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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 economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation in termsof 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 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

YANGON, 6 Nov—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence attended the coordination meet-ing with departmental officials and agricultural entre-preneurs on production of paddy meeting the target atthe briefing hall near Ngamoeyeik Sluice Gate inDagon Myothit (East) Township this afternoon.

Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and De-velopment Council Commander of Yangon CommandBrig-Gen Win Myint explained the arrangements foragricultural entrepreneurs and farmers to grow the

Lt-Gen Myint Swe discusses paddy production meeting the target

crops to meet production target.Chairman of Yangon City Development Com-

mittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin reported onnecessary assistance to be provided by YCDC to thefarmers.

The agricultural entrepreneurs submitted thereports on efforts to be made for meeting productiontarget of paddy and tasks being carried out.

Departmental officials presented reports on theirrespective sectors to render assistance to the growers.

After hearing the reports, Lt-Gen Myint Sweattended to the needs and gave concluding remarks.

Agricultural entrepreneurs and farmers willcultivate high yield paddy strains on 8,731 acres offarmlands with the use of agricultural machinery inYangon Division Agricultural Special Zone (1) inDagon Myothit (East) Township and Special Zone(2) in Dagon Myothit (South) and (Seikkan) Town-ships.

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Thaphanseik Dam, main contributor ofupper Myanmar’s agricultural sector

Article : Zaw Win (Kyemon); Photos : Khin Maung Win (Kyemon)

Part of Thaphanseik Dam in Kyunhla Township, Shwebo District.

We left Shwebo of Shwebo District, Sagaing Division, for Kanbalu Townshipto observe Thaphanseik Dam, from which water is drained to Karboe and Kindatdiversion weirs to irrigate monsoon and summer paddy fields in Shwebo District,the granary of Sagaing Division.

On the left side of the embankment of the canal were greenish paddy fieldsstretching to Karboe Diversion Weir, and on the right side, Shwebo Canal, inwhich water flowed continuously.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 7 November, 2008

Friday, 7 November, 2008

Smooth transport ensures flourishing ofUnion Spirit and all-round development ofthe home regions of national races across theUnion.

Secure and smooth transport lies at thecentre of the drive for development of thenation. In its bid to help the motherland keepabreast of the international community,strengthen national economy, and improvethe living conditions of the people, theMinistry of Rail Transportation is workinghard to make significant contributiontowards transporting goods, and to improvethe transport sector.

The handing over of locomotivespurchased from YMEC Co of the People’sRepublic of China to the Ministry of RailTransportation took place at No. 1 Platformof Yangon Railway Station on 2 November2008.

The locomotives are also designed to runin hilly regions.

The locomotives can carry more loadsthan other brands of locomotives. Eachlocomotive is equipped with computer system,electronic system and a black box.

Being installed with sophisticated deviceswith modern information systems, thelocomotives can provide necessary signals intime.

The Ministry of Rail Transportation ispursuing the goal of ensuring safety andconvenience of the people while enhancingits performances through various means suchas repairing and upgrading railroad sections,and building new railroads for improvingthe transport sector and raising themomentum of regional development.

Myanma Railways inpursuance of improvingtransport sector

* 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

General Secretary U Sein Win Hlaing ofUMFCCI meets Israeli Ambassador Mr Yaron

Mayer.—UMFCCI

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Nov—A meeting oninternational planetarium to be built in accord with theguidance of the Head of State, by Ministry of Forestryat Zoological Garden (Nay Pyi Taw) was held at theministry, here, yesterday evening.

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aungheard report on construction of the planetariumpresented by Design & System Consultant Mr Jean

Construction of planetarium discussed

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung makes inaugural speech at the meeting on internationalplanetarium to be built at Zoological Garden (Nay Pyi Taw).—FORESTRY

Francois Delorme, Mr Albert Lim and Mr Scolt ANiskach of Evans & Sutherland Co and gave necessaryinstructions. Also present at the meeting were directors-general of departments under the ministry, deputydirector-general, officials and technicians forconstruction of the planetarium.—MNA

Israeli Ambassador meetsUMFCCI General Secretary

Maintenance of librariesdiscussed in Maubin

YANGON, 6 Nov — The Head of the Informationand Public Relations Department of AyeyawadyDivision held a discussion with employees of IPRD ofMaubin, Nyaungdon, Pantanaw, Dhanubyu townshipsat the office of Maubin District IPRD on 3 November.

The officials briefed on instructions of theminister at the concluding ceremony of the basiclibrary course No. 1/2008 and development andmaintenance of the library. Next, the officials of thedistrict IPRD explained on tasks in the respectivetownships.

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Talks on ICT at Myanmar InfoTech Building on 7-9 Nov

YANGON, 6 Nov— Talks on informationtechnology will be givenat Myanmar Info-tech inHline township from 7 to9 November to mark the10th anniversary ofMyanmar ComputerFederation, MyanmarComputer Professionals’Association, MyanmarComputer Entrepreneurs’Association and Myanmar

Computer EnthusiastAssociation.

Prof Daw Yi YiMyint will give talks onICT for HR developmentfrom 1 p.m to 4 p.mtomorrow; Dr Aung TunThet on ICT ImpactAnalysis from 9 a.m tonoon on 8 November; UNyein Oo, Secretary ofMyanmar ComputerProfessionals’ Associa-tion and executives on ICTProfessional Develop-ment from 1 p.m to 4 p.mon 8 November; Prof DrDaw Khin San Yi on BPRfor Effective ICTUtilization at 9 a.m on 9November and U TheinOo, Chairman of MyanmarComputer Federation, andexecutives of the federationon Panel of Discussion forICT Industry Developmentfrom 1 p.m to 4 p.m. Formore information dial atPh: 652276. —MNA

YANGON, 6 Nov—Ambassador of Israel MrYaron Mayer met with General Secretary U Sein WinHlaing of Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambersof Commerce and Industry at the office of UMFCCI on29 October.

They discussed promotion of trade between thetwo countries, plans to jointly organize the technologicaldiscussions for enhancement of agriculture sector andthe opportunity for trainees in private sector of Myanmarto attend courses on agriculture in Israel.

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 7 November, 2008 3

Russia to deploy short-rangemissiles near Poland

damaged ties.Medvedev also pro-

posed increasing theRussian presidential termto six years from four achange that could deepenWestern concern overdemocracy in Russia andplay into the hands ofhis mentor, Prime MinisterVladimir Putin, who hasnot ruled out a return to theKremlin.

Extending the pre-sidential term could meana possible 12 more years inthe top office for thepopular Putin.—Internet

Russian PresidentDmitry Medvedev

Afghan childrenreceive treatment at a

local hospital inKandahar. Afghani-

stan President HamidKarzai said that

around 40 villagersdied this week ininternational airstrikes targeting

militants. Karzai urgedBarack Obama to endcivilian casualties inthe “war on terror”.

INTERNET

MOSCOW, 6 Nov —Russia will deploy short-range missiles near Polandto counter US militaryplans in Eastern Europe,President Dmitry Med-vedev warned Wednesday,setting a combative tonethat clashed with globalgoodwill over BarackObama’s election.

In his first state of thenation speech, Medvedevblamed Washington for thewar in Georgia and theworld financial crisis andsuggested it was up toWashington to mend badly

Afghan men work on a house destroyed in airstrikes in Shah Wali Kot district

of Kandahar Province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on 5 Nov, 2008. Afghan

President Hamid Karzai said airstrikes had caused deaths in the district.

INTERNET

US air raid blamed inAfghan civilian deaths

HERAT (Afghanistan), 6 Nov — US-led troops havekilled at least seven civilians in an air strike in north-western Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, a dayafter the president said warplanes had killed 40 civil-ians in the south. President Hamid Karzai said the is-sue of civilian casualties was the biggest source of ten-sion with his main backers, the United States, andcalled on President-elect Barack Obama to make ithis top priority to stop the killings of innocents.

The air strike was called in after a joint convoy ofAfghan and US forces came under an attack by Talibaninsurgents in Ghormach district of Badghis provincein the northwest late on Wednesday, provincial offi-cials said. District chief Abdullah said seven civiliansand 15 insurgents were killed in the raid, but the headof the provincial council Qari Dawlat, quoting villag-ers, put civilian deaths at around 30.

Internet

Iran sees US choppers nearits frontiers

TEHERAN, 6 Nov —Iran’s military says US heli-copters have been flying too close to its border withIraq and may even have crossed the frontier.

The statement, carried by the state news agencyWednesday, says the helicopters were seen in Iraqand are “likely to violate Iranian airspace”.

The Iranian military said it would respond to anyviolation of its borders and warned the US militaryto keep its distance.

The US military has over 150,000 troops in Iraqwho make extensive use of helicopters to transportforces and carry out patrols.

Iraq-based US forces carried out a raid onneighboring Syria on 26 Oct, killing eight people.

Internet

Suicide bomber kills six,wounds 12 in BaghdadBAGHDAD, 6 Nov — A suicide bomber rammed his

car into a police patrol on the road to Baghdad’s air-port Wednesday, killing six people and wounding 12others, police said.

Police said three officers were among those killedin the attack, while four policemen were wounded.

The heavily secured highway leading from centralBaghdad to the capital’s airport was once among themost dangerous stretches in Iraq. Insurgents staged al-most daily attacks with roadside bombs and automaticweapons on US military convoys and civilian vehi-cles traveling to and from downtown Baghdad.

But security has improved markedly on the high-way in the past 18 months since authorities blockedoff side streets feeding onto the road put up blast wallsalong the highway.

