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Volume XXI, Number 67 14th Waxing of Nayon 1375 ME Saturday, 22 June, 2013

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New Light of MyanmarNay Pyi Taw , 21

J u n e M r G a u t a m

Mukhopadhaya, the

n e w l y - a c c r e d i t e d

Ambassador of the

Republic of India to the

Republic of the Union of

Myanmar, presented his

President U Thein Sein acceptscredentials of Ambassador of the

Republic of Indiacredentials to U Thein

Sein, President of the

Republic of the Union

of Myanmar, at the

Presidential Palace, here,

at 11am today.

Also present on the

occasion were Union

President U Thein Seinaccepts credentials of Chilean

AmbassadorNay Pyi Taw , 21

JuneMr Luis Fernando

Danus Charpent ier ,

the newly-accredited

Ambassador of the

Republic of Chile to the

Republic of the Union of

Myanmar, presented his

credentials to U Thein

Sein, President of the

Republic of the Union

of Myanmar, at the

Presidential Palace, here,

at 11:30 am today.

Also present on the

occasion were Union

Minister for Foreign

Affairs U Wunna Maung

Lwin, Union Minister at

the President Ofce U

Soe Maung and Director-

General U Thurain Thant

Zin of the Protocol

Department.MNA

Minister for Foreign

Affairs U Wunna Maung

Lwin, Union Minister at

the President Ofce U

Soe Maung and Director-

General U Thurain Thant

Zin of the Protocol

Department.MNA

President

U Thein

Sein

accepts the

credentials

of Mr

Gautam

Mukho-

padhaya,

the newly-

accredited

Ambassa-

dor of the

Republic

of India to

Myanmar.

mna

President U Thein Sein and party pose for documentary photo together with Mr Luis Fernando

Danus Charpentier, the newly-accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Chile to the Republic

of the Union of Myanmar.mna

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COLOURFUL MYANMAR

Maung Hlaing

I have been a veteran subscriber of

three dailies: The Myanma Alinn, The

Mirrorand The New Light of Myanmarfor nearly two decades.

Page-8

Bayintnaung Flyover

construction project

gaining momentum

Page-2

Milk feeding ceremony

held in Tachilek

Page-9

Japan, US, S

Korea to ask

N Korea

to act ondenucleariza-

tion

Page-3

Na y Py i Ta w , 21

J u n e M i n i s t r y o f

Commerce conducted

courses on international

trading at the training

school for trade of the

ministry here today.

The advanced course

No. 2 and the basic course

No. 3 were opened with an

opening address by Union

Minister for Commerce U

Win Myint.

The training school

was established in April,

Commerce Ministry conducts

advanced, basic courses on

Intls trading2012, to conduct training

courses for trading as part

of efforts for improving

the trading skills of the

businessmen while the

ministry has also carried

out reforms and relaxed

its rules and regulations.

A t t h e o p e n i n g

ceremony, Economist

D r A u n g T u n T h e t

gave talks on Private

Sector Development in

Myanmar.

MNA

Noteworthy amounts of rainfall(21-6-2013)

Thaton 3.82 inches

Maubin 2.95 inches

Kyaikmaraw 2.83 inches

Myitkyina 2.64 inches


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l o c a l n e w s

New Light of Myanmar

Photo shows footballers ghting for a ball in the match between

Nay Pyi Taw FC and Manawmyay FC at Padonma football ground

yesterday evening. Nay Pyi Taw FC won by three goals to one, conceding

the second place in the table of MNL Myanmar 2013.

Kyemon-Shinehtet Zaw

photonewS

Man discovered hanged in hospital toilet in

TachilekTachilek, 21 June

A man was found dead

in an apparent suicide in

one of a three-roomed

bathroom of mens patient

ward in the compound

of Tachilek hospital in

Tachilek of Shan State

(East) yesterday, Tachilek

police station said.

According to police,

they were informed of

Man found dead in Maesai

creek in TachilekTachilek, 21 June

Tachilek police station said

that they were informed of

a drowning death in Maesai

creek near May Flower

ground in Hsanhsaing(Ka) ward in Tachilek at

about 1.45 pm on 18 June.

Police Inspector Tin Htay,

Police Sub-inspector Chan

Thar and police members

rushed there and they found

a dead body of a man whois believed to have died of

drowning in the creek. He

was identied as a ward

dweller of Hsanhsai (Kha)

ward in Tachilek by the

name of Hsan Shay, 32.

Kyemon-Myint Mo(Tachilek)

the death of the man by Dr

Bo Hein of the hospital.

The 37-year-o ld man

who was identied by U

Maung Maung of Meiktila

and neither a patient nor

a caregiver apparently

hanged himself with a

more than four feet long

red coloured nylon string

which is commonly used

for wrapping the package

tied on the beam of the

toilet door. The victim of

the apparent suicide was

discovered dead with no

external injuries except a

bruise on his neck caused

by the impact of the string.

T a c h i l e k p o l i c e

station opened a case and

investigation is ongoing.

Kyemon-Myint Mo

(Tachilek)

Crime

Bayintnaung Flyover construction project

gaining momentum

Yangon, 21 June As

a drive for ensuring Yangon

with city characteristics,

roads are being expanded

an d u p g rad ed u n d er

projects. Although Yangon

has seen upgrading road

works, increased number ofvehicles is causing trafc

congestions in urban areas.

Aimed at reducing

trafc jams and ensuring

speedy transport on Yangon

roads, Hledan overpass

construction, Bayintnaung

yover construction project

and Shwegondine overpass

construction project started

with the agreement of Union

government, and Hledanoverpass was commissioned

into service on 30 May.

Now, Bayintnaung

yover is under construction

and gaining momentum. It

will be a facility that carries

one road over another

one. The rst bridge of

the facility that carries a

four-lane motorway will be

on Bayintnaung road. The

overpass will be 1427 feetand three inches in length

and 57 feet and seven inches

in width. Its approach

road will be 516 feet and

two inches long and it can

withstand 75-ton loads.

The second bridge of the

facility that carries another

two-lane motorway will

be on Thamaing Railway

Station road. The bridge

will be 2414 feet and 10

inches long and 32 feet and

10 inches wide. Its approach

road will be 393 feet and

nine inches in length and itcan withstand 60-ton loads.

Construction works of the

yover started shortly after

a stake-driving ceremony

on 5 June 2012.

An official of the

project said that it was set

to complete construction

works at the end of this year.

Upon comple t ion ,

the yover could enable

Yangonites to enjoy smooth

and secure transport and

contribute towards a swift

ow of commodities from

various parts of the countryto Bayintnaung brokerage

rms.

Kyemon-Soe Nge & Khin

Maung Win

Damaged roads near

Bayintnaung junction given

temporary repair works

TransporT

Yangon, 21 June

Roads in downtown area of

Yangon were damaged due

to the torrential downpours

during this years rainy

seaso n . Heav y r a in s

swamped the roads and

rainwater left in the holes

of roads caused damage to

the roads.High traffic volume

of trucks and containers

to Bayintnaung brokerage

f i r m s m a d e m o r e

damage to roads near

Bayin tnaung junct ion

where construction of

Bayintnaung flyover is in

progress.

So temporary repair

works were carried out

urgently for the quick

convenience of road users.

An official said that repair

works simply contributed

to temporary convenience;and that roads would be

repaired properly when

Bayin tnaung f lyover

construction project was

over.

Soe Nge (Kyemon)

Three family members

die after having toad,

mushroom dinnerloikaw, 21 June

Three family members died

on a same day after having a

main dish of toad and a side

dish of mushroom for their

dinner at a house in Kokway

village in Dolasaw village-

tract of Pruhso Township in

Loikaw District in Kayah

State on 15 June evening.

The eldest daughter

of the family was declared

dead at home and U Yaw Ko

and his younger daughter

were pronounced dead

again after severely falling

sick. Only one son was left

in the family as he did not

have the dishes.

Kyemon-Pruhso IPRD

No one hurt in Lanmadaw car

crashaCCidenT

Yangon, 21 June A

road crash involved three

vehicles erupted at the

corner of Strand Road and

Kyongyi Street in Lanmadaw

Township, here, at about 8.30

am yesterday.

Ad ip ad i (Ye l lo w)

passenger bus driven by

Hlaing Win Aung ploughed

into the back of a stationary

saloon, Probox, with U

Aung Naing in the drivers

seat which was waiting for

the green light at Strand

Road and Kyongyi Street

while driver lost control.

Then the bus hit another

saloon, Harrier, driving on

the opposite lane again.

The road accident left

no one hurt, but caused rear

windscreen and rear lights

of Probox and left door of

Harrier damaged.

Lanmadaw Township

trafc police charged the

passenger bus driver with

reckless driving. Kyemon-

Tin Maung Oo (Ahlon)


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(From L) Shinsuke Sugiyama, head of the Asian and

Oceanian Affairs Bureau at the Japanese ForeignMinistry, Glyn Davies, US special representa tive

for North Korea policy, and Cho Tae Yong, South

Koreas special representativ e for Korean Peninsulapeace and security affairs, shake hands before their

meeting in Washington on 21 June , 2013. The senior

working-level talks were held on North Koreasnuclear programmes.

