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Established 1914

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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment 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 in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preserva-

tion and safeguarding 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 peace and tranquillity,prevalence of law and order

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

the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

River crossing bridges opened one after another to uplifttransport infrastructure of Ayeyawady Division

Local people urged to maintain bridges for durability

Senior General Than Shwe sends message offelicitations to President of the Arab Republic of Egypt

NAY PYI TAW, 23 July—Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His ExcellencyMr. Mohamed Hosny Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on the occasion of theNational Day of the Arab Republic of Egypt which falls on 23 July 2010.—MNA

Prime Minister U Thein Sein felicitatesPrime Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt

NAY PYI TAW, 23 July—U Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message offelicitations to His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on the occasionof the National Day of the Arab Republic of Egypt which falls on 23 July 2010.—MNA

Prime Minister U Thein Sein strolling alongnewly-inaugurated Yazudaing Bridge No. 1. — MNA

Photo shows Yazudaing Bridge No. 1 across Yazudaing River in Mawlamyinegyun Township, Ayeyawady Division.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22 July—Yazudaing Bridge No.1in Mawlamyinegyun Township, Ayeyawady Divisionwas commissioned today. Prime Minister U TheinSein graced the opening ceremony with his presence.

Also present on the occasion were Chairman ofAyeyawady Division Peace and Development Coun-cil Commander of South-West Command Maj-GenKyaw Swe, Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation UHtay Oo, Minister for Construction U Khin MaungMyint, Minister for Progress of Border Areas andNational Races and Development Affairs U TheinNyunt, Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein, Minis-ter for Rail Transportation U Aung Min and Ministerfor Forestry U Thein Aung, deputy ministers, depart-mental personnel at division, district and townshiplevels, members of social organizations, locals andguests.

(See page 8)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 23 July, 2010

Friday, 23 July, 2010

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

People’s Desire

The inauguration ceremony of Hinthada-Zalun railroad section of Hinthada-Danubyu-Sakkawt (Nyaungdon) railroad constructionproject took place in the yard of HinthadaRailway Station in Hinthada, AyeyawadyDivision, on 21 July 2010.

Hinthada-Zalun railroad section is the16.25 miles long facility of the 48 miles longHinthada-Danubyu-Sakkawt (Nyaungdon)railroad construction project.

The already-opened railroad section willconnect with Pathein (Begarat)-Nyaungdon-Yangon (Hlinethaya) railroad near theAyeyawady Bridge (Nyaungdon), and it willlead to Yangon. Upon completion, paddy, beansand pulses and marine products, the mainitems of Ayeyawady Division, can betransported to Yangon at a fair cost.

The government has spent a large sum ofmoney on creating strategic transport facilitiessuch as roads and bridges in all regions of theUnion including border regions with a view tonarrowing development gap in all areas due tothe geographical conditions.

Although there were 487 railway stationson 1976 miles long railroads before 1988, thegovernment has so far built 884 railway stationson 3471 miles long railroads in the country todate. At present, the government is buildingmany small and large bridges on new railroadsand motor roads across mountain ranges fromthe east to the west.

The transport infrastructures play asignificant role in undertaking development ofthe entire Union. Improvement of transportsector will reflect the progress of the Unionand contribute to uplifting the livelihoods ofthe national people.

Better transport for upliftinglivelihoods of people

NAY PYI TAW, 23 July—On the occasion ofthe National Day of the Arab Republic of Egypt,which falls on 23 July 2010, U Nyan Win, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, hassent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr.Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Foreign Minister of the ArabRepublic of Egypt.

MNA

NA Y PYI TAW, 22 July — MyanmaProfessionals Education Center will conduct a newnine-month course for those with basis computerknowledge to obtain CICT Diploma in SoftwareEngineering of Cambridge ICT in Malaysia by theend of July.

Six subjects related to software engineeringand an applied project will be lectured by well-experienced trainers at the course.

Every one may take the course and traineescan pay fee by installments. Students who passedmatriculation examination can enjoy specialdiscount.

For further information, contact MyanmarProfessionals Education Center (MPEC), Room(804/B), Dagon Center, Myenigon, SangyoungTownship, Yangon (Ph: 01 73066278 and everyone may enlist in advance. —MNA

YANGON, 22 July — Member of Union ElectionCommission (Yangon Division In-charge) Dr TinAung Aye, Chairman of Yangon DivisionSubcommission U Ko Ko, Chairman of YangonSouth District Subcommission and members on 14July viewed the progress of works at Thongwa TownSubcommission office.

At the meeting hall of the office, Chairman ofThongwa Township Subcommission U Zaw Weikpresented the processes of the commission.

UEC Member (Yangon Division In-charge) DrTin Aung Aye discussed the matters related to theelectoral works.—MNA

UEC Member (Yangon Division In-charge) inspectsThongwa Township Subcommission Office

UEC Member (Yangon Division In-charge)Dr Tin Aung Aye meets chairman and

members of Thongwa TownshipSubcommission.—TOWNSHIP SUBCOMMISSION

MPEC to conduct newDiploma in SoftwareEngineering course

Foreign Affairs Minister felicitatesEgyptian counterpart

Offspring of Labour Ministryawarded

NAY PYI TAW, 22 July— A prize presentationceremony of the Ministry of Labour was held at theauditorium of the ministry here this morning with anaddress by Minister for Labour U Aung Kyi.

The minister presented cash awards to a six-distinction winner and two five-distinction winners.

Next, Deputy Minister U Tin Tun Aung awardedfour four-distinction winners and the directors-generalother distinction winners.

On behalf of outstanding students, six-distinctionwinner Maung Thant Kywe spoke words of thanks.

MNA

Minister for Labour U Aung Kyi speaking atceremony to award outstanding students of

staff in 2010 matriculation examination.—MNA

YANGON, 22 July—The STET Institute ofSingapore, a registeredprivate educationinstitute, will organize

Academic seminar atTraders Hotel on 24-25 July

an academic seminar atKonbaung Tabaung Hallon the 3rd Floor at theTraders Hotel from 2 pmto 4 pm on 24 July and

from 4 pm to 6 pm on 25July.

Those who havecompleted matriculationeducation may alsoat tend the seminar,which covers Diplomain Hospital i tyManagement (hottestcourse) , AdvanceDiploma in Hospitality

Management (hottestcourse), Diploma inB u s i n e s sAdministrat ion andPrivate Secretary, andInternational EnglishLanguage (IESOL).

Interested personsmay sign up, dialing546115.

MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 23 July, 2010 3

CARACAS, 22 July—The militaryplane crash in Venezuela’s westernLara state has been caused by enginefailure, air force commander Maj GenJorge Arevalo Oropeza said onWednesday.

According to Arevalo, the K-8 planecrashed during a training flight earlyWednesday due to the failure in one ofits engines. However, the pilot and co-pilot of the plane ejected safely beforethe crash.

Engine failure blamed for planecrash in Venezuela

Rescuers work at the site after a Venezuelan AirForce K-8 training plane crashed in Barquisimeto,capital of Lara department, about 360 km west of

Caracas, Venezuila, on 21 July, 2010. The pilot andco-pilot of the military plane ejected safely beforetheir aircraft crashed on Wednesday, the national

civil defence chief said. —XINHUA

An Afghan boy stands atthe site of a suicide

bombing in Kandaharcity, south of Kabul,

Afghanistan, on 20 July,2010. A suicide bomberstruck hiding explosives

in a cart topped withbottles of juice for sale,Afghan officials said .

Two civilians wereinjured in the blast.

INTERNET

A policeman looksinside a damaged

vehicle after abomb attack inBaghdad on 18

July, 2010. A bombattached to a car

killed one man andwounding three

others in UrDistrict,

northeasternBaghdad, police

said.INTERNET

HERAT, 22 July—Some 13 Talebanmilitants were killed asaircraft raided theirhideout in Pushtroaddistrict of Farah Provincein western Afghanistan,police said onWednesday. “Actingupon intelligence reportNATO aircraft raided ahideout of Talebanmilitants in PushtroadDistrict on Tues-daymorning killing 13 rebelsand wounding 15 others,”Ikramudin Yawar toldXinhua. The militantsgathered in a house todiscuss their plan to carryout subversive activitiesand draw media attentionon the same day as a majorinternational conferenceon Afghanistan’s futurewas held in the Afghancapital Kabul on Tues-day with the participationof delegates including 40foreign ministers fromover 70 countries andinternational organi-zations. The KabulConference concludedwith the donor nationsrenewing their support toAfghanistan’s securityand peace plan.

Xinhua

Air strikes kill13 Talebanmilitants in

W AfghanistanThe accident occurred at 9:45 a.m.

(1415 GMT) on Wednesday on theoutskirts of Barquisimeto, capital of theLara state. “Those are machines, and themachines have failures,” Arevalo toldstate-run TV channel Venezolana deTelevision.

One pilot fractured his hip and theother survived unhurt, the air forcecommander said, adding that a panelwould be set up to investigate the crash.

Xinhua

SANAA, 22 July— At least five security soldierswere killed on Thursday in an ambush set bymasked militants believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda in the southeast troubled province ofShabwa, a provincial security official said.

