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Volume XVII, Number 55 3rd Waning of Nayon 1371 ME Wednesday, 10 June, 2009

NAY PYI TAW, 10 June—Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message offelicitations to His Excellency Mr Anibal Cavaco Silva, President of the PortugueseRepublic, on the occasion of the National Day of the Portuguese Republic whichfalls on 10 June 2009.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwefelicitates Portuguese President

True patriotism* It is very important for everyone of the

nation regardless of the place he lives to havestrong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the true patriotism allthe nationalities will have to safeguard.

Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council

Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Senior General Than

Shwe receives Singaporeandelegation led by Senior Ministerof Singapore Mr Goh Chok Tong

in Nay Pyi Taw. — MNA

Chairman of the State Peaceand Development CouncilCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services Senior

General Than Shwe welcomesSenior Minister of Singapore

Mr Goh Chok Tong in Nay PyiTaw. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 June – Chairmanof the State Peace and Development CouncilCommander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesSenior General Than Shwe received SeniorMinister of the Republic of Singapore Mr.Goh Chok Tong and party at BayintnaungYeiktha here at 1.30 pm today.

Present on the occasion togetherwith Senior General Than Shwe wereVice-Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council DeputyCommander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye, member of the StatePeace and Development Council GeneralThura Shwe Mann of the Ministry ofDefence, Prime Minister General Thein

Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe receives Senior Minister of the

Republic of Singapore Mr. Goh Chok Tong and partySein, Secretary-1 of the State Peaceand Development Council GeneralThiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo,Minister for Foreign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister for National Planningand Economic Development U SoeTha, Director-General of the Office ofthe State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Col Kyaw Kyaw Win andDirector-General of ProtocolDepartment U Kyaw Kyaw. Togetherwith the delegation led by SeniorMinister Mr. Goh Chok Tong at themeeting was Ambassador of theRepublic of Singapore to the Union ofMyanmar Mr. Robert Chua HianKong.—MNA

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Wednesday, 10 June, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Trees and plants are necessary for theexistence of all creatures, including humanbeings. They fulfil food and shelter needs ofnot only humans but also birds and animals.We can eat fruits by growing fruit trees.Moreover, growing teak and other hardwoodtrees can contribute to the national economicdevelopment.

Trees and plants absorb carbon dioxideand thus make the climate neither too hot nortoo cold. Therefore, the Ministry of Forestry istaking measures for systematic conservationof forests, special teak plantations and extensionof plantations in watershed areas.

Being a country where teak treesnaturally grow, Myanmar has a vast area ofland covered with teak trees. The Bagomountain ranges are a region where teak treesthrive well, afforestation work is being carriedout by laying down plans to keep the regionalways green.

Also in the 13 arid districts, the task forgreening the environment is being done withthe cooperation of the people. As a result, teakplantations are thriving well in the forestreserves in Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon, Nay Pyi TawLewe, and Taungdwingyi townships.

Now that the rainy season has set in,tree-planting ceremonies are being held invarious regions. Fruit trees as well as shadetrees are being grown in Nay Pyi Taw Lewetownship and other townships in variousstates and divisions.

Hardwood trees, including teak, areimportant for national economy. Not only that,they can keep urban and rural areas green andpleasant and the cycle of the season in regularorder. Therefore, the government and thepeople should boost cooperation in theconservation and yearly afforestation work.

Grow fruit trees as well asshade trees for green andpleasant environment

NAY PYI TAW, 9June—The opening ofBawashei-saung self-reliant library in KyweluVillage, Sagaing Divisiontook place this morning,attended by Minister forInformation Brig-GenKyaw Hsan.

W e l l - w i s h e r sThudhamma Mani-zawtadara U Soe Naing-Daw Aye Aye Khaing(Aye Aye Khaing GemsCo), Head of DivisionInformation and PublicRelations Department UTin Than Win, and villageelder U Tun Naingformally opened thebuilding.

The minister made aspeech, and inspected thelibrary, and cordiallygreeted the attendees.

He also attended theopening of Toetetyay self-reliant library ofNaukkyikyun Village inSagaing Division. Well-wishers ThudhammaManizawtadara U Soe

YANGON, 9June— For thedevelopment ofInformation andC o m m u n i c a t i o nTechnology, MyanmarComputer Professional

Kayah State chairman meetswith trainees of UDNR

NAY PYI TAW, 9 June—Chairman of KayahState Peace and Development Council Brig-Gen WinMyint met with trainees of University for Developmentof National Races at the State’s meeting hall on 26May.