Kyodo News

Japan, US, S Korea to ask N Korea to act on

denuclearization

Tokyo, 21 JuneJa-pan, the United States andSouth Korea agreed on

Wednesday that North Ko-rea should take action ondenuclearization before

the six-party talks on the

Norths nuclear programmecan resume, a senior Japa-

nese ofcial said.North Korea must use

not only words but also ac-tions to demonstrate that it

is going in the direction of

denuclearization, Shin-

suke Sugiyama said aftermeeting with his US and

South Korean counterpartsin Washington.

The senior ofcials

discussed the actions thatthe three countries will askNorth Korea to take, ac-

cording to Sugiyama, whoheads the Asian and Oce-anian Affairs Bureau at the

Japanese Foreign Ministry.Cho Tae Yong, who

represented South Korea at

the trilateral meeting, toldreporters stronger require-ments should be imposed

on North Korea than a Feb-ruary 2012 US-North Koreadeal, South Koreas YonhapNews Agency reported.

Under the deal, theNorth agreed to shut down

uranium enrichment andother activities at its Yong-byon nuclear complex and

refrain from conductingnew nuclear and long-

range missile tests. But thedeal quickly fell apart afterNorth Korea launched a

long-range missile in April2012.Kyodo News

A general view of the Taleban Afghanistan PoliticalOfce in Doha on 18 June 2013.ReuteRs

Afghan peace bid on hold over Kabul-

Taleban protocol rowDoha, 21 June A

fresh effort to end Afghani-stans 12-year-old war was

in limbo on Thursday aftera diplomatic spat about the

Talebans new Qatar ofce

delayed preliminary discus-sions between the UnitedStates and the Islamist in-

surgents.A meeting between US

ofcials and representativesof the Taleban had been setfor Thursday in Qatar butAfghan government anger

at the fanfare surroundingthe opening of a Taliban of-

ce in the Gulf state threwpreparations into confusion.

The squabble may setthe tone for what could be

arduous negotiations toend a conict that has tornat Afghanistans stability

since the US invasion fol-lowing the September 11,

2001 al Qaeda attacks onUS targets.

Asked when the talks

would now take place, asource in Doha said, Thereis nothing scheduled that I

am aware of.But the US govern-

ment said it was condentthe US-Taliban talks wouldsoon go forward.

We anticipate thesetalks happening in the com-ing days, said State Depart-

ment spokesman Jen Psaki,adding that she could not be

more specic. James Dob-

bins, the US special repre-sentative for Afghanistanand Pakistan is packed and

ready to go with his pass-port and suitcase, she said.One logistical complication

is a visit by US Secretary ofState John Kerry to Doha

on Saturday and Sunday.Kerry will discuss the

Afghan peace talks with

the Qatari hosts, senior USofcials said, but does not

plan to get immersed in anytalks himself or meet with

Taleban representatives. A

major part of his meetingwill be devoted to talks on

the Syrian civil war.The opening of the

Taleban ofce was a practi-cal step paving the way for

peace talks. But the ofcial-looking protocol surround-ing the event raised angry

protests in Kabul that theofce would develop intoa Taleban government-in-

exile.Reuters

NRA eyes allowing sole

operating reactors to remain

online through SeptemberTokyo, 21 JuneThe

two nuclear reactors cur-rently in operation in Japanhave no serious safety prob-

lems in light of new safetyregulations to be introduced

in July, regulators said in adraft assessment report re-leased on Thursday.

The assessment, ifnalized by the NuclearRegulation Authority, will

enable the Nos 3 and 4 re-actors at Kansai ElectricPower Cos Oi plant in

Fukui Prefecture to remainonline through September,when they will be taken of-

ine for mandatory routine

checks.As of the end of June,

we think...the situation willnot create serious safetyproblems immediately, the

NRA said in the draft reportthat evaluated the current

status of the reactors.But the NRA noted that

some requirements have

not been fully satised andcriticized Kansai Electricfor its attitude in exchanges

with the regulators duringthe latest assessment pro-

cess.There were some are-

as in which Kansai Electricproposed countermeasures

bit by bit as if to nd theminimum possible stand-

ard. Such an approach islikely to be an obstacle in

efciently proceeding with(reactor safety) assessmentonce the new regulationsare implemented, the draft

report said. Reactors thatare currently ofine will

have to be checked by theNRA to determine whetherthey meet the new safety

regulations and can be re-started. The NRA is ex-pected to start accepting

applications for the safetyscreening from 8 July .

But the NRA decided

to conduct a special assess-ment on the safety of the Oi

plants Nos. 3 and 4 unitsbefore the regulations take

effect, given that they arethe only operating reactors

in Japan.The new regulations,

which reect the lessonslearned from the 2011Fukushima Daiichi nuclearpower plant disaster, re-

quire utilities to take spe-cic measures to protect

their atomic plants fromtsunami and to prevent andminimize the consequences

of severe accidents.As for emergency

command centres that the

utilities must establish tohandle severe accidents,Kansai Electric decided to

use a meeting room next toa central control room forthe Nos 1 and 2 reactors at

the Oi plant.Kyodo News

Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis leaves the PrimeMinisters ofce after a meeting with Greeces coalition

leaders in Athens on 20 June 2013.ReuteRs

Greek coalition in disarray,

small party considers quittingaThens, 21 June

Greeces small DemocraticLeft party could pull out

of Prime Minister AntonisSamarass ruling coalitionafter talks to resume statetelevision broadcasts col-

lapsed, party ofcials saidon Thursday, plunging the

nation into fresh turmoil.Lawmakers from the

leftist partywhich wasangered by the abrupt shut-

down of broadcaster ERTlast weekwill meet at

0730 GMT (0330 ET) onFriday to decide whether tocontinue backing Samaras,

who in turn warned he wasready to Press ahead with-

out them.I want us to continuetogether as we started but Iwill move on either way,

Samaras said in a televisedstatement, vowing to imple-

ment public sector reforms

demanded by lenders. Ouraim is to conclude our ef-

fort to save the country, al-ways with a four-year termin our sights. We hope forthe Democratic Lefts sup-

port.Samarass New De-

mocracy party and its So-

cialist PASOK ally jointlyhave 153 deputies, a major-ity of three in the countrys

300-member parliament,meaning they could con-

tinue together, but a depar-ture of the Democratic Leftwould be a major blow. Of-

cials from all three partiesruled out snap elections.

At least two independ-ent lawmakers have alsosuggested they would backSamarass government,

which came to power a yearago and has bickered ever

since over austerity and im-migration.

The latest crisis began

nine days ago when Sa-maras abruptly yanked ERToff air, calling it a hotbed of

waste and privilege, spark-ing an outcry from his twoallies, unions and journal-

ists.After initially refusing

to restart ERT, Samaras on

Thursday complained he

offered to re-hire 2,000 outof 2,600 ERT workers who

were red, a compromisecourageously acceptedby the Socialist PASOKparty but rejected by the

Democratic Left.We will no longer

have black screens on state

TV channels but we are notgoing to return to the sinful

regime, he said.Reuters

Election worker, policeman killed in attack in western IraqBaghDaD, 21 June

An election worker and apoliceman were killed and

three others wounded in

an attack against a vote-counting centre in western

Iraq on Thursday, a policesource said.

A suicide bomber blew

himself up on Thursdayevening in Anbarsprovincial capital of

Ramadi, some 100 km westof the capital Baghdad,

killing an employee of theIraqi Independent HighElectoral Commission and

a policeman and wounding

three people, the sourcetoldXinhua on condition of

anonymity.Iraq held provincial

elections on Thursday in

Anbar and Nineveh, thetwo Sunni-dominatedprovinces where elections

were previously delayed forsecurity concerns.

Up to 2.8 millioneligible voters ockedto 716 polling centres in

the two provinces to elect

their leaders out of 637candidates in Nineveh and

548 in Anbar, who contestfor Ninevehs 39 provincialcouncil seats and Anbars

30 seats.The polls were carried

out under tight security

measures, as Iraqi securityforces spread into the cities

of the provinces of Anbar inwestern Iraq and Nineveh

in the north.The troops cordoned

off polling centres andimposed a trafc ban onvehicles.

By midday, the trafcban was lifted in order to

make it easier for votersto go to polling centres,particularly the elderly

ones.Xinhua


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Science & Technology


India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail

New Delhi, 21 JuneIndia has launched awide-ranging surveillance

programme that will giveits security agencies andeven income tax ofcials theability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls with-out oversight by courts orparliament, several sourcessaid. The expanded surveil-lance in the worlds mostpopulous democracy, whichthe government says willhelp safeguard national se-curity, has alarmed privacyadvocates at a time whenallegations of massive USdigital snooping beyondAmerican shores has set offa global furor.

If India doesnt want

A man checks his mobile

phone near a marketplacein New Delhi

on 18 June, 2013.

ReuteRs

to look like an authoritarianregime, it needs to be trans-parent about who will be au-thorized to collect data, whatdata will be collected, how itwill be used, and how theright to privacy will be pro-tected, said Cynthia Wong,an Internet researcher atNew York-based HumanRights Watch.

The Central Monitor-ing System (CMS) was an-nounced in 2011 but therehas been no public debateand the government has saidlittle about how it will workor how it will ensure that thesystem is not abused.

The government startedto quietly roll the system outstate by state in April thisyear, according to govern-ment ofcials. Eventually it

will be able to target any ofIndias 900 million landlineand mobile phone subscrib-ers and 120 million Inter-net users. Interior ministryspokesman K.S. Dhatwaliasaid he did not have detailsof CMS and therefore couldnot comment on the privacyconcerns. A spokeswomanfor the telecommunicationsministry, which will over-see CMS, did not respond toqueries.Reuters

Hacking threat and tougherdata laws promise insurance

boomloNDoN, 21 JuneFor

European insurers frus-trated that cyber crimepolicies have so far failed tond a ready market among

skeptical companies, hopemay be at hand.

