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Volume XVII, Number 77 11th Waxing of Waso 1371 ME Thursday, 2 July, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

* 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 Con-

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaingattend Waso robe offering ceremony

of Defence Services (Army, Navy and Air) familiesNAY PYI TAW, 1 July—The Waso robe offering

ceremony of Defence Services (Army, Navy andAir) families of the Ministry of Defence was held atAnawrahta Hall, here, at 9.30 am today, attended byChairman of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesSenior General Than Shwe and wife Daw KyaingKyaing.

Also present on the occasion were Chairman ofState Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee Magway MahaWithutayama Taikthit Sayadaw Abhidhaja MahaRattha Guru Abhidhaja Agga Maha SaddhammajotikaBhaddanta Kumara, Secretary Nyaungdon SayadawAbhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhammajotika BhaddantaOsadhabhivamsa and member Sayadaws, Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development CouncilDeputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San, State Peaceand Development Council member General ThuraShwe Mann of the Ministry of Defence and wife

(See page 8)

Senior General

Than Shwe and wife

Daw Kyaing Kyaing

offer Waso robes

and offertories to

Chairman Magway

Sayadaw Bhaddanta

Kumara.—MNA

Senior General Than

Shwe and wife Daw

Kyaing Kyaing and

party offer day meal

to Sayadaws at Waso

robes offering

ceremony of Defence

Services (Army, Navy

and Air) families.

MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 2 July, 2009

Thursday, 2 July, 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

The government is building networksof roads, railroads and bridges the lengthand breadth of the nation for paralleldevelopment of all regions of the Union.

It was on 29 June that a new bridgewas launched into commission. It is the Hti-se-kha bridge built across the Thabat creeknear Hti-se-kha village in Loikaw Townshipin Kayah State.

The Hti-se-kha bridge is the 227th

bridge 180 feet and above long in the nation.The opening of the Hti-se-kha bridge willfacilitate the transport of local products alongthe Taungoo-Leiktho-Yardo-Loikaw-Hopong road and thus health, education andsocio-economic life of the local people areabout to develop soon.

The upper structure and thefoundation of the new bridge are of reinforcedconcrete type. The bridge is 241 feet long,with 24-foot-wide lane and a 3-foot-widepedestrian lane on each side of it, can bear upto 60 tons of load and the clearance of thebridge is 40 feet wide and 6 feet high.

As the Hti-se-kha bridge willcontribute to the social and economicdevelopment of the local people in KayahState, it is necessary to maintain the bridgein order that it can last long and be of long-term benefit to the local people.

Maintain bridges built forregional development

Tea farmsthriving in

HakaNAY PYI TAW, 1 July—

Chairman of Chin StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Brig-Gen HongNgai on 10 June inspectedthe tea farms ofdepartments and Kyaboattea farm in Haka.

On 12 June, heattended the openingceremony of Thinam-Marsaung-phiyan earthroad and inspected it.

MNA

Beikman of MahaArnthttokanthar pagodawas held in the compoundof the pagoda in Pyin OoLwin on Lashio-Mandalaymotor road on 26 June.

Station Commander,Commandant of DSABrig-Gen Zeyar Aung,Commandant Brig-GenHsan Oo of DSTA,Commandant of MilitaryHospital (700-bed),Chairman of PyinOoLwinDistrict Peace andDevelopment Council UAung Myin, CommandantCol Aye Hsan ofTatmadaw EngineeringSchool, Chairman of the

NAY PYI TAW, 1July—Minister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min delivered anaddress at the ceremonyto introduce the use ofmetal spray method forrepairing machine parts atInsein Locomotive Shedin Insein on 29 Junemorning.

Speaking on theoccasion, the minister saidthat Myanma Railways istransporting about 63million passengers andabout three million tonsof commodities yearly. Tooperate its tasks, MyanmaRailways needs a largenumber of machine partsfor repairing locomotives,passenger coaches andfreight wagons, he said.Moreover, a large numberof spare parts have beenprovided for machines andheavy machinery of twolocomotive sheds and onecoach factory, he added.

In accord with theguidance of the Head ofState, necessary machineparts and spare parts forMyanma Railways arebeing manufactured at thefactories of MR and other

Metal spray method introduced to repairmachine parts

ministries in collaborativeefforts with privateindustrial entrepreneurs andtechnicians, he said. Theminister explained that , themachine parts that MyanmaRailways will place ordershave been displayedannually since 1992, andMyanma Railway hasinvited the entrepreneurs tomanufacture the machineparts.

The minister said thatthe entrepreneurs can seethe repairing of damagedparts such as crank shaft,cam shaft, hydraulic shaft,heavy duty turbine shaft,ball mill journal, tyre andaxis of rotary kiln to beinstalled at cement plant,

various kinds of bearings,mould and die, varioussizes of gear withoutlosing their original stylesand forms. In conclusion,the minister said that themetal spray method maybenefit the factories interm of benefit across thenation.

General Manager(Factory) U Nyi Htut ofMR reported on use ofmetal spray at YwahtaungFactory, General ManagerU Than Hsin Myint ofRIEC Co on mattersrelated to metal spray, useof machinery and coatingmaterials, ManagingDirector U Wai Phyo Hsanof KME Co on repairing

task and works and CECmember U Myint Zaw ofMyanmar IndustriesAssociation ondevelopment oftechnology and industries.

Next, those presentviewed machine parts andspare parts repaired withthe use of the metal spraymethod, rubber equipmentfor factories andworkshops, use ofmachinery for applyingmetal spray, coatingmaterials and practicalworks.

Also present on theoccasion were DeputyMinister Thura U ThaungLwin, departmental headsof ministries andresponsible persons ofMyanmar IndustriesAssociation.

MNA

Laying corner stones for Sasanna Beikman ofMaha Arnthttokanthar pagoda held

YANGON, 1 July—Aceremony to lay cornerstones for Sasanna

Pagoda Board of TrusteesLt-Col Nyan Tun (Retd),Principal Police Brig-GenThein Tin of PoliceTraining Department,Chairman of TownshipPDC U Aye Lwin laidcorner stones for theSasanna Beikman.

Afterwards, Com-mandant Brig-Gen ZeyarAung and officialsconcerned accepted cashdonated by wellwishersand presented certificatesof honour to them. Over K76 million was donatedby wellwishers for the firsttime.

NLM

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min makes a speech at introduction of the use ofdamaged repairing machine parts and spare parts with the use of metalspray method at Insein Locomotive Shed in Insein.—MR

Station Commander Commandant of DSABrig-Gen Zeyar Aung accepts cash donated

by a wellwisher.—NLM

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

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flat-

tered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

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Major attacks in Iraq since 1st JanuaryBAGHDAD,1 July—Major bombings in Iraq since 1

January, when a new US-Iraqi security pact took effect:• 30 June — Car bomb hits crowded outdoor mar-

ket in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 27.• 26 June — Booby-trapped motorcycle explodes

in a motorcycle bazaar, killing 19.• 24 June — Bomb rips through crowded market

in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 78.• 20 June — Truck bomb explodes near a Shiite

mosque in Taza, near Kirkuk, killing 82.• 10 June — Car bomb explodes in market near

Shiite city of Nasiriyah, killing 30.• 21 May — Bomb in mainly Sunni area of Bagh-

dad kills 15 people, including three Americans.• 20 May — Parked car bomb tears through res-

taurants in northwest Baghdad, killing 41.• 6 May — Parked car bomb explodes at a pro-

duce market in southern Baghdad, killing 15.• 29 April — Twin car bombing in Baghdad’s

Shiite district of Sadr City kills 51.• 24 April — Back-to-back female suicide bomb-

ings kill 71 outside Shiite shrine in Baghdad.• 23 April — Suicide bomber hits Iraqis collect-

ing humanitarian aid in Baghdad, killing 31.• 23 April — Suicide bombing in Muqdadiyah

kills 53 people, including 44 Iranian pilgrims.• 6 April — Series of bombings in Baghdad kill

37 people.• 26 March — Car bomb tears through market in

Shiite area in east Baghdad, killing 20.• 23 March — Suicide bomber strikes Kurdish

funeral in Jalula, killing 27.• 10 March — Suicide bomber targets tribal lead-

ers at market in Abu Ghraib, killing 33.• 8 March — Suicide bomber strikes police acad-

emy in Baghdad, killing at least 30.• 5 March — Car bomb tears through livestock

market in Hillah, killing 13.• 13 February — Female suicide bomber targets

Shiite pilgrims in Musayyib, killing 40.• 11 February — Twin car bombs explode at a bus

terminal and market area in Baghdad, killing 16.• 4 January — Female suicide bomber strikes

Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing 38.• 2 January — Suicide bomber hits tribal leader’s

home in Youssifiyah, killing 23.—Internet

Afghan police and secu-rity personnel gather atthe site a suicide bombblast in Torkham,Nangarhar provinceeast of Kabul, on 30June, 2009. A suicidebomber dressed as awoman killed at leastone person, identified asa child, and woundedeight in an attack on anAfghanistan checkpointon Tuesday, governmentofficials and police said.—INTERNET

Iraqis celebrate US pullbackbut bombing kills 33

BAGHDAD, 1 July — Not a single American soldierwas in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopterswhose buzz has for years defined Baghdad’s backgroundtrack.