The Chairman made a speech at a ceremony toassign annual project duties, and assigned duties toDistrict Chairman and state-level departmentalofficials.

The chairman inspected maintenances ofMoebye-Loikaw railroad section, replacing of concretesleepers and bridges along the railroad and leftnecessary instruction.

The chairman inspected summer and monsoonpaddy fields near Wethekhu village.—MNA

Information Minister attends opening of self-reliantlibraries in Sagaing Division

Join hands with government for stability of State,community peace, national development

Using Web as a Professional & Using Web to be a ProfessionalAssociation (MCPA) willgive talks on Using Webas a Professional & UsingWeb to be a Professionalby Executive U Nyi LinSet of MCPA at No.205,Myanmar Info-tech in

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Those interested

may attend the talks freeof charge. For moreinformation, contactMCPA office, ward(4), room (4),(Ph-652276).

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Naing-Daw Aye AyeKhaing, Head of DistrictIPRD U Maung Ko, andvillage elder U Hla Ngweformally opened thelibrary.

On the occasion theminister delivered aspeech and viewed thelibrary.

In his speeches at theopening ceremonies, theminister said that so far,55,755 villages have aself-reliant library each. Itis heartening to see localwell-wishers contributingtowards tasks as a nationalduty for sustainabledevelopment of the

libraries, he said, callingfor improving their socio-economic life whileexpanding their horizons,and joining hands with thegovernment for stabilityof the State andcommunity peace andnational development.

MNA

Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan delivers address at opening ofBawashei-saung library in Kywelu Village in Sagaing Township. — MNA

Toetetyay self-reliant library being formally opened in the presenceof Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan. — MNA

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Pentagon admits “problems”with Afghan air strike

Afghans, Kyrgyz may discussleaving US base open

Villagers look for the bodies of victims ofairstrikes under the rubble in destroyed

mudbrick houses in the village of Garni in thewestern Farah state on 5 May, 2009. US forces

failed to follow procedures in carrying outdeadly air strikes last month in western Afghani-stan in an incident that killed dozens of civilians,

the Pentagon said on Monday.—INTERNET

Iraq says fourUS contractorsdetained, not

fiveBAGHDAD, 9 June —

The Iraqi governmentspokesman says fourAmericans, not five, havebeen detained in an in-vestigation into the kill-ing last month of a UScontractor in the GreenZone.

Ali al-Dabbagh saysfour Americans and oneIraqi were picked upWednesday during a raidon the Corporate TrainingUnlimited house. He saysthe raid was ordered afterIraqi security forces re-ceived information that asuspect involved in lastmonth’s stabbing death ofcontractor Jim Kittermanmight be there.

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Bombing of minibus in Shiitearea kills nine

WASHINGTON, 9 June —The Pentagon acknowl-edged on Monday thatthere were “problems”with the way US forcesconducted a bombing raidin Afghanistan that pro-voked outrage over civil-ian casualties.

Defence SecretaryRobert Gates was briefedon the investigation intothe incident, which tookplace in early May in thewestern province ofFarah, a Pentagonspokesman said.

“There were someproblems with some tac-tics, techniques and pro-cedures or... the way inwhich close air supportwas supposed to havebeen executed in thiscase,” said Pentagon presssecretary Geoff Morrell,who sat in on the briefing.

The bombing height-ened tensions betweenAfghans and foreigntroops over civilian casu-alties. Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai has urgedan end to US air strikes in

his country, but Washing-ton has rejected his call.

Afghan officials putthe civilian death tollfrom the Farah bombingas high as 140. AnAfghan human rightswatchdog put the total at97 and said no more thantwo Taleban fighterswere killed. The US mili-tary has said 20-35 civil-ians were among 80-95people killed, most ofthem Taleban fighterswho used the civilians ashuman shields.—Internet

Battles, ambushes kill around30 in Afghan

Map locates Dora, Baghdad, where at least ninepeople were killed in a bombing.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 9 June — Abomb tore through aminibus during morningrush hour on Monday ina mainly Shiite area inBaghdad, killing at leastnine people and wound-ing 24, Iraqi officialssaid.