Not only has a hugedata loss by Sony Corpdramatically illustrated therisks of hacking raids oncorporate data, but the Eu-

ropean Union is workingon regulatory requirementswhich threaten heftier neson unprepared companies.

The net effect for theinsurance sector is that itsefforts to establish cybercover as a lucrative busi-ness line alongside riskssuch as weather catastro-phes may be about to bearfruit. In the United States,cyber cover has grown to bea market worth more than$1 billion in annual premi-ums, but Europe has not yet

followed suit, perhaps sur-

prising given a run of highprole, and costly, hackingincidents.

A hand issilhouetted

in front of acomputer screen

in this picture

illustration takenin Berlin on

21 May, 2013.

ReuteRs

Yet the US growthonly came after legislationa decade after insurers rst

started offering policiesto cover so-called cyberrisk.

If I was to comparethe UK and European mar-ket now with the US mar-ket, we are where they wereback in 2004 to 5, saidStephen Wares, specialist

in cyber risk at insurancebroker Marsh.

In the United States,laws forcing companies of-ten at considerable cost toinform people if their pri-vate details had been com-promised, led to a boomin cyber cover starting inaround 2005, Wares said.

Now European law-makers are promising big-ger nes for companies that

lose data, just as hackersstep up illicit mining forsensitive information, driv-ing a market for insuring

against mounting nancialrisks.Reuters

Mobile device boom no threat to movie theatre growth: Imax CEOJerusalem, 21 June

People will always want towatch movies in theatresdespite the growing trendof watching videos at homeand on mobile devices, thehead of giant movie systemmaker Imax said.

People are social ani-mals and I dont think theywant to be chained to theircouches, mobile devicesand tablets. They want togo out, Richard Gelfond,chief executive of Canada-based Imax, told the annualPresidents Conference inIsrael on Thursday.

They recognize thefact that (lmmakers) Ste-ven Spielberg and James

Cameron may be better attelling a story than a 16 yearold over the Internet. I think

they can exist side by side.Special effects-driven

movies, in particular, can-not be adequately capturedon a mobile device, Gel-fond said.

You need to go to atheatre to appreciate them.If you are going to leavehome you want a dramati-cally different experiencethan in the home.

Imax also designsand manufactures theatresystems and then sells orleases them under revenue-sharing arrangements. Ithas more than 738 theatresin 53 countries.

Its fourth-quarter 2012prot soared as gross box

ofce revenue from itsdigital media remasteringbusiness rose 56 percent to

A close up of one of two IMAX cameras is seen atthe Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in

Washington on 4 April, 2012.ReuteRs

With Russian help, Europe prepares to search

for life on MarsParis, 21 JuneThe

European Space Agency

signed nal contracts with

Thales Alenia Space Italyfor work on a pair of mis-sions to assess if the planetMars has or ever had life,ofcials said at the Paris

Airshow this week.Until last year, the

ExoMars programme was ajoint project between ESA

and the US space agencyNASA. But NASA droppedout, citing budget problems.

The Russian spaceagency Roscosmos steppedin to provide two Protonrockets to send an orbitingatmospheric probe and testlander to Mars in January2016, and a follow-on roverin August 2018 that willdrill below the planets sur-face to look for spores andbacteria.

Roscosmos also is pro-viding a landing system for

the rover and scientic in-struments.

It took some time,some energy, some effortsfrom a lot of different par-

The High-Resolution

Stereo Camera (HRSC)on board ESAs MarsExpress has returned

images of Echus Chasma,one of the largest water

source regions on the Red

Planet.

ReuteRs

Australian scientists uses 3D printer to create

super-sized bugssyDNey, 21 June

Australian scientists havecreated the worlds rst

3D printed giant titaniumbugs, up to 50 times theiroriginal size, which will en-able them to examine thesecreatures which can barelybe seen with the naked eye.

They used state-of-theart technology to createsuper-sized bugs.

The project, led byCSIRO researchers, is toenable scientists to handleand examine bugs, espe-

cially those which can bare-ly be seen with the nakedeye, in large-scale detail forthe very rst time.

Scientists believe this

ties. It was not easy tomove from an ESA-NASA

cooperation to an ESA-

Roscosmos cooperation,Jean-Jacques Dordain, headof ESA, told reporters after

signing a 230 million eu-ros ($300 million) contractwith Thales Alenia.

Thales Alenia, selected

as the ExoMars prime con-tractor ve years ago, plansto spend 146 million euroson the 2016 orbiter andlander. The satellite is be-ing designed to search thethin Martian atmospherefor telltale gases associatedwith biological activity. Italso will serve as the keycommunications relay forthe 2018 rover.

The lander primarilyis intended to test the tech-nologies needed to touchdown on Mars, a notori-ously difcult task that has

bedeviled nearly all of Rus-

sias previous efforts andhas given NASA trouble aswell. The United States cur-rently has two operationalrovers on Mars, Curiosity

and Opportunity.After pulling out of the

ExoMars program, NASA

said it would send a sec-ond Curiosity-type rover toMars in 2020.

The rest of the Ex-oMars budget will be spenton the 2018 rover, a mis-sion that will make the rst

direct search for life sinceNASAs 1970s-era Vikinglanders.Reuterstechnology will soon enable

them to determine charac-teristics, such as gender, andexamine surface character-istics which are otherwisedifcult due to the min-ute size, the CSIRO wasquoted by the AustralianAssociated Press as saying.What CSIRO has done istake bugs from CanberrasAustralian National InsectCollectionan Aladdinscave of creepy crawlies and used 3D technologyto create a computer-aided

design le of their exactdimensions, the report saidadding The bugs are thenre-created in replica form,up to 50 times their original

size in titanium, using a 3Dprinter. At the moment, thebugs are being 3D printedin basic detail.

The report further saidthat in future CSIRO washoping to replicate the crea-tures anatomy down to themost minute feature. Thebenets are obvious for sci-entists. A doctor once saidthat having 3D images on acomputer to plan a surgeryis great, but to print theparts, to handle and exam-ine them in clear detail is

invaluable, CSIRO addi-tive manufacturing opera-tions manager Chad Henrywas quoted as saying.

Reuters

$152 million, and its theatrenetwork grew. Remasteringadapts a movie shot for nor-

mal theatres for giant Imaxscreens.

Reuters


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BUSINESS & HEALTH


No illegal ingredients detected in medicine: drug watchdog

Beijing, 21 JuneTheChina Food and Drug Ad-ministration (CFDA) onWednesday said no illegalingredients have so far beendetected in an oral medicineafter warnings from a Hong

Kong health authority that

it may contain dangeroussubstances.

Initial tests showedthat illegal additives ofphenacetin and aminophen-azone have not been foundin the same batch of the

drug that was identied by

Hong Kongs Departmentof Health on Tuesday, saidthe CFDA. The oral drug,or Vitamin C Yinqiaotablet, one of the most com-monly used cold medicinesin China, is produced by

Shenzhen Tongan Pharma-ceutical Company, based insouth China.

Laboratory tests onthe product found the pres-ence of two undeclaredand banned western medi-cines, phenacetin and ami-nophenazone, accordingto statement released byHong Kongs InformationServices Department onTuesday.

However, the ingredi-

Eating red meat over time

poses higher Type 2 diabetes

riskBeijing, 21 JuneEat-

ing red meat over time isassociated with a higherchance of developing Type2 diabetes, according toa study in JAMA InternalMedicine on Monday.

Diabetes is a disease inwhich a persons blood sug-ar, known as glucose, is toohigh. In Type 2 diabetes, thebody does not make enoughof the hormone insulin orignores the presence of in-sulin, which is necessary toprocess glucose into energyused by cells in the body.

When glucose buildsup, it can lead to diabetes-related health issues likehigh blood pressure, men-tal health troubles, hearingloss and eye, foot and skincomplications.

Researchers from theNational University of Sin-gapore tracked people whohad eaten red meat over fouryears and found that thosewho didnt change their redmeat intake over the study

periods were linked with a48 percent increased risk ofdeveloping the disease.

On the other hand,people reducing red meatconsumption during the en-tire follow-up period were

associated to a 14 percentlower risk for diabetes. Theresearchers also analyzedred meat and processed redmeat separately, and foundthe association was greaterfor processed meat as thehigh level of saturated fattyacid in the processed meatwas one of the main culpritsbehind the link to diabetesrisk. Our results conrmthe robustness of the asso-ciation between red meatand T2DM (Type 2 Dia-betes) and add further evi-dence that limiting red meat

consumption over timeconfers benets for T2DMprevention, wrote the au-thors, who were led by DrAn Pan, a researcher atthe National University ofSingapore.Xinhua

ents listed on the bottle, in-cluding vitamin C, paracet-amol and chlorpheniraminemaleate, were not detected,the statement said.

The CFDA contactedHong Kongs health author-

ity to nd out more aboutthe drug on Wednesdayand ordered the companyto suspend its sale. Fur-ther tests are being carriedout on other batches of thedrug, and relevant infor-mation will be released assoon as possible, accordingto the CFDA. The CFDAsaid harsh measures willbe imposed on the manu-facturer if illegal practicesare found.Xinhua

US chicken

sector boosted

by fast-food

items, costly

beefChiCago, 21 June

This is a good year to be inthe US chicken business.Prots are up, productionand prices are rising, fast-food restaurants are promot-ing chicken dishes, and feedcosts appear headed lowerthanks to expected large UScorn and soybean crops.

