 kPa andpatients with a level below8 kPa are consideredcritically ill.Expeditionleader Dr Mike Grocottsaid: “We rarely see below6 kPa in our patients.”

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Workers sprinkle sand to prevent vehicles fromskidding on a slippery snow-covered road in

Miaowangpo, Guizhou Province, on 7 Jan, 2009.INTERNET

Twelve dead as winterweather freezes Europe

WARSAW , 8 Jan — Ablast of frigid weather hasclaimed up to a dozen livesin Europe as temperaturestumbled below freezingovernight in what weatherofficials today dubbedthe coldest night ofwinter.Polish police said thelatest victims who froze todeath yesterday included a68-year-old homeless manfound in an abandonedhouse in the southeast townof Jozefow, and a 51-year-old man who lived alone incentral Eligiow and died afew steps away from hishome.

Five other deaths acrossEurope have also been

blamed on the harsh blastof wintry weather,including that of a man inMilan who died when acanopy collapsed on himunder the weight ofsnowfall.Temperatures inPoland dropped as low as -25deg Celsius.According toInterior Ministry data,hypothermia has beenblamed for 76 deaths inPoland since November2008.Snowfalls disruptedair traffic across Europe,shutting down airports inItaly for several hours andparalysing TGV high-speedtrains in France.Milan’s twoairports Malpensa andLinate, as well as theairports in Turin andBergamo, were closed allmorning after snow reachedup to 30 cm.

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S P O R T S

DERBY, 8 Jan — AlexFerguson said Manches-ter United were lucky tostill be on course for fivetrophies this season aftertheir shock 1-0 LeagueCup semi-final, first legdefeat against DerbyCounty.

The Manchester

Lucky United still on course forfive football trophies: Ferguson

Ferguson said Unitedwere lucky to still be oncourse for five trophiesthis season after their

shock 1-0 defeat againstDerby.—INTERNET

United manager was pun-ished by the side languish-ing 18th in the Champion-ship for fielding a vastly-weakened side, with onlySerbian Nemanja Vidicand Paul Scholes begin-ning the game decided byKris Commons' wonder-ful 30th minute goal.

Ferguson clearly hadone eye on Sunday's cru-cial Premier League meet-ing with rivals Chelsea atOld Trafford and that waspart of his team thinkingbut even the 60th minutedouble substitution ofCristiano Ronaldo andWayne Rooney could notprevent overwhelming fa-vourites United from slip-ping to their fourth defeatof the season against theside that was relegatedfrom the Premier Leagueeight months ago with 11points, the worst total everrecorded.

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LONDON , 8 Jan —Harry Redknapp hopes tofollow his swoop forJermain Defoe with a hostof new signings to bolsterTottenham’s bid for cupglory.Redknapp's LeagueCup holders movedwithin touching distanceof a second successive fi-nal appearance by thrash-ing Burnley 4-1 in thesemi-final first leg atWhite Hart Lane on Tues-day. But despite the one-sided nature of thescoreline, Tottenhamwere totally outplayed bytheir Championship op-ponents in the first half

Redknapp plans to followDefoe swoop with more deals

Tottenham’s EnglishStriker Jermaine Defoe.

and Redknapp is moreconvinced than ever thatnew recruits are needed tocontinue the north Londonclub’s recentrevival.Redknapp has tiedup a deal to bring Defoeback to Spurs from Port-smouth in a 15 millionpounds transfer wortharound 60,000 pounds aweek to the Englandstriker.But the Spurs bossis desperate to add someexperience to the squad heinherited from JuandeRamos.

“It’s been a badly bal-anced, badly put-togethersquad from day one,”Redknapp said. “I’d liketo get three or four decentplayers in. I think we needthem. There are someyoung players here andthere’s a bit of experienceand know-how missing attimes.”I’m having a lookat Stephen Appiah. Iwatched him six or seventimes when he was play-ing for Ghana butJuventus wouldn’t sell.

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LONDON , 8 Jan — Co-lombian internationalstriker Hugo Rodallegalooks set to sign for Pre-miership side Wigan Ath-letic and provoke morespeculation surroundingthe futures of Senegal'sHenri Camara and Eng-land international EmileHeskey.

The 23-year-old Co-lombian will cost Wigan4.5 million pounds fromMexican side Necaxa, for

Colombian interna-tional striker Hugo

Rodallega, seen here in2008, looks set to signfor Premiership side

Wigan Athletic.INTERNET

Wigan poised to signColombian striker

whom he scored 15 timesin 36 appearances last sea-son, should he be granteda work permit nextweek.Wigan managerSteve Bruce said that theclub would be securingthe talents of an out andout scorer.“He’s fast,about 6ft 1in, he’s good inthe air, rangy rather thanthick-set, can score a goal- just a genuine all-roundstriker,” said Bruce.