The blast was a grimreminder of the majorchallenge facing Iraqiforces three weeks aheadof the 30 June deadline forUS troops to withdrawfrom urban areas.

The bomb was at-tached to the minibus inthe southern area of AbuDshir, a Shiite enclave inthe mainly Sunni neigh-bourhood of Dora, policesaid.

“A ball of fire roseinto the sky. We saw aminibus thrown aboutfive metres (yards) intothe air, then come down

in flames,” said OmarAbdul-Ghafar, a univer-sity student who waswaiting with his friend foranother bus.

The explosion left a

crater at the entrance ofthe bus station wherecommuters were gatheredto catch rides to differentparts of the city.

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BISHKEK (Kyrgyzstan),9 June — A high-rankingKyrgyz official says theCentral Asian nation’spresident may meet withAfghan leader HamidKarzai to discuss the pos-sibility of letting US-ledforces continue using anair base to support opera-tions in Afghanistan.

Aibek Moldogaziyevsaid on Monday thatPresident KurmanbekBakiyev and Karzai mightdiscuss the Manas air baseduring an upcomingsecurity summit inRussia.

Moldogaziyev servesin Bakiyev’s administra-tion.

Bakiyev announced inFebruary that the US basewould be closed, citingwhat he said was inad-equate financial compen-sation and other concerns.Kyrgyzstan has given USforces until 18 August toleave.

Moldogaziyev saidthat Karzai hasapproached the Kyrgyzauthorities with an appealto allow further use ofManas by coalitionpartners.—Internet

KABUL, 9 June — A joint Afghanand US-led coalition operation againstmilitants in southern Afghanistankilled more than 20 Taleban fighterson Sunday, while a militant ambush inthe northwest killed four policemen,officials said.

The joint operation in ZabulProvince included ground forces andairstrikes. The battle killed more than20 Taleban, said provincial policechief Abdul Rahman Sarjung. Afterthe operation, a roadside bomb ex-ploded and killed one Afghan police-man as the forces were returning tobase, he said.

Elsewhere, militants attacked a po-lice security post in northwestern

Faryab Province, sparking a one-hour bat-tle that killed four police, said KhalilAndrabi, the provincial police chief.

Another Taleban attack in the easternprovince of Paktika killed the police chiefin Sarhawza District, while militants else-where in Paktika ambushed a truck ofprivate security guards, killing four ofthem, said Hamidullah Zhwak, a spokes-man for the governor.

Militants have stepped attacks in thelast several years and now control manyrural areas in Afghanistan. PresidentBarack Obama is sending 21,000 addi-tional troops this year to help increasesecurity in regions where the Afghan gov-ernment has little control.

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An Afghan man inspects the site of a bomb blast in Khost Province.INTERNET

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BEIRUT, 9 June—Apro-Western coalitionwon Lebanon’s parlia-mentary elections onMonday, dealing a majorsetback to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah andgiving a boost to BarackObama’s Middle Eastpeace policy.

Coming just days afterthe American presidentreached out to the Muslimworld, the vote undercutsthe most militant force inLebanese politics.

It was the first majorpolitical test in the Mid-dle East since Obama’sgroundbreaking addresslast week, in which hechallenged the Islamicworld to confront violentextremism and urged Is-rael and the Arabs to findcommon ground to estab-

Members of the Brazilian Air Force prepare a freezer container for the bodiesof the victims of the Air France flight AF447 crash, at a base on Fernando de

Noronha island on 8 June, 2009. —INTERNET

A worker walks in front of a special solar energy construction at theShanghai 2010 Expo site in Shanghai on 8 June, 2009. —INTERNET

ACAPULCO, 9 June—Gunmen launched grenadesand opened fire in near simultaneous attacks on twopolice stations in Acapulco on Monday, killing threeofficers in violence that broke out less than 48 hoursafter a gunbattle in the resort left 17 dead.

The bold, pre-dawn attacks on Monday alsowounded one police officer in this Pacific resort city,which has long been plagued by drug violence.

Gunmen fatally shot two officers sitting in a patrolcar parked outside one police station. A few minuteslater, assailants attacked a second station, about twomiles (three kilometres) away, wounding two offic-ers, according to the Guerrero state police department.One of the officers later died.