Left alone to protect the capital on Tuesday were thou-sands of Iraqi troops and police manning checkpoints,with army tanks deployed at potential trouble spots andconvoys of pickup trucks with machine guns roamingthe streets.

But it was elsewhere, 180 miles to the north, that mili-tants delivered their first deadly challenge to Iraq’s secu-rity forces on a highly symbolic day after the formal with-drawal of US combat troops from cities at midnight.

A car bombing devastated a food market in the city ofKirkuk, killing at least 33 people and wounding 90. Theearly evening attack, which bore the hallmarks of Sunniextremist groups like al-Qaeda in Iraq, was the second inthe Kirkuk area since a truck bombing killed 82 peopleon 20 June. —Internet

NATO Invasion of US and allies kills,injures Iraqi people

BAGHDAD, 1 July— There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the US andits allies have invaded the country.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleThe total number of casualties as from the day they invaded the country to 30

June reached 697,762 and the total number of serious injured people reached1,256,160, according to the news on the internet.

No. Subject Number1. Death toll of Iraqi people 697,7622. The total number of seriously injured people 1,256,160

Internet

Casualties of Afghan people in invasion ofNATO troops led by US

KABUL, 1 July—The NATO troops led by the US have invaded Afghanistanand they are there for a long time.

A number of Afghan people are killed and injured due to invasion of theNATO troops led by the US.

Casualties of Afghan peopleAccording to the Internet news, a total of 8028 Afghan people were killed

and 16,510 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troops led by theUS invaded Afghanistan to 30 June.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 80282. Seriously injured Afghan people 16510

Iraqis line the roof of shops as they look down onthe scene of a car bomb at a central market in thenorthern city of Kirkuk, 255 kms from the capital

Baghdad.—INTERNET

In this 12 June, 2009 photo, Shah Wali, 65, wholost a leg to a mine in Logar 14 months ago while

collecting wood near his home at the LogarProvince, in Kabul. Afghanistan is one of the

world’s most heavily mined countries.INTERNET

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An Iraqi shop owner surveys the damage in a popularmarket in the center of the northern city of Kirkuk,225 kms from Baghdad. Bombings in the lead-up tothe pullback of US forces from Iraq’s towns andcities, resulted in the bloodiest death toll seen in theconflict-hit nation in 11 months, official figuresshowed on Wednesday.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 1 July—The U.S. military says anAmerican soldier has beenkilled in combat in Iraq.

A statement says theMulti-National Division— Baghdad soldier diedSunday but further detailsweren’t released.

The statement wasissued Monday, on the eveof a deadline for U.S.combat troops to withdrawfrom Iraqi cities.

American soldierswill still be in urban areasbut their mission will shiftfrom one of combat totraining and advising theirIraqi counterparts.

The statement says thesoldier’s death is underinvestigation.At least4,319 members of the U.S.military have died in theIraq war since it began inMarch 2003.—Internet

US soldierkilled in

combat in Iraq

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4 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 2 July, 2009

FAIRVIEW, 1 July—Forfive years, immigrant daylaborer Leo Chamalewired money twice amonth from New Jerseyto his family in Guate-mala. Recently, hestepped up to the moneytransfer window for a dif-ferent purpose — to askthat his family send someof his savings back to him.

“I hadn’t worked forfive months, and I wastwo months behind onrent, so I had them send$1,500,” the 21-year-old

In this photo distributed by the Xinhua news agency, a Dongfeng FengshenS30 debuts at a workshop of Dongfeng Motor Corporation Passenger Vehicle

Campany in Wuhan, central China, on 30 June, 2009. The in-house devel-oped sedan Fengshen S30, the first product of Fengshen, started rolling off

their production lines on Tuesday, Xinhua said.—INTERNET

Participants carry flags of China, right, and Hong Kong, left, during a paradein a downtown Hong Kong street to celebrate the 12th anniversary of Hong

Kong’s handover to China in Hong Kong on 1 July, 2009.—INTERNET

DETROIT, 1 July— Gun-men in a green minivanopened fire on a group ofteenagers waiting at a busstop near a Detroit schoolon Tuesday, woundingseven including two whowere in critical condition,authorities said.

Five of the teens hadjust left Cody Ninth GradeAcademy, where theywere taking summerclasses, when they wereshot at the nearby bus stop.

The gunmen exited a

Law enforcement officials look over the scene in west Detroit where gunmenin a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop

near a Detroit school, on 30 June, 2009.—INTERNET

Immigrants in US are askingfor money from home

HONG KONG, 1 July— The assets of Hong Kong’sExchange Fund stood at 1.76 trillion HK dollars(225.6 billion US dollars) at the end of May, up 114.7billion HK dollars (14.7billion US dollars) from amonth earlier, the Hong Kong Monetary Authoritysaid onTuesday.

Foreign currency assets grew by 98.1 billion HKdollars in May thanks to purchases of foreign curren-cies with HK dollars and valuation gains on foreigncurrency investments, the Monetary Authority said.

The Hong Kong dollar assets rose by 16.6 billionHK dollars thanks to a rise in the balance of the bank-ing system and valuation gains on HK dollar equi-ties.—Internet

NEW YORK, 1 July—Mounting job losses andother economic realitiescaught up with Americansin June, pushing down akey barometer of con-sumer sentiment after astreak of gains built onglimmers of hope.

Some economists saythe reality check offered by

WASHINGTON, 1 July—Reversing a decade-longtrend, many of America’s largest cities are now grow-ing more quickly than the rest of the nation, yet an-other sign of an economic crisis that is making itharder for people to move.

Census data released onWednesday highlight a cityresurgence in coastal regions and areas of the Mid-west and Northeast, due to a housing crunch, reces-sion and higher gas prices that have slowed migra-tion to far-flung suburbs and residential hotspots inthe South and West.

Internet

KAMPALA, 1 July —The Chinese governmenton Tuesday donatedmedical equipment worth300,000 US dollars toUganda boost the EastAfrican country’s effort topromote reproductivehealth.

“I hope it will play apositive role,” said WangZeshan, charge d’affairesat the Chinese Embassywhile handing over theequipment to Uganda’sHealth Minister StephenMalinga.

Malinga said thoughmaternal and infant mor-tality and morbidity is ona declining trend, it is stillunacceptably high.

Internet

Chamale said in Spanish.“My mother said, That’sa lot of money!’”

With the US economyin a ditch, money transferagencies have been re-porting a decline in thewages immigrants aresending back to theirhome countries. Now, itappears some immigrantsare going a step further —asking their relatives towire them money back.

“We’ve never seen thisbefore,” said MarlenMiranda, manager of

Peerless Travel inFairview, which runs amoney transfer service. “Imean, one or two peoplemight receive money fora special reason, but notthis quantity of people.”

Miranda said she hasseen her customer basedwindle from 200 peopleto 75 who regularly useher money transfer serv-ices each month. Of those75, Miranda said, about20 now come in to receivemoney instead of sendingit home.—Internet

Chinadonatesmedical

equipmentto Uganda

Job losses hit June consumer confidenceTuesday’s report from theNew York-based Confer-ence Board may not augurwell for spending in thecritical months ahead.

The Conference Boardsaid its Consumer Confi-dence Index now stands at49.3, down from its re-vised May level of 54.8.

The drop coincided

with mixed messages inthe housing market. A re-port from the TreasuryDepartment showingforeclosures jumped inthe first quarter comparedwith 2008’s fourth quar-ter. But a key housingprice index showed pricedeclines moderating.

Internet

Hong Kong’s exchange fundrises to 225.6 b USD

Big cities see resurgencein population growth

Gunmen fire on group of Detroit teens,wounding seven

vehicle and “asked for aperson by name” beforethey “opened fire at thecrowd,” said Detroit Pub-lic Schools Police ChiefRoderick Grimes.

Detroit Police werelooking for two suspectsin a green minivan, saidspokesman Rod Liggons.Officers were interview-ing some of the victims inthe hospital on Tuesdayevening, he said.

Four boys and threegirls ranging in age from

14 to 17 years old werehospitalized, two of them— a 16-year-old boy and a17-year-old female — incritical condition, saidDeputy Chief JamesTolbert.

Gas station ownerSteve Hakim said he sawtwo people with T-shirtscovering their heads runacross his lot toward thebus stop. Then he heardabout 10 gunshots, saw aboy and a girl fall downand called 911.—Internet

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Russia sends US communicationssatellite into orbit

MOSCOW, 1 July—Rus-sia launched a carrierrocket on Tuesday to senda US communications sat-ellite into space, newsagencies reported, citingthe Khrunichev statespace research and pro-duction center.

Alexander Borbrenyov,

press secretary of theKhrunichev centre, said aRussian Proton-M carrierrocket, with a Sirius FM5atop, blasted off at around23:10 Moscow time (1910GMT) from the Baikonurspace centre inKazakhstan.

Earlier, an official from

the Russian Federal spaceagency (Roscosmos) saidthe satellite is expected toseparate from the booster9 hours later.

“The satellite will takeup a point in ageostationary orbit at 96degrees, western longi-tude,” the Itar-tass newsagency cited the unnamedofficial as saying.