The five soldiers were killed onboard theirpatrol vehicle in Ataq city, Shabwa, when thearmed militants intensively opened fire at them,the official said, asked not to be named.

He said the assailants were members of al-Qaeda wing in the Arabian Peninsula and managedto flee the scene as security patrols are trackingthem to bring them to justice.

Xinhua

Five soldiers killed inal-Qaeda ambush in

south Yemen

An injured Iraqi man iswheeled into a local

hospital in the capitalBaghdad. A suicide

bomber targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen beingpaid their wages killedat least 45 people west

of Baghdad on Sunday,in Iraq’s deadliest

single attack in morethan two months.

INTERNET

KABUL, 22 July—Aroadside bombing byTaleban militantsclaimed the life of asoldier with NATO-ledInternational SecurityAssistance Force(ISAF)in Afgha-nistan’s south-ernregion on Wednesday,a Press release of thealliance said. “AnInternational SecurityAssistance Force(ISAF) servicemember diedfollowing animprovised explosivedevice (IED) attack in

Roadside bomb kills NATO soldier in S Afghanistan

southern Afghanistantoday,” the Pressrelease said.

However, it did notreveal the nationalityof the victim, saying itis ISAF policy to defercasualty identificationprocedu-res to therelevant nationalauthorities. This is thesecond NATO soldierskilled in the sameregion with similarlethal device inAfghanistan over thepast two days.

Taleban militantshave largely relied on

the lethal homemadeweapon the IED andsuicide attacks whichhave proved deadly forboth military andcivilians.

Xinhua

A US military vehicle burns after it was hit by ablast in Jalalabad, east of Kabul recently. Afghanofficial said that a suicide car bomb hit the convoy

and that one person was killed and nine werewounded. A NATO spokeswoman confirmed anexplosion hit a coalition convoy but said she hadbeen told it was a homemade bomb, not a suicide

attacker.INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 22 July—Twelve were killed and 24wounded when a booby-trapped car was detonatedWednesday in Iraq’s eastern Province of Diyala, localpolice source said.

The explosion occurred near a health centre inthe town of Abu Sayeeda north of Baquba, capitalcity of Diyala. Besides the casualties, a buildingcollapsed shortly after the attack, the source toldXinhua on condition of anonymity.

Some reports said the death toll was around 30,but Mohammed Hussan, mayor of the town, deniedthe reports when he received the interview ofXinhua.

Sporadic violence and waves of high-profileattacks are still common in the Iraqi cities nearlyfive months after the country held its landmarkparliamentary election which is widely expectedto shape the political landscape of the war-torncountry.

Diyala Province, which stretches from the easternedges of Baghdad to the Iranian border east of thecountry, has long been a stronghold for al-Qaedamilitants and other militant groups since the US-ledinvasion of Iraq in 2003 despite repeated US and Iraqimilitary operations against them.

Xinhua

Car bombing kills 12,wounds 24 in Iraq’s Diyala

Province

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The biggest star ever discovered?

BEIJING, 22 July— Ahuge star in a neigh-bouring galaxy could bethe biggest star everdiscovered.

Scientists say it is

A huge star in a neighbouring galaxy could be thebiggest star ever discovered.—XINHUA

hundreds of times moremassive than the sun andis twice as big as any otherstar previouslydiscovered.

Astronomers dis-

covered the star by usingthe European SpaceObservatory’s Tele-scope, which is located inChile’s Atacama Desert.The star has a mass ofabout 265 times that ofthe sun and is just over amillion years old.Scientists have predictedsurface temperatures cansurpass 40,000 degreesCelsius. That’s seventimes hotter and severalmillion times brighterthan the sun.

Dr Richard Parker,Scientist ShefieldUniversity, said, “It’sincredibly significant.

Xinhua

US team finds evidence of water in moonminerals

WASHINGTON, 22 July— A team of geologists at the California Institute ofTechnology (Caltech), working with colleagues at the University of Tennessee,has found structurally bound hydroxyl groups in a mineral in a lunar rock returnedto Earth by the Apollo programme.

Their findings are detailed in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.The team found the water in a calcium phosphate mineral, apatite, within a

basalt collected from the moon’s surface by the Apollo 14 astronauts.To be precise, they didn’t find “water” — the molecule H

2O. Rather, they

found hydrogen in the form of a hydroxyl anion, OH-, bound in the apatite minerallattice. The Caltech team analyzed the lunar apatite for hydrogen, sulfur, andchlorine using an ion microprobe, which is capable of analyzing mineral grainswith sizes much smaller than the width of a human hair. This instrument fires afocused beam of high-energy ions at the sample surface, sputtering away targetatoms that are collected and then analyzed in a mass spectrometer. “The moon,which has generally been thought to be devoid of hydrous materials, has water,”says John Eiler, professor of geochemistry at Caltech and a coauthor on the paper.

“Hydroxide is a close chemical relative of water,” explains coauthor GeorgeRossman, Caltech’s professor of mineralogy. “If you heat up the apatite, thehydroxyl ions will ‘decompose’ and come out as water.”

Xinhua

Mountain marmots made biggerby climate change

WASHINGTON, 22 July— Longer summers are causinglarge mountain rodents called marmots to grow largerand get better at surviving, according to a 33-year studypublished on Wednesday in Nature.

The research, carried out by scientists at Universityof Kansas and Imperial College London in the UnitedKingdom, looked at a population of yellow-belliedmarmots (Marmota flaviventris), which are large ground-dwelling “squirrels” that live at around 3,000 metres inthe Rocky Mountains in Colorado.—Xinhua

Science

China starts up first fourthgeneration nuclear reactor

BEIJING, 22 July — Chinese scientists havesucceeded in testing the country’s first experimentalfourth generation nuclear reactor, an expert said hereon Wednesday.

The successful start up of the China ExperimentalFast Reactor (CEFR) marked a breakthrough in China’sfourth generation nuclear technology, and made Chinathe eighth country in the world to own the technology,Zhang Donghui, general manager of the CEFR project,told Xinhua over phone.

China’s existing 11 nuclear power generatingunits all use second generation of nuclear powergeneration technology. The country started theconstruction of its first third-generation pressurizedwater reactors using AP1000 technologies developedby US-based Westinghouse in 2009.

Compared with the third generation reactors whichhave an utility rate of uranium of just one percent,CEFR boasts an utility rate of more than 60 percent.

Xinhua

File photo shows peopleusing computers at aninternet bar in Beijing.

Baidu’s profits werekicked higher by anincrease in online

marketing revenues,which rose almost 75percent on year to 1.9billion yuan after thecompany boosted its

sales force andembarked on a

campaign to attractmore customers.

INTERNET

New iPad app mines Web linksfor ‘social magazine’

SAN FRANCISCO, 22July—Apple Inc.’s iPadhas hatched a new breedof magazines, one filledwith a constantlychanging mix of articles,photos and videos pickedout by your friends,family and other peoplewithin your online socialcircle.

This new twist ondigital publishing comescourtesy of Flipboard, a

free iPad application thatmade its debut onWednesday.

Flipboard is miningthe hundreds of millionsof Web links posted eachday on two of the world’smost popular outlets forsharing information andimagery, Facebook andTwitter.

All those links areautomatically convertedinto a “social magazine”format that’s

customized for anyonewho allows Flipboard tosif t through theirFacebook and Twitteraccounts. Instead ofhaving to click througha hodgepodge of links,Flipboard users will beable to flip throughdigital pages with all thetext and images alreadydisplayed on Apple’shot-selling computertablet. Internet

The camera of a street-view car, used tophotograph whole streets for Google maps. USstate attorneys pressed Google to name workerswho wrote the “snooping” code that captured

personal data from wireless networks while StreetView cars mapped streets.—INTERNET

Technology

A whale leaps from the sea near Cape Town,

South Africa, on 18 July, 2010. It whacked the

yacht, but yacht owner Paloma Werner says

neither she nor her companion was hurt.

INTERNET

Smartphones could be latestbattle accessory

FARNBOROUGH, 22 July—Smartphones could becomethe next weapon in the United States’ battlefield arsenal,as defence companies seek to cash in on the rapidlygrowing use of sophisticated mobile applications.Raytheon, which makes the Patriot missile defencesystem, is developing software which could enable asoldier to find enemies in his or her surrounding terrainusing a mobile phone running Google’s Android operatingsystem.

The software could potentially be powerful enoughto pick up aerial images from an unmanned aircraft orsatellite and then focus in on details such as license plateson cars or a person’s facial features. “We’re trying to takeadvantage of smartphone technology to tailor for whatsoldiers may need in the field,” Mark Bigham, vicepresident for defence and civil mission solutions atRaytheon, told Reuters.—Internet

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Ukraine’s GDP grows 6.3% infirst half of 2010

KIEV, 22 July— Ukraine’s gross domestic product(GDP) grew 6.3 percent in the first half of 2010,Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said onWednesday.

“We have seen improvements in the nationalindustry, freight transportation and domestic trade.The GDP growth stood at 6.3 percent in January-June,” Azarov noted at a Cabinet meeting in Kiev.