Soldiers set up roadblocks in search of the sus-pects, who shot up at least eight patrol cars.

A state police official, who was not authorized togive his name, said investigators are looking atwhether the attacks were in retaliation for late Satur-day’s gunbattle.

The weekend shootout between soldiers and al-leged drug traffickers killed 13 suspected hit men, twosoldiers, and two innocent bystanders, Daniel Velasco,a military commander in Acapulco, told reporters onMonday.

One bystander was wounded. The Defence Depart-ment in initial reports mistakenly said 18 people haddied.

A hit man named “Commander Magana” with theBeltran Leyva cartel was among the dead, Velascosaid.

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Police officers stand around a bullet-riddled police vehicle in which an officerwas slain after unknown gunmen opened fire on at least two police stations in

Acapulco, Mexico, on 8 June, 2009.—INTERNET

BRASILIA, 9 June—Eight more bodies of thepassengers on the crashedAir France Flight 447 havebeen found, raising the to-tal number of the recoveredbodies to 24, the Brazilianmilitary said on Monday.

The bodies were foundin an area some 440 kmnortheast of the Sao Pedroand Sao Paulo Islandswhere the water depthreaches 3,500 metres.

The military also re-covered a large tail sec-tion from the jetliner, an

Lebanon vote undercuts Hezbollah,boost for Obama

ROME, 9 June—Libyan leader MuammarGaddafi makes his firsttrip to former colonialruler Italy this week in themost open acknowledge-ment yet that the two na-tions have put their bitterpast behind them to forgedeeper investment ties.

Italy’s $5 billion repa-rations deal last year formore than 30 years of

HAVANA, 9 June—Cuba is formally rejectingan offer to rejoin the Or-ganization of AmericanStates, echoing the senti-ments of Fidel Castro whohas long maintained hisisland has no use for thegroup.

The OAS voted lastweek to lift a decades-oldsuspension of Cuba’smembership. A statementpublished on Monday inthe communist newspaperGranma says the govern-ment is satisfied “with thisexpression of sovereigntyand community” but re-peats that Cuba “will notreturn to the OAS.”

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lish peace.Official results, an-

nounced on Monday, mayalso set the stage for re-newed political deadlockin this sharply polarized,volatile Arab nation. Theresults mirrored thebreakdown of the outgo-ing parliament, meaningmany of the questions thathave dogged the fractiousnation, such as what to dowith Hezbollah’s manyweapons, remain.

Still, the outcome was

cause for relief for manyin the West and eased theapprehension of some ofAmerica’s moderate Araballies.

“Once more, the peo-ple of Lebanon have dem-onstrated to the worldtheir courage and thestrength of their commit-ment to democracy,”Obama said in a congratu-latory statement thatmade no reference toHezbollah.

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Cuba rejects offerto rejoin OAS

Gaddafi in historic Italian trip amidinvestment drive

rule paved the way for thevisit, which comes almosta century after Italianships arrived off Tripoli in1911 claiming to rescueLibya from Ottoman rule.

Libya now is pumpingits petrodollars into majorItalian companies likeUniCredit and Eni, in ad-dition to supplying a quar-ter of Italy’s oil importsand helping curb the in-

flow of illegal migrants.“This trip is very sym-

bolic, because here isGaddafi who has beensaying for 40 years howbadly Italians have treatedLibyans and how in theend Libya would winout,” said Dirk Vande-walle, a professor atDartmouth College in theUS and Libya expert.

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Gunmen throw grenades inAcapulco, three police killed

24 bodies retrieved from Air France plane crashAirbus A330, helping nar-row the hunt for “blackboxes” that could revealthe cause of the disaster.

According to Lieuten-ant Colonel HenryMunhoz, spokesman forthe Air Force, the recov-ered bodies and wreckagewere being taken first to amilitary staging area at theFernando de Noronha is-lands, and then to thenortheastern coastal city ofRecife for identification.

Right now, finding thebodies of the plane’s 228

occupants was the top pri-ority of the search crew,the spokesman said.

At least eight bodieswere found on Mondayafter rescue teams hauledup 14 corpses on Sundayand two on Saturday,along with personal itemsand pieces from theplane. Officials said theywould no longer disclosethe genders of the bodiesfound because in somecases that was impossibleto immediately verify.