The launch, originallyscheduled for Monday,was postponed one daydue to some glitches whenthe Briz-M booster wasfueled last Wednesday.

The Sirius FM5 satel-lite, manufactured by theUS Space Systems/LoralCompany and owned byUS broadcasting magnateSirius Satellite Radio IncCompany, will function inorbit for 15years.

Xinhua

Russia launched a Russian Proton-M carrierrocket to send a US communications satellite

Sirius FM5 atop into space, on 1 July, 2009, newsagencies reported, citing the Khrunichev state

space research and production centre.—XINHUA

34-year-old KongChunxia shows her

paper-cut work entitledRiverside Scene at

Qingming Festival inZherong County,southeast China’s

Fujian Province, on 30June, 2009. —XINHUA

Softbank, Shanghai MediaGroup to form business alliance TOKYO, 1 July—Japan’s major telecommunication

and media group Softbank Corp said Tuesday it hasagreed in principle to form a comprehensive businessalliance with Shanghai Media Group Inc, China’s sec-ond-largest media company, to cooperate in video dis-tribution and entertainment businesses.

Softbank is considering distributing SMG’s televi-sion programme through its Internet and mobile phonenetworks both in Japan and abroad, Kyodo News re-ported.

It also aims to air Japanese cartoons and other tel-evision programme on SMG’s satellite digital broad-casts, the company said.—Xinhua

A medical worker treatsan injured person at theNo 4 people’s hospitalin Chenzhou, centralChina’s Hunan Prov-

ince, on 30 June,2009.—XINHUA

Plane lands safely at New Yorkairport after bird strike

NEW YORK, 1 July—A plane landed safely at NewYork’s LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday morning afterreporting a bird strike on its approach.

According to New York local TV channel NY1, theUS Federal Aviation Administration said AmericanAirlines flight 1256 hit birds at an altitude of 900 feet(about 274 metres) while nearing LaGuardia Airport.

Once the pilot landed, he noticed that the nosegear’s hydraulics was not working.

The plane, a 737-800, was towed to a gate. Thepassengers safely got off, and a large bird was foundin the landing gear.

There were no injuries to any of the 140 aboardincluding five crew members.

The incident came months after another bird strikeforced US Airways flight 1549 to splash land in theHudson River.

The city has since taken steps to try and mitigatethe bird population around area airports, said NY1.

Xinhua

At least 20 diein eastern Peru

as passengerboats crash

LIMA, 1 July—At least20 people died, includingseveral children, in east-ern Peru departmentUcayali when two passen-ger boats crashed on theUcayali River at around5:00 am local time onTuesday, regional authori-ties told local media.

The accident tookplace close to San Jose dePacache, a small town inPeru’s Amazon rainforest,when the two boats werecarrying over 100 passen-gers, the port captain indepartmental capitalPucallpa told media. Theexact number was notknown because they arecargo boats carrying peo-ple on an informal basis.

A small boat rescuedtwo people from the riverand carried them to thenearby town of PuertoCallao, in Coronel Portillomunicipality. These survi-vors alerted rescuers.

Both boats had set outfrom Pucallpa heading forIquitos, a city in north-eastern Peru. —Xinhua

Global IT spendingto drop nearly 11%

in 2009SAN FRANCISCO, 1 July—Global spend-

ing on information technology (IT) mayfall 10.6 percent in 2009, more sharplythan the 3-percent decrease projected atthe beginning of the year, market researchfirm Forrester said on Tuesday. Forrestersaid it lowered the forecast because of thelarge drop in business technology invest-ment during the first quarter this year andpossible similar poor results in the cur-rent second quarter.

However, the weak results in the firsthalf of 2009 also mean that the worstdeclines may be over and the market willhit bottom sooner, Forrester noted.

Forrester now expects growth of ITinvestment in the United States toresume in the fourth quarter of 2009,followed by revival of IT buying in othermarkets in 2010.—Xinhua

US company kicks offnonstop flight from

LA to HavanaLOS ANGELES, 1 July— Long Beach-

based company Cuba Travel ServicesInc kicked off nonstop flights from LosAngeles to Havana on Tuesday.

The five-hour flight takes off from theLos Angeles International Airport(LAX) at 11 am local time, and is theonly Cuban flight for Cuba Travel sinceJuly 2004, when the Bush administra-tion tightened rules governing travel toCuba, according to the company.

US President Barack Obama re-pealed the 2004 travel restrictions inApril. A bill pending in Congresswould end the travel ban for all Ameri-cans.

The flight runs every Tuesday and canaccommodate 150 people, said the com-pany.

Xinhua

People visit Mt Wutai in Wutai County, XinzhouCity, north China’s Shanxi Province, on 30 June,

2009. —XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

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6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 2 July, 2009

NEWS ALBUMThe first Europeans were cannibals:

archaeologists

‘Oldest musical instrument’ found

The remains of the “firstEuropeans” discovered at anarchaeological site in northernSpain have revealed that theseprehistoric men were cannibalswho particularly liked the fleshof children.

“We know that they prac-ticed cannibalism,” said JoseMaria Bermudez de Castro,one of the co-directors of theAtapuerca project, a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site.

A study of the remains re-vealed that they turned to can-nibalism to feed themselvesand not as part of a ritual, thatthey ate their rivals after kill-ing them, mostly children andadolescents.

The flutes is made from a vulture’s wing bone, measur-ing 20cm long with five finger holes and two

“V”-shaped notches on one end of the instrument .

Scientists in Germanyhave published details offlutes dating back to the timethat modern humans begancolonising Europe, 35,000years ago.

The flutes are the oldestmusical instruments found todate.The researchers say inthe Journal Nature that mu-sic was widespread in pre-historic times.Music, theysuggest, may have been oneof a suite of behaviours dis-played by our own specieswhich helped give them anedge over the Neanderthals.

The team from TubingenUniversity have publisheddetails of three flutes foundin the Hohle Fels cavern insouthwest Germany.Thecavern is already well knownas a site for signs of early hu-man efforts; in May, mem-bers of the same team un-veiled a Hohle Fels find that

could be the world’s oldestVenus figure.

The most well-preservedof the flutes is made from avulture’s wing bone, measur-ing 20cm long with five fin-ger holes and two “V”-shapednotches on one end of the in-strument into which the re-searchers assume the playerblew.The archaeologists alsofound fragments of two otherflutes carved from ivory thatthey believe was taken fromthe tusks of mammoths. Skull named Miguelon, es-

timated to be 400,000 yearsold and the most completeskull of an Homoheidelbergensis ever found,is seen at the Atapuerca ar-chaeological site, in theAtapuerca mountains innorthern Spain. In 2007 ahistoric discovery of thefossilised remains of the‘first european’ human wasmade at the site.

“It is the first well-docu-mented case of cannibalismin the history of humanity,which does not mean that itis the oldest,” he said.

Burglar lived in house for a weekA young Ohio man allegedly broke

into a Cincinnati-area house while theowners were on vacation and stayedthere for a week.

Nicholas Truesdell not only slept inthe master bedroom of the four-bed-room house in Anderson, he watchedtelevision and spent time on the com-puter, the Hamilton County Sheriff’sOffice said. He effectively “used theresidence as his own,” investigatorssaid.

While he was at it, Truesdell alleg-edly drove the owners’ car, a 2007Nissan Altima. Investigators said heentered the house by forcing a rear win-dow open.

A motorcyclist performs during the

first in Belarus freestyle motocross

show in the main square of Minsk.

Relatives and friends of passengers aboard theAirbus flight A310-300 from Yemen arrive at acrisis center at Charles de Gaulle airport near

Paris, on 30 June, 2009. —XINHUA

PARIS, 1 July— Sixty-six French people wereonboard the Yemenia Air jetliner that crashed earlyTuesday off the coast of Comoros, French ForeignMinister Bernard Kouchner said in a statement on Tues-day.

In the statement, Kouchner expressed “sincere con-dolences to the families and loved ones of the victims.”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked theFrench military to help with the search operation, par-ticularly the military personnel in the Indian Ocean ter-ritories of Mayotte and Reunion.

The jetliner, an Airbus A310, crashed early on Tues-day into the Indian Ocean as it approached the airporton the Comoros islands in heavy winds and badweather. The plane was carrying 153 people — 142passengers and a crew of 11. Yemeni officials said achild has been rescued alive from the sea.—Internet

PARIS, 1 July—Frenchinvestigators say thesearch for the black boxesof Flight 447 is continu-ing although they are nolonger certain to emit sig-nals.

The flight’s voice anddata recorders are guaran-teed to emit signals for 30days after an accident.onTuesday marks 30 dayssince Air France AirbusA330 plunged into the At-lantic. All 228 peopleaboard were killed.

Martine del Bono,spokeswoman for theFrench air accident inves-tigation agency, says it “iscontinuing the search” aslong as there is a “reason-able” chance of locatingthe black boxes.

She gave no finaldeadline onTuesday forending the search. Theblack boxes could be keyto determining what hap-pened to the plane. Brazilhas ended the search formore bodies.—Internet

JERUSALEM, 1 July—The Israelis and Palestin-ians are at a key point intheir relations: they canhave a true, lasting peaceor else take the road toself destruction, RonPundak, one of the keyarchitects of the original1993 peace accord be-tween the two Middle-Eastern neighbourswarned on Tuesday.

