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Volume XVI, Number 181 2nd Waning of Thadingyut 1370 ME Thursday, 16 October, 2008

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

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

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

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of 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

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—Patron of theLeading Committee for Organizingthe 16th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions Secre-tary-1 of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Lt-Gen Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo cordially greeted mem-bers of the panel of judges (central),contestants and managers to the Per-forming Arts Competitions at the NayPyi Taw City Hall at 4 pm today. Also present on the occasion weremembers of the Penal of Patrons ofthe Leading Committee, Chairman ofthe Leading Committee Commanderof Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin and members, Chairman ofthe Work Committee Minister forCulture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint

Secretary-1 greets members of panel of judges (central),contestants and managers of States and Divisions

and members, the Chief Justice, the Attor-ney-General, the Chairman of Civil ServiceSelection and Training Board, the deputyministers, the chairmen, secretaries and mem-bers of subcommittees, the director-generalof the State Peace and Development CouncilOffice, departmental heads, members of thepanel of judges (central), contestants andmanagers of the State and Division teams. The Secretary-1 greeted the chairmanand members of the Leading Committee andthe Work Committee, members of the panelof judges (central), contestants and manag-ers of the State and Division teams. Next,the Secretary-1 presented medicines as giftsto the maestros of over 65 years old who willattend the Performing Arts Competitions.

MNA

Secretary-1Lt-Gen Thiha ThuraTin Aung Myint Oo cordially greets

contestants of the 16th MyanmarTraditional Cultural

Performing Arts Competitions.—MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Oo

presents medicines as gifts tothe maestros of over 65 years

old. —MNA

INSIDE

Myanmar’s efforts forachieving Millennium

Development Goals

PROFESSOR DR PAING SOE

Health Related Millennium Development GoalsMillennium Development Goal (1) Eradicate ex-treme poverty and hungerMillennium Development Goal (4) Reduce childmortalityMillennium Development Goal (5) Improve Ma-ternal HealthMillennium Development Goal (6) Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseasesMillennium Development Goal (7) Ensure Envi-ronmental SustainabilityMillennium Development Goal (8) Develop aGlobal Partnership for Development

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

People’s DesireThursday, 16 October, 2008

The government has laid down longand short-term plans for promotion ofnational education and is implementing themsystematically. School management coursefor township education officers was openedin Nay Pyi Taw the other day for fullyrealization of educational tasks andobjectives.

Chairman of Myanmar EducationCommittee Secretary-1 of the State Peaceand Development Council Lt-Gen ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Oo urged the TEOsto learn lectures at the course to improveproper education management system ofthe State and management quality.

He also said that implementation ofeducational tasks, constant supervision,reviews and remedies, fulfillment of therequirements and coordination andcooperation are imperative.

Teachers must be fully equipped withpatriotism and Union Spirit and they are tomake efforts for the students to have suchspirit based on schools. It is necessary tosuccessfully implement the objectives of thebasic education sector and higher educationsector to reach the education system ofinternational standard so that the 30-yearnational education promotion programmewill be successful.

Endeavour for improvementof education quality

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—The GovernmentOffice of the Union of Myanmar today announcedthat Depavali Day, which falls on 28 October 2008(14th Waning of Thadingyut 1370 ME), is a publicholiday under Section 25 of the NegotiableInstruments Act.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin inspectsshops at No. 7 Transit Centre.—MNA

President U Win Myint of UMFCCIspeaking at introduction to Ogawa Massage

Chair & Healthcare products.—MNA

Commander meets managers, chairmen and secretaries ofsubcommittees, chairmen of panels of judges, team leaders

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct— Chairman of theLeading Committee forOrganizing the 16th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsC o m p e t i t i o n sCommander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin met managersof the State and Divisionteams, chairmen of thecommittee andsubcommittees andsecretaries, the chairmenof the panels of judges forthe respective subjects andleaders of the contendingteams at the training hallof No. 7 Transit Centre,here, yesterday.

The commander then

inspected shops andcanteens at the centre.

MNA

Applications for State PariyattiSasana Universities

YANGON, 15 Oct—Monks and novices, under30 years old and 10 vasa,who have passed theGovernment Pahtamagyi orCetiyangana or Sakkasihacourse, may apply forSasana TaxilaDhammaçariya (first year)course for 1370-71academic year at StatePariyatti Sasana University(Yangon and Mandalay).

They have to sit for theentrance examination withs u b j e c t s — V i n a y a ,Abhidhamma, religiousaffairs and generalknowledge paper, the Palipaper and the English

paper—one day each.The application forms

are available at theuniversity beginning 17October and theapplications must besubmitted to the RegistrarOffices of the respectiveuniversities, not later than 2November. For furtherinformation, dial 01-665362 and 01-662997 ofthe Registrar Office 01-664395 of theAdministrative BodyOffice of the SPSU(Yangon), and 02-66982 ofRegistrar Office of SPSU(Mandalay).

MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct —Ogawa World Berhadintroduced Ogawamassage chair and healthproducts at Sedona Hotel,here, on 11 October.

Malaysia-made pro-ducts are on sale at 176shops in Malaysia, Sin-gapore, Indonesia,Australia, Shanghai,Beijing, China, HongKong, Vietnam andMyanmar. Ogawa is offive kinds–relaxation,therapeutic, fitness,diagnostic and hygiene.The chairs promisethorough massage and can

remove muscle stiffness.Health products includesuch equipment as footmassagers, portablemassagers, and sphyg-momanometer.

Dr Su Hla Han,Executive Director ofMedi Myanmar GroupLtd, sole agent, extendedgreeting at the ceremony.Afterwards, Mr LouisChong, Ex-ecutiveDirector of Ogawa WorldBerhad, explained factson the Ogawa pro-ducts.U Win Myint, Presidentof Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambersof Commerce andIndustry (UMFCCI),discussed facts on theproducts. Singer-cum-actor Sai Sai Kham Hlaingwas made OgawaAmbassador.

A two-year grantee isgiven for the products.Ogawa showrooms are atNo.46, Pyay Road, 61/2thMile, Hline Township,Yangon and at HotelMandalay, No. 652, 78th

street between 37th and 38th

streets, Mandalay.MNA

Ogawa Massage Chair &Healthcare Products introduced

Depavali Day 28 Oct

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US military deathsin Iraq war at 4,183WASHINGTON, 15 Oct—As of Tuesday, 14 Oct,

2008, at least 4,183 members of the US military havedied in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003.

The figure includes eight military civilians killedin action. At least 3,385 military personnel died as aresult of hostile action, according to the military’snumbers.

The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy,33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain,11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia,four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Neth-erlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; and Aus-tralia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea, onedeath each.

Since the start of US military operations in Iraq,30,702 US service members have been wounded inhostile action, according to the Defence Depart-ment’s weekly tally.—Internet

US soldier killed bygunfire in western

BaghdadBAGHDAD, 15 Oct—An American soldier was

killed Tuesday by gunfire in western Baghdad, theUS military said, the first US combat death in thecapital in two weeks.

Five Sunni insurgent organizations, meanwhile,have issued statements disavowing attacks on IraqiChristians in Mosul, a monitoring service reportedTuesday. The attacks, widely blamed on al-Qaidain Iraq, have prompted thousands of Christians toflee the northern city.

A US statement said the soldier, whose name wasnot released, was wounded when gunmen openedfire on a US patrol late Tuesday afternoon. The sol-dier was rushed to a hospital by helicopter but diedof the wounds, the statement said.

It was the first combat death suffered by Ameri-can forces in the capital since 30 Sept, when themilitary said a soldier was killed by small arms firein northern Baghdad.

Seven US troops have died in Iraq this month, allbut two of them in combat.—Internet

Nearly 190,000 fleePakistan battles

ISLAMABAD, 15 Oct—Nearly 190,000 people are re-ported to have fled fighting between Pakistani troopsand militants near the border with Afghanistan, theUnited Nations said Tuesday as fresh clashes in thearea killed 17 militants.

Meanwhile, police in the frontier region released aman of dual American-Pakistani citizenship they hadarrested Monday in the volatile border region.

Authorities originally described the 20-year-old asa US citizen travelling without the permission foreign-ers need to enter the region, which has seen of monthsof fighting between militants and security forces andis considered a possible hiding place for al-Qaidaleader Osama bin Laden.

“After interrogation we found out he holds dual na-tionality,” said Charsadda district police chief WaqifKhan. “He was roaming in that area just due to hislack of knowledge about the sensitivity there.”

Fighting is spreading across Pakistan’s ruggednorthwest as the government tries to crack down oninsurgents blamed for soaring attacks on US and NATOforces in Afghanistan and a bloody campaign of sui-cide bombings against military and western targetswithin Pakistan. Most of the clashes are taking placein Bajur, where the Pakistani military launched a ma-jor offensive in early August. The UN’s refugee agencysaid at least 20,000 Pakistanis and Afghans have fledfrom Bajur into eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar provincesince the fighting began.—Internet

No peace in sightin DRCongo’s mineral-rich

KivuNAIROBI, 15 Oct—The Democratic

Republic of Congo’s powderkeg east isbeing bled dry as Kinshasa and Rwandarefuse to bury the hatchet and maraud-ing militias plunder its bountiful mineralwealth, analysts say.

The traditional suspicion and hostil-ity between the two neighbours — whoaccuse each other of propping up anti-government rebel outfits — is fuelling along-dragging conflict despite truce ac-cords and talks between the two sides.“The two capitals are not serious abouta rapprochement,” said Arthur Kepel, aresearcher with the International CrisisGroup (ICG).

Internet

Sri Lankan military says22 killed in fighting

COLOMBO, 15 Oct—Scattered fightingin northern Sri Lanka killed 20 rebels andtwo soldiers as the government pressedahead with its offensive against the TamilTigers, the military said Tuesday. Mean-while, the rebel-affiliated TamilNet Website reported that three more soldierswere killed in two ambushes Tuesday inthe government-controlled east. But amilitary spokesman said only two sol-diers were wounded and admitted to ahospital.