High beef prices alsohave chased many super-market shoppers to more-affordable chicken. Healthyprots are expected forchicken companies this year,a sharp turnaround from twoyears ago when the industrywas hurt by the recessionand high feed prices.

Surging sales pushedwholesale prices for chickenbreasts, the industrys keyproduct, past $2 a poundthis spring for the rst timesince 2004. A USDA reportthis week shows benchmarkbreast prices up 36 percentfrom a year ago at $2.18-1/2

per lb. Its the best of bothworlds because we havegrain prices going down andchicken prices going up. Weare looking at a great year forchicken companies, saidPaul Aho, economist withthe consulting rm PoultryPerspective. Analysts pre-dict earnings at giant meatproducer Tyson Foods Incwill surge to $2.11 per sharethis scal year from $1.58 in2012, according to Thom-sonReuters I/B/E/S. Fore-casters expect SandersonFarms earnings will morethan double to $5.67 pershare from $2.35 in 2012,with Pilgrims Pride Corpprot jumping to $1.68 pershare from 70 cents in scal2012.Reuters

Two-fths of US adults care for sick, elderly

relativesWashington, 21 June

Four in 10 US adults arenow caring for a sick orelderly family member asmore people develop chron-ic illnesses and the popula-tion ages, a new study hasfound. More health care ishappening at home, saidSusannah Fox, associatedirector of the Pew Re-search Centres Internet andAmerican Life project andthe studys lead author. Asmore people are able to besaved by medical advances,their lives are being extend-

ed, but theyre also beingsent home medically frag-ile. Its caregivers who arethe rst line of defence.

Researchers, whichfound that the number ofcaregivers increased 10percent between 2010 and2013, surveyed 3,014 adultsnationwide and found thatmost caregivers were be-tween 30 and 64 years old.

Fox also said the slowUS economy could explain

why family members arebecoming more responsi-ble for care. With feweror depleted savings, manypeople are less able to hireprofessional help, she said.

About half of the Unit-ed States population has atleast one chronic condition,according to the Centres forDisease Control and Pre-vention. Adults ages 65 andolder, 75 percent of whomhave chronic conditions,

are expected to make up 19percent of the populationby 2030, compared with 12percent in 2000.

As a chronic illnessprogresses, family mem-bers step in to help out,said Denise Brown, founderof the support site caregiv-ing.com. Theres a betterunderstanding of the pro-gression of the disease thanthe practitioner becausethey live with it.Reuters

A woman is pushed on a wheelchair underneathblossoming trees inside Central Park during a warm day

in New York, on 22 March, 2012.ReuteRs

New Heinz owners shake up management

after takeoverPittsBurgh, 21 JuneH.J. Heinz Co announcedthe departure of 11 execu-tives on Thursday in a man-agement shakeup less thantwo weeks after its newowners, 3G Capital andBerkshire Hathaway Inc(BRKa.N), closed their $28billion acquisition.

The worlds largestketchup maker revealeda new management teamof 11 executives, nine ofwhom are already withPittsburgh-based Heinz.

This announcementdemonstrates the powerand potential of meritoc-racy at work here at Heinz,

said Bernardo Hees, whorecently became chief ex-ecutive ofcer after leadingBurger King WorldwideInc (BKW.N), another 3Ginvestment.

Two of the new execu-tives have ties to 3G, a pri-vate equity rm with Bra-zilian roots and a reputationfor aggressive cost-cutting.

One is Paulo Basilio,whose appointment as chiefnancial ofcer was an-nounced on 7 June, whenthe deal closed. The otheris Eduardo Pelleissone,who joins as executive vicepresident of operationsfrom America Latina Lo-gistica, a Brazilian logisticscompany.Reuters

A variety

of Heinz

products are

seen at a

convenience

store inGolden,

Colorado on

28 Feb, 2006.

ReuteRs

Prostate terminology

bewilders many inner-city

menneW York, 21 June

Many inner-city men dontunderstand basic terms hav-ing to do with the prostate,according to a new survey,

which could make it dif-cult for them to decide ontreatment options for relat-ed cancers.

The risk to benetratio of prostate cancerscreening and treatmentdepend a lot on patientpreferences, so it is criti-cal that patients can under-stand the tradeoffs that areinvolved, said Dr StaceyLoeb, a urologist at NYULangone Medical Centre inNew York.

This is particularlytrue for high-risk groupssuch as African Ameri-

cans, who are known to beat greater risk for aggres-sive prostate cancer, Loeb,who was not involved in thestudy, told Reuters Health.

Another study this yearindicated that the educa-tional materials and web-sites doctors direct patientsto are still too difcult for

many patients to understand(see Reuters Health story ofMay 20, 2013 here: reut.rs/11cXHeQ).

Prostate cancer is thesecond leading cause ofcancer death for men in theUS, killing about 30,000men each year accordingto the Centers for DiseaseControl. Its not always ag-gressive, however, meaningthat men may be subjectedto surgery or radiation, andside effects, without neces-sarily extending their lives.

Researchers distri-buted pop quiz surveys

on common terms related tourinary, bowel and sexualfunctions at two clinics forlow-income patients.

Reuters


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World

6 New Light of Myanmar

One million march across Brazil in biggest

protests yetRio de JaneiRo/BRasi-

lia, 21 JuneAn estimated

1 million people took to thestreets in cities across Brazilon Thursday as the countrys

biggest protests in two dec-

ades intensied despite gov-ernment concessions meant

to quell the demonstrations.Undeterred by the re-

versal of transport fare hikes

that sparked the protests,and promises of better pub-

lic services, demonstratorsmarched around two inter-national soccer matches and

in locales as diverse as theAmazon capital of Manausand the prosperous southern

city of Florianopolis.While the protests re-

mained mostly peaceful,

the growing number of par-

ticipants led to occasionaloutbursts of violence and

vandalism in some cities. Incentral Rio de Janeiro, where300,000 people marched,

police afterwards chasedlooters and dispersed peoplecrowding into surrounding

areas.Twenty cents was just

the start, read signs held by

many converging along theAvenida Paulista, the broad

Demonstrators take over one side of the Rodovia Dutra,one of the countrys main highways, during a protest in

Sao Jose dos Campos, on 20 June, 2013.

ReuteRs

avenue in central So Paulo,

referring to the bus fare re-ductions. Police there said110,000 people lined the av-

enue. In the capital, Brasilia,tens of thousands of protest-ers marched around the land-

mark modernist buildingsthat house Congress and theSupreme Court and briey

set re to the outside of theForeign Ministry. Police saidabout 80 of the protesters,

some with homemade explo-sives, made it into the minis-

try building before they wererepelled.

In Ribeiro Preto, near

So Paulo, a 20-year-olddemonstrator died after adriver plowed a jeep into a

crowd. Brazilian media re-ported hundreds of minorinjuries across the country,

including a Rio television re-porter who recounted beinghit by a rubber bullet red by

police.The swelling tide of

protests prompted President

Dilma Rousseff to cancel atrip next week to Japan, her

ofce said.Reuters

Displaced Darfuris live in terrible

conditionsKhaRtoum, 21 June

Sudanese people who have

ed a recent surge in ghtingin the western Darfur regionlive in terrible conditions and

face a humanitarian dis-

aster, a UN human rightsexpert said after visiting the

strife-torn region.War broke out in the

western region of Darfur

over a decade ago. MainlyAfrican tribes took up arms

against the Arab governmentin Khartoum, accusing it ofmarginalization.

Violence is down froma 2004-2005 peak but a newwave of ghting between the

army, rebels and competingtribes has displaced sinceJanuary about 300,000 peo-

ple who live in camps across

the vast arid region.The difcult conditions

facing the people ... especial-ly women and children, wereterrible, Mashood Adebayo

Baderin said on Thursdayin Khartoum after visiting acamp for displaced people in

South Darfur.Baderin, a Nigerian

asked by the United Nations

Human Rights Council toassess the situation in Su-

dan, made his third trip to theAfrican country.

The tents were inad-equate and most of the newIDPs (displaced people) have

resorted to using local mate-

rials to construct make-shiftshelter, he said, adding that

urgent action was neededto avoid a humanitariandisaster. The International

Criminal Court has issued ar-rest warrants for Bashir and

other Sudanese ofcials oncharges of mastermindingwar crimes in Darfur. They

deny the charges and refuseto recognize the court.

Human rights groupsand the United Nations esti-mate that hundreds of thou-

sands of people have died in

Darfurs conict. The gov-ernment says around 10,000

people have been killed.Baderin said the human-

itarian situation was wors-

ening in parts of Blue Nilestate, where the Sudanese

army is also ghting rebels,who accuse the governmentof neglect.Reuters

A child holds a slipper as displaced people wait at afood distribution centre as special envoys and diplomatsarrive for a meeting to discuss the progress of a peace

treaty in Darfur, at Shangli Tobay village in NorthDarfur on 18 June, 2013.ReuteRs

Traditional sailboats

called Utasebune catchHokkai shrimps as the

season begins in the town

of Betsukai, Hokkaido,northern Japan, in theearly morning of 21 June,

2013.KyodoNewstoKyo, 21 June

Typhoon Leepi weakened to

an extratropical depressionover waters west of the Ky-ushu region on Friday mor-

ning, but the weather agencycontinued to warn of heavyrain in western Japan.