The options on the ta-

BRUSSELS, 1 July—The European Commis-sion on Tuesday called onall European Union (EU)member states to installlaws to protect their citi-zens from exposure to to-bacco smoke by 2012.

The EU member statesare asked to adopt andimplement laws to fullyprotect their citizens fromexposure to tobaccosmoke in enclosed publicplaces, workplace andpublic transport, withinthree years of adoption ofthe commission’s pro-posal by them.

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Israeli-Palestinian talks stand at crossing pointble are “to march towardspeace, regional coopera-tion and prosperity,” or“to move in the directionthat we are moving now,a devastating direction,”Pundak told an interna-tional gathering of aca-demics at the HebrewUniversity in Jerusalem.

The real Zionists arethose who believe in anIsraeli state next to a stateof Palestine, with eastern

Jerusalem as its capitaland its territory to includethe West Bank, currentlyoccupied by Israel, saidPundak, who now headsthe Peres Center for Peace.

“I know what youwant, you know what Iwant. It’s time for deci-sions now,” added leadingPalestinian negotiatorSaeb Erekat, with a senseof urgency in his voice.

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European Commission calls for smoke-freeEU by 2012They are also asked to

enhance smoke-free lawswith supporting measuresto protect children, en-courage efforts to give uptobacco use and to havepictorial warnings on to-bacco packages.

Currently, 10 EU coun-tries have comprehensivesmoke-free laws in place.Britain and Ireland havethe strictest smoke-freeprovisions with a com-plete ban on smoking inenclosed public places, onpublic transport and inworkplace. Bulgaria is dueto follow suit in 2010.

Italy, Malta, Sweden,Latvia, Finland, Slovenia,France and the Nether-lands have introducedsmoke-free legislation al-lowing for special en-closed smoking rooms.

In the remaining mem-ber states, citizens andworkers are not fully pro-tected from exposure to to-bacco smoke in indoorworkplace and publicplaces. Tobacco remainsthe largest single cause ofpremature death and dis-ease in the EU, said thecommission, the executivebody of the EU.—Internet

Boy, 2, has pack-a-day habit The parents of a 2-year-old in China who smokes at least a

pack of cigarettes a day say they are seeking advice to help thetoddler quit.

Toddler Tong Liangliang of Tianjin, China, was allowed tobegin smoking by his father more than a year ago to help con-trol pain from a hernia with which he was born, but his parentssay the toddler’s habit has gotten out of control, China RadioInternational reported .

The boy’s father said he made the decision because the tod-dler is too young to have an operation to correct the hernia.

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NAY PYI TAW, 1July—Minister for HomeAffairs Maj-Gen MaungOo received officials ofthe ASEAN Secretariatand leaders of the

Home Affairs Minister receivesdelegation leaders of ASEAN countries

delegations that arrived inNay Pyi Taw to attend the9th ASEAN SeniorOfficials Meeting onTransnational Crime at thehall of Myanmar Maternal

and Child WelfareAssociation, here, thismorning.

Also present at the callwere departmental headsand officials.—MNA

Foreign Minister back from BahrainNAY PYI TAW, 1

July—A delegation ledby U Nyan Win, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of theUnion of Myanmar,arrived at YangonInternational Airport thisevening by TG 305 afterattending the firstASEAN-GCC Full-Fledged MinisterialMeeting held on 29 and30 June in Manama,Bahrain.

The Myanmardelegation participatedin the ASEAN-GCCPreparatory Meeting on29 June and attended theDinner hosted by HisExcellency ShaikhKhalifa bin Salman AlKhalifa, Prime Ministerof the Kingdom of

Bahrain, in the evening.Subsequently, the

Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win anddelegation attended thefirst ASEAN-GCC Full-Fledged MinisterialMeeting on 30 June.During the meeting, theissue of theenhancement of theASEAN-GCC Co-operation, the issue ofExchange of views onDevelopments in theASEAN and the GCCand other regional andinternational issues werecordially discussed.

In the afternoon, HisMajesty Shaikh HamadBin Isa Khalifa, the Kingof Bahrain, received thevisiting Foreign

Ministers and hostedwith a luncheon.

After the meeting,the ASEAN and GCCMinisters issued the JointPress Statement of the 1st

Full-Fledged ASEAN-GCC MinisterialMeeting, ASEAN-GCCJoin Vision and theMemorandum ofUnderstanding betweenthe Secretariat ofASEAN and theSecretariat of GCC wassigned by the twoSecretaries-General.

The Gulf Cooper-ation Council (GCC)included Saudi Arabia,Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,Qatar and United ArabEmirates (UAE).

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 July— The opening of theNinth ASEAN SeniorOfficials Meeting onTransnational Crime (9th

SOMTC) hosted byMyanmar took place at themeeting hall of MyanmarMaternal and ChildWelfare Association herethis morning.

It was attended byMinister for Home AffairsMaj-Gen Maung Oo,Deputy Minister Brig-GenPhone Swe, DeputyMinister for Immigrationand Population Brig-GenWin Sein, Deputy Ministerfor Social Welfare, Reliefand Resettlement Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint, DeputyChief Justice U Tun TunOo, Deputy Attorney-General Dr Tun Shin,departmental heads andofficials, the Ambassadors

9th SOMTC commencesof ASEAN countries tothe Union of Myanmar andembassy staff, the ResidentRepresentatives of UNAgencies, delegationmembers of ASEANSecretariat and ASEANcountries and guests.

Minister Maj-GenMaung Oo made anopening address and theopening ceremonyconcluded.

Next, Minister Maj-Gen Maung Oo andDeputy Minister Brig-GenPhone Swe posed for adocumentary phototogether with thedelegation leaders ofASEAN Secretariat andASEAN countries andcordially greeted thosepresent.

Then the NinthASEAN Senior OfficialsMeeting on Transnational

Crime (9th SOMTC)followed. The meeting willbe held up to 3 July.

MNA

Minister for Home Affairs Maj-Gen Maung Oo addresses the opening

of 9th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime.

MNA

Kawhmu Township People’s Hospital getsX-ray room and related equipmentNAY PYI TAW, 1 July

—Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thiattended the ceremony todonate X-ray room, X-raymachine, dentist chair and

related equipment by ShweNatural Gas Project whichis a joint venture betweenthe Ministry of Energy andcompanies at KawhmuTownship People’sHospital on 29 June.

First, the minister andthe representative of ShweNatural Gas Projectopened the ceremony.

Next, the ministergave accounts on donationof the companies of ShweNatural Gas Project andspoke words of thanks onbehalf of the township.

Dr. Su-Yeong Yongexplained purpose ofdonation, and Director-General Dr Daw KhinPyone Kyi of MedicalResearch Department

NAY PYI TAW, 1 July—The 1st Asian Youth Gameswere opened at the National Stadium in Singapore on29 June evening.

Singaporean Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong,Vice-Chairman of Asian Olympic Council Mr TimothyFok and the Chairman of Singapore Olympic Councilopened the games. It was also attended by the Chairmanof Myanmar Olympic Committee Minister for Sportsand the Myanmar sports contingent.

Over 1,400 athletes from 45 countries took part inswimming, diving, track and field, beach volleyball,football, yachting, shooting and bowling events.

Soe Sanda Nyunt of Myanmar stood sixth in thewomen’s diving event, Nyi Nyi Tun, eighth in themen’s diving event, Zin Min Htet, fifth in the men’s400-m race trial and Phyu Phway 11th in the women’s1500-m race event.—MNA

1st Asian Youth Games commence

(Lower Myanmar) and alocal spoke words ofthanks. Then the ministerand guests observednewly-opened X-rayroom, X-ray machine and

dentist chair. Afterwards,the minister visited newly-built Mitta Village nearKamapa and Nyaung-nguvillages and greeted thevillagers. — MNA

Minister forEnergy Brig-Gen Lun Thi

inspectsnewly-

opened X-rayroom, X-raymachine anddentist chairin KawhmuTownshipHospital.

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 2 July, 2009

Senior General Than Shwe, wife …(from page 1)

Daw Khin Lay Thet,Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein and wife DawKhin Khin Win,Secretary-1 of the SPDCGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo and wifeDaw Khin Saw Hnin,SPDC member Lt-GenTin Aye of the Ministry of

Defence, theCommander-in-Chief(Navy), the Commander-in-Chief (Air), seniormilitary officers of theMinistry of Defence, theCommander of Nay PyiTaw Command,ministers, the ChiefJustice, the Attorney-General, the Auditor-

General and their wivesand family members of theDefence Services (Army,Navy and Air).

Adviser U ArntMaung supplicated on theagenda of the ceremony.

First, the ceremonywas opened with three-time recitation of NamoTassa.

The ChairmanSayadaw administered theFive Precepts. Membersof the Sangha recitedParittas.

Senior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing offeredWaso robes and alms toChairman Magway

Sayadaw BhaddantaKumara.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and wife DawMya Mya San donatedWaso robes andoffertories to SecretaryNyaungdon SayadawBhaddanta Osadhabhi-vamsa.