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Developed countries need to showpolitical will at climate talks

Japan considers flu aidto Latin America

MEXICO CITY, 9 June—Japan is considering aid forthe Latin American nations hit by the A/H1N1 flu vi-rus, visiting Japanese Vice Foreign Minister said hereon Monday.

“We are very willing to cooperate as needed,”Shintaro Ito said at a news conference together withhis Mexican counterpart Lourdes Aranda.

It said he had met with Mexican Health MinisterJose Angel Cordova Villalobos earlier on Monday toask for more details on how to handle the epidemic.

According to World Health Organization data, thenew strain of A/H1N1 flu, which has killed 106 peo-ple and infected 5,717 others in Mexico, has spread to73 countries, infecting 25,288 people.

Japan, which has reported 410 infections and nodeaths, imposed visa restrictions on Mexicans shortlyafter the disease was first publicly reported on 23 April.

“We took those measures when we did not knowhow dangerous the flu might have been,” Ito said. “Asa result, no Mexican had fallen ill during visits to Ja-pan, we wish to have the understanding of the Mexi-cans.”

Mexico, which has the single largest number of fludeaths, has seen a fatality rate of around 2 percent.

The United States, which has the highest number ofconfirmed infections at 13,217, has seen 27 deaths ora rate of 0.2 percent. Aranda said President FelipeCalderon had planned a visit to Japan next year, buthad not yet set an exact date.—Xinhua

Fewer divorces during financialgloom in Britain

US physicists create thinnest superconducting metal

BONN, 9 June—TheUnited Nations climate talksshould adhere to the princi-ple and basic framework ofthe UN Framework Con-vention on Climate Changeand the Kyoto Protocol, saidLi Gao, acting chief of theChinese delegation to thesecond round of the talksthis year.

“The meeting has greatsignificance, but no substan-tial progress has been madeso far” as major developedcountries lack political will

to push the negotiationforward according to the“Bali Road Map,” Li toldXinhua in a recent interview.

The second round of theUN climate talks opened inBonn, Germany on 1 Juneand will last until 12 June.The main task of this roundis to discuss and prepare keynegotiating texts for the Co-penhagen meeting in De-cember.

“Developed countrieshave neither enough activeresponses to proposals from

developing countries aboutemission-cut target by 2020,nor interests in providingfunds and technologies tohelp developing countriesadapt to climate change,” Lisaid.

Some developed coun-tries are tardy in providingemission-cut target, whilesome developed countries’targets are much lower thanthe requirements of the in-ternational community, Lisaid.

Li took the UnitedStates as an example, say-ing its target is onlyequivalent to the 1990level. However, the UNFramework Conventionon Climate Changerequired developedcountries to realize thattarget in 2000, whichmeans the United Stateshas delayed its obligationunder the Convention for20 years.

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A visitor takes photos

of a sand carving in

Copacabana, a well-

known coast in Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil,

on 7 June, 2009.

Artists from Brazil

gathered in the coast

of Copacabana to

present sand carv-

ings to visitors.

XINHUA

All items from XinhuaNews Agency

The L15-05 trainer plane, developed by the Hongdu Aviation Industry Group takesoff at Qingyunpu airport in Nanchang, east China’s Jiangxi Province, on 8 June, 2009. The trainer plane had a successul maiden flight on Monday. —XINHUA

WASHINGTON, 9 June—Asuperconducting sheet oflead only two atoms thick,the thinnest superconduct-ing metal layer ever cre-ated, has been developedby physicists at the Uni-versity of Texas at Austin,the university said in apress release on Monday.

Dr Ken Shih, the Janeand Roland Blumberg Pro-fessor in Physics and col-leagues reported the prop-erties of their supercon-

ducting film in the 5 Juneissue of Science, the pressrelease said.

Superconductors areunique because they canmaintain an electrical cur-rent indefinitely with nopower source. They areused in MRI machines,particle accelerators, quan-tum interference devicesand other applications.

The development of thethin superconductingsheets of lead lays the

groundwork for future ad-vancements in supercon-ductor technologies.

“To be able to controlthis material — to shape itinto new geometries —and explore what happensis very exciting,” saysShih. “My hope is that thissuperconductive surfacewill enable one to builddevices and study newproperties of superconduc-tivity.”