The Japan Meteorologi-cal Agency said the extrat-ropical depression was mov-

ing east-northeast at a speedof 30 kilometres per hourover waters west of Kyushu

at 9 am.In the village of Umaji,

Kochi Prefecture, rainfallreached 354.5 millimetersin 24 hours through early

Friday, more than half of theaverage monthly amount ofrainfall in June, the agency

said.Some areas may be

hit by up to 60 mm rainfall

hourly through Friday even-ing, the agency said, urgingcaution against strong winds,

high waves, tornadoes aswell as thunder.

The 24-hour precipita-

tion through 6 am Saturdayis forecast to reach up to 200mm in Shikoku, up to 150

mm in Kyushu, and up to120 mm in Kinki centeringon Osaka.Kyodo News

Typhoon

weakens,

heavy rainstill continues

Corporate tax should be lowered on par with

major economies: AmaritoKyo, 21 JuneEco-

nomic and scal policy min-ister Akira Amari indicated

Friday Japan should lowerits corporate income taxlevel to that of major econo-

mies in the long run.While I do not think it

is necessary to engage in ex-

cessive competition, I thinkwe should secure a (corpo-

rate tax) level on a par withkey competitors, Amari toldreporters.

Amari also said thegovernment will focus onthe most cost-effective poli-

cies under its current nan-

cial capacity, indicating thefocus is on reducing the

capital investment tax.

The ruling LiberalDemocratic Party promisedto reduce corporate income

tax and capital investmenttax in its election pledges,although specic goal g-

ures were not mentioned.Finance Minister Taro

Aso, meanwhile, expressed

reluctance to cut the effec-tive corporate tax rate, say-

ing at a separate press con-ference, Companies aremore in favour of a tax cut

for investment rather thanreducing corporate tax.

Aso has said a corporate

tax cut would be ineffective

in bolstering the economy,given that over 70 percent of

rms are exempt from pay-

ing the tax on the ground ofpoor business performance.

Chief Cabinet Secre-

tary Yoshihide Suga saidreducing the effective cor-porate tax rate is an option

among measures for reviv-ing the economy but did notelaborate.

The effective corporatetax rate, consisting of na-

tional and local taxes, stoodat 35.64 percent as of Janu-ary in Japan for companies

based in Tokyo, higher thanaround 30 percent in Germa-ny, 25 percent in China and

17 percent in Singapore, ac-

cording to data released bythe Finance Ministry.

Kyodo News

Storm batters Wellington,

leaves chaos around

New ZealandWellington, 21

JuneNew Zealands capi-

tal Wellington was cleaningup on Friday after one ofthe worst storms in decades

smashed roads, cut air linksand left thousands of homes

without power, while other

parts of the country weredealing with snow and

oods.Civil Defence Min-

ister Nikki Kaye issued

a statement warning thatthe extreme weather thathad caused disruption over

much of the country overthe last two days may notbe completely over.

No states of emergen-cy have been declared any-where in the country at this

stage, but people shouldheed advice from local au-thorities and civil defence

emergency managementgroups, Kaye said.This morning in the

south difcult conditionscaused by high rainfall ear-

lier in the week have been

compounded by heavysnow falls impacting farm-

ers and town communitiesalike. There are extensiveroad closures, some schools

are closed and emergencyservices and civil defence

working hard, she said in

the statement.Further north in the

South Island, the cold con-ditions, high winds and bigseas had disrupted transport

networks, the ferry servic-es between the North andSouth islands and the air-

lines.Wellington has been

hit by very high winds

overnight with many homeslosing power, trees down,roads closed and rail and

bus networks disrupted.Some homes in exposedareas of the city have lost

roofs and the south coasthas been battered by thecombined effect of high

winds and very big seas,said Kaye.

Xinhua

Govt to introduce new nuclear regulations

from 8 JulytoKyo, 21 JuneThe

Cabinet on Friday ap-proved ordinances to en-

force the countrys newnuclear regulations, com-piled in the wake of the

2011 Fukushima Daiichinuclear power plant disas-ter, from 8 July.

Existing reactors thatare currently ofine will

not be able to resume op-erations unless they meetthe revamped regulations,which for the rst time

will require utilities to take

specic measures to preventand minimize the conse-quences of severe nuclear

accidents. The operation ofreactors will also be limitedto 40 years in principle, al-

though an exceptional ex-tension of no more than 20years is allowed if safety is

conrmed.Utilities, many of

which are desperate to re-sume their idled reactors,are expected to start apply-ing for safety assessments

with the Nuclear Regulation

Authority on 8 July .Of the 50 commercial

reactors in Japan, only two

operated by Kansai Elec-tric Power Co in FukuiPrefecture are now online.

The two are likelyto be allowed to continueto operate beyond July,

because the NRA has sofar seen no serious safety

problems with them. Butthey will also have to betaken ofine in Septem-ber for mandatory routine

checkups.Kyodo News


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7Saturday, 22 June, 2013New Light of Myanmarlocal news

Yangon, 21 JuneMyanmar golfer Yin May

Myo emerged champion

of Girl Class 3 event in the

11th Mercedes Benz Junior

Golf Championship for two

successive years in Burapha

Golf & Resort in Thailand

on 12-14 June.

T h e e v e n t w a s

participated by 140 athletes

from 12 countries such as

Japan, India, China, China

(Taipei), Thailand, Hong

Kong, the Philippines,

Indonesia, Malaysia,

Canada, Australia and

Myanmar.

Myanmar team was

led by Vice-President of

Myanmar Golf Federation

U Min Thein and Joint

MandalaY, 21 June

As Myanmar is getting

ready stadiums and venues

for hosting the XXVII

Yangon, 21 JuneCash

and kind were provided

to 54 fire victims from

16 households in Insein

Township in Yangon at a

ceremony held at Thirisanda

Dhammayon in the ward on

18 June.

The re that broke out in

Ywama east ward in Insein

Township in Yangon North

District reduced four housesto ashes. The ceremony was

attended by Insein Township

Administrator U Kyaw Tint,

Deputy Administrator U

MongphYat, 21 June

Farmers in Mongpyat

Township in Eastern Shan

State are in fear of drought

as the township has yet to see

any sign of rain this season.

T h e t o w n s h i p s

farmers have put 26498

acres under monsoon

paddy.As rainfall in May

recorded only 3.95 inches

in 10 days, about 60 percent

decline from the rainfall

Meiktila, 21 JuneA

truck plunged off Yangon-

Mandalay highway in

Meiktila near Shwe Pan

Daing-Khinde village

ju nc t io n on 19 Ju ne

morning.

T h e s p e e d w a s

attributed to the crash of

the truck bound for Yangon.

The car went out

of control at the exit of

Victorious Myanmar golf team seen at Yangon

International Airport.

Government and social organizations donate cash

and kind to re victims in Insein Township in

Yangon Region.

Truck bound for Yangon plunges off Yangon-

Mandalay highway due to high speed.

Yangon, 21 June

Yangon Region Womens

Af fa i r s Org an iza t i o n

organized a literary talk

at Thiri Yadana Hall of

No (4) Basic Education

High School in Ahlon in

Yangon in commemoration

of Myanmar Womens Day

which falls on 3 July.

T h e t a l k w a s

attended by members of

Region Womens Afairs

Organization, wives of

region ministers, members

of district and township

W A O s , m e m b e r s o f

General Secretary of MGFU Myo Tun.

Myanmar fielded 14

playerseight boys and

six girls.

May Oo Khaing of

Myanmar stood third in Girl

Class 4, Thin Wai Khaing

won the most progressive

player in Girl Class 1, Zin

Min Thu stood third in

Boy Class B4 and Thiha

Htay stood fourth in Boy

Class B4.

The Myanmar team

was welcomed back at

Yangon In ternat ional

Airport by officials of

Myanmar Golf Federation,

relatives and Air Bagan

staff on 15 June.

MMAL

Young Myanmar golfer wins

junior golf championship for

two straight years

SEA Games in December,

2013, in Nay Pyi Taw,

Yangon and Mandalay,

Max Myanmar Company

is putting finishing touches

to the football stadium and

gymnasium in Mandalay.

T h e c o n s t r u c t i o n

Mandalay stadium construction nearing

completion

of the same period of

the previous year 10.3

inches, the farmers found

it difcult to irrigate their

farms.

Township Agriculture

Department is urging the

farmers to collectively

grow paddy where the

irrigation water is available,Township Staff Officer U

Than Htut Lwin said.

MMAL-Than Zaw

(Mongphyat)

Mongpyat farmers

concerned over possible

droughtMeiktila as it left the central

Myanmar town with high

speed.

The truck that left

Mandalay and destined for

Mawlamyine was driven by

U Htay and conductor Myat

Min Zaw.

The police has led a

lawsuit against the driver

of the truck.

MMAL-435

Truck plunges off Yangon-

Mandalay highway

Kyaw Soe, Deputy Staff

Ofcer U Myo Thant, Ward

Administrator U Aung Moe,

townselders, members of

Maternal and Child Welfare

Association, Red Cross

members, auxiliary fire

brigade members and the

victims.

T h e g o v e r n m e n t

and social organizations

provided the victims withK 2.2 million, mosquito nets,

pots, pans and other utensils.