General Thura ShweMann and wife Daw KhinLay Thet presented Waso

robes and provisions tothe Sayadaw.

Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein andwife Daw Khin Khin Winoffered Waso robes andalms to the Sayadaw.

Secretary-1 GeneralThiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo and wife Daw

Khin Saw Hnin donatedWaso robes andoffertories to theSayadaw.

Lt-Gen Tin Aye of theMinistry of Defencepresented Waso robes andalms to the Sayadaw.

The Commander-in-Chief (Navy), theCommander-in-Chief(Air), senior militaryofficers of the Ministry of

Defence, the commander,the ministers, the ChiefJustice, the Attorney-General and the Auditor-General offered Wasorobes and alms to theSayadaws.

The SecretarySayadaw delivered asermon, and the

congregation led bySenior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing sharedmerits gained.

The ceremony endedwith three-time recitationof Buddha SasanamCiram Titthatu.

Later, the SeniorGeneral, wife and partyoffered meals to membersof the Sangha.—MNA

Families of DefenceServices (Army, Navy and

Air) of the Ministry ofDefence offer Waso robesVice

VuVice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San offerWaso robes and offertories to Secretary Nyaungdon Sayadaw

Bhaddanta Osadhabhivamsa.—MNA

General Thura Shwe Mann and wife Daw Khin Lay Thet offer Wasorobes and provisions to a Sayadaw.—MNA

Prime

Prime Minister General Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win offerWaso robes and offertories to a Sayadaw.—MNA

V

Lt-Gen Tin Aye of Ministry of Defence offers Waso robes and almsto a Sayadaw.—MNA

Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife DawKhin Saw Hnin donate Waso robes and offertories to a Sayadaw.—MNA

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Industry-1 Ministerhonours outstanding

students

Commander inspects regional development tasks inMyingyan, Taungtha Townships

CPT Minister inspects auto-exchangesin Sagaing Division and Kachin State

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw attends theopening ceremony of digital auto-exchange in

Mawlu.—CPT

Minister U Aung Thaung makes a speech in meeting with localpeople of Nabuaing village in Myingyan Township.—INDUSTRY-1

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Oo receives delegation leaders of ASEAN Secretariat and ASEANcountries. (News on page-7)—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 July—Minister for Com-munications, Posts andTelegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw inspecteddigital auto-exchange inKyun-hla, auto-exchangeand post office in Kawlin,auto-exchange in Wunthoand microwave station andauto-exchange in Inn-dawin Sagaing Division andfulfilled the requirements.

The minister attendedthe opening ceremony ofdigital auto-exchange inMawlu. ManagingDirector U Tha Oo ofMyanma Posts andTelecommunications andCol San Aung of North-West Command formallyopened it.Next, the minister

looked into construction ofauto-exchange in Mawhanof Kachin State where hecalled for timelycompletion of worksmeeting set standards.

On 28 June, theminister attended theopening of CDMA (450)auto mobile carryingsystem held at Moenyinand tested the call formobile communications.

Afterwards, theminister was present at15th prize-presentingceremony in SeinleYadana hall of Moenyinand delivered an address.The minister and officialspresented prizes tooutstanding students andteachers.—MNA

Programmes to beautifyYangon discussed

YANGON, 1 July—TheCommittee forBeautifying andUpgrading Yangon heldits meeting No. 11/2009at the City Hall of YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee hereyesterday.

In his speech, Patronof the committee Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Ministryof Defence said that it isrequired to reach the goalCity green, tidy and clean.He stressed theimportance of organizinglocal people to abidestrictly by the rules andregulations with a sense

of self-discipline.Chairman of Yangon

Division Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen WinMyint and the chairmanof the Leading Committeethe vice-mayor reportedon work progress andfollow-up programmes.

The chairmen of thework committees andofficials reported onaccomplishment of work.Lt-Gen Myint Swefulfilled the requirementsand gave concludingremarks.

MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence makes a speech at the meeting No. 11/2009 ofCommittee for Beautifying and Upgrading Yangon.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 July —Chairman of MandalayDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Central Command Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe inspectedrepair work of Mya Kan Tha drinking water lake nearLaydan village in Myingyan Township, cultivation ofmonsoon groundnut at the farmland of Farmer U ChitNyein in Tityon village, the integrated farming of Ohbu

village in Taungtha Township and Taungtha dam nearNabekan village on 23 June and gave necessaryinstructions.

On 24 June evening, the commander delivered anaddress at the opening of Central Command Commander’sShield Football Tournament at Kyaukdaing FootballGround. Then the commander and party enjoyed thematch.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 July— Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung andwife attended the 8th

ceremony to honourdistinction winners of thematriculation ex-amination for 2008-2009academic year inMyingyan and awardedthe nine outstandingstudents on 29 June.

The minister presentedaward to the outstandingstudents of the GovernmentTechnological College(Myingyan) and MyingyanDegree College.

Wellwishers con-tributed K 4 million to theeducation funds of thetownship throughMyingyan DistrictEducation Department.

Minister U Aung

Thaung also met withdepartmental officials,members of socialorganizations and local

people from three villagesin Myingyan Townshipon 29 June and providedbags of cement and K

500,000 for repair ofseven schools in thetownship.

MNA

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 2 July, 2009

Villages of Bago Division have easyaccess to modern communications

Article and photos: Reporter Peinzalok Thein Nyunt

Youths browse the Internet in Public Access Centre next to Bago Division Myanma Posts and Telecommunications office.

A man using CDMA-450 mobile phone at apublic phone booth on Yangon-Mandalay

Highway in Bago Division.

Auto exchange in Swa, Yedashe Township, Bago Division, which was transformed from manual exchange.

(from page 16)Waw, DaikU,Nyaunglebin, Kyauk-daga, Pyu, Toungoo,Ketumady, Yedashe andSwa. Using Fax, peoplecan send money from the11 townships to 170 othertownships in a day.

In Bago Division, sixtelegraph offices havebeen upgraded from mailservice to computer andFax service, and 18telegraph offices use mailand telegraph service. Forthe people’s comfort andconvenience, Faxtelegraph counter eachhas been opened in Bagoand Toungoo.

In addition, e-telegram service officeswere opened in Bago,

Nyaunglebin andToungoo. E-telegramservice was launched inBago and Toungoo officeson 8 June 2009.

He said that so far, thedivision had 17 autoexchanges and 36 manualexchanges. In the past, thedivision had only two autoexchanges in Bago andToungoo. After 1988,MPT upgraded frommanual to auto exchangein Thanatpin, DaikU,Pyondaza, Nyaunglebin,Shwegyin, Kyaukdaga,Penwegon, Kanyutkwin,Pyu, and KetumadyMyothit, and opened anauto exchange each inOktha Myothit, Phayagyi,Waw, Pyinbongyi,Yedashe and Swa. New

mobile stations wereopened in Bago, DaikU,Penwegon, Pyu andToungoo.

GSM stations wereopened one after anotherin Inndagaw, Bago,Phayagyi, DaikU,Nyaunglebin, Penwe-gon, Pyu and Toungoo.So, now villages of BagoDivision also had accessto GSM mobile phoneservice.

Public phone boothshave been equipped inrural areas in the divisionsince 2001. Now, theareas along Yangon-Mandalay Highway andY a n g o n - M a n d a l a yUnion Highway have gotCDMA-450 mobilephones apart from publicphones. The tastefulresults are due to regionalpeace.

Moreover, BagoDivision has made a greatdeal of progress in thetransport sector, inaddition to thecommunication sector.Therefore, local peopleare now enjoying betterliving conditions withall-round development.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

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ones are being built inKawa, Htonegyi,Kyaukkyi, Ottwin,Myohla and Yayni, hesaid.

He said that ADSLsystem had beenequipped in Bago andToungoo, so thetownships had access tothe Internet and e-mail.We witnessed manyyouths using the Internetin Public Access Centre.

Previously, in BagoDivision, only twotownships had microwavestations. Now, the numberof microwave stations ofBago Division hasincreased to 10. Twostations will soon beconstructed in Kyaukkyiand Kawa. CDMA 450

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BEIJING, 1 July—China raised gasolineand diesel prices by 600 yuan (about 87.8US dollars) per ton, starting 12:00 a.m.Tuesday.

The increase raised the price forgasoline by about 0.45 yuan per litre, or8.6 per cent, and the price of diesel byabout 0.51 yuan per litre, or 9.6 per cent,said the National Development and ReformCommission (NDRC) in a statement on itsWeb site.It was the third oil priceadjustment this year. On May 31, theNDRC raised the pump prices of gasolineand diesel by 400 yuan per tonne, or 7 percent and 8 per cent, respectively.

ALMATY, 1 July—Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Tuesdaythat Kazakhstan will never supply nuclear materials that could be used to makeweapons of mass destruction to other countries.

After 49 years of tests at the Semipalatinsk test site, around one million Kazakhcitizens have suffered from radiation poisoning, Nazarbayev told a joint newsconference with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Astana, the Interfax newsagency reported. “Kazakhstan suffered the severities of nuclear tests itself.”

Therefore, countering nuclear weapons and its proliferation is “very acute andimportant” to Kazakhstan, he said. “Kazakhstan guarantees that it will not provideits nuclear materials to other countries,” he said.