In a series of confrontations Mondayin the Kilinochchi region, 11 rebel fight-ers and two soldiers were killed, mili-tary spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanay-akkara said. Fighting in Jaffna, Vavuniyaand Mullaittivu killed nine other rebels,he said.—Internet

Afghan elder carry the body of an alleged Taliban militant, who was killed bythe NATO-airstrikes in Lashkar Gah after the militants had attacked Afghanforces on the outskirts of the city, out of a hospital in Lashkar Gah, the provin-cial capital of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on 12 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET

A young boy walks in

front of a building

with a ‘for sale’

banner, top centre, in

the Sadr City district

of Baghdad, on 5 Oct,

2008. Real estate

prices have doubled in

some areas of the

Iraqi capital. A poster

on the right is of anti-

American Shiite cleric

Muqtada al-Sadr.

INTERNET

cap-4A woman cries as she holds ababy while waiting to claim theremains of her husband's bodyfound in a mass grave, outsidea hospital morgue in Kerbala,

A woman cries as she holds a baby while waitingto claim the remains of her husband's body found

in a mass grave, outside a hospital morgue inKerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad

on 15 Oct, 2008. Police have discovered thedecomposing bodies of 22 men dumped in a mass

grave in west of the holy Shiite city of Kerbala,police and hospital sources said on Wednesday.

INTERNET

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Two municipal working staff work on the waterlogged street in Haikou,capital of south China’s Hainan Province, on 14 Oct, 2008. —XINHUA

Members of the Press look at analumnium uni-body that is used in

MacBook Pro laptops during a specialannouncement event with Apple CEOSteve Jobs at Apple Headquarters in

Cupertino, California. Apple onTuesday unveiled a revamped line ofMacintosh laptop computers made

leaner, slicker, faster and a bit moreaffordable.—INTERNET

PRAGUE, 15 Oct—Terrorist and extremistgroups' attacks withchemical and biologicalweapons are a muchgreater threat to the CzechRepublic and the worldthan a nuclear war, JosefProks, Czech militarydeputy chief of staff, saidin Liberec, north of theCzech Republic onTuesday.

Chemical, biological weaponsbigger threat than N-war

“A large militaryconflict in Europe is notsupposed, but we must notslacken our effort ineducating specialists inprotection against massdestruction weapons andin technological develop-ment,” said Proks, whoattended a Chemical,Biological, Radiologicaland Nuclear (CBRN)conference on protection

against mass destructionweapons.

William Puttmann,from NATO's supremecommand, said terroristsmight choose as theirtargets industrial ca-pacities from whichharmful substances couldspread after the attack, theCzech news agency CTKsaid.

MNA/Xinhua

VIENNA, 15 Oct — Pro-fessor Richard Trappl, afrequent visitor to China,is not only a witness to thelater period of China’seconomic plight, but alsoto China’s rising in thelast 30 years since Chinaadopted the reform andopening-up.

China’s 30 years of development in eyes ofan Austrian professor

Trappl, from the Uni-versity of Vienna, is tovisit China again to attendthe First Chinese-Euro-pean Cultural Dialogue inBeijing.

As one of the first stu-dents of Sinology at theUniversity of Vienna,Trappl received a govern-

ment scholarship to studyfor one year in the BeijingLanguage and Culture Uni-versity during 1974-1975,before teaching at theSinology Department ofthe University of Vienna.

Since 1975, Trapplhas visited China everyyear for academic ex-changes and other pur-poses. He travelled toChina eight times lastyear alone, he told Xinhuain a recent interview.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 15 Oct— Adigital library for theblind, where the visuallyimpaired can listen toelectronic books, music oron-line lectures for free,has opened in the Chinesecapital.

Situated in the Na-tional Library, the facilitywas jointly set up by theInformation Centre of theChina Disabled Persons’Federation, the NationalLibrary and China BraillePublishing House.

It was opened on the

BEIJING, 15 Oct— About 84.5 million Chinese wereusing their mobile phone to log onto the Internet, whichaccounted for nearly 30 percent of the country’s totalnetizens, an industry expert said here on Tuesday.

Yang Zemin, director of the Telecom Research In-stitute under the Ministry of Industry and InformationTechnology, said China registered 68.7 million newcell phone users in the first eight months, whichbrought country’s mobile phone user population toabout 616 million.

He estimated the number of Internet users hadreached 275 million by the end of September and 85percent were broadband users.

The number of fixed-line users began to make anegative growth. Through August, the number of fixed-line users stood at 354 million, down 11 million fromthe 2007 figure, Yang said.

CPC delegation leaves for India visitSHANGHAI, 15 Oct — A delegation of the Commu-

nist Party of China (CPC) left here on Wednesday fora good-will visit to India at the invitation of SoniaGandhi, president of the Indian National Congress.

The delegation is led by Yu Zhengsheng, a mem-ber of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Com-mittee and secretary of the CPC Shanghai MunicipalCommittee.—Xinhua

China opens digital library for blindeve of the InternationalDay of the Blind, whichfalls on Wednesday.

About 200 electronicbooks, 500 audio pro-grammes and 500 videoprogrammes are available

at the library, covering an-cient Chinese culture,medicine, modern litera-ture and daily life. Some ofthe materials were providedaccording to requests fromthe blind.—Xinhua

All items from XinhuaNews Agency

84.5 mln Chinese use mobilephones to surf Internet

Xinhua

Visiting Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari (R) reviews the honour guardwith his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao during the welcoming ceremony heldby Hu Jintao at the Tian’anmen Square, in Beijing, China, on 15 Oct, 2008.Asif Ali Zardari arrived here on Wednesday for his first state visit to China

since taking office in September. —INTERNET

China, Pakistan sign 10-plus deals asZardari makes first Beijing trip

BEIJING,15 Oct—China and Pakistan onWednesday signed morethan 10 deals ranging fromtrade and minerals toagriculture and satellites.

The package ofagreements came out of atwo-hour summit atBeijing’s Great Hall of thePeople as China rolled outthe red carpet for PakistanPresident Asif Ali Zardari,who is on his first statevisit to the country sincetaking office inSeptember.

China and Pakistan onWednesday signed morethan 10 deals ranging fromtrade and minerals toagriculture and satellites.

Zardari was wel-comed by President HuJintao and received a 21-gun military salute at theTian'anmen Square,festooned with thenational flags of China andPakistan.

During the meeting,Hu reviewed the closebilateral ties, particularlythe days of the Bhutto

family.“Your entire family

are old friends of theChinese people,” Hu toldZardari. “We will neverforget the outstandingcontribution BenazirBhutto and Zulfikar AliBhutto had made toboosting ties with China.”

Zardari’s late wife,Benazir Bhutto, wasassassinated in December2007, and her late father,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hadalso served as Pakistanpresident.—Xinhua

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WASHINGTON, 15 Oct—The federal budget deficitsoared to $454.8 billion in2008 as a housing col-lapse and efforts to com-bat the economic slow-down pushed the tide ofgovernment red ink to thehighest level in history.

The Bush administra-tion said Tuesday the defi-cit for the budget year thatended 30 Sept was morethan double the $161.5billion recorded in 2007.

It surpassed the pre-vious record of $413 bil-lion set in 2004.

A Peruvian dancer performs during a demonstration of Latin Americancommunities in Madrid, as part of the festival

“Viva America”.—INTERNET

A Russian soldier stands guard in front of Neustrashimy (Fearless) missilefrigate, one of the three Russian warships including a nuclear-powered

missile cruiser, which have called on the Libyan port of Tripoli, Libya, on 11Oct, 2008, for a two-day stop on their way to Latin America to take part in

joint naval exercises with Venezuela.—INTERNET

Budget deficit in 2008 surgesto all-time high

Economists predicteda far worse number nextyear as the costs of thegovernment’s rescue ofthe financial system andthe economic hard timeshit the nation’s balancesheet.

Some analysts believethat next year’s deficitcould easily top $700 bil-lion, giving the next presi-dent a formidable chal-lenge.

The administrationblamed this year’s recorddeficit on a litany of eco-nomic woes.

The prolonged hous-ing slump sharply re-duced economic growthand has sent the unem-ployment rate rising, de-velopments that reducetax revenues.

“This year’s budgetresults reflect the ongoinghousing correction andthe manifestation of thatin strained capital marketsand slower growth,”Treasury Secretary HenryPaulson said in a state-ment accompanying thedeficit report.

Internet

CANBERRA (Australia), 15 Oct— A faulty computerunit likely caused a Qantas jetliner to experience twoterrifying midair plunges within minutes last week,an Australian investigator said Tuesday.

More than 40 people were injured when the AirbusA330-300 briefly nose-dived twice during a flight fromSingapore to the western Australian city of Perth lastTuesday.

Julian Walsh, chief air investigator at the Austral-ian Transport Safety Bureau, said an initial investiga-tion indicated the cause was a computer unit that de-tects through sensors the angle of the plane againstthe airstream.

He said one of the plane’s three such units mal-functioned and sent the wrong data to the main flightcomputers.

The flight data recorder indicated the plane, carry-ing 303 passengers and 10 crew, climbed about 200feet from its cruising level of 37,000 feet and thenwent into a nose-dive, dropping about 650 feet in 20seconds, before returning to cruising level, the safetybureau said last week. The sharp drop was quicklyfollowed by a second of about 400 feet in 16 seconds.

Internet

A passenger is taken off a Qantas passenger jet in a wheel-chair inLearmonth, Western Australia in this 7 Oct, 2008, video grab taken from

Network Nine via Reuters TV.—INTERNET

Computer likely causedQantas plunge

SAN JOSE (Calif), 15Oct—Intel Corp has pro-vided some insight intothe state of global PC de-mand, telling Wall Streetthat while technologyspending may be slump-ing, the chip maker fullyexpects its profits to holdsteady.