Also Wednesday, two US soldiers were woundedin a roadside bomb attack near the town of Karmahwest of Baghdad as they responded to reports of a bombin the area, the US military said. Two Iraqis were killed,while an Iraqi interpreter, two Iraqi Army soldiers and11 civilians were wounded in the bombing.

An Iraqi security official said the US troops wereinjured as they rushed to the site of an earlier roadsidebomb attack that killed a prominent leader of the localawakening council, the term for mostly Sunni groupsthat have joined forces with the Americans againstal-Qaida in Iraq.—Internet

Two skinheads indicted in alleged plot against ObamaMEMPHIS(Tenn), 6 Nov — A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tenn., has indicted

two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill Democrat Barack Obama anddozens of other black people.

Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman were ar-rested last month, before Obama won the presidential election. They are beingheld without bond.

They were indicted Wednesday on charges of possessing a sawed-off shotgun,planning to rob a licensed gun dealer and threatening a presidential candidate.

Authorities say they plotted a killing spree that would end with them attackingObama while dressed in white tuxedoes and top hats.—Internet

An Israeli policeexplosive expert

carries the remains ofa rocket fired by

Palestinian militantsin Gaza, after it

landed in the south-ern city of Ashkelon

on 5 Nov, 2008.INTERNET

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All items from Xinhua News

Agency

Nancy Otieno holds her newborn baby boy namedafter US President-elect Barack Obama at theNyanza Provincial general hospital in Kenya’s

western town of Kisumu, 355km (221 miles) westof the capital Nairobi, on 5 Nov, 2008.—XINHUA

The crew members of Chinese navy ship ( CNS) Zhenghe line up on board atthe Sihanoukville Port of Cambodia, on 5 Nov, 2008, as Zhenghe entered the

Sihanoukville Port on Wednesday morning, thus starting its 9-day officialgoodwill visit and the first ever entry of Chinese military boat into the

Kingdom of Cambodia.—XINHUA

Visitors view the sculpture titled “The Number You Dialed is Busy Now...”exhibited on the first China Great Mobile Exhibition of Sculptures opened inWenzhou city of east China’s Zhejiang Province, on 5 Nov, 2008. —XINHUA

MEXICO CITY, 6 Nov—US Democrat BarackObama’s victory inTuesday’s presidentialelection has generatedoptimism in Latin Am-erica, which is looking toimprove ties with thecountry and the end of aUS embargo against Cuba.

Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silvasaid Obama‘s triumph was“extraordinary” andexpressed hope that the

Obama’s victory sets offoptimism in Latin America

victory will help “end theembargo against Cuba,”which began almost 50years ago.

Lula told reporters that“those, who doubt anAfrican-American couldbe the president of theUnited States, now knowit is possible.”

Bolivia’s first indigen-ous president Evo Mora-les said Obama, who camefrom the most discri-minated circle in the

United States, “for sure willcontinue making history.”

“My great wish is thatMr Obama could end theeconomic embargo aga-inst Cuba and withdrawthe troops from somecountries,” he added.

Argentine PresidentCristina Fernandez sent acongratulation letter toObama on his victory, whichFernandez called “a greatmilestone” in US history.

Xinhua

MANILA, 6 Nov— A magnitude-5.2 earthquake hitthe eastern Philippine region of Samar on Thursdaymorning, but no casualty or damage has been reported.

The quake was recorded at 09:04:33 am local time(01:04:33 GMT), and the epicentre was 415 km east south-east of Manila at a depth of 35.0 km, the United StatesGeological Service said in a report posted on its website.

At the same time, the Philippine Institute ofVolcanology and Seismology said the quake wasrecorded at magnitude 5.0. It said the earthquake wastectonic in origin and no aftershocks are expected.

No casualty has been reported in the Philippines.The Philippines is often hit by earthquakes, although

most are low in magnitude and cause little damage.Xinhua

GENEVA, 6 Nov— Growth in world merchandisetrade slipped to 6 percent in real terms in 2007, downfrom 8.5 percent in the previous year, according to areport released by the World Trade Organization (WTO)on Wednesday.

The slowdown mainly resulted from uncertaintiesof the world market, which were caused by the weak-ening demand in developed countries, realignments inexchange rates and fluctuations in the prices forcommodities, such as oil and gas, the report said.

The “International Trade Statistics 2008” saidimport demand decelerated not only in the UnitedStates, but also in Europe and Japan.—Xinhua

Moderate quake hits Philippines

BUENOS AIRES, 6 Nov— At least 14 policemen and50 protesters were injured Wednesday during a clashin the capital of Paraguay, according to reports.

According to information received from Asuncion,capital of Paraguay, hundreds of people, mainlypeasants and activists, gathered in front of the ProsecutorOffice building, asking Ruben Candia Amarilla, thegeneral prosecutor, to resign. Clashes erupted whenpolice officers tried to prevent protesters from enteringthe building.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 6 Nov —Scientists in US for thefirst time have decodedthe entire genome of apatient suffering fromwhite blood cell cancerand found a set ofmutations that may havecaused the disease or aidedits progression, accordingto media reports Thursday.

They compared thetumor tissue of a womanwho died of acute myeloidleukemia (AML) to hernormal tissue, and sequ-enced 10 mutated genesin the cancerous tissueapparently involved intriggering the disease.

CAIRO, 6 Nov— Secretary-General of the EgyptianSupreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawassvoiced his hope to strengthen cooperation with Chinain archaeological excavations during an exclusiveinterview with Xinhua on Tuesday.

He said he is going to negotiate with the Chineseconcerned bodies to hold a new exhibition for theEgyptian antiquities in China.

He also asserted that he is going to call for holdinga meeting next year with all countries concerned todiscuss the topic of retrieving artifacts to their countriesof origin.

Xinhua

Clash in Paraguay injures at least14 policemen, 50 protestors

World trade slips to 6% growth in 2007

Egypt hopes to strengthen co-op inarchaeological excavations with China

Scientists decode first genome of cancer patient Previous researches had

linked two of them to AML,but the rest never beforehad been implicated. “Theother eight were all thingsthat caught us off guard.They’re all new. And theyare all in genes that we didn’treally have on our radar forthis particular kind ofcancer. In retrospect, theyall make sense,” DrTimothy Ley said.

Three of themnormally act to suppresstumor growth, four areinvolved in promoting cellgrowth and the final onemay affect how drugsenter a cell, the researchers

said.“This is the first human

cancer genome that’s beensequenced. In the past,we’ve always looked atparts of the genome formutations. But this is thefirst time that we’ve beenable to look at everything,”Ley said.

It will take moreresearch to determineexactly what the mutationsdid. Researchers wouldalso like to know the orderin which they occurred,and whether there was onethat finally tipped thebalance towards cancer.

Xinhua

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Toyota 08/09 operatingprofit seen at 8-year low

TOKYO, 6 Nov—ToyotaMotor Corp’s operatingprofit will plunge to aneight-year low below $10billion this year as the fi-nancial crisis carvesthrough the sector, a pa-per said, sending theautomaker’s shares slid-ing 8.9 percent.

Auto sales have divedin the United States, Ja-pan, Europe and emergingmarkets, thanks to tight-ening credit and a loom-ing recession from the fi-nancial crisis, and the To-kyo Shimbun said thiswould more than halveToyota’s operating profitfor 2008/09. Toyota, theNo1 automaker and untilrecently the envy of the

industry with eightstraight years of profitgrowth, has put factorieson hold, let go temporarystaff and offered unpre-cedented incentives tobuyers as sales slide.

If Toyota confirms the

bleak forecast when it re-ports quarterly results at 1am EST (0600 GMT), itwould be well below anaverage operating profitprojection of 1.34 trillionyen from a poll of 17 bro-kerages.—Internet

THIMPHI, 6 Nov—The tiny Himalayan nation ofBhutan has crowned its 5th king in an elaborate Bud-dhist ceremony.

On Thursday morning, King Jigme SingyeWangchuck placed the Raven Crown on the head ofhis son, 28-year-old Jigme Khesar NamgyalWangchuck, giving him the title of Druk Gyalpo, orDragon King.

The festivities, symbolizing the strength of themonarchy, are seen as a deeply reassuring moment forthe last independent Himalayan Buddhist kingdom.

Once one of the most cutoff, tightly controlledplaces on earth, the country is now slowly opening upto the uncertainties of modernity and vagaries ofdemocracy.—Internet

Himalayan

nation of

Bhutan

crowns its

5th kingPoonam, 14,

performs a

balancing street

act in Allahabad,

India, on 4 Nov,

2008, earning

about Rupees

200-300 (US$

4.5-7) per day.

INTERNET

Dems, GOP, already targeting 2010 Gov races

Thousands flee Congo fighting; Journalist seized

Hundreds of

doctors attend

the First Interna-

tional Meeting of

Graduates from

Cuba’s Latin

American Medi-

cal School in

Havana on 4

Nov, 2008.

INTERNET

US military deaths in Iraqwar at 4,191

WASHINGTON, 6 NOV—As of Wednesday, 5 Nov,2008, at least 4,191 members of the US military havedied in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003.The figure includes eight military civilians killed inaction. At least 3,388 military personnel died as aresult of hostile action, according to the military’snumbers. The British military has reported 176deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria,13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five;Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Es-tonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each;and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Ko-rea, one death each.—Internet

A rescue team searches for missing villagers during floods in Palopo on 5 Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON,6 Nov—Their majority of guber-natorial seats larger byone, Democrats are takingaim at key states in 2010,including California,Minnesota and Connecti-cut. Republicans, whosuccessfully re-electedfour incumbents on anelection night of big GOPlosses elsewhere, want towin back Kansas, Ohio

and Pennsylvania, amongothers. At stake is controlover the redrawing of leg-islative and congressionalmaps and the chance to in-fluence the 2012 presiden-tial election through gov-ernors’ bully pulpits andfundraising machines.