Earlier, Valery Litvitskiy, a top adviser for theNational Bank of Ukraine, forecasted the country’sreal GDP growth would be 6.2- 6.4 percent in the firsthalf of the year.

Global Appraiser Moody’s on Monday revised upUkraine’s real GDP growth to 3.3 per cent in 2010 and4.5 percent in 2011.—Xinhua

China, India become top exporters to UAEABU DHABI, 22

July— China and Indiareplaced long- standingWestern suppliers ofgoods to the United ArabEmirates ( UAE) tobecome the dominantexporters to the Gulfnation, accounting fornearly a quarter of its totalimports last year, theEmirates Business 24/7website reported on

Health Tip: Signs That You May HaveHand Arthritis

WASHINGTON, 22 July— Arthritis, the medical term for joint inflammation,commonly affects the relatively small joints of the hands.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says warning signs of handarthritis may include:

* Pain in the hands and fingers, especially after firmly holding an object for a long period.

* Stiffness and pain that are more noticeable in the morning. * Swollen or disfigured joints. * A feeling of warmth in the joints. * A feeling that the bones in the joints are rubbing together, or that a

joint is “loose.” * Cysts near the joints at the ends of the fingers.—Internet

HIV infection situation grim inEastern Europe

VIENNA, 22 July— The World HealthOrganization (WHO) warned on Wednesday thatthe situation of HIV infection in Western Europeremains stabilizing, while in Eastern Europe it showsan upward trend, among which Ukraine is hardesthit by HIV infection.

Martin Donoghoe, an expert of the WHOattending the 18th International AIDS Conferencepresently being held in Vienna, said Wednesday ata press conference that Ukraine has the highest HIVinfection rate among the European countries now.

Statistics show that the new HIV infections inEurope are about 10 million each year, of whichabout 2 million people in Western Europe, and 8million people in Eastern Europe. While only inUkraine, the annual new HIV infections are 1.5million.—Xinhua

A huge pink ribbon

hangs in the front of

the Parliament

building in Vienna,

capital of Austria,

on 19 July, 2010. The

weeklong International

AIDS Conference is

being held in Vienna.

XINHUA

China’s organ donations onthe rise

A boy, who underwent liver transplant surgerywhen he was 9 months old, makes a false start in a50-metre race for children, prompting the referee

to give chase. The games were held on Saturday inTianjin for the donors as well as recipients of

organ transplants.—XINHUA

BEIJING, 22 July— A pilot programme with whichpublic health officials are seeking to develop anationwide organ donation system has begun withsuccess.

Since the programme began in March, five people- four from Shenzhen and one from Tianjin - havedonated organs.

Other cities and regions where the programme istaking place include the cities of Shanghai and Wuhanas well as Guangdong and Hunan Provinces, accordingto Hao Linna, deputy director of the Red Cross Societyof China.

Hao’s remarks came during the 4th OrganTransplantation Games in Tianjin on Saturday beforean audience of some 800 people, consisting mostly oforgan donors and recipients.—Xinhua Health

File photo shows clients leaving a subsidiary ofGerman bank Postbank in Frankfurt/M., westernGermany. Investors will comb through the resultsof stress tests on state-owned German banks thisweek for signs of trouble in the heart of Europe’s

biggest economy.INTERNET

Wednesday.India exported a

record high 61.5 billiondirhams (about 16.7billion dollars) worth ofgoods to the UAE in2009, accounting foraround 13.7 percent of thecountry’s total imports,the report said, citingfigures by the NationalBureau of Statistics of theEconomy Ministry.

The figures showedthat China’s exports tothe UAE stood at 47. 8billion dirhams (about13 billion dollars) lastyear , const i tut ingaround 10.7 percent ofthe country’s totalimports of 447.3 billiondirhams (about 121.8billion dollars). Takentogether, exports by Indiaand China to the UAEtotaled around 109.3billion dirhams (29.7billion dollars) in 2009,accounting for nearly

24.5 percent of thecountry’s total imports,the report said. Bothcountries had been smallexporters to the UAEcompared with suchmajor industrial powersas Japan, the UnitedStates and the EuropeanUnion during the 1990sbefore they overtookthem and became the topexporters to the country,the second largest Arabeconomy and one of thetop 20 global importers.

Xinhua

Business

One of the two babypanthers, Pati andJaya, is seen in theJardin des Plantes

menagerie in Paris inthis undated picture

released by the MuseumNational d’HistoireNaturelle 21 July,

2010. A pair of cloudedleopard cubs, Neofelisnebulosa, were borntwo months ago in

Paris, the Museum saidon Wednesday.

INTERNET

China likely to becomeprincipal donor to AfricaNAIROBI, 22 July—

China is likely to becomethe principal donor toAfrica partly because theChinese have gone furtherin ensuring that aidprojects benefit themasses, a Kenyandevelopment analyst said.

Chris Abong’o, alecturer at the Universityof Nairobi and a ruraldevelopment consultant,said that China is ensuringthat its aid and loanprogrammes to Africa gomore directly to people atthe grassroots level andare on a larger scale.

China is building ahospital, among otherprojects in the east-centralAfrican country, in thelow income area of KayoleEstate, which will offerlocal people access tohealth care. “I think moreChinese aid should bedirected towardsconstruction ofinfrastructure becausewith good infrastructure,one is able to win thehearts of the people andhelps accelerate social andeconomic development ofa nation,” said the analyst.

“Essentially, Chineseassistance to Africashould be directed toprojects that directly helpin poverty eradication,” hesaid.–Xinhua

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Baby in hollowed-out watermelonbecomes Internet hit

BEIJING, 22 July—The unidentified child wascaptured on video sittinginside the huge hollowed-out fruit in the latestYouTube sensation.

The fun 35-second

clip shows the docileyoungster occasionallylooking up at the camerabefore bobbing backinto his originalposition.

More than 210,000

people have watched theblack-haired baby lickingand attempting to chewon the inside of thewatermelon which isperched on a chair.

The figures make itone of the most popularwatermelon and baby-related videos on the clip-sharing website.

Commemassive ntsfrom chuckling fansinclude “So that’s wherethey come from...”and “cute baby uglychair.”

Xinhua

Food poisoning kills 56 in China in Jan toMay period

Two girls of the Jingethnic group attend thecelebration activity of

the traditional “HaFestival” at Jiangping

Township of Dongxing,southwest China’sGuangxi Zhuang

Autonomous Region,on 20 July , 2010.

BEIJING, 22 July—Food poisoning in Chinakilled 56 and sickened2,452 others betweenJanuary and May this

year, the Ministry ofHealth said here onWednesday.

In a report posted onits website, the ministrysaid 27 people, about halfof the deaths, were killedby food poisoning athome. The deaths weremainly caused by theconsumption ofpoisonous vegetablesand pesticide- or poison-contaminated food.

There were 68 casesof food poisoning atemployee and studentcafeterias nationwide inthe five months resultingin the poisoning ofalmost 1,650 people and

the deaths of 18.Bacteria-induced foodpoisoning andimproperly cookedkidney beans were themain causes.

Seven people werekilled by excessiveintakes of nitrite, asubstance with anappearance similar tosalt which can be used asa meat preservatives.

The report urgedfood manufacturers toensure food safety inaccordance with law andcalled on the public toraise food safety self-awareness levels.

Xinhua

TGV passenger trainswaiting at a Paris trainstation. Rail traffic inthe south of Francesuffered delays onWednesday after a

high-speed TGV hit atruck full of shampoo,police and the SNCFnational rail operator

said.INTERNET

People watch through an underwater viewing areaas a polar bear reaches toward a fish while beingfed at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in an11-foot deep saltwater pool on19 July, 2010, in

Tacoma, Wash. The zoo has two polar bears whohave been there since they were cubs and providessanctuary for another two who were rescued from

a circus in 2002.INTERNET

MORENO VALLEY, 22July— Parents have beenwarned to keep an eyeon their children and takeextra safety precautionsafter a 17-year-oldSouthern California girlwas apparently abductedabout a block from her

Calif girl, 17, slain; parents told to watch kidsschool and killed.

An autopsyconfirmed the identity ofNorma LopezWednesday, six daysafter she disappeared anda day after herdecomposed body,shirtless and clad in

jeans, was found face-down in a grove of treesin the agricultural areaon the eastern edge ofMoreno Valley.

Investigators wouldnot release the cause ofdeath. Police and theFBI have not identified

a suspect and asked thepublic for help in theinvestigation. Policewould like to speak withthe driver of a greenSUV seen speedingfrom the area the dayLopez vanished.

Internet

ASEAN becomes engine of regionaleconomic development

SINGAPORE, 22 July—The ASEAN is becomingan engine of the regionaleconomic development, aswell as of world economicdevelopment, an expert fromthe East Asian Institute ofNational University ofSingapore said here on

Thursday.In an exclusive

interview with Xinhua, DrZhao Hong said ASEANmember countries not onlyexport goods to othercountries, but also become abig market that will alsoimport more goods fromother countries.

“In this sense, theASEAN is very important,and is also a driving force inregional economicintegration. So we can saythe ASEAN plays a veryimportant role today,” Zhaosaid.