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The staff workers weigh the purchased cocoons of the spring silkworms on thesteelyard, at the Cocoon Center of Wenfeng Town, local largest mulberry and

silkworm breeding base in Nanchong City, southwest China’s SichuanProvince, on 7 June, 2009. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 9 June—FewerBritish couples are filingfor divorce as a sharp dropin property prices makes ithard for couples to sell ajoint home, and the creditcrunch dampens a desire tofund two separate house-holds, a study shows.

The study, quoted inmedia reports on Tuesday,was published by GrantThornton accountants. Itshows that almost half of allsurveyed matrimoniallawyers believe the num-bers of divorces hasslumped — and will con-tinue to do so — becauseof the financial squeeze.

“Lawyers believe theywill see less couples filingfor divorce during thecredit crunch,” said RobertKerr, partner at GrantThornton’s Forensic andInvestigation Services.

“Reasons vary but cer-tainly the financial carve-up that follows a divorcesettlement will be at theforefront of a couple’sminds when contemplating

divorce,” he added. Datapublished by the Office forNational Statistics earlierof Britain this year showedthat the number of peoplegetting divorced fell from12.2 per 1,000 couples in2006 to 11.9 in 2007, andis currently at a 26-yearlow.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

A handout photo released by theLincoln Children’s Zoo shows twin

Matschie’s tree kangaroo joeyspeeking out of their mother Millas’pouch. Zoo authorities say the two

male Matschie’s (MATCH-ees) treekangaroos weigh about a half pound

each and are about 8 inches tall.The fraternal twins were first

discovered in December.

Lost ring found after42 years

A Virginia man who lost his weddingring while washing his car 42 years agosays his son found it in the family’sbackyard.

Paul Sawyer, 63, of VirginiaBeach, said his wife, Ruth Ann, 61,refused to believe he had accidentallylost the ring when he noticed itmissing after washing his car in 1966,the year after the couple’s wedding,The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilotreported.

“You threw it away,” he quoted heras saying. “You just didn’t want thegirls you used to hang with to knowyou were married.”Sawyer said hiswife was finally proven wrong late lastmonth when their oldest son, Paul Jr,found the ring caked in dirt severalinches deep in the soil of theirbackyard. Sawyer said he cried whenhe saw the ring.

NY couple to have weightless wedding

251 children take part in an attempt

at the largest custard pie fight at the

Kidz Stuff Festival in Horsham, in

southern England. The current

record is 120 and the new record is

waiting for verification by the

Guiness Book of Records.

A man watches smoke rings beingformed during an aerial

demonstration by Japan’s Air SelfDefence Force team Blue Impulse

during the 150th anniversarycelebration of the opening of a port

in Yokohama, Japan.

Man stands trial formurdering wife in New

ZealandA man stood trial on Tuesday in

Auckland on charges of murdering hiswife and abandoning his youngdaughter at a railway station inMelbourne.

Nai Yin Xue, 55, of Chinese origin,was charged with murdering his wifeAn An Liu, 28, in September 2007.

When asked to enter a plea in theHigh Court in Auckland, Xue deniedthat he was guilty, saying that hewas innocent, Radio New Zealandreported.

The jury has been selected and ismade up of 12 women.

Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan fromNew York will become the first couple toget married floating in zero gravity whenthey take off from the Kennedy SpaceCentre in Florida. A New York couple willexchange vows on an aircraft at the centreat Cape Canaveral, Florida, that cansimulate weightlessness similar to aspaceship in orbit.

Noah, 31, and Erin, 30, will exchangerings made from precious metal frag-ments of a meteorite that crashed toEarth in Namibia 30,000 years ago. Thecouple will be joined by family and

friends aboard a modified jet which willfly in several steep dives to give themeight minutes of weightlessness. Eachguest’s ticket costs 3,500.

British space tourist and adventurerRichard Garriott, the son of an astro-naut, will officiate at the ceremony dur-ing the 90-minute flight, which includes15 rollercoaster-type dives, known asparabolic arcs, which last up to 30 sec-onds.

Erin will wear a designer weddingdress with trousers to protect her mod-esty during weightlessness.