At the end of an Elec-tion Day in which 11governorships were de-cided, eight incumbents

were re-elected, splitevenly between the twoparties. Democrats wonthe three governors' postswhere no incumbent wasrunning, and flipped oneof those — Missouri —from Republican toDemocratic hands.

But Tuesday’s resultsgave both parties reasonto be optimistic about2010.—Internet

KIWANJA, 6 Nov—Spo-radic gunfire and explo-sions echoed Wednesdayaround this town in east-ern Congo, as rebelsfought pro-governmentmilitiamen for a secondday, forcing thousands toflee.

A wider cease-fire be-tween the rebels and thegovernment was holding,however, and diplomatsscrambled to assemble aregional peace summitFriday in Kenya.

In Kiwanja, 70 kilome-tres (45 miles) north of theprovincial capital ofGoma, clashes eruptedbetween rebels and a mi-litia known as the MaiMai.

Associated Press jour-nalists saw several thou-sand people on the roads,including mothers withbabies on their backs, try-

ing to find safety. As in-surgents loyal to rebelleader Laurent Nkundasearched houses, artillery

fire boomed in the hillsnearby, and rebels told thejournalists to leave.

In nearby village of

Mabenga, a Belgian jour-nalist working for a Ger-man newspaper was kid-napped by the Mai Mailate Tuesday along withhis assistant and threerebel fighters, accordingto local official GillesSimpeze. He said the gov-ernment was negotiatingtheir release.

On the edge ofKiwanja, hundreds ofpeople took shelter at aroofless, abandonedschool beside a UN basemanned by Indianpeacekeepers. The sol-diers, in blue helmets andflak jackets, crouched be-hind sandbags and a ringof concertina wire.

“The UN should openup their gates to protectus,” said NtaganzwiSinzahera, a 30-year-oldrefugee.

Internet

Children wait for their turn to receive high energybiscuits at a displaced people’s camp, in Kibati, northof Goma, eastern Congo, on 4 Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

Workers at Japanese auto giant Toyota MotorCorporation’s Globa Production Centre in central

Japan. —INTERNET

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NEWSALBUM

An aerial view of the face of US Demo-cratic presidential nominee Senator

Barack Obama (D-IL), sculpted fromgravel and sand by US artist Jorge

Rodriguez-Gerada, along the Barce-lona beachfront, on 3 Nov, 2008.

If your child is at an unhealthy, oreven dangerous weight, and weight-lossefforts at home aren’t successful, youmay want to try a professional weight-loss programme.

The Cleveland Clinic offers the fol-lowing recommendations when choos-ing a child’s weight-loss programme:

* The programme should employ anarray of health professionals, includingphysicians, dietitians, psychiatrists andexercise physiologists.

* Your child’s overall health shouldbe evaluated before any weight-loss pro-gramme begins.

* The programme should include theentire family, rather than focusing only onthe child.

* Look for a programme that is gearedspecifically for your child’s age group andhas different programs based on age.

*Programmes should focus onbehavioral changes, teaching how tochoose healthy foods in variety and por-tion size, and promoting physical activity.

Health Tip: Obesity andYour Child

In this photo releasedby Philippine National

Red Cross Masbate,the ferry Don Dexter

Cathlyn, its bellyprotruding from the

sea, lies offMagcaraguit Island inDimasalang, Masbate,central Philippines, on

5 Nov, 2008.INTERNET

MADRID, 6 Nov – Spainrejected an asylum requestfrom a son of Osama binLaden on Wednesday af-ter deciding he had not metthe conditions necessaryfor him to remain.

Omar Osama binLaden, 27, flew to Spainearlier this week and re-mains in a transit area atMadrid’s Barajas Airport,an Interior Ministry offi-cial said. He has 24 hoursto appeal the government’sdecision.

“The Interior Ministryhas not accepted the re-quest for asylum becausethis does not meet the con-ditions necessary for enter-ing Spain,” the officialsaid, speaking on condi-tion of anonymity in line

US says it killed militants at civilian death siteWECH BAGHTU, 6 Nov –

US and Afghan forceskilled “several” militantsduring an extended patrol insouthern Afghanistanwhere villagers say some40 civilians in a weddingparty were killed, the USmilitary said on Thursday.

The military said mili-tants attacked a coalitionpatrol that was movingthrough the Shah Wali Kotregion of Kandahar Prov-ince between Monday andWednesday.

The US said that civil-ians “reportedly attemptedto leave the area, but the

militants forced them to re-main.” The brief statementdid not say where the USgot that report from. It alsodid not say precisely howmany militants the USforces killed.

Villagers in WechBaghtu said that around 37people — mostly womenand children — died in aMonday afternoon bomb-ing run by jetfighters afterUS forces and Talibanfighters battled nearby.That home was hosting awedding party at the time,the reason so many peopledied, the villagers said.

Son of Osama bin Laden loses asylum bid in Spain

Omar Osama binLaden, 27, asked forasylum upon arrivingMonday at Madrid's air-port on a flight stoppingover from Cairo, Egypt,en route to Casablanca,Morocco, an InteriorMinistry official said on4 Nov, 2008.—INTERNET

with government policy.The official would not

elaborate or discuss theyounger bin Laden’s rea-sons for seeking asylum.

Omar Osama binLaden is a metals traderwho had been living inCairo with his wife.

He has not renouncedhis father, but has said hewants to be an “ambassa-dor for peace” between theMuslim world and theWest.

The Spanish officialsaid the government usu-ally seeks a recommenda-tion from the UN refugeeagency in asylum requestcases and he said theagency also recommendedagainst asylum.

Internet

MOGADISHU, 6 Nov —Gunmen stormed an air-strip in Somalia on Wednesday, kidnapping twoKenyan pilots and four European aid workers inthe latest strike against humanitarian organisa-tions in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.

The Europeans — two French, a Bulgarian and aBelgian — were among a group on a runway nearthe central Somali town of Dusamareb when the gangstruck, local residents said.

Internet

Six foreigners kidnapped in Somalia

President HamidKarzai’s office said around40 people died and 28 werewounded. In one of themost serious civilian deathscases in Afghanistan, anAfghan government com-mission found that a US op-eration in August in west-ern Afghanistan killedsome 90 civilians.

According to an APcount of civilian deaths thisyear, US or NATO forceshave killed at least 275 ci-vilians, while 590 havedied from militant-causedviolence like suicidebombs.—Internet

Never too late: Cops crack 25-year-old clock theft

Image from June 1974 showing aseries of strange lights racing overthe skies of Barcelona, Spain. The

Ministry of Defence has madepublic secret files on UFO

sightings, with the dossier includ-ing a range of reports from a closeencounter with a UFO over Kentand a letter from a woman claim-

ing to be an alien warrior.

In this photo provided by the LA MayerMuseum for Islamic Art, a gold androck crystal pocket watch made forthe French queen Marie Antoinetteby the famed watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, seen, one of the itemsreturned after Israeli police detectiveshave cracked a legendary clock heistat a Jerusalem museum after a 25-year search. The 1983 theft saw 106clocks worth millions of dollarsdisappear from the LA Mayer Museumfor Islamic Art.

It took time, but Israeli policedetectives have cracked one of thecountry's greatest crimes — thelegendary heist of a priceless clockcollection from a Jerusalem museum aquarter century ago.

The 1983 theft, the costliest in Israel'shistory, saw 106 timepieces worthmillions of dollars disappear from theL.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art.Among them was a pocket watch madefor French queen Marie Antoinette thatmuseum officials value at more than $30million.

Although the stolen clocks had noconnection to Islamic culture, they weredisplayed in the museum because theyhad originally belonged to the father ofthe museum's founder.

Cold wallaby on the runin Ontario

A panicked wallaby is on the run insoutheastern Ontario after a tree blewover and destroyed its pen at the OxfordStation zoo. Nearby residents shouldgrab the marsupial, which looks like aminiature kangaroo, by the tail if theysee it, the zoo's owner told televisionbroadcaster CBC Friday morning.

Officials in the town just south ofOttawa are concerned the animal, namedWendell, will suffer from the cold.Wallabies are native to Australia.

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Thaphanseik Dam, main contributor ofupper Myanmar’s agricultural sector

Article : Zaw Win (Kyemon); Photos : Khin Maung Win (Kyemon)

(from page 1)Karboe Diversion

Weir was constructed bydamming the Mu Rivernear Karboe Village,Kanbalu Township, inthe early 20th Century.

When asked aboutthe dam, U Win Myint,in-charge of the dam,explained that the rightcanal of Karboe Diver-sion Weir was YeU Ca-nal, and the left canal,Shwebo Canal; that thefacility was just a diver-sion weir, so it could sup-ply water to the farm-lands only in the rainyseason; that in the pastwhen the Mu River dealtwith slow current, waterfrom the dam was sup-ported through the twocanals alternately; thatmajor crop grown withthe use of irrigation wa-ter was paddy, andamong other crops werecotton, sesame, ground-nut, wheat and chick pea;and that according to thestatistics collected in2007, Shwebo Canalbenefited 223,293 acresof arable lands inKanbalu, KhinU,Shwebo, Wetlet and

The interior of Thaphanseik Hydropower Plant.

The inner site and outer site of the main spillway of Thaphanseik Dam.

Sagaing townships, andYeU Canal, 115,749 acresin YeU, Dabayin andAyadaw townships,totaling 339,042.

Since the constructionof Thaphanseik Dam wascompleted in 2001,Karboe Diversion Weirhas been able to supplysufficient irrigation waterto the summer paddy fieldsaround it, he said.