MMAL-Myint Oo-

Insein

Cash and kind provided to

fre victims

township Maternal and

Child Welfare Association,

writers, guests and 495

attendance of teachers and

students.

Pat ron of Yangon

Region Womens Affairs

Organization Daw Khin

Thet Htay delivered an

opening speech at the talk.

Writer Chit Naing

(Psychology) gave talks

under the title Hands that

sway craddle and writer

Ma Sandar under the title

Courage of women.

MMAL-435

Yangon Region WAO

organizes literary talks

CONSTRUCTIONstarted since January,

2011, has been completed

by 85 per cent.

Th e co m p an y i s

working on construction

of roof, stands, sports

track, fences and roads

and has targeted 88%completion in late June.

Th e co n s t ru c t i o n

is carried out by Max

Myanmar Company and

Chinese architects and

scheduled to complete by

October.

The stadium will hold

about 30,000 spectators

a n d h o s t f o o t b a l l

tournaments and other

Olympics games.

MMAL-Tin Maung

(Mandalay Sub-printing

House)

NATIONAL SPORTS

HRD

naYpYitaw, 21 June

The opening ceremony of

industrial crops course

conducted by Inustrial Crops

Development Department

under the Ministry of

Agriculture and Irrigation

was held at the ministrys

training school in Bago on

10 June.

Industrial crops courseconducted

Dep u ty Di rec to r -

General of the department

U Zaw Tun Myint delivered

an opening speech at the

ceremony.

The course aimed at

uplifting proficiency of

township staff will be

conducted on 10-28 June.

MMAL-ICDD

The farmlands that have been already ploughed

hoping for rains for undertaking culture works.

DROUgHT


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Saturday, 22 June, 20138 New Light of Myanmararticle


Clean YangonJuly, August, Rain and Flood, there goes a

Myanmar saying. It is still June and not July.

There is rain but just light shower and not

downpour. But, there have been occasional oods

in our commercial hub, Yangon, once the nest

city in South East Asia.

Yangonites are used to wading through

oodwater both in downtown and suburb areas

and would never complain of it though there have

been complaints about other cases to Yangon City

Development Committee (YCDC). Patience is

one of their virtues. Crowded buses, trafc jam,

delayed trains or whatever, there is no frustration,

it seems.

So, how long have all the shortcomings been

left untouched? While the YCDC has put waste

bins in almost every ward within its municipal

area, many of the residents appear to be unable

to get rid of the old habit of littering on the streets

and throwing household rubbish into drains,

resulting in blocked drains to remain the major

cause of oods.

There is still room for improvement in

municipal waste management system but even

if it is much better than present, it would still be

unable to cope with the extra workloads stemming

from littering. Even if all the drains are deepened

and widened and garbage collected at regular

intervals, ood would still persist.

It is a welcome move that YCDC has

purchased 48 more garbage collection vehicles,

which are expected to be in full operation by the

end of June and EU would assist with a three-year

project to handle municipal waste management.

When all the facilities have been put in place,

the most important thing would be discipline

to keep the city neat and clean.

I have been a veteran

subscriber of three dai-

lies: The Myanma Alinn,

The Mirrorand The NewLigh t of Myanma r fo r

nearly two decades. As

I have great attachment

to the papers, I have no

mind to sell out all the

old dailies thereby pil-

ing up here and there in

my home.

As the heaps of the

old newspapers take up

too much room, my bet-

ter half shoots a sideway

glance at me whenever

she does cleaning work.

Whenever she asks me

to get rid of them, I am

all smiles in a flattering

manner not to bully me.

(Please dont think Im

a hen-pecked husband.)

When I was in office, my

absolute ultimatum was

issued, saying Anyone

who sells out the old

newspapers without my

knowledge will severely

be punished! This way

I love the papers.

I read and value

them simply because

they have promoted my

life.

Nearly five decadesago, there were only

two English dailies: The

Working Peoples Daily

and The Guardian. The

most interesting sections

that attracted us were

Letters to the editor

in the Working Peoples

Dail y and Peoples Fo-

rum, or Frank views

and free comments in

the Guardian. Ordinar-

ily, these sections were

set apart for the reading

public who wanted to

express their grievances,

COLOURFUL PAPERS FOR COLOURFUL

MYANMAR

Maung Hlaing

public nuisances, some-

thing they suffered and

etc. through the editor.

However , most of my contemporaries might

have the memoirs that

we used these columns

to express our ideas or

o p in io n s o n t each in g

or learning of English,

comments on education

system or policy, ways

and means on health care

services, poor manage-

ment conducted by some

government departments

and so on.

In those days, most

o f t h e y o u n g p eo p le

including the writer of

this article read these

co lu m n s an d l ea rn ed

through self-study. The

English dailies enabled

the young readers to read

and learn much and after

all they inspired them to

contribute letters to the

editor. The informative

articles attracted us to

visit the English Literary

world.

In reality, as the pa-

pers published not only

news but also essays, sto-

ries, articles and letters,

they contributed to theeducation standard of the

people, especially to the

learning of English. They

played such an important

role that many of us might

go without tea, but not

without newspapers.

Times have passed

a n d s y s t e m s h a v e

changed. Your editorials

and articles had to con-

tribute only to the govern-

ment policies and reading

public became fed up with

stereo-typed news stories

and articles. Steadily, the

reading public began to

give cold shoulder to the

papers. (I for one, as your

paper was an apple in myeyes; I could maintain the

momentum of reading

and contributing to your

paper.)

N o w , t i m e h a s

changed once again.

Your perspect ives

come to point out the re-

quirements to be fulfilled

and some weak points of

some government depart-

ments. May I quote what

you said in the Perspec-

tives of 18 October, 2012

as it is: We the editorial

board of the NLM with

pride would love to in-

form our subscribers that

we are transforming our

paper into public service

media. We hope to espe-

cially focus on neglected

social groups from now

on. We will represent the

people...

What I mean is the

change in your trend of

presentat ion that may

make the reading public

take concentrat ion on

your pages.

As a matter of fact,

we cannot stay away fromthe papers. It has become

so much a part of our lives

that reading the papers

is the first thing many

people do after getting

out of bed in the morning.

We grab for the papers

even before our eyes are

fully opened. Although

depression news such as

wars, killings, accidents,

unending conflicts in the

Middle East, etc. fill the

papers each day, we are

eager to know the latest

events.

Accord ing to the

Cen t ra l Su p erv i so ry

Committee for Registra-

tion and Distribution of

Printers and Publishers,

24 private dailies in My-

anmar version and two in

English version, total-

ling 26 dailies have been

granted. Being a veteran

reader of the dailies, I

cordially welcome them.

As the private dai-

l i e s a r e n o w b u i ld -

ing up their strength,

the State-owned news-

p ap er s a r e ch an g in g

thei r news presenta-

tion styles. They will

change themselves from

personal orientation to

public interest orienta-

tion to win public trust

as the genuine fourth

estate. Whatever it may

be, the increasing pri-

vate dailies will surely

make hopeful the newly-

hatched graduates of

B.A. Journalism Course

conducted by the Min-istry of Education. Our

ardent wish is to nurture

the new generation of

mediamen or journal-

ists, as our forefathers

did in their time, to make

sure that they can be en-

trusted with the tasks of

continued public service

media.

Co lo u r fu l p ap er s

will nurture the new

generation capable of

standing up to meet the

challenges in our future

media world.

Union FM receives Chilean,

Indian ambassadorsNayPyi Taw, 21June

U Wunna Maung Lwin,

Union Minister for Foreign

Affairs of the Republic

of the Union of Myanmar

received Mr Luis Fernando

D a n u s C h a r p e n t i e r ,

Ambassador of the Republic

of Chile to Myanmar and

Mr Gautam Mukhopadhaya,

Ambassador of the Republic

of India to Myanmar at the

Ministry, here, this afternoon

separately.

During the meetings,

they cordially discussed

promotion of bilateral

relat ions and mutual

cooperation.

In the morning, U Zin

Yaw, Deputy Minister for

Foreign Affairs, gave a

concluding remark at the

Course No 3/2013 for liaisonofficers who will serve

liaison ofcers at the ASEAN

summits to be held in 2014,

at the meeting hall of the

Ministry, and presented

certicates to the trainees.

The course ran from 10

to 21 June with the purpose

of promoting prociency of

ofcers and staff from 30

ministries.MNA

Private school founders to be transparent and

straightforward: Union Minister

Na y Py i Taw , 21

JuneUnion Minister for

Education Dr Mya Aye

called on private schools

for the 2013-2014 academic

year for having transparency

and honesty.

During the meeting,

the Union Minister urged

them to abide by the laws,

rules and regulations in

running private schools.

So far 159 private schools

have been established after

the new government had

given green light to privateschool founders. Moreover,

he said that a short-term

t e a c h e r s h i p t r a i n i n g

courses were conducted

for primary and middle

school teachers in Yangon

and Mandalay regions. The

founders of private schools

need to be transparent and

hardworking, the Union

Minister added.

Deputy Ministers Dr

Ba Shwe and U Aye Kyu

responded to the questions

raised by the founders of

private schools.