Rodallega said he wasprepared for the challengeof a totally different styleof football.“They (Wigan)have a very similar styleto all the teams there —fast, strong, tough,” hesaid. “Considering what Ihave and what I am goingto learn, I will get to ateam with a lot ofambition.I think you canadapt yourself to all theleagues. If the Englishleague is not the best inthe world, it is one of thebest. It is a big challengeto me and I am mentallyprepared.”—Internet

BRISBANE, 8 Jan — Amelie Mauresmo showed shewas still a force to be reckoned with as she thumpedtop seed Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-2 in the quarter-finals ofthe Brisbane International.Mauresmo, the world No 23,took just 67 minutes to down the fifth-ranked Ivanovic,who struggled through the first two rounds of the tour-nament and looked completely out of touch againstthe 29-year-old Frenchwoman.

The win was Mauresmo's first over a top 10 playersince she beat Kim Clijsters in Antwerp in 2007 andsets up a semi-final against either her fellowcountrywoman Marion Bartoli or Italy’s TathianaGarbin.

Both Mauresmo and Ivanovic had marathon sec-ond round matches on Wednesday but Mauresmo, eightyears older than her Serbian opponent, looked thefresher of the two players.

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Amelie Mauresmo of France hits a backhandreturn in her victory over Ana Ivanovic of Serbia

in the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International,on 8 January. —INTERNET

Mauresmo still a force as sheousts Ivanovic at WTA Brisbane

PE RT H, 8 Jan —Slovakia advanced to afourth Hopman Cup fi-nal in dramatic circum-stances when Germany’sNicolas Kiefer collapsedon court with an ankleinjury and was taken offin a wheelchair.

Both teams were un-beaten going into the tie,but the much-antici-pated clash came to apremature end whenKiefer crashed downwith a twisted ankle inthe fifth game of his sin-gles clash with DominikHrbaty.

Slovakia won the tie3-0 after being awardedthe mixed doubles on awalkover.

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Nicolas Kiefer ofGermany retires fromthe court in a wheel-

chair after injuring hisankle against DominikHrbaty of the SlovakRepublic during their

singles match onSession 9 of the

Hopman Cup in Perth,on 8 January. Kiefer

was leading 3-1 gamesin the first set.

INTERNET

Slovakia into Hopman finalafter Kiefer injury collapse

Xerox Classic goes on hiatusfor lack of sponsor

ROCHESTER, 8 Jan— The Xerox Classic has beenleft off the Nationwide Tour schedule for 2009 afterthe corporate sponsor decided not to sign a newdeal.Xerox Corp. cited the harsh economic climatethat forced it to lay off 3,000 employees in October asreason for ending its sponsorship of the event.

Tournament director Don Jeffries of the RochesterBroadway Theater League, which ran the event andwas one of the benefiting charities, informed the PGATour that the tournament would have to go onhiatus.Jeffries said he'll continue to shop for a newtitle sponsor in hopes the event can return to the Na-tionwide Tour schedule in 2010.

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World number fourElena Dementieva

(seen here in Novem-ber) cruised into thelast four of the ASBClassic, defeatingIsrael's Shahar

Peer.—INTERNET

Dementieva through to WTAASB Classic semis

AUCKLAND, 8 Jan —World number four ElenaDementieva cruised intothe last four of the ASBClassic, defeating Israel'sShahar Peer who facedprotests over her country'smilitary offensive inGaza.The Russian Olym-pic champion and topseed had little trouble inwinning 6-3, 6-1, but Peerrefused to use the noisyprotest by about 20 peo-ple outside the tennis cen-tre as an excuse.

The 21-year-old saidshe had been unaffectedby the protest, whichended during the earlystages of the match, al-though Dementieva saidthe situation in Israel musthave affected Peer."I'msure it was a tough day forher because of the situa-

tion in her country,"Dementieva said."I'msure it was not easy toplay for her. I just knowshe can play better tennisnext week."

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin State, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divi-sions and generally fair in the remaining States and Divi-sions. Night temperatures were (3˚C) to (4˚C) below Janu-ary average temperatures in upper Sagaing and YangonDivisions, (5˚C) below January average temperatures inChin State, (3˚C) above January average temperatures inMon State and about January average temperatures in theremaining areas. The significant night temperatures wereHakha (-2˚C) , Loilem (1˚C), Namhsan (3˚C), Moekokand Pinlaung (4˚C) ecah.

Maximum temperature on 7-1-2009 was 92˚F.Minimum temperature on 8-1-2009 was 61˚F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-1-2009 was 67%.Total sunshine hours on 7-1-2009 was (9.1) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 8-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6)m.p.h from North at (09:30) hours MST on 8-1-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the South-west Bay and generally fair in the Andaman Sea andelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 9th January 2009:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin State, upperSagaing and Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair inthe remaining areas.