Then, we headed forKindat Diversion Weirover Mu River near Wet-toe Village, 24 miles up-stream Karboe DiversionWeir in Kanbalu Town-ship, Shwebo District,Sagaing Division.

Junior Officer U MinMin Oo briefed us on thefacility that Kindat Diver-sion Weir was situatednear Wet-toe Village, 24miles upstream KarboeDiversion Weir; that it wasconstructed in 1994-95,and the project was com-pleted on 21 March 1997;and that the right canal ofthe irrigation facility irri-gated farmlands in Daze,YeU, Dabayin andBudalin townships and theleft canal, farmlands inKanbalu, KhinU and

Shwebo townshipstotaling about 150,000acres.

We proceeded toThaphanseik Dam, aboutnine miles upstreamKindat Diversion Weir.The dam was constructedover Mu River nearThaphanseik Village,Kyunhla Township,Shwebo District, SagaingDivision in 1996-97, withthe aim of supplying wa-ter to Kindat and Karboe

diversion weirs throughthe Mu River and generat-ing 117.2 million kilowatthours a year.

Executive Officer UAye Win of the IrrigationDepartment (Shwebo Dis-trict branch) said that theproject was launched in1996-97 and completed in2001-2002; that it was in-augurated on 17 April2001; that the catchmentarea of the dam was about3,460 square miles cover-

ing Wuntho, Kawlin andPinlebu townships; that itsmaximum water surfacearea was 106,200 acresand its annual inflow wa-ter, 3,534,000 acre feet;that its earthen embank-ment was 108 feet highand 22,587 feet long; andits maximum water stor-age capacity was2,880,000 acre feet.

He said that in 2007-2008, the dam benefited497,373 acres of monsoonpaddy and 333,469 acres ofsummer paddy and gener-ated 172.24 million kilo-watt hours; that 506,252acres of monsoon paddyand 338,395 acres of sum-mer paddy were on targetfor 2008-2009; that up to24 October 2008, the sizeof inflow water was5,080,445 acre feet and thesize of outflow water,5,061,806 acre feet; that itsfull tank level (FTL) was545; and that on 24 Octoberits FTL stood at 544.75, sosufficient irrigation watercould be supplied to sum-mer paddy fields.

Chief Engineer of theHydropower Departmentunder the Ministry of Elec-tric Power (1) said thatThaphanseik HydropowerPlant was constructed in1998 and test running wascarried out on 22 April

2002; that the generatedpower was supplied toKyunhla, Kanbalu andShwebo townshipsthrough 11 KV and 33KV lines; that it contrib-uted 132 KV to the na-tional grid throughHngetpyawtaing sub-power station in KanbaluTownship; that in 2007-2008 fiscal year, it pro-duced 181 million kilo-watt hours and the tar-geted power for 2008-2009 fiscal year was 120million kilowatt hours;and that the size of thegeneration of power de-pended on local demandsof electric power and ir-rigated water.

Sagaing Division isnamed the second gra-nary of Myanmar, andShwebo District, the gra-nary of Sagaing Divi-sion. Thaphanseik Damis the main source of irri-gation water to cultivatesummer and monsoonpaddy in Shwebo Dis-trict.

The giant irrigationfacility is, to put it an-other way, the main con-tributor of the agricul-tural sector of SagaingDivision, the second ricebowl of Myanmar.

Translation: MSKyemon: 5-11-2008

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Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein meets Managing Director Mr Marc Neurnann of FritzWerner Industries of Germany and party.—MNA

A ball of gold in shape of pumpkin weighing 0.75 tical found byU Kyaw Hsan of Khetkha East Village in Sagaing Myothit while

ploughing. (News reported) —MNA

YANGON, 6 Nov —Fritz Werner Industrie-Ausrustungen (YangonBranch) of MANFerrostaal Indu-strieanlagen GMbH of theFederal Republic ofGermany donated K 45million to construction of

K 45 m donated for new school building in storm-hit Pyapon Townshipa new school building inAchalay Village in storm-hit Pyapon Township,Ayeyawady Division,today. The donationceremony took place atthe Thamada Hotel hereat 3 pm.

Managing Director

Mr Marc Neumann ofMAN Ferrostaal Indus-trieanlagen GMbHpresented K 45 million toDirector of Nargis ActionGroup, a socialorganization, Dr Nay WinMaung, who thenpresented a certificate ofhonour to the donor.

The schoolbuilding will be built by

Pyae Phyo KyawConstruction Co. It is aone-storey building with110 feet in length and 30feet in width and it hasfive classrooms and oneteacher’s room.

Today’s donationalso included desks,furniture, schooluniforms and stationery.

MNA

YANGON, 6 Nov—General-Secretary ofMyanmar Olympic Committee Director-General ofSports and Physical Education Department U ThaungHtike met with the members of Myanmar VolleyballTeam who will take part in the 15th Southeast AsiaJunior Volleyball Tournament (men) at Aung SanStadium today.

The 15th SEA Junior Volleyball Tournamentwill be held at Jakarta of the Republic of Indonesiafrom 9 to 16 November.— MNA

Myanmar to take part in 15thSEA volleyball tournamentYANGON, 6 Nov—

Sarpay Beikman BookSociety has printed thefirst-prize winning SarpayBeikman manuscript"Nan-htaik-taw-win-min-u-yin" by Aung NyeinChan (Man Tekkatho) into

Sarpay Beikman Societydistributes 11th work

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Nov — Minister forConstruction Maj-Gen Saw Tun inspected constructionof Bogale-Kyeinchaung-Kadonkani Road whichincludes in the road network project in AyeyawadyDivision on 4 November.

During the tour, the minister inspected the earthwork between Mile Posts 8/0 and 9/0 of the road.

Afterwards, the minister went to KadonkaniVillage and gave instruction to officials concerned onconstruction of the road.

He also inspected the road works to raise theshoulders of the road with the use of heavymachinery and construction of a hillock nearKadonkani Village.

MNA

Construction Minister ontour of Ayeyawady Division

ROK beat Myanmar in AFCU-19 Women's Championship

YANGON, 6 Nov — The final matches of group(A) of AFC U-19 Women's Championship was held inKuala Lumpa, Malaysia at 4 pm local time today, andRepublic of Korea Women's team beat MyanmarWomen's team with 5-0.

In group (A), Myanmar Women's Footballteam got third place with three wins and two losses infive matches on nine points. Myanmar Women'sFootball team will arrive back tomorrow.—MNA

Industry-2 Minister receivesManaging Director of Fritz

Werner Industries

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Nov — Minister for Industry-2Vice- Admiral Soe Thein received Mr Marc Neurnann,Managing Director of Fritz Werner Industries, Germanyand party at the ministry here yesterday.

At the meeting, they discussed matters related toproduction of industrial devices and future plan.

Also present at the call were Deputy MinisterMaj-Gen Kyaw Swa Khing and officials cornered.

MNA

its 11th work. Yangonitemembers may draw a copyeach at the association,529/531 here. A copy eachis delivered to membersoutside Yangon.

Those wishing tojoin the association maycontact the association(Ph: 381448, 249031).

MNA

DURHAM, 6 Nov — The search fora mysterious substance which makes upmost of the Universe could soon be at anend, according to new research.

Dark matter is believed to accountfor 85 per cent of the Universe's mass but

Giant simulation could solve mystery of 'dark matter'has remained invisible to telescopessince scientists inferred its existencefrom its gravitational effects morethan 75 years ago.

Now the international VirgoConsortium, a team of scientistsincluding cosmologists at DurhamUniversity, has used a massivecomputer simulation showing theevolution of a galaxy like the MilkyWay to "see" gamma-rays given offby dark matter.

They say their findings,published in the prestigious scientificjournal Nature (Thursday, November6), could help NASA's FermiTelescope in its search for the darkmatter and open a new chapter in ourunderstanding of the Universe.

Internet

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(from page 16)In North Okkalapa Township of Yangon Divi-

sion, Shwepaukkan Industrial Zone is one of theindustrial zones in the entire nation set up by the

Shwepaukkan Industrial Zone manufacturing quality productsArticle: Maung Chit Kyi; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

government. With regard to facts about ShwepaukkanIndustrial Zone, an interview was made with Chair-man U Than Win of the Industrial Zone ManagementCommittee.

“Shwepaukkan Industrial Zone was initiallyestablished on 94.64 acres of land in 1990-1991 finan-cial year. Actually, it was set up as a real industrial zoneon 12 August 1998. In doing so, a total of 669 plots ofland were reclaimed in the zone and allotted to theentrepreneurs,” explained U Than Win.

Shwepaukkan Industrial Zone is located next tothe residential area. Therefore, workers find it conven-ient to go to work. The industrial zone is sharingborders with Yangon Industrial Zone (Mingaladon) inthe north, Ward 16, Ward 17 and Ward 20 ofShwepaukkan Myothit in the east, Daninyoe Creek inthe west and Bagan Road in the south. So, local peopleenjoy fruits of better transport.

U Than Win went on to say, “Altogether 254factories and workshops are operating in the industrialzone. A total of 67 factories and workshops have beenbuilt and 57 ones are under construction. At the zone,2,482 male employees and 3,909 female employees,totalling 6,391 are working at the industries.”

While visiting the industrial zone, we witnessed

the good conditions of roads and the factories andworkshops being kept neat and tidy. We saw therunning of factories and workshops on the allottedlands, working of employees and transportation oftrucks with heavy loads of raw materials and fin-ished goods.

In the industrial zone, UPT electronic factoryis manufacturing eight kinds of electronic equip-ment, while SSI pharmaceutical factory is produc-ing medicines continuously. Moreover, textile, food-stuffs, electronic goods, wood and finished woodproducts, paper and stationery and purified drinkingwater are also manufactured with momentum.