The Santa Clara-basedcompany, the world’slargest maker of PC mi-croprocessors, said Tues-day that its third-quarterprofit rose 12 percent,beating analysts’ esti-mates by a penny pershare.

The increase was drivenin large part by technologi-cal advances that lowerIntel’s cost of making eachchip, which helps the com-pany wring out more prof-its even in tough economictimes.—Internet

NEW YORK, 15 Oct— Areport scheduled to be re-leased Wednesday esti-mates that New York Citycould lose 165,000 jobswithin the next two yearsas a result of the recentturbulence on Wall Street.

The job loss projec-

New York City could lose 165,000 jobs, says reporttion by New York Citycomptroller’s chiefeconomist is nearly dou-ble the 85,000 forecast inJuly.

“This was what wehad feared, but hoped wecould avoid,” said FrankBraconi, the chief econo-mist who authored the re-port. “It represents thatthere’s a much widerrange of problems in theeconomy now than six

months ago.”The forecast of

165,000 lost jobs includesthe prediction that asmany as 35,000 could belost in the financial serv-ices industry, up from aprevious forecast of25,000 financial jobs outof a total of 85,000. Thatmeans a greater percent-age of job losses are fore-casted for other indus-tries.—Internet

Intel expectsprofits to hold

up in 4Q

JAKARTA, 15 Oct— The Indonesiantransport ministry has suspendedfour charter airliners due to lack ofsafety standard, spokesman of theministry Bambang Ervan said hereWednesday.

The move is one of the efforts toboost flight safety in the archipelagocountry, which is now struggling toexit from the European Union (EU)travel ban which has been imposedsince 6 July last year.

Internet

Indonesia suspendsfour airliners for

lack of safety SEOUL, 15 Oct— Samsung EconomicResearch Institute (SERI), one of SouthKorea’s major think tanks, said Wednes-day that the nation’s economy is ex-pected to grow 3.6 percent next year.

The forecast is lower than the 2008GDP growth estimate of 4.4 percent bythe institution. “Amid a global economicslowdown, South Korea’s exports willlikely grow at a single digit pace nextyear,” SERI said in the report.

The report cited that the country isdepending solely on exports to prop upits economy amid sluggish domesticconsumption.—Internet

S Korea’s economy toexpand 3.6% in 2009

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NEWSALBUM

Princess Diana lie unconscious, dying within the wreckage of the car.

Diana’s dying pictures outrage UKLondon: After

almost a decade,the death ofBritain’s princessDiana remains asource of greatsadness andspeculation. Nosurprise that plansto broadcast adocumentary thatincludes unseen

images of her dyingmoments has be-come a cause ofoutrage in UK.

Just minutesafter leaving theRitz hotel in Parison 31 August,1997 ,pr incessDiana lie uncons-cious, dying withinthe wreckage of the

car. For almost tenyears the Britishmedia has adheredto an unwrittencode not to pub-lish or broadcastphotographs of theprincess taken afterthe accident. Butnow one British TVnetwork is breakingranks and it’scaused quite a stir.

“It is a particular-ly sick gimmick.They’re only in-terested in extra-ordinary amountsof publicity. Andthat they havealready got,” saidRoyal Commenta-tor Richard Fitz-williams.

106-year-old voter chooses ObamaA 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome

could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 USPresidential election.

Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for PresidentEisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she willvote for Democrat Barack Obama.

Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed byreading newspapers and watching TV at the convent.

New flying dinosaur drone toresemble pterodactyl

Texas Tech Paleontologist SankarChatterjee poses with a model of theTapejara pterodactyl at the Texas TechMuseum in Lubbock, Texas. Chatterjeeand a University of Florida aeronauticalengineer have designed a military droneafter the Brazilian pterodactyl. Theflying dinosaur, about the size of aCanada goose, had a large, thin rudder-like sail on its head that functioned as a sensory organ.

Pterodactylsmay have goneextinct millions ofyears ago, but anewly designed spyplane could bringthe flying reptiles tolife, albeit replacingblood and guts withcarbon fibre andbatteries.

“The next gene-

ration of airbornedrones won’t just besmall and silent,”the design teamannounced recent-ly. “They’ll altertheir wing shapesusing morphingtechniques tosqueeze throughconfined spaces,dive between build-

ings, zoom underoverpasses, land onapartment balco-nies, or sail alongthe coast-line.”

Called Ptero-drone, the spy planeis about the size of acrow but with amuch larger wing-span that reachesnearly 32 inches (80cm).

Its design will beinspired by one ofthe savviest moversof the Cretaceous, apterosaur calledTapejara wellnho-feri. This ancientreptile was amorphing machine.On land, Tapejarawalked on four legsbefore rearing up onits two back limbsand running to reachtakeoff speed. Onceairborne, the beastcould cruise at some19 mph (30 km/h),according to theresearchers.

This photo released, shows a two-headed snake found in a St Louis

aquarium in the United States. Thesnake spent eight years there.

Widow throws herselfon funeral pyre

An elderly woman in the eastern Indianstate of Chhattisgarh jumped into herhusband’s funeral pyre, killing herself inan outlawed custom, police said.

Lalmati Verma, 71, immolatedherself on Saturday after mourners hadleft the cremation site, said police officerB R Mandawi in Kasdol, 125km fromstate capital Raipur.

“She was reduced to ashes soon,”Mandawi said, adding her three sonshad not been aware of their mother’sintention to commit “sati”, which means“faithful wife”, and was considered anact of devotion before British colonialrulers banned it in 1829.

Spanish leader agrees to visitCuba next year

Russian-Czech space co-op to improve in future

SHANGHAI, 15 Oct—Two operators were killed whena tower crane collapsed on Tuesday at a power plantin Shanghai, local work safety officials said.

The accident took place at 3:50 pm in theShidongkou power plant, one of three key electricitybases for the financial hub, when the crane was beingchecked upon delivery. On Monday, a bridge cranecollapsed at a Shanghai dock and crashed down ontwo freighters below, seriously injuring the crane op-erator and causing damage to the vessels.—Internet

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, left,poses with Spain’s King Juan Carlos before theirmeeting in the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on 14

Oct, 2008.—INTERNET

MADRID, 15 Oct—Spain’s prime ministerhas accepted an invitationto visit Cuba next yearand could become the firstwestern European leaderto travel to the commu-nist-run island in nearly adecade.Details of Prime

Minister Jose LuisRodriguez Zapatero’s tripstill needed to be workedout, Foreign MinisterMiguel Angel Moratinossaid after meeting Tues-day with his Cuban coun-terpart in Madrid. He saidSpain was satisfied with

Cuba’s advances in hu-man rights.

Zapatero later told re-porters that “there is a pro-posal” and “we’ll seewhen the time comes if itis carried out and how itis carried out.” A govern-ment spokesman insistedZapatero was not throw-ing doubt on the possibili-ty of the visit but simplysaying it was not knownwhen exactly it wouldhappen.

Zapatero’s Socialistgovernment played a keyrole in persuading the Eu-ropean Union to lift dip-lomatic sanctions againstCuba last June and inpressing the island to im-prove its human rightsrecord.—Internet

Two buildings damaged by blastsin SW Japan, no one injured

PRAGUE, 14 Oct—Vladimir Nazarov fromthe Russian Academy ofSciences Space ResearchInstitute expected futureyears to be marked by bet-ter Czech-Russian and in-ternational cooperation inspace research, the Czechnews agency CTK said onTuesday. At a seminar onRussian-Czech coopera-tion in space research dur-ing the two-day EuropeanInter-Parliamentary SpaceConference (EISC) meet-

ing, Nazarov voiced re-gret over the weakeningof such cooperation in thepast two decades.

However, this coop-eration experiences re-naissance at present andtoday’s seminar witnessedit, he said. According toNazarov, Russia was co-operating with the ESAand the United States inspace research and thatthe International SpaceStation (ISS) to whichRussian cosmonauts and

American astronauts re-cently flew aboard a Rus-sian spacecraft couldserve as an example ofsuch cooperation.

Around 25 scientistsattended the seminar or-ganized in Prague by theCzech Space Office andthe Russian Centre of Sci-ence and Culture in coop-eration with the CzechTechnical University(CVUT) Faculty of Nu-clear Science and PhysicalEngineering.—Internet

Two killed

in Shanghai

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TOKYO, 15 Oct—Two buildings atseparate locations in the southwesternJapanese city of Tokushima were dam-aged by apparent explosions, but no onewas injured, the Kyodo News Agency re-ported Tuesday.

One of the buildings is a cultural hallof the major lay Buddhist organizationSoka Gakkai, while the other is an in-ternational exchange centre whichhouses a local Japan-China friendshipassociation, it said.

Local police received reports Tues-day morning saying the entrance areasof the two buildings had been damaged.

There was nothing unusual when astaff member of the cultural hall leftthe facility late Sunday night, andnearby residents said they heard a loudnoise early Monday morning, policesaid.

The second blast at the entrance ofthe international exchange centreoccurred at around 9:00 am Tuesday(2400 GMT Monday), local media re-ported.