Semipalatinsk was once the world’s largest nuclear test site, where nearly 500tests were carried out from 1949 to 1989. Nazarbayev ordered the shutdown of thesite in 1991.—MNA/Xinhua

HARARE, 1 July—Zimbabwe has so far exported a total of 22.1 million kilos ofVirginia tobacco valued at about 66 million US dollars to various destinations inthe first five months of this year, according to The Herald on Tursday.

However, this is a decrease from the 38.5 million kilos worth 115. 5 milliondollars from the amount of tobacco that was exported during the same period lastyear. This is attributed to challenges such as pricing and poor deliveries thathaunted the sector last year.

Last year, a total of 61.3 million kilos were exported during the first fivemonths of the year. The month of February recorded the highest tobacco exportsof 10.3 million kg worth 10.3 million dollars compared to 14 million kilos last year.May recorded the least amount of tobacco exported. A total of 1 million kilos worththree million dollars were exported while last year, same period, 3.9 million kgwere exported.—MNA/Xinhua

Kazakhstan not to supplyn-materials to other countries

A group of students of robotics setup a football robot on 30 June, 2009 on the eveof the “RoboCup” the world largest robotic event, hosting 408 teams with 2300scientists and students in Graz some 200 kilometers southwest from Vienna.robotic scientist student sets up a football robot on 30 June, 2009 on the eve ofthe “RoboCup” the world largest robotic event.—INTERNET

Vietnam collects $ 9.6b for state cofferin first half

HANOI, 1 July—Vietnam’s Ministry ofPlanning and Investmentsaid the country collected171 trillion Vietnamesedong (9.6 billion USdollars) from January tomid June this year for thestate coffer, localnewspaper the New Hanoireported Tuesday.

The amount is equalto 43.9 per cent of thisyear’s target, said theministry.The countrycollected 105 trillionVietnamese dong (5.89billion US dollars) fromdomestic activities fromJanuary to mid June while

contribution of export andimport activities to thestate revenue was 41.1trillion Vietnamese dong(2.3 billion US dollars) forthe same period, accordingto the newspaper.

Another amount of 23trillion Vietnamese dong(1.29 billion US dollars) ofthe state revenue wascollected from crude oil.The rest was from othersources, said thenewspaper.

Meanwhile, thecountry spent 197.5trillion Vietnamese dong(11.09 billion US dollars)from January to mid June,

accounting for 40.2 percent of this year’sforecast.—MNA/Xinhua

Zimbabwe exports 22 million kilos ofVirginia tobacco

In this photo taken 28May, 2009, the Palm Pre

is shown at Palmheadquarters in

Sunnyvale, Calif. Sharesof smart-phone makerPalm Inc. rose sharply

ahead of Friday’s marketopen, June 26, 2009,

though analysts said theprevious day’s quarterly

report provided few detailsabout the company’s

plans.—INTERNET

Chinese media gather to cover the first ticket sales for2010’s World Expo in Shanghai. Tickets went on saleWednesday for next year’s World Expo in Shanghai,where China once again plans to showcase its growingglobal importance by staging the most extravagantWorld’s Fair ever.—INTERNET

China raises gasoline, diesel pricesThe adjustment was in response to

“recent international oil price fluctuation”under the country’s new fuel pricingmechanism, as international crude priceskept rising, said the statement.Accordingto the new mechanism, China’s domesticprices are to be “indirectly linked” toglobal crude prices “in a controlledmanner”.

Under the pricing mechanism, Chinawould consider changing benchmark retailprices of oil products when theinternational crude price rises or falls by adaily average of 4 per cent over 22 workingdays in a row.—MNA/Xinhua

YAOUNDE, 1 July—Cam-eroon President Paul Biyaon Tuesday namedPhilemon Yang as the newprime minister of thecountry in governmentreshuffle efforts, stateradio said. The newly appointedpremier, who used to bethe secretary general at thepresidential office,replaces Ephraim Inoni atthe head of thegovernment, whichincludes 12 ministers,according to a presidentialdecree broadcast on stateradio.—MNA/Xinhua

Cameroonpresident

names newPM in govt.

reshuffle

Panama seizes over a ton ofcocaine

PANAMA CITY, 1 July—Panama officials haveseized over a ton of cocaine,the National Police said onTuesday.

The shipment wasfound under the false floorof an articulated truck inAnton, a municipality 135kilometres west of thecapital Panama City, thepolice said, adding that thedrug’s packaging wasmarked with panda bears,triangles and the number88.

The Police said theoperation was in a jointMonday operation with theDrug Prosecutors Office,six Panamanians and aNicaraguan were arrestedat the scene. Police alsoseized 30,000 dollars incash, and a sedan vehicleduring the operation.

Cocaine found inPanama is usually on its wayfrom Peru, Colombia andBolivia, where all the

world’s cocaine is grown,to the United States, whichties with Spain for the largestper capital consumptionrate. Panama seized 55 tonsof the drug during 2008.

MNA/Xinhua

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 2 July, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV ASIA INNOVATOR VOY NO (5)Consignees of cargo carried on MV ASIA INNO-

VATOR VOY NO (5) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 2.7.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of NO. (6) SULE PA-GODA WHARF where it will lie at the consignee’s riskand expenses and subject to the byelaws and conditionsof the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINER LTDPhone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI MAJESTIC VOY NO (93909)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI MA-JESTIC VOY NO (93909) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 2.7.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

COMPLETION OF MARRIAGEMaung Win Lwin

son of U Ko Ko Gyi, Managing Director(AMTK Co., Ltd) and Daw Than Yee, residing

at Pabedan Township, Yangon Division.and

Ma Nwe Nwe Win, B.Sc (Physics)(AMTK Co., Ltd.)

daughter of U Win Kyi, Assistant Chief Engi-neer (Retired) and Daw Kyin Than, residing at

Ahlone Township, Yangon Division weremarried with the consent of both parents on

(4.6.2009) in Bangkok, Thailand.Both Parents and

Maung Win Lwin+Ma Nwe Nwe Win

Bank HolidayAll Banks will be

closed on 6thJuly(Monday) 2009, FullMoon of Waso beingpublic holidays under theNegotiable InstrumentsAct.

Central Bank ofMyanmar

Over 3,330 children treated denguefever for first 6 months of this year

PHNOM PENH, 1 July—Cambodia’s dengue fever is aserious problem for children because most infectedcases have been occurred on children, official of HealthMinistry said on Wednesday.

“We has been treated 3,333 children infected withdengue and other ten have been killed by thehemorrhagic fever so far this year,” said Ngan Chantha,director of anti-dengue fever department of HealthMinistry. “It increased sharply compared with the to-tal cases last year, when there were only 1811 childcases and 23 children died last year,” he said, addingthat “we have to enhance education and public cam-paign on the dengue to raise awareness among ourpeople in rural and urban areas.”

The local community has to be careful with chil-dren because the rainy season is starting now. It willbe easy for the mosquitoes to lay eggs in the water jar.The tiger mosquito is a gent from water-born virusbeating the children that caused to have dengue fever.They have to clean areas surrounding their houses, andchildren should sleep in net, he said.—Internet

Second Russian cargospaceship undocks from ISS

MOSCOW, 1 July—The Russian cargo spaceshipProgress M-02M undocked from the InternationalSpace Station (ISS)and began autonomous flight, theMission Control Center outside Moscow said on Tues-day.

The cargo spaceship loaded with refuse collectedaboard the ISS undocked from the station in an auto-matic mode at around 22:30 Moscow time (1830GMT), the Itar-Tass news agency reported, citing asource from the flight control center.

The freighter will help the ISS crew to test the newdocking unit on 12 July. The spaceship has little fuelleft due to the test, said the source.

The freighter will then take part in several scien-tific experiments and splash down into a designatedarea in the Pacific Ocean.

Once the spacecraft left, the Soyuz TMA-14manned spaceship will move from the Zvezda serv-ice module to the Pirs module, which is slated forearly July.

Internet

Trucks parked at thesouthern port of

Busan, South Korea.The country’s tradesurplus reached arecord 7.4 billion

dollars in June afterexports fell at a

slower-than-expectedpace, government

figures haveshown.—INTERNET

South Sudan fighting sparksfear of wider conflict

NASIR, 1 July—Thick lines of sweat run down theface of Peter Gatwech as he clutches the dressingaround the bullet hole in his belly.

“I was hit by the guns of the soldiers when we werefighting,” said the 24-year old cattle keeper from theJikany branch of the Nuer people, his voice quiveringwith pain. The young man is one of 33 wounded fromthe latest round of vicious fighting in southern Sudanwho have received treatment in the hospital in Nasir,an impoverished town of mud and thatch huts in Up-per Nile state. “They were sending supplies to the Luo,and we had to stop them,” he added, referring to arival Nuer people whose lands border Jikany territory.