Ministers fromASEAN membercountries convened in

Vietnam this week. “Theyhave reached a consensuson regional economiccooperation and stressedthat all the ASEANcountries will make greaterefforts on economicintegration in the ASEANand also in East Asia,” Hesaid. “Apart from this, theyalso made consensus toimprove regionaleconomic integration, andare becoming cooperativewith other countries, suchas China, Japan and SouthKorea, so as to makeeconomic recovery morequickly and better in thisregion,” said Zhao.

Xinhua

China’s auto production base steers towards“green” future

CHANGCHUN, 22 July— Visitors to an international automobile fair in northeast China this year noticed achange taking place at the event: a greater number of hybrid and all-electric vehicles on display.

More than 30 models of all-electric buses, BEVs (battery electric vehicle) and new HEVs (hybrid electricvehicle) were on show at the 7th China Changchun International Automobile Fair, an eight-day event thatended on Thursday. “Only a handful of such vehicles were seen last year,” said a visitor who identified himselfas Liu. To the big crowds of car enthusiasts in the exhibition hall, the new energy models were a majorattraction. An official with the automobile industrial development zone of Changchun, the host city of the fair,said local government is looking to cut energy emissions and create a “greener” city by producing and bringingmore environment-friendly vehicles onto the road.

“Promoting new energy models and new car technologies at the fair is part of the government’s drive tobuild a ‘greener’ city,” said Li Xiangguo, director of the management committee of the development zone.

Xinhua

Children have fun in the waterlogged street innorthwest Pakistan’s Peshawar on 22 July, 2010.At least 25 people were killed due to heavy rainfall

brought by the monsoon in Pakistan.XINHUA

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VICTORIA, 22 July— Visiting Indian DefenseMinister AK Antony says his country will give theSeychelles a plane and two helicopters.

Antony, who has been in the Indian Ocean islandcountry since Monday on an official visit, made theannouncement on Tuesday when handing over militarycommunication gadgets to President James Michel.

The Indian defence chief said his visit to theSeychelles is a follow-up to a trip made in June byPresident Michel to India, which offered 5 million USdollars to the Seychelles in military support.

A Dornier surveillance plane and two Chetakhelicopters will be made by Hindustan Aeronautics inBangalore and will be delivered in 15 months, Antonysaid.

India and the Seychelles have maintained longstanding military cooperation. Currently, Indianinstructors are training Seychelles military officers atthe Defense Academy in the southern part of the islandnear the Seychelles International Airport.

Seychelles military officers have also undergonetraining in India. Its Coast Guards recently receivedTopaz, a huge Indian patrol ship, to boost fight againstSomali pirates.

Xinhua

India to donate Seychellesplane, 2 helicopters

Photo taken on 19 July shows that Dino (L)practises Mantis Boxing with this coach in Xi’anCity, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, on 19July, 2010. Dino, a 19-year-old Swiss high school

student, is fond of Chinese culture. One of hisdream is to go to the college of traditional Chinese

medicine in Switzerland to learn acupuncture.XINHUA

Moscow, 22 July—The Russian-ownedarms traderRosoboronexport willcompete with its USpeers to supply Mi-17helicopters toAfghanistan, the compa-ny said on Wednesday.

Alexander Mikhe-yev, Rosoboron-export’sdeputy CEO, said theAmerican companiesequipping Afghanistan’smilitary had shownconsiderable interest inRussian military

Russia to compete with US forAfghan helicopter sales

Participants makepreparations for HongKong Book Fair 2010in south China’s Hong

Kong, on 20 July,2010. The 7-day HongKong Book Fair 2010will open on 21 July.

Reading in English andElectronic publicationsare the main courses

for Fair 2010. As Asia’sleading publishing and

sales event, the fairattracts hundreds ofthousands of visitors

each year.XINHUA

JAKARTA, 22 July—A moderate earthquakemeasuring 5. 0 on the Richter scale jolted Papua ineasternmost Indonesia on Thursday, the Meteorologyand Geophysics Agency said. The quake happened at10:24 am (0324 GMT) with epicenter at 222 kmnortheast of Timika of Papua and the depth of 60 km,the agency said.—Xinhua

Moderate quake rocks Papua, Indonesia

NOUAKCHOTT, 22July— A Mauritaniancourt sentenced a Maliankidnapper 12 years inprison on Wednesday forhis involvement ofkidnapping foreign aidworkers.

The verdict wasmade one day afterMauritanian prosecutorsrequested life sentencesfor four out of a total 11defendants accused ofabducting three Spanishaid workers in November

Mauritanian court sentencesMalian for kidnapping foreigners

University students from Shanghai, China, perform traditional Chinese dancein Santiago, capital of Chile, on 19 July, 2010. As part of the agenda of the

Second Congress of Confucius Institutes in Ibero-America, a group ofuniversity students from Shanghai on 17 and 19 July staged a variety of

Chinese dances, songs, fashion shows and martial arts in the Chilean coastalcity of Vina del Mar and Chilean capital city of Santiago respectively.

XINHUA

GUIYANG, 22 July—An explosion ripped througha chemical plant in southwest China’s GuizhouProvince on Thursday, killing at least five peopleand injuring four others, local authorities said.

The accident took place at about 9 am at theplant in Xingyi, in the Bouyei-Miao AutonomousPrefecture of Qianxinan, said Chen Gang, directorof the prefecture government’s emergency responseoffice.

“The explosion occurred when workers wererepairing chemical material pipelines,” he said.

The injured people had been rushed to hospital.“We are investigating the cause of the accident,” headded.

Xinhua

Chemical plant blast kills five,injures four in SW China

2009. The two Spanishmen and a woman werekidnapped at gunpointfrom a convoy on theirways back to Nouakchottfrom the port city ofNouadhibou on 29 Nov,2009.

Xinhua

hardware, especiallyhelicopters.

Sanctions imposed bythe US againstRosoboronexport in 2006concerning tendering forAmerican arms deals werelifted in May, enabling thestate-owned company’sbid.

“I think that since thesanctions have been lifted,something must change inrelations with the UScompanies,” Mikheyevsaid.

Xinhua

Working staff arrange dishes for a special feast at a foodcultural festival held in Nanjing, capital of east China’sJiangsu Province, on 21 July, 2010. The festival whichopened here on Thursday includes a series of activities,such as exhibition of food culture, cultural exchange ofold-branded restaurants and painting and calligraphy

creation on food, etc. —XINHUA

RYE, 22 July—New Hampshire authorities sayabout 100 people have been stung by a large deadjellyfish that broke into pieces at a state park beach,and nine children were treated at a hospital.

Wallis Sands State Park Manager Ken Loughlinsays lifeguards spotted the jellyfish, which he describedas the size of a “turkey platter” and weighing nearly 50pounds. Rye Fire Department Lieutenant says thejellyfish fell apart when the state park staff tried toremove it on Wednesday, and its stingers were stillactive even though it was dead. Doug Grout, chief ofmarine fisheries for the state, says it’s a Lion’s Manejellyfish, a species rarely seen so far south and inshallow waters. In northern New England, they average8 feet in diameter and can have tentacles as long as 150feet.

Xinhua

Large dead jellyfish stingsbeachgoers in NH

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River crossing bridgesopened one after another…

Prime Minister

U Thein Sein deliv-

ers an address at

opening ceremony of

Yazudaing Bridge

No. 1.

MNA

Prime Minister U Thein Sein cordially greetsthose present at opening ceremony of

Yazudaing Bridge No. 1. MNA

(from page 1)Today is an auspicious day for Mawla-myinegyun

in Ayeyawady Division. To ensure better transport inMawlamyinegyun, which encountered poor transportdue to natural barriers in the past, two bridges havebeen built over the river Yazudaing in upgrading theold Maubin-Yaylekalay-Shwetaunghmaw-Kyaikpimotorway.

Yazudaing Bridge No.2 was put into service at thebeginning of this year. Due to Yazudaing Bridge No.1that is inaugurated today, Mawlamyinegyun is easilyaccessible from all surrounding regions.

In addition, Bogale-Mawlamyinegyun-Kyonmange-Myaungmya motor road under construc-tion with Mawlamyinegyun in the central part will becommissioned into services soon. So, people can travelto the four corners of the division by land at any time.Thanks to several roads passing through

Mawlamyinegyun and completion of the bridge, thetown will be able to transport its products in a shortertime, and will enjoy rapid economic growth in theeconomic, social, education and health sectors.

The southern part of the delta is blessed with fertilesoil and has a large number of waterways, lakes andfishing grounds. So, it is a source of rice, beans andpulses, meat, fish, salt and marine products. Therefore,the division has stood as the granary of the nation andhas been contributing towards food safety of regionalcountries in the course of the history of the nation.

In early May 2008, the storm Nargis hit hard thenation, bringing wholesale death and destruction to theregion. Nevertheless, the government, the people andthe Tatmadaw, in compliance with the guidance of theHead of State, worked diligently and harmoniously in

rescue, resettlement, rehabilitation and developmenttasks and long-term preparedness against natural dis-asters. As a result, the storm-hit areas have enjoyedbetter conditions than that before the catastrophe in ashort time.