“We are very surprised because it isthe first time that something like thishappened,” a local official was quotedas saying. —Internet

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The government of the Union of Myanmar is inthe process of building a new peaceful modern anddeveloped discipline flourished democratic nation. Inbuilding the nation, the government has laid down thepolitical, economic and social objectives. In order tofulfill one of the social objectives “Uplift of health,fitness and education standards of the entire nation” thegovernment has formed the National Health Committee(NHC), the highest level policy making body for healthmatters comprising Ministers from health-relatedministries. Under the leadership of this NHC, healthrelated activities to achieve the health related MillenniumDevelopment Goals set by the World HealthOrganization have been implemented.Health Related Millennium Development GoalsMillennium Development Goal (1)

Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerMillennium Development Goal (4)

Reduce child mortalityMillennium Development Goal (5)

Improve Maternal HealthMillennium Development Goal (6)

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseasesMillennium Development Goal (7)

Ensure Environmental SustainabilityMillennium Development Goal (8)

Develop a Global Partnership for DevelopmentEradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Prevalence of under weight among under-fivechildren in 1997 was 38.6%, 36.3% in 2000 and 31.8%in 2003 and will be reduced to 19.3% in 2015. Theprevalence of under nutrition among the boy was 31.1%and it was 32.6% in girls. The prevalence of underweight was higher in rural (33.6%) than urban (26.6%).According to the age, the prevalence of under weightwas higher among 2 years to 5 years. The high prevalenceof under weight related with the low maternal education.

Under the poverty reduction strategy, theconstruction of new bridges and roads by the governmenthas been conceded by the WHO (SEA region) asfollows:

“Since 1988 as many as 164 new bridgeswere constructed in the country. These bridgescan expedite timely referral of ill cases as well aseasy access to formal education from primarylevel up to university level. Transportation ofgoods across bridges will improve economicconditions of the community, especially thelow-income groups. Education and income aredirectly or indirectly related to health and healthsystem development. Therefore, the 164 newbridges can surely enhance health developmentin Myanmar.”Concerning the Myanmar’s activities in food

demand and supply activities, the commentary was asfollows:

“The population of Myanmar is currentlyestimated at 55.4 millions and isexpected toreach 60 millions by 2010. As a result there willbe an increasing need to meet the increaseddemand for food. Additional food requirementswill have to be met through crop extensions andland development. This will eradicate extremepoverty and hunger. During 1990-2004, 150dams have been built to irrigate 2,093,219 acresof agricultural land, using 265 river waterpumping stations, 282,108 acres of new-sown

Myanmar’s efforts for achievingMillennium Development Goals

Professor Dr Paing Soe

areas of cropland have also been developedbetween 1995 and 2002. These dams and riverwater pumping systems can increase productionof food, which will lead to poverty eradication,change in behaviour and lifestyle as also changesin climatic conditions.”WHO indicated in one of its reports that food

production in Myanmar has already far exceeded itsnational requirements. Average calorie consumption perperson is 2900 and this meets the actual requirement.

Ministry of Health and other related Ministries,UNICEF, WHO and NGOs are collaborating closely forpromotion of maternal and child nutritional status inMyanmar.

Nutrition promotion services are beingimplemented with the aim (being set) of promoting thepractice of taking balanced diet in a proper way amongMyanmar people. For alleviation of vitamin A deficienciesamong children, vitamin A tablets are distributed tochildren 6 months-5 years age group every 6 months.

Vitamin A tablets are provided to mothers 1month after deliveries. Iron tablets are distributed topregnant mothers and middle and high school levelschool girls. Pregnant and lactating mothers are givenvitamin B1 tablets starting from 1 months before deliveryand till 3 months after delivery to prevent Beri Beri.

All children of the age group 2-5 years and allprimary school children are dewormed twice every year.Mothers who are pregnant 3 months and above aredewormed once before delivery.

In order to promote nutritional status of the people,various approaches like provision of multivitamins,distribution of fortified food and providing nutritionalhealth education are being implemented.

Iodization of salt programme is in progress tomake iodized salt available to all citizens.

Availability of village food banks at village levelscontribute towards nutritional promotion of rural people.In urban areas, through participation of well-wishers,nutrition promotion centers are established andcontributing towards nutrition promotion.

Thus malnutrition among children will soon beeliminated because of proper eating and feeding practicesamong the community members.

“Along with economic development, per capitaincome increased from 1,794 Kyats in 1999/2000to 68,902 Kyats in 2001, and it is expected thatGDP will rise significantly in the near futurefollowing development of communication systemsand construction of new bridges, roads and raillines. Since the enactment of Foreign InvestmentLaw in November 1988, permitted total amountof foreign investment reached US$ 7.750 billionat the end of March 2005 (Myanmar MDG Report2005).”

Reduce child mortalityMillennium Development Goal (4) is to “Reduce childmortality” and health related indicators are the followings.

- Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)- Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births)- Proportion of 1 year old children immunized against

measles.Aiming towards the under five mortality rate to be

reduced by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015.In Myanmar, under-five mortality rate is on the

descending trend and it declines from 82.4/1,000 livebirths in 1995 to 66.1/1000 live births in 2003. However

infant mortality rate is not markedly changed and itfluctuates between 49 to 55/1000 live births.

Important finding of U5MR survey (2003) are87% of total under-five deaths occur in rural area,infant deaths contribute 73% of under-five deaths and70% of infants deaths occur during first three monthsof age.

Based on evidences and lesson learnt fromprevious strategies and interventions, Department ofHealth formulated a Five-Year Strategic Plan for ChildHealth (2005-2009) with technical inputs from mainstakeholders. It has been implementing with phasemanner and closely cooperation with Five-YearStrategic Plan for Reproductive Health and Five-YearStrategic Plan for Adolescent Health.

The following areas have been intensified andstrengthened to meet Millennium Development Goal.

1. Rural Health Development2. Resource mobilization for hard to reach areas

and outreach areas3. Essential newborn care4. Referral services for emergency care5. Promotion of key family practices and

community participation6. Cooperation among related stakeholders,

departments and organizations to avoidoverlapping and to obtain the more cost effectivebenefits.Moreover, Department of Health formulated a

comprehensive and innovative project, MaternalNewborn and Child Health (MNCH) project, to reducethe maternal and child mortality and it has beenimplemented in National Health Plan (2007-2011)with life cycle approach and continuum care of Mother,Newborn, Child Health and adolescent.

High impact and low cost interventions havebeen prioritized for effective implementation.Community based pneumonia treatment, utilization ofnew formula ORS and zinc sulphate tablets for themanagement of diarrhea, strengthening of selectedkey family and community practices and formulationof child survival forum to strengthen child health anddevelopment activities have been implemented toreduce infant and child mortality. Interventions forrural health development, community component andessential newborn care services will be prioritized.

In near future, Hepatitis B vaccine may beintroduced as a routine procedure in EPI programme.

Beri Beri surveillance system has been carriedout for B1 deficiency. Interventions for prevention andcontrol, appropriate and timely management of commoninfectious diseases will be intensified.

The measles immunization coverage ofunder one children in Myanmar has been achievedup to 86.6% in 2003 and aim to increase up to 90%in 2015.

Health care activities of School aged childrenhave also been promoted by joint collaboration andcoordination between the Ministry of Health andMinistry of Education. To enhance their nutritiondevelopment, deworming of school children waspromoted in 2004 throughout the country in which 1.5million school children in 7,500 schools were treatedwith albendazole. During December 2007, 4.9 millionschool aged children and 2.0 million pre-school agechildren were also dewormed .

(To be continued)

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The postcard depicting 16th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions.— MNA

Minister Maj-GenHtay Oo inspects

repairing ofPyidawthalake near

Ohntheekwevillage inYamethinTownship.

MNA

Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin and officials take part in walkingrace to mark International White Cane Day.—YCDC

NAY PYI TAW, 15Oct—Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Ooinspected progress inrepairing Pyidawtha lakeby Irrigation Departmentnear Ohntheekwe villagein Yamethin township,Mandalay Division on 11October.

Regional development tasks inspectedIn his meeting with

local peasants, theminister explainedmatters related to per acreyield of 1,600 viss cottonfrom Ngwechi-6 staplecotton and looked intoprogress in building theembankment.

Pyidawtha lake cansupply water to 650 acres

of farmlands as well asdrinking water.

In Theingon village,the minister and party metwith cotton growers,attended to the needs andoversaw thrivingNgwechi-6 staple cottonplantation of cottongrower Daw Maw.

MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct—The 17th Yangon Mayor’sCup Walking Race tomark International WhiteCane Day was held in frontof People’s Square andPeople’s Park on PyayRoad in Dagon Township,here, this morning.

As soon as a gun wasfired into the air to startthe race, Chairman ofYangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin took part in therace together with the vice-mayor, officials and 870blind contestants fromrespective schools for theblind starting fromPeople’s Square andPeople’s Park to Pyay road

Walking race to mark InternationalWhite Cane Day

and then to Phonegyi streetand Maha Bandoola Road.

On their way to thefinishing line, staff ofDagon, Lanmadaw,Latha, Pabedan andKyauktada townshipsDevelopment AffairsCommittees, members ofsocial organizations andthe people welcomed andencouraged the blindcontestants and providedthem with refreshments.

Next, a ceremony topresent prizes to schoolsfor the blind was held atthe City Hall and theMayor made a speech onthe occasion and hepresented the cup and giftsto officials concerned.

Afterwards, Secretary

U Aung Than Win ofYCDC and Dr Daw KhinHsan Nwe, wife of themayor, put spectacles onthe blind children and thenMember U Nyi Nyi ofYCDC presented prizes towinners in the 7th ChessTournament organized byMyanmar Association forthe Blind. On behalf ofthe blind contestants, MaThe Mon Pyae spokewords of thanks.

Next, families ofYangon KandawgyiNatural Gardens donatedK 1,930,000 to schools forthe blind. Students fromschools for blind presentedsongs and music andwellwishers donatedcash.—MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct—Minister for Education DrChan Nyein visitedUniversity of ForeignLanguages (Yangon),University of Distance

Education Minister visits universities in YangonEducation (Yangon),Yangon University,Institute of Economics(Yangon) and Institute ofEducation (Yangon) thisafternoon. The minister met

with rectors, pro-rectors,heads of department andfaculty members and gaveinstructions on academicand managementmatters.—MNA

Work Committee Secretary meetsmembers of panel of judges, managersNAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—Secretary of

the Work Committee for Organizingthe 16th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions 2008Director-General U Yan Naing Oo ofFine Arts Department met with membersof the Work Committee, members ofthe Panel of Judges (Central), members

of the panel of judges of States andDivisions and managers of State andDivision teams at the training hall of No.7 Transit Centre here this evening.