State of the sea: Strong easterly winds with moder-ate to rough sea are likely at time Gulf of Mottama ,off andalong Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed instrong easterly wind may reach (35) to (40) m.p.h. Seawill be slight to moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofisolated light rain in the extreme Northern Myanmar ar-eas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 9-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 9-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 9-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

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Icy Paris : A fountain is covered with ice and snow on Place de la Concorde,in Paris.—INTERNET

It takes two to know one: SharedExperiences change self-recognition

SCIENCE DAILY, 8 Jan— Looking at yourself inthe mirror every morning,you never think toquestion whether theperson you see is actuallyyou. You feel familiar—at home with your ownunique self image. Afterall, you have been sportingthe same old face for years.An innovative study byDr Manos Tsakiris,Department ofPsychology, RoyalHolloway, University ofLondon, challenges thiscommon-sense notionabout our own self image.

The study shows forthe first time that the imagewe hold of our own facecan actually changethrough sharedexperiences with otherpeople’s faces.

The study reveals thatrecognition of our ownface is not as consistent aswe might think. Theparticipants’ ability torecognise their own facechanged when theywatched the face ofanother person beingtouched at the same timeas their own face wastouched, as though they

were looking in a mirror.Specifically, when askedto recognize a picture oftheir own face, the picturethat people chose includedfeatures of the otherperson they hadpreviously seen. This didnot happen when the twofaces were touched out ofsynchrony. Sharing anexperience with anotherperson may change theperception we have of ourown self, such as therecognition of our ownface. “As a result of sharedexperiences, we tend toperceive other people as

being more similar to us,and this applies also to therecognition of our ownface. This process may beat the root of constructinga self-identity in a socialcontext,” says Dr Tsakiriswho led the study fundedby the Economic andSocial Research Council,UK.

The findings implythat shared experiencesmay influence the way weperceive ourselves andpossibly the way weinteract with others. DrTsakiris explains, “If I feelthat you are more like me,I might then behave to youin a different way. We nowtest whether sharedexperiences can make usstereotype others less, orchange our attitudestowards people ofdifferent social groups,race or gender.”

Research on self-recognition may also havea significant impact inunderstanding and helpingpeople with appearance-related concerns. Sharedsensory experiences mayease such concerns andprovide insights into themechanisms that causethem.

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* 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

Prime Minister congratulatesBangladeshi Counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Jan—General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sent amessage of congratulations to Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina, who has been elected as the Prime Ministerof the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye attendsGraduation Parade of 6th Intake of Defence Services

Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Science

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Jan—The Graduation Parade ofthe 6th Intake of DefenceServices Institute of Nurs-ing and Paramedical Sci-ence was held at the pa-rade ground of the De-fence Services MedicalAcademy in Yangon at7.30 a.m. today, with anaddress by Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief of De-fence Services Com-mander-in-Chief (Army)Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye.Also present on the

occasion were Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilQuartermaster-General Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo; SPDC mem-bers Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win, Lt-GenMaung Bo and Lt-GenAung Htwe; SPDC mem-ber Lt-Gen Tin Aye of theMinistry of Defence; Com-mander-in-Chief (Navy)

Rear-Admiral Nyan Tunand Commander-in-Chief(Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein;Maj-Gen Ohn Myint, Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, Lt-Gen Tha Aye, Lt-GenMyint Swe and Lt-GenKhin Zaw of the Ministryof Defence; Adjutant-Gen-eral Lt-Gen Thura MyintAung; Defence ServicesInspector-General Maj-Gen Thein Htaik, MilitaryAppointment-GeneralMaj-Gen Hsan Hsint and

Judge Advocate-GeneralMaj-Gen Soe Maung; Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing and Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Min-istry of Defence; Chief ofArmed Forces TrainingMaj-Gen Hla Htay Win;Commander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint; Ministers Maj-GenHtay Oo, Brig-Gen TinNaing Thein, U Thaung,Maj-Gen Saw Lwin, Brig-Gen Ohn Myint, Col ZawMin, Maj-Gen Maung

Maung Swe, Maj-GenThein Swe, Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein,Brig-Gen Lun Thi and DrChan Nyein; Vice-Chiefsof Armed Forces TrainingMaj-Gen Zaw Win andBrig-Gen Thoe Htein; Di-rectors Maj-Gen Mya Win,Brig-Gen Hla Myint, Brig-Gen Kyaw Nyunt, Brig-Gen Maung Maung Ohn,Maj-Gen Ngwe Thein,Brig-Gen Nyan Tun, Maj-Gen Sein Lin and seniormilitary officers, YangonMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin, deputy minis-ters, Commandant of De-fence Services MedicalAcademy Brig-Gen TunNay Lin, Rector of the In-stitute Brig-Gen Hla MyintShwe, senior military of-ficers of the station, gradu-ate trainees, parents, rela-tives and guests.

(See page 10)Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects companies of DSINPS.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye presents BestTrainee Award to Trainee Sit Myat Htet ofSixth Intake of Defence Services Institute of

Nursing and Paramedical Science.—MNA

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