The Union Minister also

met Resident Representative

of JICA Mr Kohei ISA at

the same venue at 10.30 amand discussed progress in

upgrading basic education

curriculum and promoting

teachership skills.MNAUnion Minister Dr Mya Aye meets with private school founders.mna


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L o c a L n e w s

9New Light of Myanmar

Dawei, 21 JuneEssay

contest to hail Myanmar

Womens Day organized by

Taninthayi Region Womens

Affairs Organization was

held at No.1 Basic Education

Essay contest hails Myanmar Womens Day

High School, here, on 18

June and Chairperson Daw

Khin Hsan and members

of Taninthayi Region WAO

visited the students who are

participating in the contest.

A total of 50 high school

students and 66 middle

school students participated

in the contest under separate

titles.

Kyemon-District IPRD

Make health your

new high in Life,

not drugs.

Milk feeding

ceremony

held in

TachilekTachilek, 21 June

Under the arrangement of

Tachilek District Livestock

Breeding and Veterinary

Department, milk feeding

ceremony for the primary

students to improve their

health and intelligence

was held at Tahlok Basic

Education Post-Primary

School on 18 June.

At the ceremony,

Deputy Staff Officer

Dr Kyaw Kyaw Soe of

Livestock Breeding and

Veterinary Departmentexplained the advantages

of milk feeding.

Then, Tachilek District

Deputy Commissioner

U Thaung Tin Htway,

Township Administrator UYe Htoo and ofcials and

wellwishers supplied milk

to 469 students.

The milk was donated

by nine livestock breeding

entrepreneurs of TachilekTownship.


Monywa, 21 JuneA

ceremony to recount

experience of outstanding

youth took place at the hall

of No.2 Basic Education

High School in Monywa

in Sagaing Region on 18

June. It was attended by

Headmaster U Kyaw Htay,

teachers and students.

Outstanding youths experience recounted in

Monywa

At the ceremony,

Headmaster U Kyaw Htay

explained the purpose of

explaining outstanding

youths experience and

Physical Teacher U Kyauk

Khe, h is superv is ion

experience on the excursion

and Outstanding Youth Ma

Zune Pyae Phyu from Grade

HRD

9, her experience in Bagan

Outstanding Youth Camp

Tour in Mandalay Region.

T h e o u t s t a n d i n g

youths across the country

were recruited in Mandalay

on 30 March. Of them,

Grade 9 Outs tand ing

youths were sent to Bagan

outstanding youth camp in

Mandalay Region, Grade

10 youths to Inlay camp

in Shan State and the

matriculation youths to

Ng we hs au ng Be ac h in

Ayeyawady Region. The

opening ceremonies were

held on 1 April and they

joined excursion tours till 4

April. They were gathered

in Nay Pyi Taw on 6 April

and the excursion tours

ended on 8 April.


Myingyan, 21 June

Free WiFi Internet access

is available at Myingyan

Dis t r i c t In fo rm at io n

and Publ ic Relat ions

Depart-ment recently.

People can apply free

Free WiFi Internet access at

Myingyan District IPRD

WiFi there whenever the

electricity is on. People of all

ages are surng free Internet

through their laptops and

mobile.

Kyemon

U Zaw Min Naing

Meiktila, 21 June

Police seized 25 swords

and ve knives during a

search operation of a bus in

Meiktila on 13 June.

Action on a tip-off

that swords from Mindan

Vi l l ag e i n Py awb we

Township would be sent to

Latpan Village in Singaing

Township, a team led

Suspects involved in swords, knives seizure in

Meiktila arrestedby Police Inspector Kyi

Shein of Meiktila District

Criminal Unit, conducted

a search operation and

discovered the swords and

knives from U Win Myint,

52, on a bus of Tawwin Bus

line running between Nay

Pyi Taw and Mandalay.

D u r i n g t h e

invest igat ion , U Win

Myint confessed that this

transportation is the third

time, and he transported

20 swords in the first

time and 25 swords in the

second time to Latpan and

Khanlu villages in Singaing

Township.

Action has been taken

against him under Section

19 (A) of the Arms Act by

Myoma Police Station.

The team also seized27 swords from U Ali Bai

(a) U Tin Aung of Latpan

Village and U Soe Naing of

Khanlu Village in Singaing

Township on 14 June.

The seizure are the

arms they bought from U

Win Myint.

They are also charged

with possessing arms under

Section 19 (A) of the Arms

Act by Myoma Police

Station.

Kyemon-U Tin Hlaing

nay Pyi taw , 21

JuneMyanmar Police

Force under the Ministry

of Home Affairs has put

hot lines into place at

Myanmar Police Force

HQ and region/state police

stations to enable the

public to submit tip-offs

and complaints over illegal

acts, mis-appropriation and

corruption.

The public may reachthe numbers for their

information and complaints

but are requested to

avoid manners causing

disruptions to these phone

lines.

M y a n m a r P o l i c e

Force HQ, Nay Pyi Taw

Police Force, Kachin,

Kayah, Kayin, Chin, Mon,

Rakhine and Shan State

Police Forces, Sagaing,

Taninthayi, Bago, Magway,

Mandalay, Yangon and

A y e y a w a d y R e g i o n

Police Forces, Ofces of

Commanders of East, West,South and North District

Police Forces in Yangon

Region, No (1) Police

Station in Taunggyi, Ofce

MPF launches emergency,

complaint-handling phone lines

of Deputy Commander

of State Police Force in

Lashio, and Kengtung

Police Station in Kengtung

have emergency numbers

of 199.

P h o n e n u m b e r s

receiving complaints from

the public are Myanmar

Police Force HQ (067-

412222 and 067-412444),

Nay Pyi Taw Police Force

(067-550333), Kachin StatePolice Force (074-21444),

Kayin State Police Force

(058-23355), Sagaing

Region Police Force (071-

24996), Taninthayi Region

Police Force (059-23998),

Bago Region Police Force

(052-23999), Magway


28099), Mandalay Region


Mon State Police Force

(057-24987), Rakhine State


Yangon Region Police

Force (01-2302199), Shan

State Police Force (081-2125455) and Ayeyawady


23844).

MNA

yangon, 21 June

General Secretary o f

World Body-Bui ld ing

and Physiques Sports

Federation Mr Paul Chua

accompanied by officials

from Myanmar Physiques

Sports Federation, inspected

preparati ons for holding

of mens body-building

contest for the XXVII

SEA Games at Myanmar

Convention Centre (MCC)

on Mindhamma Road in

Mayangon Township, here,

on 17 June.

President of Myanmar

Physiques Sports Federation

Wunna Kyaw Htin U

Preparations for body

building contest inspected

Hla Myint Swe, General

Secretary U Kyaw Than

and officials explained

prepara tions for open ing

and closing ceremonies of

the contest in Yangon and

Nay Pyi Taw at the same

time, decoration of stage

and facilities for referees

and body-builders, accom-

modation for body-builders

and guests and transport

facilities.

They viewed training

of Myanmar selected body-

builders from 50-kilo to 90-

kilo classes for the coming

SEA Games.

Kyemon-Saw Thein Win


10/16


WORLD


Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro reacts while

attending a mass at the mausoleum of late PresidentHugo Chavez to mark three months after his death in

Caracas, on 5 June 2013.ReuteRs

Venezuelan anti-corruption drive snares

senior tax ofcial

CaraCas, 21 JuneVenezuelas President

Nicolas Maduro announcedthe arrest of a senior tax of-

cial on Thursday in the lat-est move in what he says isa concerted effort to stampout corruption in the South

American OPEC nation.Maduro said the lo-

cal director of the SENIATtax authority in the coastalcity of La Guaira had been

caught by state intelligenceagents with more than 4

million bolivars in cash(about $635,000 at the of-

cial exchange rate).We raided the luxury

apartment in eastern Cara-

cas where this bandit wasdoing business. He wascaught in the act with hisaccomplices, said Madu-

ro, who won a presidentialelection in April after the

death of his mentor, HugoChavez. He was walkingaround freely, personallytaking bribes ... I call oneveryone, the revolution-aries, the honest people,to support me in the ghtagainst corruption.

So far, Maduros newdrive against graft has

snared several senior of-cials from state companies,organizations and govern-ment ministries. None have

been heavyweight leadersof the leftist Chavismo

movement forged by his latementor. That has promptedopposition leaders such as

Henrique Capriles, who lostAprils election to Maduro,to accuse his administration

of only going after smaller,

less politically connectedtargets. Our country isgoverned by a cartel whichhas a boss, or various boss-es, who use Venezuelans

resources like a network ofextortion, Capriles said inan interview with local

media.ReutersA Free Syrian Army ghter carrying his weapon, walks

along a street as Syrian opposition (bottom) and Popu-lar Protection Units (YPG) ags utter, in AlepposSheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, on 5 June 2013.

ReuteRs

Iraq, Lebanon alarmed at spreading

Syria warBaghdad/Beirut, 21

JuneBoth Iraq and Leba-non have suffered growingviolence at home as the

Syrian conict turns in-creasingly into a proxy waralong confessional lines.

After two years ofghting that has killedmore than 93,000 people,Syrias turmoil is draggingits neighbours into a dead-ly confrontation betweenShiite Iran supportingPresident Bashar al-Assad

and Sunni Arab Gulf na-tions backing the Syrianrebels. The insurgents havesuffered a series of setbackson the battleeld and arebesieged in the outskirts ofDamascus facing a slow butsteady advance by Assads

forces, which have begun toregain the upper hand.