The director-general gaveinstructions on matters related to thecompetitions.

MNA

Objectives of the 16th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing

Arts Competitions1. Uplift of national prestige and integrity and

preservation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

2. Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation3. Keeping genuine patriotism based on national

solidarity alive and dynamic4. Turning out younger generation who will continue to

safeguard the national culture and character

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Stake driven for buildinghistoric Danok Pagoda

YANGON, 15 Oct — A stake-driving ceremony ofhistoric Danok Pagoda was held on the platform ofDanok Pagoda in Dalla Township yesterday.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence andwife Daw Khin Thet Htay attended the ceremony. Onthe occasion, wellwishers donated K 93,075,000 tothe funds of the pagoda.

MNA

– In serving public interest– Do not deviate from own way– Because of slanders– Just carry it on

With noble mind

(Venerable Shwe Hintha Sayadaw)

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—No. 1 Motor TransportBattalion beat No. 2 MotorTransport Battalion in thefinal of Nay Pyi TawCommand Commander’sShield VolleyballChampionship atPaunglaung sports ground,

No. 1 Motor Transport Battalion winsVolleyball championship

Nay Pyi Taw PyinmanaDistrict, here, on 13October.

Commander Maj-GenWai Lwin and wife DawSwe Swe Oo watched thematch and the commanderpresented thechampionship shields to

leaders of the winningmen’s and women’s teamsof No. 1 Motor TransportBattalion.

Officials alsopresented prizes to playersof the teams and individualprizes to each players.

MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct —Chairman of SagaingDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-West Command Brig-

Commander visits model paddy field in MyinmuGen Myint Soe inspectedthriving 100-acre ofmodel Shwepyisoe paddyfield of farmer U Pyomonat Pyaw Village inMyinmu Township on 10

October.Next, the commander

viewed broadcasting offertilizer on the farm andfulfilled the needs.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15Oct—Minister forImmigration andPopulation Maj-Gen SawLwin met servicepersonnel at the NyaungUDistrict Immigration andNational RegistrationDepartment in NyaungU,

I&P Minister meets service personnel inNyaungU, Myingyan

Mandalay Division on 12October.

The minister urgedthem to strive for timelycompletion of plans andinspected systematickeeping of files in theoffice.

On 13 October, the

minister also met withpersonnel at the MyingyanDistrict Immigration andNational RegistrationDepartment in Myingyanand looked into systematickeeping of files in theoffice.

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin presents championship shield toNo. 1 Motor Transport Battalion. — MNA

Minister for Communications, Posts and TelegraphsBrig-Gen Thein Zaw formally opens digital auto-exchange in Mansi,

Kachin State, on 12 October.—CPT

Deputy Minister Dr Paing Soe poses for documentary photo at 9thASEAN Health Ministers meeting.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—The Myanmardelegation led by DeputyMinister for Health DrPaing Soe attended the 9th

ASEAN Health Ministersmeeting, the 3rd ASEANplus Three HealthMinisters meeting and the2nd ASEAN-China HealthMinisters meeting held atManila, the Philippinesfrom 7 to 10 October.

The deputy ministerdelivered an address at the9th ASEAN Health

Health Deputy Minister attends ASEANHealth Ministers meeting

Ministers meeting on 9October.

At the meeting, thosepresent approved the MoUpresented by WHO andASEAN member nations.

The 3rd ASEAN plusThree Health Ministersmeeting was held on 10October. Those presentagreed to make strongercollaboration inaddressing healthconcerns.

The deputy ministermade a speech at the 2nd

ASEAN+China HealthMinisters meeting held on10 October. At themeeting, the healthministers and high-ranking officials helddiscussions on sharing ofhealth information,conducting courses andexchange of experiencesand laid down future tasks.

The deputy ministerand delegation membersarrived back here on 13October.

MNA

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(from page 16)Recently, storm vic-

tims were discouragedand kept quiet with aheavy heart. Now, localpeople have restoredtheir businesses, so theirwounds caused by thestorm “Nargis” havehealed and their painfulmemories have subsided.They have started a newlife, keeping their hopesof a prosperous futurealive.

When asked aboutreconstruction tasks inDedaye Township,Chairman of the Town-ship Peace and Develop-ment Council U MyoAung said, “Our town-ship has more than150,000 storm victims.Now, almost all the rav-aged houses have beenreconstructed. Severalcompanies and officials

Storm-hit Dedaye making a quick recuperationArticle by Maung Maung Htwe (MNA); Photos by Hla Moe (MNA)

No. 1 Basic Education High School in Dedaye.

Durable houses for storm victims in Dedaye.

have built many housingestates for the victims inthe storm-hit villages suchas Kyondah, Toe,Thandeik, westernMayan, Dedaye, KyondahYwama, Thaukkyar,Layywa, Lay-ein-dan,Kanhseik and Kadah. TheMinistry of Rail Transpor-tation has constructed 50durable houses each inDedaye and KyondahYwama villages, and it hasrepaired 383 lakes. Re-garding the education sec-tor, one hundred and onebasic education schools inthe township have beenrepaired, and we have be-gun the academic yearsince 12 June, and it isearlier than any otherstorm-hit township. In the2007-2008 academic year,35,942 students enrolled,and the number of studentsincreased to 37,368 in

2008-2009 academic year.“Regarding the health

sector, only one ruralhealth centre remains tobe repaired. The ministryhas provided funds forconstructing a new build-ing for Yonegyi BasicEducation Primary Schooland repairing the town-ship people’s hospital.

“Regarding the agri-cultural sector, we haveprovided 333 cattle, 870power-tillers, 247,062 gal-lons of fuel, and 59,410baskets of paddy seeds.So, we have grownmonsoon paddy in181,575 acres or 99.69 percent out of 182,143 tar-geted acres. Now, the re-

maining 568 acres are be-ing put under paddy.

“So far, we have pro-vided fishing equipmentincluding 755 fishingboats, 955 motorized fish-ing boats and fishing nets.

“Minister Maj-GenAung Min and well-wishers made contribu-tions for renovation of allthe religious buildings.Now, local people haveled their normal life andrestored their businesses.”

Lt-Col Myo HtutHlaing of the local regi-ment of No. 66 LID said,“We started to form offic-ers and other ranks intogroups at 11 am on 3 Mayto launch rescue work. Wearrived at Pyapon at 5 pmon 4 May. And we arrivedat Dedaye at 12 midnight.Dedaye is only 17 or 18miles from Pyapon, but ittook us about 6 hours toreach our destination be-cause we had to clear the

roads blocked with de-bris. Normally, it takesonly 45 minutes. On 5and 6 May, servicemen,police members, depart-ments and social organi-zations started to clearthe roads, and launchedrescue tasks in the town.We also distributed foodsupplies and medicinesand gave treatment toinjured victims. We havestayed here and carriedout rehabilitation tasksfor five months. Now,everything has returnednormal, and we are allpleased with it.”

Dedaye’s remark-able recovery from thecatastrophe is a profoundevidence that harmoni-ous efforts of the gov-ernment, the people andthe Tatmadaw can sur-mount any forms of dif-ficulties.

Translation: MSKyemon: 15-10-2008

YANGON, 15 Oct —Deputy Minister for So-cial Welfare, Relief andResettlement Brig-GenKyaw Myint and officials

Aid for storm survivorsaccepted clothes, kitchenutensils and foodstuffworth K 25 million do-nated by Shwe Innlay Coand Ishikawa Myanmar

Friendship Association forstorm survivors at the hallof Fire Services Depart-ment in Mayangon Town-ship this morning. —MNA

YANGON, 15 Oct — The secondround matches of the 24th DefenceServices Commander-in-Chief’s CupU-21 Tatmadaw (Army, Navy andAir) Football Tournament kicked offat Eastern Command Zone (Taunggyi)this evening.

U-21 Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air)Football Tournament continues

At the sports ground inTaunggyi, Defence Services (Air) teambeat South-West Command team 2-0and Northern Command team ham-mered Coastal Region Command team5-0.

MNA

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint accepts clothes, kitchen utensilsand foodstuff worth K 25 million donated by Shwe Innlay Co and

Ishikawa Myanmar Friendship Association.—SWD

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Hubble SpaceTelescope is seen with

ground view in thispicture taken from

Space Shuttle in March2002.—INTERNET

Tibor, a one-year-old southern white rhinoceros, learns fighting skills fromhis father, Atari, at the Zoological Centre Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan. He was the

first rhino born at the park in 15 years.—INTERNET

Herd mentality can lead to strange places. Here, thousands of sheep board aPanamanian cargo ship bound for Jordan.—INTERNET

CANBERRA, 15 Oct—Police in Australia’s farnorth have conductedDNA tests to identifyhuman remains found inthe stomach of a 4.3-metre(14-feet) crocodile,Australian media reportedon Tuesday.

Wildlife officers saidthe crocodile, capturednear the tropical town ofCooktown in northernQueensland state, wouldnot be put down despite

Human remains found incrocodile in Australia

the gruesome find.“As it is an iconic

animal, the crocodile willnot be harmed or killed. Itwill not be released backinto the wild,” aspokeswoman for Queen-sland’s EnvironmentProtection Agency toldAustralian AssociatedPress.

Wildlife officers usedx-rays and an endoscopeto examine the contents ofthe crocodile's stomach to

find and take samples ofthe remains.

The crocodile was oneof three captured during asearch for a 62-year-oldman who disappeared twoweeks ago when he wentto check crab traps on theEndeavour River.