Gatwech was with several hundred armed Jikanymen who launched an attack in mid-June on a riverconvoy of 30 barges carrying United Nations food aid,killing at least 40 of the 150 southern soldiers actingas its escort.—Internet

A crane at a construc-tion site in central KualaLumpur. Malaysia hasannounced measures toliberalise the economyas it heads into reces-sion, winding back adecades-old policy of

positive discriminationfor Malays.—INTERNET

Beijing Olympics assetsauctions collect 28 m USD

BEIJING, 1 July—The last auction of Beijing Olympicassets closed on Tuesday, bringing the total deals to 189million yuan (27.7 mill US dollars), an increment of260 percent from the evaluation price.

Seventy-six items, including sofas and seats at thechairman platform in the Bird’s Nest, or the National Sta-dium, were sold for 563,000 yuan Tuesday. The BeijingEquity Exchange have sold out more than 700,000 itemsfrom the 2008 Games at 25 auctions in nearly ayear, including furniture, household appliance andproperties at the Games’s opening ceremony.—Internet

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Two buses drive in deep rainwater on a flooded street in Wuhan, capital cityof central China’s Hubei Province, on 30 June, 2009. The city has been hit

by seasonal summer rainfalls for days. —INTERNET

H1N1 influenza shiftedto younger people

Study says Tunguska explosioncaused by comet

ITHACA, 1 July —USscientists say researchinvolving the exhaustplume from a NASA spaceshuttle launch suggests the1908 Tunguska explosionwas caused by a comet.

The mysterious explo-sion leveled 830 squaremiles of Siberian forestand a cause has never beendetermined. But CornellUniversity researchers sayfindings from their studyindicated the explosionwas nearly certainly

caused by a comet enter-ing the Earth’s atmos-phere.

“It’s almost like puttingtogether a 100-year-oldmurder mystery,” saidProfessor Michael Kelley,who led the study. “Theevidence is pretty strongthat the Earth was hit by acomet in 1908.”

The researcherscontend the massiveamount of water vaporspewed into theatmosphere by the comet’s

icy nucleus was caught byhigh-energy eddies in aprocess called two-dimensional turbulence,which explains whynoctilucent clouds formeda day later many thousandsof miles away.

Noctilucent clouds arethe Earth’s highest clouds,forming naturally in themesosphere at about 55miles over the polarregions during the summermonths.

Internet

Purple sweet potato mayfight cancer

A small herd of cattleposes on a dry pasture

in the Canadian prairienear Rockyford,

Alberta, on 30 June,2009. Canadian farmers

and ranchers arestruggling with theircrops and livestock

across Western Canadadue to extremely dry

conditions, according tonational media

reports.—INTERNET

MANHATTAN, 1 July—AUS researcher says aspecially cultivated purplesweet potato may helpfight cancer.

Soyoung Lim ofKansas State University inManhattan in Kansas saysthe Kansas-developedsweet potato has purpleflesh high in anthocyanin— a flavanoid responsiblefor red/blue pigment thatmay have an anti-cancereffect.“Sometimes we canfind purple sweet potatoesin the grocery store, butthey don’t have this purplecolor on the skin andinside,” Lim said in astatement.

Lim extracted and com-pared pigments from threekinds of sweet potatoes.The Kansas potato hadsignificantly higher an-thocyanin contents com-pared to the others.

The analysis also foundtwo derivatives of an-thocyanin were dominant— cyanidin and peonidin— which Lim used totreat human colon cancercells.

Cyanidin and peonidinshowed significant cellgrowth inhibition for thecancer cells, but nosignificant changes in thecell cycle, Lim says.

Internet

More than two thousandnew A/H1N1 cases

confirmed in EuropeSTOCKHOLM, 1 July— A European health agency said

Tuesday that 2006 new A/H1N1 flu cases werereported in European countries within the last 24hours. Of the new cases, 1,687 were confirmed inBritain, 176 in Spain,49 in France, 29 in Germany, 23in Cyprus, nine in Finland, five in Switzerland, fourrespectively in Slovakia, Portugal and Greece, threerespectively in Austria, Denmark and Romania, tworespectively in Ireland and Hungary, one respectivelyin Sweden, Poland and Belgium, the European Centerfor Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said inits daily situation report.

The total number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1flu virus in the EU (European Union) and EFTA(European Free Trade Association)countries rose to8,179, with 717 cases in Spain and 5,937 in Britain,288 in France and 417 in Germany, the ECDC said.

The ECDC publishes a daily situation report aboutA/H1N1 flu cases in the EU and EFTA countries basedon official information from these countries.—Internet

Doctor says peanutbutter can be healthy

A citizen wearing amask walks at thesubway station in

Buenos Aires, capital ofArgentina, on 30 June .A health emergency wasdeclared in the city and

province of BuenosAires to prevent A/H1N1 flu from fast

spreading. INTERNET

Thailand’s total number ofA/H1N1 patients rises to 1,473

BANGKOK, 1 July—Thailand’s Public HealthMinistry on Wednesday announced 59 more patients,who are confirmed to have infected with the A/H1N1flu virus, bringing the country’s total number to 1,473.

Of the total new confirmed cases, 41 are studentsand two others had just returned from overseas visits,Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said,Thai language news agency INN reported.

The 12 others are domestically infected patients,while officials are investigating the origin of the illnessof another four A/H1N1-virus-contracted patients, hesaid. Of the total 1,473 confirmed cases, 1,448 havealready recovered, while 22 others are still treated inhospitals, he said.—Internet

BOSTON, 1 July,—ABoston doctor says eatingpeanut butter can be ahealthy choice.

Dr Walter Willett of theHarvard School of PublicHealth in Boston says thepresence of somesaturated fat doesn’tautomatically kick peanutbutter into the camp of“unhealthy foods.”

“Olive oil, wheat

germ, and even tofu — allconsidered to be ‘healthy’foods — have somesaturated fat,” Willett saysin a statement.

“It’s the whole packageof nutrients, not just oneor two, that determineshow good a particularfood is for health.”

Peanut butter hasnutrients including fiberand some vitamins andminerals — especiallypotassium. Unsaltedpeanut butter has a terrificpotassium-to-sodiumratio, which counters theharmful cardiovasculareffects of a sodiumsurplus, Willett says.Even salted peanut butterstill has about twice asmuch potassium assodium.

TEMPE, 1 July—Thenewest strain of theH1N1 influenza revealsan age shift toward ayounger population com-pared with seasonal in-fluenza, US researcherssay.

The researchers say 87percent of the deaths and71 percent of the cases ofsevere pneumonia oc-curred in people ages 5-59.

“The data show thatthe vast majority of cases

of severe pneumonia anddeaths occurred amongthose ages 5-59, whichis atypical when com-pared with the age pat-tern supported by sea-sonal flu,” one of theresearchers, GeradoChowell-Puente of Ari-zona State University,said in a statement. “Ifresources or vaccine sup-plies are limited, focus-ing prevention efforts onthese age classes must beconsidered.”—Internet

Internet

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S P O R T SFootball fans at Real

welcome Kaka

Real Madrid new playerBrazilian midfielder

Kaka thanks supportersduring his officialpresentation at theSantiago Bernabeustadium in Madrid.

INTERNET

Wolves snap up record signing DoyleLONDON, 1 July—Republic of Ireland international striker Kevin

Doyle became newly-promoted English Premier League sideWolves record signing on Tuesday as they paid 6.5million poundsto Reading for him.

The 25-year-old has been a prolific scorer for Reading in theChampionship but even his 18 goals were not enough to gain thempromotion to the Premier League last season.

“Wolves were the first club that came in and settled things withReading and so they were the first club I spoke to,” he told theWolves website.

“I was expecting a long summer but Wolves were instraightaway,” added Doyle who signed a four year contract withthem.

Doyle, who has previous Premier League experience withReading for two seasons scoring 21 goals, is the third signing ofthe close season by former Republic of Ireland manager MickMcCarthy.

McCarthy stepped in for Serbian midfielder Nenad Milijas -spending 3million euros on him from Red Star Belgrade -and former Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann, who arrivedon a free transfer.

Internet

Republic of Ireland’s Kevin Doyle(left) vies for the ball with Cyprus’s

Elias Charalambous during their 2010World Cup qualifying match at CrokePark in Dublin in 2008.—INTERNET

Rovers snap up promisingFrench teenager

LONDON, 1 July—Promising young Frenchmidfielder Steven N’Zonzi became English PremierLeague side Blackburn Rovers fourth signing of theclose season on Tuesday.

The 20-year-old signed from Amiens on a four yeardeal - no transfer fee was revealed.

His signing comes just 24 hours after veteran Danishinternational defender Lars Jacobsen signed with them- French defender Gael Givet and midfielder Elrio vanHeerden are the other new arrivals this summer.

Experienced Dutch international striker Ruud vanNistelrooy - presently with Real Madrid - is anotherpotential signing for the club as they recently sawParaguayan striker Roque Santa Cruz leave for Man-chester City where he rejoins his former Rovers bossMark Hughes.—Internet

Burnley pay record feefor Scottish star Fletcher

LONDON, 1 July—Scottish international strikerSteven Fletcher became newly-promoted EnglishPremier League side Burnley’s record signing onTuesday when they agreed a 3million pounds fee withScottish club Hibernian.

The 22-year-old - capped four times and namedyoung player of the year for last season - had been atarget of Hibernian’s Scottish Premier League rivalsCeltic back in January but it had been turned down.