In a sign of the dev-astation being wrought bythe war, the United Nations

cultural agency UNESCOput the six World HeritageSites in Syria on its dangerlist of imperiled monuments

on Thursday, urging interna-tional efforts to protect them

become a regional conictby all standards, ForeignMinister Hoshyar Zebari toldReuters in an interview in

Baghdad.We are doing our best

to maintain a neutral posi-

tion, but the pressures areenormous and for how long

we can hold really is a mat-ter of further developments

in Syria. With Russia andIran arming Assads govern-

ment forces, and LebanonsHezbollah ghters joining

Border Patrol Agents watch their specialized unit, Bor-der Patrols Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR)team as they demonstrate a technical rescue extraction

of a patient off the side of a cliff in Pena Blanca

Canyon, Arizona on 21 May, 2013.ReuteRs

US agents make Mexican drug, money laundering arrests

in TexasMCallen, (Texas), 21

JuneFederal agents ar-rested 25 people on Thurs-day in a drug and moneylaundering probe targetinga prison gang with ties to

a Mexican drug cartel that

allegedly smuggled drugsacross south Texas.

The FBI and US DrugEnforcement Administra-

tion said the four-year probeinto the Texas MexicanMaa netted 25 membersand associates of the pris-

Senate immigration deal

would double number of US

border agents

Washington, 21 JuneFederal agents on theUS-Mexican border woulddouble to about 40,000under a deal reached onThursday in the Democrat-ic-led Senate to draw more

Republicans to a landmarkimmigration bill headed to-ward anticipated passage.

Some questioned thecosts and benets of upto $50 billion in the extraborder security, which alsowill include high-tech sur-

veillance equipment suchas manned and unmannedaerial vehicles, radar and

seismic devices.But concerns were

overshadowed by the dealsmain goal: win votes for an

overhaul of US immigra-

the war on his behalf, West-ern powers have agreed in

the last week to step up aid tothe mainly Sunni rebels, whowere driven out of the strate-

gic town of Qusair, north of

Damascus.Foreign ministers

of the Friends of Syriagroup of nations backingthe opposition are to meet

in Qatar on Saturday to dis-cuss assistance to try to helpthe rebel Free Syrian Armydefend the key northern cityof Aleppo.

Reuters

Top UN ofcials highlight

plight of displaced on

World Refugee Dayunited nations, 21

June Marking WorldRefugee Day, top UN of-cials on Thursday highlight-ed the plight of millions of

refugees and internallydisplaced persons (IDPs)across the globe, urging theinternational community toboost efforts to prevent andresolve conicts that havecaused massive displace-ment.

The number of for-cibly displaced people in

the world continues to rise.There are now more than45 million refugees and in-ternally displaced people the highest level in nearly20 years. Last year alone,someone was forced to

abandon their home everyfour seconds, UN Secre-tary-General Ban said in hismessage for World RefugeeDay, observed annually onJune 20.

The Ofce of the UNHigh Commissioner forRefugees (UNHCR) re-leased on Wednesdayits Global Trends report,which showed that at the

end of 2012, more than45.2 million people were insituations of displacement,

compared to 42.5 million at

the end of 2011.The report also pointed

to the conict in Syria as amajor factor for the spike indisplacement and noted that

nearly half of all refuges arebelow the age of 18.

However, Ban stressedthat gures give only aglimpse of this enormous

human tragedy. Everyday, conict tears apart thelives of thousands of fami-

lies, he said. They may beforced to leave loved ones

behind or become separatedin the chaos of war. TheUN chief noted that forceddisplacement affects not

just those eeing conictbut also has a signicanteconomic, social and some-time political impact on

host countries.According to him, cur-

rently 81 percent of theworlds refugees are hostedby developing countries andmore than half of refugees

come from just ve war-affected countries: Afghani-

stan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria andSudan. Finding durable so-lutions for the displaced will

require more solidarity andburden-sharing by the inter-national community, Bansaid. Xinhua

tion law that will open apathway to citizenship forup to 11 million undocu-mented immigrants.

Senate Democratic

leader Harry Reid was ex-pected to set a test vote for

as early as Monday in a bidto have the deal added to theWhite House-backed bill inthe form of an amendment.

A senior Democraticaide predicted the amend-ment would get upward of

60 votes in the 100-mem-ber chamber, more thanenough to clear any proce-dural roadblocks.

A vote on passage ofthe bill is expected beforethe Senate departs at the

end of next week for itsFourth of July holiday re-

cess.

Backers are aiming forat least 70 votes on passageto increase pressure on the

more resistant Republican-led House of Representa-tives to give the bill nalcongressional approval.

Republican John Mc-

Cain, a member of theGang of Eight senatorswho wrote the bipartisanbill, voiced doubt about the

high cost of additional bor-der security.

I dont know if itstotally well spent, he said.

Reuters

on gang during operationsprimarily in Laredo, Texas,the busiest land port alongthe US-Mexico border.

Two indictments in thecase charge the gangs La-redo chapter with heroin,cocaine and methampheta-

mine trafcking, as well asmoney laundering. Agentssay the drugs were movedthrough south Texas andwere distributed in San An-tonio, Austin and CorpusChristi. Cash from the drug

trafcking was then sentto the gangs associates inMexico, which were not

identied by authorities.These arrests today

should send a clear message

to the Texas Mexican Maa,and other suspected crimi-nal organizations, that law

enforcement will not toler-ate their alleged violent acts

and trafcking of dangerousdrugs in our community,Armando Fernandez, specialagent in charge of the FBIs

San Antonio Division, saidin a news release from the

US Attorneys ofce in Hou-ston. Federal and state au-thorities have said Mexican

drug cartels like the Zetas founded in the late 1990s byMexican paramilitary desert-ers in Nuevo Laredo, acrossthe Rio Grande from Laredo regularly use gangs likethe Texas Mexican Maa tocarry out its drug trafck-ing activities in the UnitedStates.Reuters


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Saturday, 22 June, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarRegional

Philippines needs $47 million for disaster,

conict-ridden areasManila, 21 JuneThe

Philippines needs $47 mil-lion for the rehabilitation ofcommunities affected by amajor typhoon that hit thesouthern island of Mind-

anao last year, UN ofcialssaid on Thursday.

Mindanao also needsto receive nancial aid to

deal with poverty and dec-ades-long conicts betweenseparatists and governmentforces, the world body said,following a tour of the areathat wrapped up on Thurs-day.

The delegates present-ed on Thursday their nd-ings to the Philippine gov-ernment, foreign diplomatsand donor countries, withthe United Nations pledg-

ing to make the situation inMindanao known to the in-ternational community.

According to DavidCarden, head of the UN Of-ce for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs in thePhilippines, the $47 mil-lion will be used to coverbasic needs and shelter foraround 530,000 affectedpeople.

The sum amounts to al-most 52 percent of the Unit-ed Nations $91 million hu-manitarian action plan forMindanao, following thedestruction of large parts of

the island by typhoon Bo-pha last December.

Bopha, the strongesttropical cyclone or su-per typhoon to ever hitMindanao, killed morethan 1,000 people and leftthousands homeless. In to-tal some 6.2 million peopleon Mindanao were affectedby the typhoon, which de-stroyed vast banana and co-conut plantations, as well asbuildings and homes.

The estimated cost ofthe damage is around 37 bil-lion pesos (around $902.5

million). Of the required$47 million, $21 millionwill be spent on Bopha-affected communities, with$26 million allocated toprojects in conict-riddenareas in central and westernMindanao.

Around $39.7 millionin donations were spent onrelief projects immediatelyafter Bopha struck and

an additional $1 millionwas allotted to central andwestern Mindanao, wherehundreds of thousands ofpeople have been displaceddue to ongoing clan feuds

and rebel insurgencies, theUnited Nations said.

Emphasizing the needfor more nancial aid,

Rashid Khalikov, directorof the UN Ofce for the Co-ordination of HumanitarianAffairs based in Geneva,said, The requirements arestill there, as I mentioned,in the areas of shelter, food,feeding in the schools, edu-cation, social, and psycho-logical rehabilitation.

Luiza Carvalho, resi-dent coordinator of theUnited Nations for the

Philippines, said althoughrelief assistance for Bo-pha-affected areas will bephased out in September,more funds are needed forrehabilitation. The Philip-pines is hit by around 20typhoons every year, withrelief organizations urgingthe government to be betterprepared for typhoons.

Kyodo News

Stephan Wiegand (L),

chief executive ofcer

of Swiss garment and

shoe recycling company

I:Collect AG, and Aki-

fumi Okamoto, president

of Don Don Up Co, a

Japanese vintage cloth-

ing chain, shake hands

during a Press confer-

ence in Tokyo on 20

June, 2013. I:Collect will

establish a Japanese unit

in July 2013 in Morioka,

Iwate Prefecture, which

Okamoto will head.

KyodoNews

KathMandu, 21 JuneNepali manuscripts the Ni-svasattatvasamhita and theSusrutasamhita that are, re-

spectively, the earliest sur-viving tantric manuscriptand the oldest document inthe eld of Ayurveda were

added this week to UN-ESCOs Memory of theWorld Register, the UN-ESCO Ofce in Kathmandu

said local reports said onThursday.

The Memory of theWorld Register is a list rec-ognizing documentary her-itage of outstanding value.The two documents are therst inscriptions from Nepal

in the register, the UN Edu-cational, Scientic and Cul-tural Organization added ina statement.

I congratulate Ne-pal for the inscriptions ofthe two manus

Documents

New Light of Myanmar (22 Jun 2013)