In line with the directives of the government,the local entrepreneurs are to manufacture the qualityproducts for enabling the consumers to use the goodsat reasonable prices and they have to try hard in takinginnovative measures for producing the high qualitygoods without giving priority to the profits. InShwepaukkan Industrial Zone, the quality productsmeeting set standards are being manufactured tocontribute to the development of the country.

*****Translation: TTA

Myanma Alin: 20-10-2008

“Altogether 254 factories and workshops areoperating in the industrial zone regularly.”

U Than WinChairman of Shwepaukkan Industrial Zone

Management Committee

Is the worst over for the airlines?

The list of airlines in trouble represents a lotof pain

WASHINGTON, 6 Nov—The risk of failure ishuge and the list of failures is growing in the airlinesector.

First to succumb were the airlines withinnovative new business models, such as Silverjetwith its mission to undercut the major airlines in thebattle for business passengers.

Small operators like Futura, Sterling, Maxjet,Oasis and EOS have also gone.

The collapse of XL was a huge shock to the UKcharter airline market.

Southwest, the innovative low-cost airline thatspawned imitators such as Ryanair, has announced itsfirst financial loss in 17 years. Of the other Big Six,American, Continental, Delta and NorthWest were allin the red for the last three months' reported figures.

But the US has a system for propping up ailingcompanies and airlines have made full use of theChapter 11 protection from bankruptcy to enablethem to restructure or merge, and secure their futures.

This week aviation industry representativeswere saying they thought the worst was over.

Internet

BAYREUTH UNIVERSITY, 6 Nov — Extremeweather events have a greater effect on flora thanpreviously presumed. A one-month droughtpostpones the time of flowering of grassland andheathland plants in Central Europe by an average of4 days. With this a so-called 100-year drought eventequates to approx. a decade of global warming.

The flowering period of an important earlyflowerer, the common Birds-foot Trefoil (Lotuscorniculatus) was even shortened by more than amonth due to heavy rain and started flowering earlyby almost one month. In a study conducted by theUniversity of Bayreuth and the Helmholtz-Centrefor Environmental Research (UFZ) researchers cameto this conclusion.

Using experimental plots in Bayreuth theresearchers generated artificial heavy rain and droughtin their experiment and the effects on ten differentplant species were observed accordingly over a two-year period.—Internet

Extreme weather postponesflowering time of plants

Among

the ten

species

studied

included

the

heather

(Calluna

vulgaris).

JERUSALEM, 6 Nov— The skeleton of a 12,000year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered innorthern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew Uni-versity of Jerusalem. The burial is described as beingaccompanied by "exceptional" grave offerings - in-cluding 50 complete tortoise shells, the pelvis of aleopard and a human foot. The shaman burial isthought to be one of the earliest known from thearchaeological record and the only shaman grave inthe whole region.

The grave contained body parts of severalanimals that rarely occur in Natufian assemblages.These include fifty tortoises, the near-compete pel-vis of a leopard, the wing tip of a golden eagle, tail ofa cow, two marten skulls and the forearm of a wildboar which was directly aligned with the woman'sleft humerus.

A human foot belonging to an adult individualwho was substantially larger than the interred womanwas also found in the grave.—Internet

Skeleton of 12,000-year-old shamandiscovered buried with leopard, 50

tortoises and human foot

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Talks on raising pass rate of matriculation examination in progress atBEHS No. 21 in Mandalay on 30 October. —NLM

Deputy Minister U Maung Myint meets Foreign Secretary Mr TouhidHossain of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and party.—MNA

YANGON, 6 Nov—Member of NationalDisaster PreparednessCentral CommitteeMinister for Hotels andTourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing on 2 Novemberhanded over foodstuff,clothes and seeds toofficials after meetingwith local people andsocial organization

Villagers in Pyapon Township seeprogress in rehabilitation work

members in DaminseikChaungwa Village ofPyapon Township.

While visiting thevillage, the ministerinspected village roads,houses, works of villagers,rural health care servicesand thriving paddyplantations.

In Tinpalwe Village,the minister looked into

the site for construction ofa cyclone shelter afterproviding clothes,foodstuff and seeds tovillage-elders and localpeople.

The minister and partyalso gave clothes,foodstuff and seeds tolocal people in Aphaungand Setwa villages.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Nov— Minister forCommunications, Postsand Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw on 3November looked intonew installed CDMA-450machine room and autoexchange at Myitkyina

CPT Minister inspectstelecommunication office in Myitkyina

T e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o nOffice in Myitkyina andfulfilled the requirements.

At Mandalay Divi-sion TelecommunicationOffice, officials reportedto the minister on Wi-Maxsystem to be installed inMandalay and Yadana-

pon Myothit andinstallation of trunk callline and mobile line inMandalay and Sagaingdivisions.

After hearing thereports, the minister gaveinstructions to them.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Nov— The four-memberdelegation led by Envoyof the Government of thePeople’s Republic ofBangladesh Mr TouhidHossain, ForeignSecretary of the Ministryof Foreign Affairs, paid acall on U Maung Myint,Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs, at the

Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh calls on Dy FM

Ministry of ForeignAffairs here at 10.30 a.mtoday.

Also present at thecall were U Phae ThannOo, MyanmarAmbassador toBangladesh, U Min Lwin,Director-General of theConsular and LegalAffairs Department, andofficials from Myanmar

side, and together with theenvoy of Bangladesh wasMaj-Gen Abu RushdeRokonuddawala, Bang-ladesh Ambassador toMyanmar.

Deputy Minister UMaung Myint hosted adinner to the delegation atAureun Hotel in the sameevening in Nay Pyi Taw.

MNA

YANGON, 6 Nov—Old students, whostudied at TTC ofInstitute of Educationfrom 1974 till 1981, will

8th respect paying ceremony of TTC on 22 Novemberhold the 8th respectpaying ceremony at theschool on 22 November(National Day).Teachers and students

are requested to attendthe ceremony and thosewishing to makedonation may contactthe committee. — MNA

YANGON, 6 Nov —Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin inspected

YCDC continues road upgrading workspaving asphalt onBayintnaung Road inKamayut Townshiptoday.

During his tour, the

mayor also inspectedupgrading of MandalayRoad in HlinethayaTownship to a gravelone.—MNA

Dried mushrooms slow climatewarming in northern forests

Fungi. The fight against climate warming has anunexpected ally in mushrooms growing in dry

spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada,Scandinavia and other northern regions, a new

UC Irvine study finds.—INTERNET

OTTAWA, 6 Nov —The fight against climatewarming has anunexpected ally in

mushrooms growing indry spruce forestscovering Alaska, Canada,Scandinavia and other

northern regions, a newUC Irvine study finds.

When soil in theseforests is warmed, fungithat feed on dead plantmaterial dry out andproduce significantly lessclimate-warming carbondioxide than fungi incooler, wetter soil. Thiscame as a surprise toscientists, who expectedwarmer soil to emit largeramounts of carbon dioxidebecause extreme cold isbelieved to slow down theprocess by which fungiconvert soil carbon intocarbon dioxide.

Internet

Physicists are creating ice films in cold conditionssimilar to outer space and observe the detailed

molecular organization.—INTERNET

Could life have started in lump of ice? Very cold ice filmsin laboratory reveal mysteries of universe

SCIENCE DAILY, 5Nov— The universe is fullof water, mostly in the formof very cold ice filmsdeposited on interstellardust particles, but untilrecently little was knownabout the detailed smallscale structure. Now thelatest quick freezingtechniques coupled withsophisticated scanningelectron microscopytechniques, are allowingphysicists to create ice filmsin cold conditions similarto outer space and observethe detailed molecularorganisation, yielding cluesto fundamental questionsincluding possibly the

origin of life.Researchers have been

surprised by some of theresults, not least by the sheerbeauty of some of theimages created, accordingto Julyan Cartwright, a

specialist in ice structuresat the Andalusian Institutefor Earth Sciences (IACT)of the Spanish ResearchCouncil (CSIC) and theUniversity of Granada inSpain.—Internet

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ASEAN nations remove aviationrestrictions

Flags of ASEAN nations seen in the signing ceremony. — INTERNET

MANILA, 6 Nov—Southeast Asian countriessigned agreements onThursday that will removerestrictions on air and airfreight services and allowregional airlines to fly toany of the capitals ofmember countries by2010, the Philippines said.

The multilateralagreements on air servicesand the full liberalisationof air freight services arepart of plans drawn up bythe Association of

Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) to fostereconomic cooperation andgrowth.

Under the agree-ments, unlimited fifthfreedom rights, allowingmember countries the rightto fly to each other's capitalcities, will be in place by2010. By 2015, all ofASEAN will be a unifiedaviation market, astatement said.

“Air transport is a vitalcomponent of the

proposed ASEANeconomic integrationbecause it would allowexchange of people, itwould facilitate trade andcultural exchange,” saidPorvenir Porciuncula,deputy director of Manila'sCivil Aeronautics Board.

ASEAN groupsIndonesia, Thailand,Malaysia, Singapore,Philippines, Brunei,Vietnam, Myanmar,Cambodia and Laos.

MNA/Reuters

Local residents gather around a damaged portion of a bridge wrecked bymilitants with explosive early Wednesday morning, 5 Nov, 2008, on the

outskirts of Mangora, the main town of Pakistan’s Swat Valley.—INTERNET

Pakistan bomber kills 17pro-government tribesmen

New detergent washesaway stains of murder

MADRID, 6 Nov—Researchers found that newwashing powders and other chemicals that generateoxygen rather than use chlorine erase telltale traces ofhaemoglobin.