Burnley - who earlier on Tuesday signed defenderTyrone Mears for 500,000 pounds from Championshipside Derby County - confirmed the capture of Fletcheron their website. “The highly-rated 22-year-old hasagreed a four-year deal at Turf Moor.”

Fletcher’s fee is double the previous record outlaywhen they signed Martin Paterson and Chris Eaglesfor 1.5million pounds apiece last year.—Internet

Mum’s the word as Dementievareaches Wimbledon last four

Russia’s ElenaDementieva celebrates

after beating Italy’sFrancesca Schiavone6-2, 6-2, in the 2009Wimbledon Tennis

Championships quarter-finals at the All EnglandTennis Club.—INTERNET

United net Valencia

Ecuadorean footballplayer Antonio Valencia

Serena steamrollers Azarenkafor Wimbledon semi spot

LONDON, 1 July—Second seed Serena Williamsreached the Wimbledon semi-finals on Tuesday witha 6-2, 6-3 win over Belarusian eighth seed VictoriaAzarenka.

The 2002 and 2003 champion, who is yet to drop aset at Wimbledon this year, was rarely troubled as shewrapped up victory inside an hour and 13 minutes onCentre Court.

The 27-year-old American will face Russian fourthseed Elena Dementieva for a place in the final.

Azarenka, 19, beat Williams in the Miami final inApril — their last clash — but Williams held an overall2-1 lead going into the Wimbledon quarter-final.

Williams raced through the first set, taking it in 26minutes.—Internet

MANCHESTER, 1 July—Manchester United saidon Tuesday they havesigned Wigan wingerAntonio Valencia on afour-year contract for afee believed to be in theregion of 16 millionpounds (22 million dol-lars). “Joining Manches-ter United is a dreamcome true for me,” the 23-year-old Ecuadoran told

MADRID, 1 July—RealMadrid’s new ‘Galactico’signing Kaka received a

triumphant welcome fromtens of thousands of fansas he was presented at theclub’s stadium onTuesday.

“I want to write myname into the history ofthis club,” the Brazilianmidfielder told the crowdat the Santiago Bernabeustadium in the SpanishCapital. Kaka showed offhis new “number eight”shirt, which he took overfrom ArgentinianFernando Gago, who nowtakes the “number five.”The Brazilian, whose fullname is Ricardo IzecsonDos Santos Leite, wassigned for 65 million eurosfrom AC Milan in earlyJune.—Internet

LONDON, 1 July— ElenaDementieva saluted hermother for coaching her tothe top after the fourth seedeased into the Wimbledonsemi-finals for the second

successive year with a 6-2, 6-2 victory overunseeded ItalianFrancesca Schiavone onTuesday.

Dementieva, the worldnumber four, has beencoached by her motherVera for most of her pro-fessional career and theRussian believes shewould never have made animpact on the tour withoutsuch close family support.

“To have my mom withme all the time is the big-gest support. I just feelvery lucky to have herwith me all the time,”Dementieva said.

“She’s been coachingme for such a long timeand she knows me betterthan anyone else. Sheknows exactly what Ineed. It feels great to bewith her.”

Internet

the club websitewww.manutd.com.

“I have enjoyed mytime at Wigan, but I amthrilled to have the chanceto challenge for the big-gest honours in club foot-ball here,” he added.

“Playing in front of76,000 fans alongsideplayers like WayneRooney, Rio Ferdinandand Ryan Giggs will be anamazing experience. Ican’t wait to get started.”

United manager SirAlex Ferguson has been afan of Valencia, who spenttwo seasons with Wiganand helped turn the clubinto an established topflight side.

“Antonio is a player wehave admired for sometime now, having spentthe last two years in thePremier League withWigan,” Ferguson said.

Internet

LONDON, 1 July—Dinara Safina insistednobody could nowquestion her worldnumber one status as shemade it into theWimbledon semi-finals.

The Russian, who hasnever won a Grand Slamtitle, has now reached atleast the semi-finals in allof the last four majors andis adamant that fact aloneproves she has consist-ently been a top playerover the last 12 months.

And she insisted shehad the “weapons” toshoot down defendingchampion VenusWilliams in the semi-finals.

Dinara Safina

The top seed reachedthe Wimbledon last fourfor the first time on Tues-day with a 6-7(5/7), 6-4, 6-1 win overunseeded German teen-ager Sabine Lisicki.

Internet

I’m No. 1, no question - Safina

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Chin State, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated in lower Sagaing Division, scattered in upperSagaing, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, fairlywidespread in Shan State and Taninthayi Division andwidespread in the remaining areas with locallyheavyfalls in Rakhine and Mon States, isolatedheavyfalls in upper Sagaing and Magway Divisions.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereNay Pyi Taw (0.83) inch, Kyaukpyu (6.45) inches,Hkamti (5.03) inches, Mawlamyine (4.34) inches, Gwa(4.29) inches, Chaungsone (3.46) inches, Thaton (3.19)inches, paung (2.76) inches, Hpa-an (2.67) inches andAunglan (1.77) inches.

Maximum temperature on 30-6-2009 was 84°F.Minimum temperature on 1-7-2009 was 68°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 1-7-2009 was 100%.Total sun shine hour on 30-6-2009 was Nil.

Rainfall on 1-7-2009 was (1.02) inches atMingaladon, (1.02) inches at Kaba-Aye and (1.15)inches at Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009was (37.72) inches at Mingaladon, (43.11) inches atKaba-Aye and (48.35) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6)mph from Southwest at (15:30) hours MST on 30-6-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderare in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and strong elsewhere inthe Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 2nd July 2009:Rain will be isolated in lower Sagaing and MagwayDivisions, scattered in Chin and Kayah States andMandalay Division, fairly widespread in Shan Stateand Taninthayi Division and widespread in theremaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to roughseas will be experienced off and along Deltaic, Gulf ofMottama and Rakhine Coast. Surface wind speed insqualls may reach (35-40) mph. Seas will be moderateelsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Generallystrong monsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 2-7-2009: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is(80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 2-7-2009: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is(80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 2-7-2009: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is(80%).

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COLOMBO, 1 July—The military in Sri Lanka saidon Tuesday that two torpedoes and a launcher buriedby the Tamil Tiger rebels have been found in the northby the government troops.

Officials from the Ministry of Defence said thetwo large scale torpedoes and the launcher wereunearthed by the troops in Puthukkudiyiruppu, the lastLTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) strongholdin the northern battle field. The torpedoes are 26 feet(about 7.92 metres) long and the launcher is 28 feet(about 8.53 metres) long, said the officials, adding thatthey had been kept underground in four different pits.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakseannounced last month that the LTTE had been totallydefeated with all the 15,000-square-kilomertresterritory formerly held by the rebels being recapturedby the government troops.

About 300,000 Tamil civilians displaced by thefinal battles between the government troops and theLTTE are now being housed in scores of camps in thenorthern Vavuniya and Jaffna districts.—MNA/Xinhua

Weapons found innorthern Sri Lanka

A sunflower field is seen near the small town ofBerg in Lower Austria.

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Basic Nursing andElder Care Course

concludesYANGON, 1 July—The Basic

Nursing and Elder Care Course No. 2 ofHninzigon Home for the Aged concludedat the Home on Kaba Aye Pagoda Roadin Bahan Township this morning.

Chairman of the ExecutiveCommittee U Kyaw Shein made a speechand presented completion certificates to13 trainees.

The opening ceremony of thecourse No. 3 followed. Altogether 20trainees are attending the six-monthcourse.

MNA

1,045,192 acres inAyeyawady

Division put undermonsoon paddy

YANGON, 1 July—A total of1,045,192 acres had been put undermonsoon paddy in AyeyawadyDivision up to 30 June, and continuedefforts are being made to meet thetargeted acres of monsoon paddy in thedivision.—MNA

Villages of Bago Division have easyaccess to modern communications

Phayagyi Village microwave station onYangon-Mandalay Union Highway in Bago

Township.

Article and photos:Reporter Peinzalok Thein Nyunt

The government is workinghard to ensure equitabledevelopment of urban and ruralareas throughout the country. Aspart of the drive, it is puttingmany projects into effect toimprove the communicationsector. Now, the nation has seenproportionate development interms of communication in urbanand rural areas, states anddivisions and border areas.

During our recent tour of theMyanma Posts andTelecommunications under theMinistry of Communications,Posts and Telegraphs of Bago inBago Division, we interviewedthe manager of Bago DivisionMPT. When asked aboutcommunications andorganizational set-up, he said thatBago Division MPT was

composed of three sectors: post,telegraph and telephone.

In respect of the post sector,he said that Bago Division had41 full-time post offices, 17 part-time post offices, and 13 villagerepresenting post offices,totalling 71; that Express MailService (EMS) was available inBago, Nyaunglebin, Pyu andToungoo townships; that theDomestic Express Mail ServiceTrack and Trace Project had beenlaunched in 26 townships since 1May 2009, and then domesticexpress mail service track andtrace for Bago Division was usedin Bago and Toungoo officesonly.

Express Money Order forBago Division was available in11 townships — Bago, Phayagyi,

(See page 10)

Congregation led by Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing receive Five Precepts from Chairman Magway SayadawBhaddanta Kumara.—MNA

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