Now, a delta road network stretching more than

420 miles in total has been built by building sevenroads and upgrading three old roads with the aim ofcarrying out rescue and resettlement tasks in times ofnatural disasters as well as using it as a productivityroad. So far, tasks for improving the socio-economicstatus of local people and natural disaster preparednesshave proved successful to a certain degree.

Apart from building roads extensively inAyeyawady Division, the land of waterways and watersources, the government is building Kyangin-PakokkuRailroad linked with Pathein-Kyangin Railroad, alongwith Pathein (Begaret)-Nyaungdon-Yangon(Hlinethaya) Railroad and Hinthada-Danubyu-Sakkawt(Nyaungdon) Railroad. Hinthada-Zalun Railroad hasbeen inaugurated the day before. The remaining railroadsections are being upgraded with added momentum.

Ayeyawady Division will become the most devel-oped one because it will achieve progress of railroad,motor road and other transport facilities. River cross-ing bridges have been opened one after another to

(See page 9)

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River crossing bridgesopened one after another…

(from page 8)uplift the transport infra-structure of AyeyawadyDivision. Already-inau-gurated YazudaingBridge No. 1 was the 50thfacility of its kind inAyeyawady Division. Atthe same time, four over-180-ft-long bridgesacross Ayeyawady Riverare under construction.

Upholding thenational goal foremergence of a peaceful,modern and developednew nation, the govern-ment has been striving forall-round development ofpolitical, economic andsocial sectors.

With the aim ofensuring equitabledevelopment of allregions of the Union in-cluding border regions

ment plan and the ruraldevelopment tasks fornarrowing thedevelopment gap amongthe national brethren.

Likewise, the short-term and long-term plansof national education pro-motion plan and the na-tional health carepromotion plans are beingimplemented with addedmomentum for turningout fit and healthy andeducated humanresources. As such, theentire national people areenjoying fruits of sector-wise development.

Remarkable progresscan be witnessed due toassistance provided by theHead of State withgoodwill. Therefore, thelocal people are to makeconcerted efforts for

national resources are tospeed up their all-outefforts with moderntechnology andinnovative measures forall-round development ofAyeyawady Division.

While building

Road Map forimprovement ofsuperstructure that thepeople themselves caninspire in the future. Asthe general elections, thefifth step of the Road Map,will be held in the nearfuture, the national peopleare to take part in theirrespective sectors to beable to successfully holdthe elections.

In conclusion, thePrime Minister urged thelocal people to safeguardand maintain the bridgefor its durability, to effi-ciently utilize the soundfoundations for develop-ment of the region and toovercome all hindrancewith the concerted effortsof the Government, thepeople and theTatmadaw.

Speaking on theoccasion, AyeyawadyDivision PDC ChairmanSouth-West CommandCommander Maj-GenKyaw Swe said that as thewhole economy ofAyeyawady Division was

much different from thatwas in the past due tobetter transportation; thatAyeyawady Division wastransforming into a largeeconomic zone as suchlocal products as rice,meat and fish could betransported to another re-gions easily andsmoothly.

The Commanderurged the local peopleto work hard inharmony, making use ofsmooth transportation.He then, on behalf oflocal people ofAyeyawady Division,thanked s taff ofMinistry of Construc-tion for their efforts toconstruct the bridge inshort period.

In his address,Minister for ConstructionU Khin Maung Myint saidthat the Head of State,while supervisingrehabilitation tasks inAyeyawady Divisionaftermath of Nargis,pondered the current con-dition of the region and

gave guidance ondevelopment of road net-work in Delta Region forlong-term benefit of theregion.

Today’s inauguratedYazadaing Bridge No.1,the minister continued tosay, was located on suchroad networks as Maubin-Yelegalay-Shwetaungh-maw-Kya ikp i -Maw-lamyinegyun, Mawla-myinegyun-Hlinebone-Thitboke-Kwinpauk-Pyinkhalu-, Bogalee-M a w l a - m y i n e g y u n -Kyonemangay-Wakema-Myaung-mya and localscould travel to any otherregion across Myanmarthrough the bridge.

The minister went onto say that from 1988 tillnow, 50 units of over-180-foot bridges and 312 unitsof under-180-foot bridgeshad been constructed inAyeyawady Division. Inconclusion, he urged thelocals to maintainthe bridge for its durabi-lity. (See page 10)

and enhancing socio-economy of the nation,the government is imple-menting the border areasand national races devel-opment plan, the 24-special regions develop-

shaping the mostdeveloping division byefficiently utilizing thenational resources. Thelocal people havinghuman resources that caneffectively utilize the

infrastructures in allregions of the Union foremergence of a peaceful,modern and developednew nation, thegovernment is realizingthe State’s seven-step

Prime Minister U Thein Sein cordially greets those present at the bridge opening ceremony.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe and Ministers U Khin Maung Myintand U Thein Nyunt formally opened Yazudaing Bridge No. 1.—MNA

Bird’s eye view of Yazudaing Bridge No. 1.—MNA

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YANGON, 22 July—The ManagementCommittee of IndustrialZones of YangonDivision held a workcoordination meeting atYangon CommandHeadquar ters th ismorning.

Lt-Gen Myint Sweof the Minis t ry ofDefence delivered aspeech. Chairman ofYangon Division Peaceand DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofYangon Command Maj-Gen Win Myint and

Industrial Zones Management Committee of Yangon Division meets

Chairman of YangonCity DevelopmentCommit tee YangonMayor U Aung Thein

Lin repor ted onrequirements of work.

Officials, chairmenof the industrial zones,

and ent repreneurspresented workprogress sector-wiseand requirements to be

fulfilled. Lt-Gen MyintSwe, the commanderand the mayor assessedthe reports and attended

NAY PYI TAW, 22 July—Member of the UnionElection Commission U Myint Naing on 16 Julymet Secretary of Mandalay Division ElectionSubcommission U Tin Oo and member U Bo Shwe,Chairman of PyinOoLwin District ElectionSubcommission U Tin Maung Oo, members ofMogok Township and ward/village-tract election

UEC member meets members of PyinOoLwin District,Mogok Township Election Subcommissions

subcommission at the hall in Mogok.They held discussions on electoral works.UEC member U Myint Naing made a speech.

Secretary of Mogok Township ElectionSubcommission U Tun Nyein reported on progressof electoral works.

The discussions ended with the concluding

remarks by UEC member U Myint Naing.The UEC member and members of the Division

Election Subcmmission viewed the sites for pollingbooths in Mintada ward, Kathe and KyetpyinVillage-tracts in Mogok Township and left necessaryinstructions.

MNA

Yaybok Dam: drive for development…

Water control tower of Yaybok Dam.

(from page 16)On completion,

the dam will protectagainst the floods. In ad-dition, the local farmerswill grow crops more thanthe schedules with the useof adequate water from

the dam. Therefore, thedam will contribute muchto gaining progress in cul-tivation of crops andpaddy in the region.

Translation: TTAKyemon: 20-7-2010

Kayah State SubcommissionSecretary insepcts

pre-electoral works in PruhsoNAY PYI TAW, 22 July

— Secretary of Kayah StateUnion ElectionSubcommission U KhinMaung Yi formallyopened the signboard ofNyaungzin WardSubcommission Office inPruhso today.

He inspected the pre-electoral works of the

Subcommission offices ofNyaungzin Htitaye,Myoma Group andHtipawhso wards.

The secretary met thechairman and secretaries ofUEC branches at themeeting hall of the GeneralAdministration Depart-ment Office in Pruhso.

MNA

River crossing bridges…(from page 9)

On behalf of localpeople, U Aung ZawHlaing from Mawla-yinegyun Town-shipspoke words of thanks. Hesaid that in the past, ittook them 12 hours fromMawlamyinegyun toYangon by water craft,and now they can go toYangon just in three-hourdrive. He expressed hisopinion about roadnetwork projects in DeltaRegion that he believedhis native town,M a w l a m y i n e g y u nTownship, would emergeas a centre point townshipon motorway due to theseprojects.

The Prime Minister

strolled along the bridgeand greeted locals.

Construction ofYazadaing Bridge No.1started on 1 April and it isof steel truss type facility.

The 1955 feet longbridge with 20 feet widemotorway and three feet

and party cordiallygreeted departmentalpersonnel, members ofsocial organizations andlocals present at theopening ceremony.

Next, CommanderMaj-Gen Kyaw Swe,Minister U Khin MaungMyint and Minister UThein Nyunt cut a ribbonto open the ceremony.The Prime Minister andparty together with localpeople and responsiblepersons posed fordocumentary photo in thefront of pavilion.

The Prime Ministerthen unveiled the stoneplaque of YazudaingBridge No.1. The PrimeMinister and party then

wide pedestrian on eitherside has 20 feet highclearance and canwithstand 60 tons ofloads. The PrimeMinister and partyarrived in Yangon in theafternoon.

MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence addresses coordination meeting of industrial zones management committee.MNA

UEC memberU Myint Naing

meets members ofPyinOoLwin

District, MogokTownship, Ward/

Village-tractElection

Subcommissions.MNA

to the needs. Lt-GenMyint Swe gaveconcluding remarks.

MNA

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BEIJING, 22 July— Last monthwas the hottest June ever recordedworldwide and the four thconsecutive month that the combinedglobal land and sea temperaturerecords have been broken, accordingto the reports of the US NationalOceanic and Atmospher icAdministration.

Worldwide, the averagetemperature in June was 61.1 degreesFahrenheit (16.2 Celsius). That was1.22 degrees F (0.68 C) warmer thanaverage for June.

Xinhua

A woman cools herself while walkingunder the sunshine in Moscow, capital

of Russia, on 25 June, 2010. OnFriday, a temperature of 32.8 degreescentigrade set the highest record of the

same day in the recent 11 years. —XINHUA

Last month the hottest Junerecorded worldwide

An art student makessculptures in a pottery

saloon based inHohhot, capital of

north China’s InnerMongolia Autonomous

Region, on 22 July,2010. The pottery

saloon, founded by LiDalong, a 56-year-oldsculptor, sets the stagefor art students in thecity to improve theirsculpturing skills.

XINHUA

KAMPALA, 22 July—A ferry capsized on LakeVictoria and a number of people may have died,Ugandan police reported on Wednesday.

Citing witnesses, police said at least 60 peoplewere on board the ferry sailing at dawn towardsEntebbe, when the accident occurred.

Police said they sent a team to the scene, whereseveral passengers have been rescued.

Xinhua

Ferry capsized in Lake Victoria

HONG KONG, 22July— Hong Kong’sCivil AviationDepartment (CAD) onWednesday gaveapproval for passengerfuel surcharges levied bythree airlines to bereduced for the periodfrom 1 to 31 August.

The airlines involvedinclude All NipponAirways, Cathay PacificAirways and SingaporeAirlines.

The new maximumlevels of fuel surchargeswill be 98 HK dollars(12.61 US dollars) forshort-haul flights and

Three airlines to cut aviationpassenger fuel surcharges

Airbus publishes the images of a fantasy-likeaircraft which might be the type of plane flying by

2050, or even 2030 if technology continues at agood rate.—INTERNET

WELLINGTON, 22July—The number ofoverseas visitors arrivingin New Zealand for shortterm stays topped 2.5million for the first timein the past 12 months,Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) said on Wednesday.

“This milestone wasalmost reached in 2008,

Annual overseas visitors tops 2.5 millionfor first time in New Zealand

505 HK dollars for long-haul flights, representinga reduction of 7 percentand 2 percent from thecurrent maximum levelsfor short and long-haulflights respectively.

The applicablesurcharge levels arebased on the ticket issuedate.

Passenger fuelsurcharges seek to allowairlines to partiallyrecover the increase inoperational costs due tofluctuations in aviationfuel prices. As theaeronautical authority inHong Kong, the CAD

considers and approvesfuel surchargeapplications from theairlines in accordancewith bilateral AirServices Agreements.

Passenger fuelsurcharges are reviewedregularly by the CAD.The last review was doneat the end of June whenthe maximum surchargelevels approved by theCAD were 105 HKdollars for short- haulflights and 513 HKdollars for long-haulflights.(1 US dollar=7.77HK dollars) .

Xinhua

but the global economicdownturn contributed toa decline in visitornumbers after a peak of2.497 million in the March2008 year,” PopulationStatistics managerBridget Hamilton-Seymour said.

Visitor arrivals fromAustralia in June were up

7 percent from a yearearlier to 76,200, whilecombined arrivals fromChina, Japan and SouthKorea were up 6,900, or86 percent, after theinfluenza H1N1 pandemicaffected numberstraveling from thosecountries in June 2009.

But while the 5,500visitors from China lastmonth were similar innumber to the average forJune months between2006 and 2008, arrivalsfrom Japan and SouthKorea were still wellbelow June 2008 levels,SNZ said. The number ofNew Zealand residentsleaving on short termoverseas trips was up 13percent last month from ayear earlier to 198,800.For the year numbers wereup 3 percent to 1.97million.—Xinhua

The original AstonMartin DB5 driven

by actor SeanConnery in the

James Bond films“Goldfinger” and“Thunderball” is

displayed in Londonon 21 July, 2010.

The car will beauctioned on 27

October in Londonwhere it is expectedto fetch $4,600,000.

XINHUA

Little siberian tigers suck milk from their dogmother at the zoo in Sanmenxia City, centralChina’s Henan Province, on 21 July, 2010.

XINHUA

GAZA, 22 July— Six Palestinian smugglers have gone missing on Wednesdaywhen a tunnel beneath Gaza’s southern border with Egypt caved in, witnesses andrescue workers said.

The witnesses said it is still difficult to predict the fate of the trapped as rescuecrews are digging the sand to look for them. The workers were bringing in goodsfrom Egypt, the witnesses said, but the sorts of goods were also unknown. Startingthis month, Israel loosened its blockade to the Gaza Strip, allowing many civiliangoods and consumer products into the territory that has been under tight blockadefor three years.

The tunnel business, which had reached its peak in 2008 and were the mainlifeline to the 1.5 million population, started to go down as a result of the Israelirelaxations. However, cement and some construction materials that Israel is stillbarring are still being smuggled to Gaza through the tunnels.

Xinhua

Six Palestinians missing in Gaza tunnel

Vietnam urges SE Asia toconsider nuclear power use

DALAT, 22 July—Vietnam called on SoutheastAsian countries on Thursday to consider using nuclearpower for peaceful purposes as Asia faces risingenergy needs to fuel economic growth.

The countries should “promote cooperation onplanning and energy policy to ensure security ofenergy supply and demand, extraction and conversion,transport and distribution of oil and gas”, PrimeMinister Nguyen Tan Dung said in the openingspeech to a meeting of ASEAN energy ministers. Heurged members of the Association of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN) to “consider the possibility ofcooperation in using nuclear energy for peacefulpurposes as a source of alternative low-carbon andsustainable energy”.—MNA/Reuters

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV RATHA BHUM VOY NO (525)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV RATHA BHUMVOY NO (525) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 23.7.2010 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 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 CONTAINER LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

Australian inventor of ‘black box’recorder dies

SYDNEY, 22 July—David Warren, an Australian scientist who in-vented the “black box” flight data recorder, has died, defence offi-cials said. He was 85.Warren, who died on Monday, came up withthe idea for the cockpit voice recorder after investigating the crashof the world’s first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, in 1953, theDepartment of Defence said in a statement.

He thought it would be helpful for airline accident investigatorsto have a recording of voices in the cockpit.He designed and con-structed a black box prototype in 1956, but it took several yearsbefore officials understood just how valuable the device could beand began installing them in commercial airlines worldwide.Warrenwas born in 1925 in a remote part of northeast Australia. In 1934,his father was killed in a plane crash in Australia.

Internet

Australian scientist David Warren poseswith his flight data recorder. Warren,who invented the ‘black box’ flight datarecorder, has died, defence officials said

on 21 July, 2010.— INTERNET

It’s a bird. It’sa plane. No.

It’s... a donkeyMOSCOW, 22 July—

Authorities in Russia areopening an animal crueltyprobe into a weekendstunt on a beach in south-ern Russia in which adonkey parasailed highover the surf. Amateurvideo footage showedmen attaching a parasailharness to the tremblingmule.

The English-languageKremlin news channelRussia Today reportedthat sunbathers were dis-tressed at the sight of theflying donkey, whichbrayed in fear as it glidedabove the bay for half anhour.

Russia Today reportedthe donkey was shell-shocked but survived. Re-ports said the donkeyflight was a promotionalstunt. —Internet

An apple a day helps keepcreative minds at play

BEIJING, 22 July—The Western media had it wrongwhen they called the opening of China’s secondApple Inc store this month just another new attractionfor the country’s wealthy classes. I predict the newApple store in Shanghai will go the way of the com-pany’s first store in China that opened in Beijing in2008, becoming a daily playground for the poorermasses.

Like the store that opened at The Village at Sanlitunin Beijing, the Shanghai store also opened in a shop-ping district designed to attract high-end spenders. Inboth cases, the openings attracted long lines of peopleof all backgrounds eager to be the first to see insidethe high-tech structure, which should have been Shang-hai’s first clue that this was not just another Guccioutlet. It’s an idea factory. Two years after the open-ing of the Beijing store, crowds still gather daily to tryout the gadgets inside. —Xinhua

Photo taken on 8 July,2010 show the Apple

flagship store (front) atLujiazui in Shanghai,east China. The first

Apple flagship store inShanghai, selling Appleproducts and providingrelated services, will be

opened on 10 July.XINHUA

Hundreds of penguins washup on Brazilian coast

SAO PAULO, 22 July—Biologists suspect that unu-sually cold waters off the coast of Brazil were respon-sible for the deaths of more than 550 penguins thatwashed up on shore in the past 10 days. Since 11 July,about 556 dead penguins have appeared on beaches,Thiago do Nascimento, a biologist at the PeruibeAquarium, told CNN.