A new generation of cleaning products could helpcriminals get away with murder by making bloodstainsinvisible to forensic tests, Spanish researchers said onWednesday.

A team at the University of Valencia found that newwashing powders and other chemicals that generateoxygen rather than use chlorine erase telltale traces ofhaemoglobin, the protein inside blood that transportsoxygen around the body.

Police often rely on blood-splattered clothing tolink a murderer to a crime. Even after 10 washes,forensic experts have been able, up to now, to identifyblood using a cocktail of chemicals to unmask thestains.

But new detergents like Reckitt Benckiser's 'Vanish'that contain the active ingredient sodium carbonateperoxyhydrate produce a fizz of oxygen bubbles thatdegrade blood even though the stain may remainvisible to the naked eye, according to the studypublished in the German journal Naturwissenschaftenand reported in the New Scientist.

MNA/Reuters

Pakistan sets death penaltyfor “cyber terrorism”

ISLAMBAD, 6 Nov—Causing death through “cyberterrorism” will be punishable by death in Pakistan,according to a decree issued by President Asif AliZardari on Thursday.

The Prevention of Electronic Crimes law will beapplicable to anyone who commits a crime detrimentalto national security through the use of a computer orany other electronic device, the government said in theordinance.

“Whoever commits the offence of cyber terrorismand causes death of any person shall be punishable withdeath or imprisonment for life,” according to a copy ofthe ordinance, published by the state-run APP newsagency.

The law will apply to Pakistanis and foreignerswhether living in Pakistan or abroad.

The ordinance described cyber terrorism asaccessing of a computer network or electronic systemby someone who then “knowingly engages in orattempts to engage in a terroristic act”.

The ordinance listed several definitions of a“terroristic act” including stealing or copying, orattempting to steal or copy, classified informationnecessary to manufacture any form of chemical,biological or nuclear weapon.

MNA/Reuters

As celebrations end, Obamafaces slew of troubles

KHAR (Pakistan), 6 Nov— A suicidebomber attacked a gathering of anti-militant Pakistani tribesmen Thursday,killing 17 in a northwestern regionwhere the military has clashed withinsurgents for months, officials said.

A purported spokesman for a little-known Taliban-linked group claimedresponsibility.

The attack in the Batmalai area ofthe Bajur tribal region was the latest totarget tribal militias that have sprungup — with government backing — totake on al-Qaida and Taliban fightersnested along the Afghan border.

Pakistan launched an offensive inBajur three months ago to dismantlewhat it said was a virtual Taliban mini-

state from where militants were flowinginto Afghanistan.

The Salarzai tribesmen werepreparing to stage an assault on localmilitant hide-outs when the blastoccurred, said Iqbal Khattak, agovernment official. Malik Rahimullah,a tribal elder, said the bomb exploded assoon as armed contingents began tomove.

He and officials initially said itappeared that a remote-controlled bombwas used, but later Khattak saidmutilated body parts of an apparentsuicide bomber were found, and thatwitnesses said they saw a young manrushing into the crowd before theexplosion.—Internet

DAILY NEWS, 6 Nov—Barack Obama may sail intothe White House on thetailwinds of “hope” and“change,” but he’ll quicklyrun into the headwinds ofthe nation’s many woes.

“He’s got two wars.He’s got a financial systemin crisis. He’s got an energycrisis. He’s got a debtcrisis,” said veteranDemocratic politicalconsultant Hank Sheinkopf.

“Normal people haveenough trouble getting upin the morning and shaving.This guy has to deal with allthese things,” he said.

In his Chicago victoryspeech, Obama touched onthe myriad issues left forhim — and America - totangle with once the confettisettled and the cheering dieddown.

“Even as we celebrateTuesday, we know thechallenges that tomorrowwill bring are the greatestof our lifetime - two wars, aplanet in peril, the worstfinancial crisis in a century,”he said. With the economyforemost in the minds ofmany Americans, Obamawill not only have to dealwith the $700 billion bailoutpackage passed byCongress and signed byPresident Bush, but a debateover just how to retool theUS financial regulatorysystem, too.

His first day as President-elect was no indication thatthis stuff's going to be easy:Yesterday brought a stock-market nosedive and morebad news about vanishingjobs.— Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV OCEAN LOHAS VOY NO (13)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV OCEANLOHAS VOY NO (13) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 7.11.2008 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of MYANMA PORTAUTHORITY where it will lie at the consignee’s riskand expenses and subject to the byelaws and conditionsof the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV OCEAN CORAL VOY NO (37)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV OCEANCORAL VOY NO (37) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 7.11.2008 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 up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

New Caribbean tropicaldepression threatens Cuba

MIAMI,6 Nov—The 17th tropical depression of the2008 Atlantic hurricane season formed on Wednesdayand was expected to strengthen into a storm or per-haps even a hurricane on a path that could threaten theCayman Islands, Jamaica and Cuba, US forecasterssaid. The depression, which would be called TropicalStorm Paloma when its top sustained winds reach 39miles per hour (64 kph), was 115 miles (185 km) south-east of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua-Hondu-ras border, at 4 pm EST (9 pm British time), the USNational Hurricane Centre said.

The storm had sustained winds of 30 mph (48 kph)and was moving northwest at about 5 mph (8 kph), thehurricane centre said.

It was expected to move towards the border of Hon-duras and Nicaragua only briefly before being pullednorthward and then northeastward, possibly threaten-ing the wealthy British territory of the Cayman Islands,Jamaica, storm-weary Cuba and the central or south-ern Bahamas.—Internet

Thailand to host ASEAN summitin Chiang Mai

Sharks are displayed atLampulo fish market at

Indonesia’s AcehProvince recently.

INTERNET

BANGKOK, 6 Nov —Thailand’s Prime MinisterSomchai Wongsawat saidWednesday that Thailandis ready to host theAssociation of South-EastAsian Nations (ASEAN)summit in December at avenue in the country’snorthern province ofChiang Mai instead ofBangkok, in order to avoidpossible security problemsfrom the political strifecentred in Bangkok.

Due to differences ofideas in politics, Somchai

said, “we decided to movethe meeting venue fromthe capital city of Bangkokto the northern provinceof Chiang Mai which isready in terms of tra-velling, accommodation,and providing security”.During the ASEANsummit, the governmentwill declare publicholidays for schools torelieve traffic congestion.

Somchai asked allThais to be good hosts andto refrain from any actionthat will lead to conflict

during the meeting, whichwill be watched by theworld. The success of themeeting will also createconfidence in Thailandamong the worldcommunity, he added.

The ASEAN summitis scheduled to take place15-18 December. The tenASEAN member statesare Brunei, Cambodia,Indonesia, Laos,Malaysia, Myanmar, thePhilippines, Singapore,Thailand and Vietnam.

MNA/Xinhua

Israeli Army arrests 13 Palestiniansin West Bank, Gaza

Nepal to ban smokingin public places

KATHMANDU, 6 Nov—The Nepali Government ispreparing to introduce a law to ban smoking in publicplaces, the nepalnews.com reported on Thursday.

“Places for smoking will be designated. If anyonesmokes outside such designated places, he/she will befined,” said Deputy Prime Minister and Home MinisterBamdev Gautam.

“We are soon bringing a law to this effect,” he wasquoted by the website as saying.—MNA/Xinhua

GAZA, 6 Nov—Israeliforces arrested 13 Pale-stinians in separate raidsin the occupied West Bankand in the Hamas-con-trolled Gaza Strip, Pale-stinian sources said onWednesday.

Six of the detaineeswere arrested in raids thatthe Israeli Army regularlylaunches in the West Bank,the sources said. Five werearrested in Hebron and one

in Jericho. Israeli sourcessaid the six were wantedby the Israeli intelligence.

Meanwhile, sevenPalestinians were arrestedwhen the Israeli forcesrolled into central GazaStrip and killed six Hamasfighters in significantviolation of a Juneceasefire. Witnesses saidthat Israeli Armybulldozers destroyed twohouses, near the borderfence between Israel andGaza in the east of Deir al-Balah City, and arrestedseven members of al-Hamaida family that ownsthe houses.

MNA/Xinhua

Google T-Mobile Gl

mobile telephones are

seen on display at a

T-Mobile store in New

York City in this 22 Oct,

2008 file photo.

INTERNET

Kenya declares holidayto salute Obama

NAIROBI, 6 Nov–The Kenyan government hasdeclared a public holiday on Thursday to celebrateBarack Obama the US President-elect for winning thehistoric American elections. A statement from PresidentKibaki said Kenyans will take a day off to mark thehistoric election of Obama to the most powerful officeon earth. Kibaki’s statement came as Kenyans hadalready started to celebrate Obama's victory with songand dance breaking out in Kibera, Nairobi and Kogelo,the US President-elect ancestral home as soon as USmedia projected the Democrat’s victory. Song anddance in several other towns and residents greet newsof US President-elect Obama as his rival RepublicJohn McCain conceded defeat.—MNA/Xinhua

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Staff of NTT Facilities, Junko Kariu (left) and Masahiro Nagata, check the roof-top potato farm in Tokyo, in October. Launched by two subsidiaries of Japan's

telecommunications giant NTT Corp., "Green Potato" project could help preventoverheating of Tokyo as well as harvest sweet potatoes in autumn.—INTERNET

Two cloned and genetically modified cows lay onthe ground in Baradero, Buenos Aires province,

Argentina, in this October 2008 handout releasedby biotechnology firm Bio Sidus.—INTERNET

Half of extensively drug-resistantTB patients die

WASHINGTON, 6 Nov —The hardest-to-treat formof tuberculosis kills halfthe people who get it,according to a SouthKorean study that is one ofthe few to track survivalrates from the conditioncalled extensively drug-resistant TB.Tuberculosisis an infectious bacterialdisease typically attackingthe lungs. Increasingnumbers of cases of TBthat defy standard medicaltreatment are appearingworldwide.