The area is the naturalhabitat for salt watercrocodiles, which areopportunistic, territorialhunters.—MNA/Reuters

PARIS, 15 Oct— Thehead of the IMF said onMonday the worst of thefinancial crisis waspossibly over, and theFund would draw lessonsfrom the crisis to makeproposals to reform theinternational financialsystem.

IMF Managing Direc-tor Dominique Strauss-Kahn said individual statesshould intervene whennecessary according totheir own specific needs,but it was important thatany intervention should be“massive”. “I think thatthanks to the decisions that

IMF’s Strauss-Kahn says worst of crisis may be overhave just been taken, thepeak of the crisis is perhapsbehind us. That’s whatwe’ll see in coming days”,Strauss-Kahn told Frenchradio Europe 1. He saidthe full extent of the lossescaused by the crisis wouldnot be known for sometime.

“The decisions thathave been made over thepast three days have theright elements toreassure,” Strauss-Kahnsaid. “The principles haveto be the same everywhere... and the implementationhas to be on a country bycountry basis, according

to local specificities inlaw, the history of thecountry and the structureof the banking industry,”he said. “Any interventionmust be massive”.

Strauss-Kahn said theIMF would quicklypresent a report drawinglessons from the crisis,adding that the BrettonWoods institution shouldbe given a bigger role inmonitoring the financialsystem. “Surveillance (bythe IMF) already existstoday but it doesn”t stretchwidely enough to allfinancial questions", hesaid.—MNA/Reuters

S Korea launches “Visit Korea Campaign 2010-2012”upgrade South Korea’sstatus as a destination forinternational tourists andits national brand.

The “Visit Korea

Campaign 2010-2012”aims at attracting 10million foreign touristsand earning 10 billion USdollars worth of tourismrevenue in the first year ofthe nationwide campaign.

A total of 6.45 millionforeign tourists visited thenation last year. SouthKorea’s first lady KimYoon-ok made a speech atthe opening ceremony ofthe campaign after beingnominated as honorarychairperson of the organi-zing committee for the VisitKorea Campaign 2010-2012.

“The Lee Myung-bakgovernment will extend itsfull assistance for thesuccess of the Visit KoreaCampaign, as well as forthe development of thenation's tourism industry,”Kim said in her speech.

MNA/Xinhua

SEOUL,14 Oct—South Korean Govern-ment on Tuesday declaredyear 2010 to 2012 as the“Visit Korea” years, to

Cuba gets newvice-presidentof Council of

MinistersHAVANA, 15 Oct —

Cuba's Council ofState Monday appointedMinister of GovernmentRicardo Cabrisas Ruiz asvice-president of theCouncil of Ministers, saidlocal media.

Cabrisas, 71, willoversee the work offoreign trade and foreigninvestment ministries aswell as other entitieswithin the government.

The Council of Statemade the decision duringa meeting on Monday.

MNA/Xinhua

HK suspends German poultryimport applications

HONG KONG, 15 Oct—Hong Kong’s Centrefor Food Safety hasannounced the processingof applications forimporting poultry andpoultry products fromGermany would besuspended with imme-diate effect.

“The decision wastaken following con-firmation of a caseinvolving the highlypathogenic avian in-fluenza H5N1 on a poultryfarm in the country,” aspokesman for the centresaid Monday.

He said that the centrewas seeking furtherinformation about the casefrom the relevant autho-rities.

Hong Kong hasimported about 1,400tons of frozen poultry

meat or offal fromGermany since April thisyear.

MNA/Xinhua

All crew onsunken freighter

rescued inS China SeaHAIKOU, 15 Oct — All

10 crew members aboarda Vietnamese freighterthat sank in the SouthChina Sea off HainanProvince on Tuesday wererescued by a passingvessel early on Wednes-day in a coordinatedrescue effort by Chineseand Vietnamese maritimeauthorities.

The Hainan MaritimeSafety Bureau confirmedthat the crew members wererescued by a Vietnam-registered trader NAHICO,which was passing near theaccident area.

The bureau said itreceived an emergencysignal from theVietnamese maritimerescue authority at 4:15p.m. on Tuesday, whichindicated that the freighterHUE09 was in danger ofsinking about 40 nauticalmiles off Dongfang City,Hainan Island.

MNA/Xinhua

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Apple announces updatedline of notebook computers

An employee poses in front of Francis Bacon’s

Portrait of Henrietta Moraes at Christie’s auction

house in London on 14 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 15 Oct—Apple Inc on Tuesdayannounced an updated lineof notebook computerswhich cost less than thecompany’s currentofferings. Apple CEOSteve Jobs said the newand greener notebookcomputers — includingone for 999 US dollars —was a revamped version ofthe company’s MacbookPro computer.

New innovations on themachine include newunibody construction, aglass, multi-touch track-pad and a thin, LED-backlit display, accordingto Jobs. Apple has alsoupdated the Macbook Airand the Macbook. Thenew models are shippingtoday and will be availablein stores tomorrow, Jobssaid.

Jobs said the revampedlaptops are free of several

hazardous chemicals, suchas arsenic and PVC andcome in considerablysmaller packaging thanprevious models.

“The spotlight turns tonotebooks,” the companysaid in the announcement,which included the outlineof what looked to be anApple laptop computer.

Apple analysts andrumour sites have beenpredicting for weeks thatthe company soon wouldannounce an updated lineof notebook computers.

The announcement

came amid good and badnews for the company. Onthe plus side, Apple’scomputers, particularly itsnotebook line, have beengradually gaining marketshare in recent years,outpacing sales of thebroader PC industry.Further, the company’siPhone handsets have beena hit with consumers,particularly since thelaunch of this summer of asecond generation modelwith a faster networkconnection.

Internet

More than 200 kindergartenstudents suffer lymph node

enlargement in E ChinaCIXI, 14 Oct—More than 200 kids from a kindergarten

in Cixi in east China’s Zhejiang Province have beendiagnosed with an enlargement of the mesentery lymphnode, the local government said here on Tuesday.

Among the kids, 146 have node enlargementexceeding 10 mm, which means they should behospitalized, according to a parent who cited a doctor’ssuggestions.

The parents suspected it was cooking oil used by theTiyi Kindergarten, which enrolled more than 400children, that caused the lymph node enlargement.

However, an investigation by quality supervisionauthorities and medical professionals showed thecooking oil at the school was fine, said a Cixi citygovernment spokesman.

An expert panel of seven local doctors saidenlargement of the lymph node was common seenamong pre-school children, so parents needn’t takemeasures to deal with the enlargement.—Internet

Pamuk, Turkish Presidentopen Frankfurt Book FairFRANKFURT, 15 Oct—Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk

lamented difficulties facing writers in Turkey as theannual Frankfurt Book Fair opened Tuesday with hishomeland as the featured nation, but the novelist wasstill upbeat about the state of Turkish literature.

“The Turkish state’s penchant for banning booksand punishing writers unfortunately continues,” Pamuk,the 2006 Nobel literature prize winner, said at thefair’s official opening — citing legislation that wasused to prosecute him and criticizing a ban on accessto YouTube. “But no one should think that writers andpublishers let themselves be discouraged,” said Pamuk,whose comments were translated into German. “TheTurkish publishing landscape has become astonishinglylarge and multifaceted in the last 15 years.”

Pamuk was joined at the opening by TurkishPresident Abdullah Gul, who highlighted reforms inrecent years and said his country “to a great extentfulfills the European Union’s conditions” regardingfreedom of opinion and respect for cultural diversity.

Internet

Hurricane Omarbatters Aruba, heads

for US islandsCHARLOTTE AMALIE, 15 Oct—Omar strengthened

into a hurricane late Tuesday and drenched islands inthe southeastern Caribbean, downing trees and blowingoff a school’s roof as it menaced US islands.

Authorities issued a hurricane warning for the USVirgin islands as well as Puerto Rico’s Vieques andCulebra islands.

Hurricane warnings were also in place for St. Martin,the British Virgin Islands, St Kitts and Nevis and otherislands.

Officials in Puerto Rico, already soaked from severaldays of rain, warned residents to prepare for a lot moreand medical authorities appealed for blood donationsfor possible casualties.

Omar was a Category 1 hurricane with 75 mph (120kph) winds, and the US National Hurricane Center inMiami projected it to continue to gain strength.

Internet

48 killed in roadaccidents in India

NEW DELHI, 15 Oct—A series of road accidentskilled at least 48 people and injured another 64 in northand northeastern India on Tuesday, governmentofficials and police said.

At least 20 people were killed in the northern Indianstate of Uttarakhand when the bus they were travellingin fell into a 500-foot-deep (152-metre-deep) gorge,Amit Chandola, a government spokesman toldAssociated Press.

The bus was carrying about 40 passengers andplunged as the driver tried to negotiate a turn on thecurving mountain road, he said, adding that 20 peoplehave been rescued so far.

Of those rescued, 15 people were injured, at least sixof them seriously, he said, adding that the number ofcasualties may increase.

In another accident in Uttarakhand, five peoplewere killed when the jeep they were traveling in rolleddown a hill, Chandola said.—Internet

Prosecutors check Mafiathreat against journalist

ROME, 15 Oct—Anti-Mafia prosecutors said Tuesdaythey are investigating a reported Mafia death threatagainst the Italian author of “Gomorra,” the best-selling expose on the criminal underworld in Naples.

Naples-based prosecutor Franco Roberti said thathis unit is looking into an informant’s claim that theCamorra crime syndicate is planning to kill journalistRoberto Saviano by December.

“We are investigating to verify how true the claimis,” Roberti said by telephone.

The prosecutor said the reported threat involved anattack along a highway, which also would targetSaviano’s police escort.

Saviano has been under police protection since2006 when his book “Gomorra,” denouncing theCamorra’s hold on everything from garment industryto drug running to waste disposal, became a best-sellerin Italy.

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A woman puts books into a board at the Book Fairin Frankfurt, central Germany, on 14 Oct, 2008.