At the beach of Praia Grande alone, on the SaoPaulo coast, more than 170 penguins have washed upon shore since Friday, according to the local govern-ment. It is not unusual for penguins to show up on theBrazilian coast during their migration, but most of thetime, they are alive, said another biologist, IsabelleNunes.

Internet

Unusuallycold seasmay have

displaced thepenguins’

food sources,scientists

say. INTERNET

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BEIJING, 22 July—ActressJennifer Aniston has obtaineda restraining order against aman who was arrested afterprowling around herHollywood Hills home, mediareported Wednesday.

Court documents reveal24-year-old Jason Peyton was

Jennifer Aniston’s stalker arrested

Jennifer Aniston.

found on 15 July “laying inwait in a location he believesshe frequents with a sharpobject, a bag, a roll of duct tapeand written messages aboutAniston”. He spent eight daystrying to find her, according toAniston’s attorney.

In the documents, obtainedby TMZ, “Peyton is anobsessed, mentally ill anddelusional stalker — with ahis tory of v io lence andcriminal stalking — who drovecross-country in his delusional‘mission’ to locate and marryAnis ton, wi th whom hebel ieves he i s in arelationship.”

Xinhua

BEIJING, 22 July— US actress Lindsay Lohanwill serve only about 14 days of her 90-day sentencedue to prison overcrowding, media reported onWednesday.

“She is scheduled to be released on either 1 or 2Aug for overcrowding issues and good behaviour,”LA Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore toldPEOPLE.

Earlier this month, she was sentenced to 90 daysin prison and 90 days in-patient rehab for violatingher 2007 probation.

Xinhua

Lindsay Lohan to spend only14 days in jail

Actress Lindsay Lohanbreaks down as she

talks to Judge MarshaReve during a hearing

in Beverly Hills,California, on 6 July,

2010. The judgesentenced Lindsay

Lohan to 90 days in jailon Tuesday after rulingshe violated probationin a 2007 drug case byfailing to attend court-

ordered alcoholeducation classes.

XINHUA

Hong Kong pop singer SammiCheng performs at her tour concert

in Shanghai, east China, on 17 July,2010.

XINHUA

BEIJING, 22 July— Chinese supermodel-actressLin Chi-Ling has received international exposure byjoining Oscar-winning British actress Kate Winsletand Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai in a commercial.

The trio was seen in Rome, Italy on Tuesday (20July ) shooting an ad for the Swiss luxury watch brandLongines.

Lin debuted on the silver screen in 2008 with JohnWoo’s historical blockbuster “Red Cliff”. She also co-starred with Jay Chou in the 2009 film “The TreasureHunter “. Her most recent film is the comedy “Welcometo Shama Town”.—Xinhua

Kate Winslet, Lin Chi-Lingjoin hands in ad

Chinese supermodel-actress Lin Chi-Ling

(centre) poses for a Longines watch

commercial with British actress Kate

Winslet (right) and Indian actress

Aishwarya Rai in Rome, Italy on 20 July,

2010.

XINHUA

A 65-year-old man living in Jianmin village,Cixi, Zhejiang Province is electrifying hiscommunity with his ability to withstand a charge ofas much as 380 volts. Thirty-six volts is commonlyconsidered the most a human can withstand with noill effects.

But Xu Chunzhang, a welder, found he couldtake 389 volts with no harm after he was connectinga power wire in 1996 and forgot to cut off the powersupply.

“I only felt my hand go numb,” said Xu, who hassince become a celebrity in his village for his electricalresistance.

“When we have electrical problems we go toXu,” said one villager.

Danger! High voltagehuman

Spanish freestyle motocross rider Dany Torresperforms during a show jump at the bullfighting

arena of the picturesque village of Chinchon,south of Madrid, on 19 July, 2010. The show washeld to announce the fourth stage of the Red BullX-Fighters World Tour in Madrid, which will take

place on 22 and 23 July, 2010.

A compulsive glass-eating man named WangJun, who often crunches down on a light bulb forbreakfast and eats about 25 a month, has baffleddoctors at Xingqiao Hospital in Lingshui county,Sichuan Province with his bizarre diet, which has hadno apparent ill effects.

Wang, 52, said he has eaten glass since he was 12and originally did so on a dare by other children. Helater did it as a freak feat in a circus. “I’ve eaten morethan 1,000 light bulbs in 40 years,” said Wang. “If Idon’t eat one for several days, I get very nervous.” Buthe added his habit also cost him his marriage becausehis wife couldn’t accept it.

A handout picture from

Ferrari press office

shows an artist’s

illustration of “Ferrari

World” theme park, the

first of its kind for the

iconic Italian carmaker

that is being

constructed in Abu

Dhabi.

Photo taken on 20July, 2010 shows afondant cake in the

pattern of little girl atthe YinxiangchengShopping Mall in

Suzhou, east China’sJiangsu Province.Various kinds of

fondant cakesdisplayed at theshopping mall

attracted a largeamount of people

recently.

A boy floats in aninflatable water ball at

a pond in a park inSofia on 20 July,

2010.

Chinese man eats light bulbs for breakfast

Ordering a pizzamay have saved GeorgeLinn’s life. Linn’s wifesaid he had just gone intocardiac arrest Fridaywhen the pizzadeliveryman knocked onthe door of theirColorado home to bringtheir order. Kami Linnsaid she opened the doorto “some burly-lookingdude” and immediatelyasked for help.

Heart-attackvictim saved by

pizzadeliveryman

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SPORTS

London cafes take the heatout of cycling

Manchester United:‘most valuable sports team’

NEW YORK, 22 July—English Premiership giant Man-chester United is the most valuable franchise in sports,according to a study compiled by Forbes Magazine.Forbes released its list of the world’s most valuableteams Wednesday, with Manchester on top at 1.84 bil-lion dollars. The second highest and top North Ameri-can franchise is the National Football League’s DallasCowboys at 1.65 billion dollars.

The New York Yankees, Washington Redskins, NewEngland Patriots, Real Madrid, New York Giants, Ar-senal, New York Jets and Houston Texans round out thetop 10. Amid protests from fans, Manchester United’sowning Glazer family has said it would not entertainoffers to buy the club, which has around one billion dol-lars of debt.— Internet

Manchester United manager Sir AlexFerguson is pictured celebrating withtheir Carling Cup trophy at Wembley,in north London, in February. EnglishPremiership giant Manchester Unitedis the most valuable franchise in sports,according to a study compiled by Forbes Magazine.— INTERNET

Mancini says Man Citymay be interested in Donovan

Hodgson era in low-key start,Nasri stars for Arsenal

United States soccerteam member LandonDonovan.—INTERNET

HARRISON, 22 July—Manchester City managerRoberto Mancini may beinterested in acquiringLandon Donovan fromMajor League Soccer andthe Los Angeles Galaxy.The 28-year-old mid-

fielder had a successful10-week loan to Evertonlast season and was thetop American player at theWorld Cup with threegoals.

“Donovan is a goodplayer. Could be possi-ble,” Mancini said onWednesday ahead of hisclub’s exhibition gamesagainst Sporting Lisbonand Thierry Henry’s NewYork Red Bulls.

“The market is openuntil the end of August.Could be.” MLS commis-sioner Don Garber saidlast week he doesn’t in-tend to sell Donovan, theAmerican career WorldCup scoring leader withfive goals.

Internet

New young coach but sameold Milan

Liverpool FootballClub’s David Ngog

controls the ball duringa friendly football game

against GrasshopperClub Zurich in Zug,

Switzerland. INTERNET

LONDON, 22 July—Roy Hodgson’s Liverpoolreign got off to a low-keystart with a 0-0 draw atSwiss side Grasshopperson Wednesday, whileFrench star Samir Nasriscored twice as Arsenaldefeated Sturm Graz 3-0.With new signing JoeCole watching from thesidelines, and with thelikes of Steven Gerrard,Fernando Torres andJavier Mascherano still ontheir post-World Cupbreaks, Hodgson optedfor an experimental sidein Switzerland.

Lucas was skipper forthe friendly match, DavidNgog and David Amooplayed up front while Di-ego Cavalieri started ingoal. Alberto Aquilani’sfree-kick was saved byIvan Benito in Liverpool’s

best effort, while Ngogwasted two good chances.“It was a good effort fromthe players against a sidewho have already startedtheir season,” saidHodgson.— Internet

ROME, 22 July—Newcoach MassimilianoAllegri will give Milan’sold guard another chanceto return the club to formerglories, despite pressurefrom fans to invest inyouth after a season of un-der-achievement. Rookiecoach Leonardo led Milanto a third-place finish inSerie A last term, but theyfinished 12 points behindcity rivals and championsInter Milan and wereknocked out in the Cham-pions League last 16 byManchester United.