The study tracked 1,407patients with twocategories of TB:multidrug resistant TB, orMDR-TB, which resists atleast one of the two mainTB drugs, and extensively

drug-resistant TB, orXDR-TB, which defiesnearly all drugs used totreat TB.

Forty-nine percent ofthose with XDR-TB diedcompared to 19 percent ofpatients with ordinaryMDR-TB, researchers ledby Dr. Tae Sun Shim ofAsan Medical Centre inSeoul wrote on Thursdayin the American Journal ofRespiratory and CriticalCare Medicine.

The patients werediagnosed between 2000and 2002 and werefollowed for up to sevenyears, the researchers said.About 5 percent of thepatients had XDR-TB.

D'Arcy Richardson ofthe Seattle-based nonprofit

group PATH, whichsupports public healthefforts in about 70 nations,called the findingsimportant. But she notedXDR-TB patients todaylikely would get moreaggressive drug treatmentthan was given to thepatients tracked in thisstudy."We have so littleinformation on XDR-TBto begin with," Richardson,who wrote a commentarywith two other TB expertsaccompanying the study,said in a telephoneinterview.—Internet

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Migraines cut breast cancerrisk 30 percent

Heart failure raises deathrisk after heart attack

NEW YORK,6 Nov— While the rate of sudden deathafter a heart attack has markedly declined since the1980s, the risk during the first 30 days after an attackis still four times higher than in the general population,new research shows.

The findings suggest that this is mostly related to thepresence of heart failure.

Current strategies for predicting sudden death aftera heart attack use risk factors that are present at the timeof the attack and don't take into account events thatmay occur later, such as heart failure, Dr. Veronique L.Roger and colleagues explain in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association.

Roger of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota,and colleagues studied the risk of sudden death among2997 residents of Olmsted county who had a heartattack and survived to hospital discharge between1979 and 2005. During follow-up through the end ofFebruary 2008, there were 282 sudden deaths.

The risk of sudden death following a heart attackdeclined significantly between 1997 and 2005compared with the period between 1979 and 1987.

However, the death rate during the first 30 daysremained high at 1.2 percent, roughly four times therate seen in the general population. After 30 days, therisk was not increased.

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CHICAGO, 6 Nov — In apuzzling twist, womenwho have a history ofmigraine headaches are farless likely to developbreast cancer than otherwomen, U.S. researcherssaid on Thursday.

The study is the first tolook at the relationshipbetween breast cancer andmigraines and its findingsmay point to new ways ofreducing a woman's breastcancer risk, they said."Wefound that, overall,

women who had a historyof migraines had a 30percent lower risk of breastcancer compared towomen who did not havea history of suchheadaches," said Dr.Christopher Li of the FredHutchinson CancerResearch Centre inSeattle, whose findingsappear in the journalCancer Epidemiology,Biomarkers and Preven-tion.

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Robodoc: surgeon of thefuture in theaters now

Professor Lord AraDarzi speaks about

robotic surgery in frontof a streaming video ofa robot demonstratingsurgery on a prosthetic

heart at ImperialCollege London, on 24

Oct, 2008 file photo.INTERNET

LONDON, 6 Nov — Amechanical snake that canenter the body throughnatural orifices — not anincision — to performoperations is just onefuturistic device researchersbelieve will transformtraditional surgicaltechniques.With a worldrecession looming andhealthcare budgets underpressure, it may seem an

odd time to be bullish abouthi-tech surgery.Robots,after all, are not cheap. Theaverage selling price of themarket-leading da Vincisystem from California'sIntuitive Surgical Inc is$1.35 million.

Some critics, includingBritish fertility expertRobert Winston, havequestioned the cost-effectiveness of robotswhen other treatments, suchas cancer drugs, are beingrationed.But proponentsnote prices will inevitablyfall as usage andcompetition increase, ashappened with once-costlycomputers.Tens ofthousands of prostate, heartand other procedures arealready being performed byrobots, and experts predictmachines will be used topenetrate deeper into ailingbodies in the years ahead.

Internet

Good germs fight badgerms in hospital

Lactobacillusplantarum in an undated

image. "Good" germsmay work as well as

antiseptics in protectinghospital patients fromdangerous infections,Swedish researchers

reported onWednesday.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON,6 Nov —"Good" germs may workas well as antiseptics inprotecting hospitalpatients from dangerousinfections, Swedishresearchers reported onWednesday.

Patients swabbed withprobiotic bacteria calledLactobacillus plantarum299 escaped infection aswell as those cleaned upusing the antisepticchlorhexidine, theyreported.

Both approachesworked equally well inpreventing pneumoniaamong 50 critically illpatients using ventilators,Bengt Klarin of UniversityHospital in Lund, Sweden,and colleagues found.

Ventilator-associatedpneumonia is common aspatients aspirate germsfrom the equipment —often bacteria that have

formed drug-resistantmats called biofilms.

Klarin's team tested theidea that probiotic bacteriacould out-competepathogenic bacteria.

Half the patients wereswabbed withchlorhexidine as usual,and half were given a finalwipe with L. plantarum299 instead.

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S P O R T S

OSAKA, 6 Nov— Gamba Osaka are ready to de-bunk the myth of goal-shy Japanese football after a 3-0 defeat of Adelaide United at home put them on theverge of winning their first Asian club championship.

“I wish we emerge the winners by having them say,‘Oh, Japanese football is skillful,’” said Gambamidfielder Yasuhito Endo, who scored a goal and setup another in the AFC Champions League final firstleg here on Wednesday.

It was “tight defence” which helped fellow J-League side Urawa Red Diamonds to last year’s title,he recalled, adding that Gamba had vowed “to passthe ball around and play a fun kind of football fromthe beginning of this year”.

“The 3-0 result is satisfactory but we never knowwhat will happen in football,” added Endo, who sharesplace kicks with Celtic star Shunsuke Nakamura for aJapanese national side dogged by a perennial lack offinishing skills.

“I want to see the next match go on like the firstleg.”

Brazilian striker Lucas drew first blood in the 37thminute before setting up the second goal for Endo sixminutes later.—Internet

Japan’s Gamba Osaka midfielder MichihiroYasuda (centre) celebrates with teammates after

scoring a goal during the 1st leg game of the AsianChampions Football League final in Osaka, on 5Nov Gamaba Osaka defeated Australia’s Adelaide

United 3-0.—INTERNET

Gamba Osaka ready to debunkJapanese football myth

LONDON, 6 Nov—Arsene Wenger admits Arsenalface a do or die showdown against Manchester Unitedon Saturday as his spluttering side try to keep theirPremier League title hopes alive.

After failing to win their last two league matchesagainst Tottenham and Stoke, Wenger's men trail lead-ers Chelsea by six points and desperately need a vic-tory at the Emirates Stadium this weekend.

Defeats to Stoke, Hull and Fulham have left theGunners playing catch-up in the league and the Arse-nal boss knows a loss to bitter rivals United wouldleave their title challenge in tatters.

“I will not tell you that the game is not important. Itis a massive game with a massive importance for us,”Wenger said. “We play every three days at the mo-ment and every game is massive.

“Manchester United versus Arsenal is always a spe-cial one but we know for us it is vital to do well in thebig games now. I’m confident we will.”

Arsenal will go into the must-win clash on the backof a miserable run of three games without a victoryafter Wednesday’s frustrating goalless draw againstFenerbahce in the Champions League.—Internet

GLASGOW, 6 Nov— Sir Alex Ferguson believesManchester United could pave the way for Celtic tojoin his side in the knockout stages of the ChampionsLeague after Scott McDonald kept the Scottish cham-pions’ hopes alive in Group E.

The United boss had to endure a tense evening at CelticPark on Wednesday before Ryan Giggs’s late equalisercancelled out Australia striker McDonald’s sublime first-half strike to leave the two sides tied at 1-1.

That ensures United will advance to the last 16 bar-ring the inconceivable combination of a defeat inVillarreal in two weeks time being followed by a four-goal defeat at home to Aalborg in their final match.

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FLORENCE, 6 Nov—Bayern Munich have one footin the Champions League knock-out stages after acome-from-behind 1-1 draw at Fiorentina here onWednesday night.

Adrian Mutu gave the hosts a deserved first halflead but Tim Borowski was left unattended in the homebox after the break to slot home the equaliser.

Bayern join Lyon, 2-0 winners against Steaua Bu-charest, on eight points at the top of the table withFiorentina, on three, needing a minor miracle to qualifyfor the second round with just two games remaining inGroup F.

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MADRID, 6 Nov—Barcelona’s Spanish internationalmidfielder Andres Iniesta could be out for as long aseight weeks after he tore a muscle in his right leg, theclub's doctor said Wednesday.

Iniesta got hurt during his team’s 1-1 ChampionsLeague draw with FC Basel on Tuesday.

Club doctor Ricard Pruna said on Barcelona’swebsite: “To treat this injury calmly no one can do itin less than six weeks. I would put the recovery periodat between six and eight weeks for him to be able toplay again without ever being bothered again by thisinjury.”

Club officials had initially indicated that Iniestawould be out of action for six weeks. Doctors are nowcalling for a longer recovery period after the 24-year-old underwent further tests on Wednesday.

“The injury to Andres is the bad news from thegame,” Barcelona president Joan Laporta said after thematch.