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NASA to start long distancerepairs on Hubble

Technicians make final checks to Hubbleservicing equipment in September 2008 in the

Payload Hazardous Servicing facility at KennedySpace Centre, Florida. NASA said Tuesday it will

make an attempt to revive the space telescopeHubble, idled since 27 September by an equipment

failure, officials said on Tuesday.—INTERNET

Researchers expecthackers to prey on

cell phonesSAN FRANCISCO, 15 Oct— Some of the most vicious

Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands ofPCs with special viruses and lash the machines togetherinto “botnets” to pump out spam or attack othercomputers.

Now security researchers say cell phones, and notjust PCs, are the next likely conscripts into the automatedarmies.

The mobile phone as zombie computer is onepossibility envisioned by security researchers fromGeorgia Tech in a new report coming out Wednesday.

The report identifies the growing power of cellphones to open a new avenue of attack for hackers. Ofparticular concern is that as cell phones get morecomputing power and better Internet connections,hackers can capitalize on vulnerabilities in mobile-phone operating systems or Web applications.

Botnets, or networks of infected or robot PCs, arethe weapons of choice when it comes to spam and so-called “denial of service attacks,” in which computerservers are overwhelmed with Internet traffic to shutthem down. —Internet

WASHINGTON, 15 Oct —NASA engineers say theyknow how to fix thebroken Hubble SpaceTelescope: They have towake up computer partsthat have been sleeping inspace for more than 18years. On Wednesday,NASA will start acomplicated remote-control fix of a major glitchthat stopped the telescopefrom capturing andbeaming down pictures.

Hubble should beable to send stunning

astronomy photos backto Earth by Friday,officials said.

The abrupt failuremore than two weeks agocaused NASA topostpone its Hubbleupgrade mission fromOctober to sometimenext February or so.

The delay is costingNASA about $10 milliona month, officials saidin a Tuesday telecon-ference.

Key to the repair isactivating a backup data-handling system thathasn’t been turned onsince the telescopelaunched in 1990.

Science data will bererouted to that system,the equivalent of drivinga new route that hasn’tbeen used before.

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Sweetened pill could help childrenbeat malaria

LONDON, 15 Oct— Anew, cherry-flavouredanti-malaria pill worksas well as currenttreatments, is easy forchildren to swallow andcould save lives, re-searchers reported onWednesday.

The tablet is not asbitter as current drugs anddoes not need to becrushed before eating,making it easier forchildren where the di-sease is endemic to stickto treatment, they said.

“The dispersible for-mulation is easy to

administer, givescompliance and effectivetreatment; and hencefacilitates adoptionin malaria controlprogrammes,” Salim Ab-dulla of the Ifakara HealthInstitute in Tanzania andcolleagues wrote in theLancet medical journal.

The World HealthOrganization estimatesmalaria killed 881,000people and infected 247million people worldwidein 2006, the latest yearfor which figures wereavailable. Some malariaexperts say those num-bers underestimate theproblem.

The disease has becomeresistant to some drugs andwork on a vaccine has beenslow. One effectivetreatment is NovartisAG’s Coartem.

The problem with

current drugs is that manyyoung children cannotswallow whole tablets andcrushing them can weakenthe medicine.

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Scientists develop newcancer-killing compound from plantWASHINGTON, 15 Oct— Researchers at University of

Washington have updated a traditional Chinesemedicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancercells than currently available drugs, heralding thepossibility of a more effective chemotherapy drug withminimal side effects.

The new compound puts a novel twist on thecommon anti-malarial drug artemisinin, which isderived from the sweet wormwood plant. Sweetwormwood has been used in herbal Chinese medicinefor at least 2,000 years, and is eaten in salads in someAsian countries.

The scientists attached a chemical homing deviceto artemisinin that targets the drug selectively to cancercells, sparing healthy cells. The compound kills 12,000cancer cells for every healthy cell, meaning it could beturned into a drug with minimal side effects.—Internet

Refugees sit in the sunat a camp for

displaced Afghansfrom the HelmandProvince, on the

outskirts of Kabul on13 Oct, 2008.

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People watch a special illuminated fountain show during the Festival ofLights in Berlin,on 14 Oct, 2008. Several landmarks of the German capital,

including boulevards, squares, towers, historical and modern buildings will beilluminated for one week. Picture taken with a fish-eye lens.—INTERNET

MOSUL, 15 Oct—American troops actingon a tip killed the No. 2leader of al-Qaida in Iraq—a Moroccan known forhis ability to recruit andmotivate foreign fighters—in a raid in the north-ern city of Mosul, the USmilitary said today.

The military state-ment described the man,known as Abu Qaswarah,as a charismatic leaderwho had trained in Af-ghanistan and managed torally al-Qaida followers inIraq.

US troops killed AbuQaswarah, also known asAbu Sara, on 5 Oct after

US says No. 2 leader of alQaeda in Iraq killed

coming under fire duringa raid on a building thatserved as an al-Qaida inIraq “key command andcontrol location for” inMosul, the military said.

Abu Qaswarah— oneof five insurgents killed—was later been positivelyidentified, the militarysaid, without elaborating.

The insurgent leaderbecame the senior al-Qaida in Iraq emir ofnorthern Iraq in June 2007and had “historic ties toAQI founder Abu Musabal-Zarqawi and senior al-Qaida leaders in Afghani-stan and Pakistan,” themilitary said.

It called him “al-Qaida in Iraq’s second-in-command” as the senioroperational leader for al-Zarqawi’s successor, AbuAyyub al-Masri, alsoknown as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.

The announcementwould indicate that al-Qaida in Iraq’s leadershiphas maintained a presencedespite recent reports thatmany had fled to Afghani-stan and Pakistan wherefighting has been on therise.

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S P O R T SEngland call up late replacements

England have called upMiddlesbrough defenderDavid Wheater and Man-chester City goalkeeperJoe Hart, seen here in ac-tion in August 2008, aslate additions to theirsquad for Wednesday’sWorld Cup qualifier withBelarus here.—INTERNET

Henry gives Domenech boostahead of federation vote

PARIS, 15 Oct — Two goals from Thierry Henry gavecoach Raymond Domenech a much-needed boost at apacked Stade de France on Tuesday, as France survived

French forward ThierryHenry reacts after

scoring a goal duringthe friendly football

match against Tunisia atthe Stade de France inSaint-Denis, outside

Paris. Henry gave coachRaymond Domenech amuch-needed boost at apacked Stade de Franceon Tuesday, as Francesurvived an early scareto run out 3-1 winners

over Tunisia.—INTERNET

Former Spain internationalTristan signs for Hammers

Former Spain internationalstriker Diego Tristan, seen herein 2006, signed for West Ham onTuesday evening, the Englishtop flight club said.—INTERNET

UEFA ban for Atleticoafter racism at Marseille

MARSEILLE, 15 Oct — UEFA have slapped Spanishside Atletico Madrid with a stadium ban following acomplaint of racism by French club Marseille.

Marseille lodged an official complaint with Euro-pean football’s ruling body after several of their play-ers were targeted by Atletico fans during their matchin Madrid on 1 October.

Monkey chants were aimed at the French club’splayers, while the Marseille team bus was attackedafter the match.—Internet

Nadal roars off to victoryin Madrid title quest

MADRID, 15 Oct —Rafael Nadal thrilled a sold-outhome crowd with a comeback performance to win his78th match of the season as he began the chase for asecond title at the Madrid Masters on Tuesday.

The top-seeded world number one who claimed hisonly trophy in the capital in 2005, rallied pastupcoming Latvian Ernests Gulbis 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 ridinga late break in the final set to victory.

Nadal, holder of eight titles this season includingParis, Wimbledon and the Olympics, has stalled in thequarter-final at the last two Madrid editions.

He was playing for the first time since leading Spaininto the Davis Cup final against Argentina three weeksago.—Internet

Marseille supporters clash with riot police prior to thestart of a Champions League match against Atleticode Madrid at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madridon 1 October, 2008. UEFA have slapped Spanish sideAtletico Madrid with a stadium ban following a com-plaint of racism by French club Marseille.—INTERNET

Seeds Schnyder and Chakvetadzecrash out in Zurich

ZURICH, 15 Oct — Seeds Patty Schnyder and AnnaChakvetadze both slumped out of the Zurich Open onTuesday, losing to qualifiers in their first round matches.Swiss sixth seed and former champion Schnyder sur-rendered 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to Czech Petra Kvitova, and sev-enth-seeded Russian Chakvetadze was beaten 3-6, 6-3,6-2 by Romanian Monica Niculescu.

Schnyder has enjoyed a successful year, which in-cluded quarter-finals at Roland Garros and the USOpen, a title in Bali and final at Bangalore.—Internet

Ferdinand admits ‘WAG’ cultureturned England into circus

MINSK, 15 Oct — Rio Ferdinand has described the‘WAG’ culture that surrounded England in the daysbefore Fabio Capello took charge as a “circus” and ad-mitted that it was central to the squad’s recent failures.

In a remarkably frank interview ahead of a WorldCup qualifier with Belarus here on Wednesday, theManchester United defender savaged the celebritybubble which peaked during the 2006 World Cup fi-nals in Germany, where the wives and girlfriends(WAGS) of the England squad generated as manyheadlines as the players themselves.—Internet

From L: English players Rio Ferdinand, DavidBeckham, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lempard par-ticipate in a training session, in Minsk. Ferdinandhas described the ‘WAG’ culture that surroundedEngland in the days before Fabio Capello tookcharge as a “circus” and admitted that it was central

to the squad’s recent failures.—INTERNET

Bermuda to host Grand Slamfor next 2 years

TUCKER’S TOWN, 15 Oct — The Grand Slam of Golfwill be based in Bermuda for the next two years.

PGA of America president Brian Whitcomb said a$13.7 million renovation at the Port Royal Golf Clubis under way to prepare for the 2009 and 2010 tourna-ments. The course will be lengthened by 281 yards to6,842 yards. The tees and greens also will be rebuilt.