The average age of thesquad has become a sourceof consternation for sup-porters and pundits in re-cent years.On Wednesday,34-year-old full-backMassimo Oddo signed acontract extension that willkeep him at the club until

past his 36th birthday,while Milan will have fivedefenders in the 33-35 agebracket by the end of theseason. — Internet

LONDON, 22 July—Itmight be the inspiration ofthe Tour de France, thetraffic or the unexpectedlyhot weather, but London

has gone cycle crazy thissummer — and bikingcafes are now the coolestspots in town.Frequentedby lycra-clad racers andtrendy fashionistas alike,bike-friendly bars arepopping up all over theBritish capital, providingrefreshment, repairs andplace to meet fellowmembers of a burgeoningtwo-wheeled community.

“People come here tosit around, have somecoffees, hang out withfriends — and while theyare doing that we fix theirbikes,” said Nicole Ham-ilton, a mechanic at thepopular “Look Mum NoHands” cafe-bar in eastLondon.— Internet

French clubs count cost ofeconomic downturn

People visit the “LookMum No Hands!” cyclecafe in central London on17 July, 2010. The cafeoffers customers thechance to eat and drinkwhile watching for in-stance the Tour de Franceas their bicycles are re-paired by the mechanics

behind the cafe.INTERNET

“The public was struck bythe big transfers of RealMadrid, and Lyon andMarseille in France, aswell as Bordeaux’s bid tokeep Yoann Gourcuff (pic-tured), but apart from that,the market was alreadysinking [in 2009],” saysPhilippe Diallo, head ofthe French Union of Pro-fessional Football Clubs (UCPF).— INTERNET

PARIS, 22 July—Hithard by the economic cri-sis, French football clubsare moving towardsshorter, less lucrative con-tracts for their players anda greater emphasis onyouth development. “It’sthe continuation of a situ-ation already observedlast summer (2009),” saysPhilippe Diallo, head ofthe French Union of Pro-fessional Football Clubs(UCPF).

“The public was struckby the big transfers ofReal Madrid, and Lyonand Marseille in France,as well as Bordeaux’s bidto keep (Yoann) Gourcuff,but apart from that, themarket was already sink-ing,” he told AFP.Real,Lyon and Marseille allbroke their club transferrecords during costly re-cruitment drives last sum-

mer, while Bordeaux paidaround 15 million euros tosecure France midfielderGourcuff on a permanentdeal from AC Milan.

InternetAC Milan’s newly ap-pointed team coachMassimiliano Allegri fol-lows the first training dayof the season, at theMilanello training centerin Carnago, near Milan,on 20 July.— INTERNET

No decision yet on Sao Paulostadium for 2014 WCup

SAO PAULO, 22 July—Sao Paulo officials have yetto decide on a stadium for the 2014 World Cup, leav-ing South America’s biggest city in danger of beingleft out of the tournament. City officials and membersof the World Cup organizing committee met Wednes-day but failed to come up with a stadium proposal tosend to FIFA, although they insist the goal is for thecity to host the competition’s opening match.

“We will do everything possible for the opener tobe in Sao Paulo,” Brazilian soccer federation presi-dent Ricardo Teixeira said. “We didn’t discuss stadi-ums in this meeting, we only talked in general termsabout the need for Sao Paulo to have a significant par-ticipation in the 2014 World Cup.” — Internet

‘Marathon man’ Isner outlastsMuller at ATP Atlanta

ATLANTA, 22 July—John Isner needed 33 acesand two and a half hours,

John Isner celebratesafter defeating Gilles

Muller of Luxembourgin the third set tie-

breaker on Day 3 of theAtlanta Tennis Champi-

onships in Atlanta,Georgia.— INTERNET

outlasting Gilles Muller atthe Atlanta Tennis Cham-pionships as the Americanregistered his first winsince making history atWimbledon. Marathonman Isner beat an inspiredMuller 4-6, 7-6 (8/6), 7-6(9/7) Wednesday, liftinghis career record in final-set tiebreakers to 16-5.

Muller, ranked 206,turned in a miracle per-formance for a player whomissed the last half of2009 with injury and wasplaying in only his secondevent at the ATP level af-ter Queen’s club lastmonth. The outsider fired29 aces, just four less thanIsner.— Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Kayah State and MagwayDivision, scattered in Chin State and MandalayDivision, fairly widespread in lower Sagaing andYangon Divisions and widespread in the remaining areaswith isolated heavy falls in upper Sagaing Division. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Minkin(3.19) inches, Maungtaw (2.56) inches, Mawlamyine(2.21) inches, Myitkyina (2.05) inches , Thaton andPaung (1.77) inches each and Homalin and Kaukpyu(1.57) inches each.

Maximum temperature on 21-7-2010 was 89°F.Minimum temperature on 22-7-2010 was 77°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 22-7-2010 was 88%.Total sun shine hours on 21-7-2010 was (Nil) .

Rainfall on 22-7-2010 was (0.52) inch at Mingaladon,(0.28) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.11) inch at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was (37.76) inchesat Mingaladon, (43.78) inches at Kaba-Aye and (51.65)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from South at (14:30) hoursMST on 21-7-2010.

Bay Inference: Monsoon is moderate in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 23rd July 2010:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Kayah Stateand Magway Division, scattered in lower SagaingDivision, fairly widespread in Chin State and MandalayDivision and widespread in the remaining areas withlikelihood of isolated heavy falls in Shan State. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofincrease of rain in the Coastal areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for23-7-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for23-7-2010: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for23-7-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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Self-realization* News* Friendly Roads for Friendly TiesOverseaTransmission* Opening

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Mandalay* From Yangon to the Peak of Mt Victoria* News* Record Album* Orchids Research from Mount Popa* Shrinking Footprints* News* Experience the Joy and Peace of

Self-realization* News* Friendly Roads for Friendly Ties* News* Culture Stage* News* Shopping at the Departmental Store and

Supermarket 1& 2* Mrauk U, Treasure Trove of Rakhine

Culture* Music Gallery* Wings Sign Art* News* Today’s Efficient Youths* News* On the LEDO Road (Part-1)* Myanmar Movie‘‘Good-Hearted Bad Guy’’

A competitor of Miss Tourism International,dressed up in Qipao, enjoy the beautifulscenery in Xitang, an old town in East

China’s Zhejiang Province.INTERNET

Hong Kong cancels alltyphoon signals

HONG KONG, 22 July—All typhoon signalswere cancelled at 14:40 local time (6:40 GMT) onThursday, the Hong Kong Observatory said.

At 15:00 local time (7:00 GMT), typhoonChanthu was centered about 400 km west-southwest of Hong Kong, near 21.5 degrees northand 110.4 degrees east, and is forecast to movenorthwest at about 14 km per hour further inlandand weaken gradually.

Chanthu has made landfall over westernGuangdong Province on the Chinese mainlandand continues to move away from Hong Kong.However, there may still be swells locally.

The Observatory advised the public to stayaway from the shore line and not to engage inwater sports.—Xinhua

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

12th Waxing of Second Waso 1372 ME Friday, 23 July, 2010

UEC Chairman meets district/townshipsubcommissions in Shan State (East)

NAY PYI TAW, 22 July— The meeting betweenChairman of Union Election Commission U TheinSoe and members of Tachilek, Mongphyat andMonghsat Township election subcommissions andward and village-tract election subcommissions inShan State (East) was held at Aung Myat Hall in

Tachilek this evening.The UEC chairman spoke on the occasion.After hearing reports on electoral process pre-

sented by election subcommission members, the UECchairman replied to the queries raised by those presentand made concluding remarks. — MNA

YANGON, 22 July—A ceremony to open newbuilding was held at Yaungchithit Library in EastAyoetaung Village in Twantay Township on 12July.

The local authorities and Head of TownshipInformation and Public Relations Department UThet Oo formally opened it.

Secretary of Township Peace and Develop-ment Council U Thant Zin Tun and the Head ofTownship IPRD explained durability of the library.

At the ceremony, Township IPRD donated150 books and journals and village elder U Sein Hlaone radio for the library to officials.

The building was constructed at a cost of K 2million.

Township IPRD

Rural library gets new building in Twantay Township

Yaybok Dam: drive for developmentin Hlaingbwe Township

Article & Photos: Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

Main canal ofYaybok Dam under

construction fordevelopment of

HlaingbweTownship.

Yaybok Dam with17720 feet long and 46feet high embankmentthat can store 36,000 acre-feet of water and to irri-gate 5452 acres of farm-lands is under construc-tion by damming Yaybokand Kasaing creeks nearHtilon Village ofHlaingbwe Township,

Kayin State.With regard to

Yaybok Dam, AssistantDirector U Nyunt Htayexplained that on com-pletion, Yaybok Dam willirrigate 5452 acres offarmlands for cultivationof 4000 acres of propermonsoon paddy and 1452acres of late-monsoonpaddy. In the past, mono-cropping of monsoonpaddy was grown on 4000acres of proper monsoonfarmlands. On comple-tion, the dam will benefit3000 acres of summerpaddy, 280 acres of beans

and pulses and 720 acresof edible crops throughmix-cropping pattern. Inaddition, proper monsoonpaddy was cultivated in1452 acres of wetlandsdue to floods yearly.However, the agriculturaltask cannot be supportedwith rainwater after therainy season. Therefore,the region cannot storeadequate water depend-ing on rainfalls. That iswhy cultivation of latemonsoon paddy could notmeet the achievement toa certain extent.

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