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Barcelona’s Iniesta faces upto eight weeks out

Wenger ready for do or dieUnited showdown

Fenerbahce’s Gokhan Gonul (centre) gets tackledby Arsenal’s Denilson (right) and Mikael Silvestreduring their Champions League Group G match at

The Emirates Stadium in London. —INTERNET

MADRID, 6 Nov— Alessandro Del Piero proved RealMadrid’s tormentor in chief once again scoring bothgoals as Juventus defeated the Spanish champions 2-0on Wednesday to book their place in the ChampionsLeague last 16.

The 33-year-old scored in Juventus’ 2-1 win overReal in Turin and an impressive brace at the SantiagoBernabeu stadium helped the Italians beat the recordnine-time European champions for the second time ina fortnight.

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Juventus’ forward Alessandro Del Piero (R) celebrateshis second goal against Real Madrid during theirChampions League football match at Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. Juve won 2-0.—INTERNET

Juve in control as Del Piero provesReal nemesis again

Celtic’s forward Scott McDonald (right) celebratesscoring against Manchester United during their

UEFA Champions League Group E football matchat Celtic Park in Glasgow. —INTERNET

Bayern’s German’s forward Miroslav Klose (L)fights for the ball with Fiorentina’s Brazilian

midfielder Felipe Melo (C) and defender DarioDainelli during their Group F Champion’s League

football match at Florence’s Artemio FranchiStadium. —INTERNET

Ferguson promises Unitedboost to Celtic cause

Bayern close in on second roundwith Fiorentina draw

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been widespread in Chin and Mon States, UpperSagaing Division, fairly widespread in Kachin State,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions, scattered in Shan andKayin States, Lower Sagaing, Mandalay and Bago Divi-sions, isolated Rakhine and Kayah States and MagwayDivision and weather has been partly cloudy in the re-maining areas. Night temperatures were (3˚C) to (4˚C)above November average temperatures in Kachin, North-ern and Eastern Shan and Mon States, Upper Sagaing,Mandalay and Bago Divisions and about November av-erage temperatures in the remaining areas. The signifi-cant night temperature was Loilen (8˚C). The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Bhamo (1.85) inches,Katha (1.57) inches, Yangon (Mingaladon) (1.18) inches,Hpa-an (1.06) inches, Minkin (1.02) inches, Ye (0.98)inch and Mandalay (0.90).

Maximum temperature on 5-11-2008 was 92˚F.Minimum temperature on 6-11-2008 was 71ºF. Relativehumidity at (09 :30) hours MST on 6-11-2008 was 100%.Total sunshine hours on 5-11-2008 was (6.6) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 6-11-2008 was (1.18) inches atMingaladon, (0.20) inch at Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (110.31) inchesat Mingaladon,(120.91) inches at Kaba-Aye and (140.79)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed atYangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from South at (06:30)hours MST on 6-11-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 7th November 2008:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Rakhine State,Lower Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scat-tered in Kachin, Chin and Kayah States, Upper Sagaingand Taninthayi Divisions and fairly widespread in theremaning States and Divisions. Degree of certainty is(80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of rain or thundershowers in the LowerMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 7-11-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for7-11-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 7-11-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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World War I veteran dies aged 108SYDNEY, 6 Nov—One

of the five remainingveterans of World War Ihas died at the age of 108,it has been announced.

Sydney Maurice Lucaswas born in Leicester on21 September 1900. Hewas among the last batchof conscripts to be calledup in 1918.The Armistice

meant he escaped thehorror of the trenches butwent on to serve in WorldWar II.He died on 4November in his hometown near Melbourne inAustralia where hemoved in 1928.He wasjust 17 when he wasdrafted into the SherwoodForesters in August1918.He was trained inDerby and then Catterickin Yorkshire but when thewar ended he was senthome before he had toleave for France.

In 1928 he, like manyother Britons, emigratedto Australia in search of abetter life.In June 1940he volunteered for theAustralian army and wasposted to a machine guncompany.He sailed toPalestine whereAustralian forces were

being prepared to travelto Greece which had beeninvaded by German andItalian troops.But, he wasagain destined not to seeactive service after anattack of appendicitisprevented him travellingwith his battalion whichleft without him in April1941.He returned toAustralia on board theliner Queen Mary, as partof an operation guardingItalian and Germanprisoners of war and wasdischarged from the armyin November 1941, on thegrounds of ill health.Formany years he led thelocal Anzac Day paradein his home town on theMornington Peninsulanear Melbourne. Heattributed his long life toa moderate consumptionof alcohol.—Internet

Mr Lucas led the annual Anzac Day parade in hisadopted town.—INTERNET

Wild foxes are a common sight in Arizona.INTERNET

Attacked jogger takes foxfor run

ARIZONA, 6 Nov—Arizona jogger had anunwelcome companion ona recent run - a fox,hanging on to her arm byits teeth.The rabid animalhad attacked her foot andthen as she grabbed itsneck, it bit her arm andwould not let go.She ran amile to her car, where shemanaged to free herself,wrap the fox in a shirt andthrow it in the boot.It laterbit an animal controlofficer and both jogger andvet received anti-rabiesinjections, and the fox wasconfirmed as carrying thedisease.

The woman, fromChino Valley south of theGrand Canyon, had beenrunning for a mile whenshe came across the fox ina clearing. Although it didnot initially appearaggressive, the animal

attacked her feet as shebacked away, beforemoving up towards herknee.When she grabbedthe fox by the neck, itclosed its jaws around herarm and would not let go,despite her attempts tochoke it. Fearful that itwas indeed rabid, she ranto her car and managed tofree herself and trap thefox in the boot, beforedriving to a local medicalcentre.—Internet

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10th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1370 ME Friday, 7 November, 2008

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Nov – Rakhine Offshore Block No. AD-7 in MyanmaExclusive Economic Zone was put out to tender in 2005 and Daewoo Interna-tional Corporation of the Republic of Korea won the tender.

Daewoo International Corporation carried out exploration tasks in 2007and started test-drilling in September 2008 in Block No. AD-7. In so doing, theneighbouring Bangladesh came to demand that Block No. AD-7 was in its watersand that Myanmar’s oil drilling was to stop immediately. The demand was made

Myanmar rejects Bangladesh’s mistakenly-made demandState interests will be protected in accord with international laws

mistakenly and unlawfully.With respect to its territories, the Government of the Union of Myanmar is

taking measures in conformity with the international laws. So Myanmar rejectedthe mistakenly-made demand of Bangladesh. Moreover, in order to protectinterests of the country in line with the international laws, Myanmar will continueto do the work in Block No. AD-7 till its completion, it is learnt.

MNA

In the economic sector, private businesses play an important role fordevelopment of a country. Now, the government gives encouragement to enablelocal private entrepreneurs to have business opportunities.

Shwepaukkan Industrial Zone manufacturing quality productsArticle: Maung Chit Kyi; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

With a view to ensuring convenience of the entrepreneurs in their works,the government has established industrial zones across the nation by gathering thescattered industries. (See page 9)

Photo shows a factory in Shwepaukkan Industrial Zone.

MILAN, 6 Nov —Internationale coach JoseMourinho was left befud-dled after his team threwaway a glorious chance tobook their place in thelast 16 of the ChampionsLeague.

The Italian giantscould only manage a 3-3draw against AnorthosisFamagusta in Cyprus onTuesday night.

Mario Balotelligave Inter a 13th-minutelead but a defensive mis-take from Inter allowedCedric Bardon to equal-ise.

Both sides scored

Mourinho rues ‘individualmistakes’

towards the end of the firsthalf, first the visitorsthrough Marco Materazziand then substituteGiorgos Panagi for thehosts.

Nikolaos Frousosgave the home team ashock lead early in the sec-ond half but Inter rescueda point thanks to Julio Cruz10 minutes from time.

“It was not a ques-tion of tactics,” saidMourinho. “We simplymade incredible indi-vidual mistakes.

“There is still sometime to go before handingout the Christmaspresents!”

Inter remain top ofGroup B, three pointsahead of second-placedAnorthosis with twogames remaining.

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tional injured the samearm that has already beenoperated on due to a he-reditary condition that hasweakened ligaments inthe former South-ampton�players arm.

Another casualty ofthe Stoke clash, WilliamGallas could make hiscomeback against Man-chester United in the theircrunch match at the Emir-ates on Saturday, whileBacary Sagna, who wasalso injured against Stokeis already back in the Gun-ners squad. �Wenger said:"Adebayor will be threeweeks. “Walcott could be daysor weeks. It is the shoul-der he had the surgery on.“We don't know aboutGallas yet but Sagna willbe back in the squad.”

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Arsenal: Adebayor out for 3 weeks,no return date for Walcott

ARSENAL, 6 Nov—Ar-senal striker EmmanuelAdebayor will not be avail-able to the Gunners for therest of the month due to theankle injury he picked upagainst Stoke�City in the 2-1 Premier League defeat atthe Britannia Stadium onSaturday.

Winger Theo Walcottwas also injured in the clashwith the Potters, with Arse-nal manager Arsene Wengerrevealing that the full extentof the injury is not knownafter the England Interna-

Spalletti: Win can sparkour season

ROME, 6 Nov —Roma coach Luciano Spalletti ishoping his side's Champions League success againstChelsea will prove to be a turning point in their season.The Eternal City outfit went into Tuesday's gamedesperate for a victory to spark their campaign into lifefollowing five successive defeats.

A goal from Christian Panucci and a brace fromMirko Vucinic allowed the Italian team to claim a 3-1win over Chelsea, and the Roma tactician believes thetriumph might prove to be a pivotal point for his side.

"With this win the lads will have a furthermotivation to give continuity to our results," saidSpalletti. "Against Chelsea they showed the qualitythat we have displayed in the past. "Now we are moreconfident of ourselves although considering our situa-tion in the Serie A standings it's always important notto be too calm."—Internet

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