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Everton manager David Moyes,seen here in March 2008, endedmonths of speculation about hisEverton future on Tuesday after

he signed a new five-yearcontract, according to the club’s

website.—INTERNET

Moyes signs new deal at Goodison

MINSK, 15 Oct — Eng-land have called up Mid-dlesbrough defenderDavid Wheater and Man-chester City goalkeeper

Joe Hart as late additionsto their squad for Wednes-day’s World Cup qualifierwith Belarus here.

The pair flew straightto Minsk late on Tuesdayafter helping the EnglandUnder-21 side reach nextsummer’s EuropeanChampionship finals inSweden at the expense ofWales. They were set tojoin up with FabioCapello’s squad for a train-ing session on the morn-ing of the match.

Wheater comes in ascover at centreback —where England are withoutinjured captain John Terry— while Hart’s inclusionfollows the withdrawal ofWest Ham goalkeeperRobert Green.—Internet

LONDON, 15 Oct— Former Spain in-ternational strikerDiego Tristan signedfor West Ham onTuesday evening,the English top flightclub said.

The 32-year-oldformer Deportivo LaCoruna and RealMallorca player,who has won 15

caps for his country, had been out-of-contract afterleaving Italian side Livorno where he scored just onegoal in 20 appearances.

Tristan put pen to paper with Scott Duxbury afterthe Hammers’ chief executive had flown to Rome tofinalise negotiations with his representatives.

West Ham boss Gianfranco Zola moved for theplayer following a two-week trial, with England in-ternational striker Dean Ashton sidelined following an-kle surgery.

Tristan told his new club’s official website,www.whufc.com: “I am really happy to be at WestHam. They are a big club and London is a great city.

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an early scare to run out3-1 winners over Tunisia.

With the Frenchfootballing federation(FFF) meeting on Wed-nesday to decide onDomenech’s future, thisfriendly was anything buta meaningless game.

The 56-year-old’s ten-ure is under scrutiny fol-lowing France’s dismalEuro 2008 and their poorstart to World Cup qualifi-ers, including a nervy2-2 draw against Romaniaon Saturday. When ques-tioned about the meetingafter the match, Domenechtold TF1 television station:“It’s not my problem. Myaim is to prepare the teamto the best of my ability,and to construct a teamwhich will go to the 2010World Cup finals.

InternetLONDON, 15Oct — ManagerDavid Moyesended monthsof speculationabout hisEverton futureon Tuesday afterhe signed a newfive-year con-tract, accordingto the club’swebsite.

Moyes, 45,had been in pro-tracted talks over a new contract at Goodison Park andwas in the final year of an existing deal.

“There have been many different things for differ-ent reasons but we are here now,” the Scot toldwww.evertonfc.com.

“The big thing for me is that I am at Everton, as faras I am concerned, for another five years and the jobis to make us better than we have been.”

The deal for Moyes, who succeeded fellow ScotWalter Smith, is reported to be in the region of 3 mil-lion pounds (3.8 million euros).—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been widspread in Chin State, scattered in Kachinand Shan States, upper Sagaing and Magway Divisions,isolated in Rakhine and Mon States, lower Sagaing, Man-dalay, Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions and weather hasbeeen partly cloudy in the remaining States and Divi-sions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereBhamo (1.50) inches, Meikhtila (0.99)inch, Mindat(0.95)inch and Hkamti (0.79)inch.

Maximum temperature on 14-10-2008 was 90˚F.Minimum temperature on 15-10-2008 was 72ºF.Relative humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 15-10-2008was 82%. Total sunshine hours on 14-10-2008 was (2.8)hours approx.

Rainfall on 15-10-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,(0.47) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.51) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (100.87) inches atMingaladon, (112.40) inches at Kaba-Aye and (130.94)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed atYangon (Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from South at (13:45)hours MST on 14-10-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is generally fair in the NorthBay and partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and elsewherein the Bay of Bengal.

Speacial feature: According to the observation at(09:30) hr MST today, the tropical depression over SouthChina Sea (Gulf of Tonkin) is centred at about (80) milesNorth-east of Vinh (Vietnam). It is forecast to move Westwards.

Forecast valid until evening of 16th October 2008:Rain or thundershowers are likely to be scattered in MonState, upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Divisions and iso-lated in the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of isolated rain or thundershowers in theCentral Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 16-10-2008: Possibility of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (40%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for16-10-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershow-ers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 16-10-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Wednesday, 15 October, 2008

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A lion rides a horse in a circus show in Xiamen insoutheast China’s Fujian Province on 30 Sept,2008. The circus shows are being held during agolden week holiday to mark China’s NationalDay, the 59th anniversary of the founding of

communist China.—INTERNET

Somali forces free Panamaship from pirates

BOSASSO (Somalia), 15 Oct — Somali securityforces freed a Panamanian ship from pirates onTuesday, officials said, two days after they killed oneof the hijackers in a gun battle.

The Wail was seized by heavily armed Somaligunmen on Thursday as it carried cement to Bosassofrom Oman. There are thought to be nine Syrian andtwo Somali crew members onboard.

“We have succeeded in saving the Panama-flaggedship and its crew,” Ali Abdi Aware, state minister forthe semi-autonomous northern Puntland region, toldReuters. “The pirates have surrendered and the ship isin our hands now.”

Puntland’s Fisheries Minister, Ahmed Said OwNur, said 10 hijackers were arrested and two soldierswounded in the raid. “The ship is now sailing towardBosasso,” he told Reuters.— MNA/Reuters

Angola announces newdiscovery of oil in deepwater

LUANDA, 15 Oct— A new oil deposit dubbed“Ngoma 1” was discovered in the deepwater Block15/06, about 350 kilometres from the Angolan capitalLuanda, Angola’s state-owned oil companySONANGOL announced here on Tuesday.

In a Press release issued jointly by theSONANGOL and its partner the ENI oil firm, themiocenic sandstone reservoir containing a 127-metreoil column with high permeability was drilled in a1,421-metre deepwater layer until a total verticaldepth of 3,348 metres.— MNA/Xinhua

GENEVA, 15 Oct—Switzerland’s Air Force mayhave to train over neighbouring countries to reducenoise in popular tourist regions, the Swissinfo newswebsite reported recently.

The Swiss Air Force needs to do 22,000 take-offsand landings every year, and residents near the airfieldshave long complained about the noise the jets make,according to the report.

Defence Minister Samuel Schmid on Mondaydiscussed ways with canton officials from Lucerne,Bern, Vaud and Valais — areas with military airstrips— on how to arrange the training each year.

The Defence Ministry also said that it would waituntil 7 November to collect comments from areas inquestion before deciding how to deploy fighter jets fortraining exercises next year.

Flying over foreign airspace may be an option,defence officials were quoted by Swissinfo as saying.

Next summer Swiss pilots plan to participate intraining manoeuvres over northern Germany, accordingto the report. — MNA/Xinhua

Swiss Air Force may have totrain in foreign airspace

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* For the health of babiesMother’s milk the best

* If mother’s milk is notsufficientCow or goat’s milk can beused

* Always boil the milkThe best for health

Storm-hit Dedayemaking a quick

recuperationArticle by Maung Maung Htwe (MNA);

Photos by Hla Moe (MNA)

Dedaye Bridgespanning the Toe

River.

Since the occurrenceof the storm, we had vis-ited Dedaye inAyeyawady Division agood number of times. Wehad also passed throughthe town severals times inour trips to two otherstorm-stricken townsPyapon and Bogale. Then,I did not happen to visitthe town for a long time asI was busy with my work.

Recently, I made a tripback to Dedaye, and wasamazed to witness thatthings and scenes hadchanged a lot in a shorttime. It had risen from theattacks of the natural dis-aster thanks to the strenu-ous efforts the govern-ment, the people and theTatadmaw had made inconcert.

In the aftermath of thestorm, Dedaye was like adeserted area full of de-bris. On the contrary, nowthe town has recoveredfrom the storm with thecharacteristics of a town.

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Harmonious efforts of the government, the people and theTatmadaw can surmount any forms of difficulties.

Man United hand trials to talented‘Little Kaka’ – Arsenal, Ajax,

Inter & Spartak Moscow linkedM A N C H E S T E R

UNITED, 15 Oct—Man-chester United havehanded Serbian wonderkid Adem Ljajic, who islabelled as “little Kaka”,a trial following the teen-ager’s superb showinghad reportedly attractedscouts from top Europeanclubs.

The Serbia Under-21 international has beenimpressive in his right-midfield role, and thusconsidered as one of thebest youngster to breakonto the scene.

Ljajic has shownhis talent with fine per-formances in the Cham-pions League qualifiersfor Partizan Belgrade.And according to theDaily Mail, Sir AlexFerguson’s side haveswiftly moved to bringon the 17-year-old starleton trial ahead of a host ofother clubs also watchingthe winger.—Internet

Premier League stars dominate AfricanPlayer of The Year shortlist

CAIRO, 15 Oct—Chelsea pair MichaelEssien and Didier Drogbaalong with Arsenal’sEmmanuel Adebayor andEgyptian duo Amr Zakiat Wigan Athletic andMohamed Aboutrika atAl Ahly have been nomi-nated for the 2008 Afri-

can Player of the Yearaward.

The shortlist seesfour players who ply theirtrade in the PremierLeague, with Bluesmidfielder Essien makingthe shortlist for the thirdtime, despite beingsidelined with a serious knee injury, but the Gha-

naian has yet to win thetop African accolade for aplayer.

On loan Laticsstriker Zaki has also madethe list, with the strikermaking an immediate im-pact for Wigan in the Pre-miership scoring 5 timesin 7 games since his ar-

rival at the JJB Stadiumand is thought to be a se-rious contender for theaward.

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Drogba

Essien

Zaki

Adebayor

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