File photo shows residents repairing a road alongside a river destroyed byflood waters from torrential rain at Hamhung city in South Hamgyong

Province.—INTERNET

SEOUL, 9 June—SouthKorea on Monday an-nounced details of an 18-billion-dollar waterwaysproject aimed at reducingflooding and drought, aswell as creating tens ofthousands of jobs.

The plan to improvethe country’s four majorrivers will cost 22.2 tril-lion won (17.8 billion dol-lars) by 2012, said theministry of land, transportand maritime affairs.

It is a major plank of

SINGAPORE, 9 June—Oil rose toward $69 a bar-rel on Tuesday, snappingtwo days of falls, on aweaker US dollar andahead of weekly stocksdata forecast to show a fallin US crude inventories.

The dollar took abreather on Tuesday afterrallying in the wake of lastweek’s US jobs data,which stirred talk that theFederal Reserve may raiseinterest rates later thisyear.

SINGAPORE, 9 June —The world beyond the glo-bal economic storm willsee new market dynamicsand tougher competition,therefore Singapore needsto find new growth sectorsand gear up for them, Sin-gapore’s Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong saidhere on Tuesday.

Speaking at the open-ing of a vaccine manufac-turing plant, Lee said thatAsia is now the maingrowth story in the world.

Seoul unveils $18 b plan for riverdevelopmentthe government’s “GreenNew Deal” to create jobsand lay the ground for fur-ther economic growth.

Work will begin beforethe end of this year tobuild dams, banks andwater treatment facilities,the ministry said.

The plan calls for 16.9trillion won to dredge riv-ers, to develop parks andrecreation facilities onbanks, and to build dams,catchment basins and res-ervoirs capable of storing

up to 1.3 billion cubicmetres (84.5 billion cubicfeet) of fresh water.

A further 5.3 trillionwon will be used to im-prove water flow and tobuild 750 sewage pro-cessing plants and 46 newwater treatment facilities.

The ministry said thatwithout such action thecountry would suffer awater shortage of aboutone billion cubic metres ayear by 2016 because ofclimate change.—Internet

Oil rises towards $69 as dollar dipsand ahead of stocks data

US light crude for Julydelivery rose 52 cents to$68.61 a barrel by 0206GMT, having settled 35cents lower on Monday at$68.09, more than $2 belowa seven-month high above$70 touched on Friday.

London Brent crudewas up 52 cents at $68.40.“The currency market hasbeen driving the oil mar-ket since the middle ofMay. Traders are lookingmore at the dollar than atequity markets now,” said

Tetsu Emori, fund man-ager at Tokyo-basedAstmax Co Ltd.

“It is quite difficult totake positions above $70for now. It is too risky,”he added.

Oil prices have morethan doubled since thelows of this winter, track-ing stronger equities mar-kets, with the S&P 500index rallying 39 percentsince sliding to a 1-yearclosing low on 9 March.

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Singapore needs to find more niche areasfor growth

Many companies arelooking to locate their keyfunctions and decisionmakers closer to Asianmarkets. With more andmore manufacturing andresearch and developmenttaking place in the region,companies are also estab-lishing “control towers” tobetter manage and coordi-nate their activities.

He said that one possi-bility is to offer Singaporeto be the corporate basefor global companies,

both big and small.“We need to find many

more such niche areas.Then we can continue toprosper in the newworld,” Lee said.

Speaking on the suc-cess of the country’sbiologics manufacturing,Lee said, “Drugs arephysically small but theireffects are targeted andpotent, and they com-mand high value. That ishow Singapore must be.”

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 June—After hearing the statements presented on 5 June byboth sides on criminal amendment case 437/2009 submitted for some amendmentsto Yangon North District Court’s judgement of dismissing the three witnessesnominated by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw Khin Khin Win and Ma Win Ma Main the lawsuit 47/2009 filed against Mr John William Yettaw, Daw Aung San SuuKyi, Daw Khin Khin Win and Ma Win Ma Ma, Yangon Division Court delivereda judgement on the case today.

The district court refused to summon three of the four witnesses nominatedby the accused. Yangon Division Court confirmed the decree delivered by thedistrict court as there is no need to argue about the nomination of witnesses U WinTin and U Tin Oo regarding the character.

Moreover, the reason “the advocates defending the accused, in connectionwith witness Daw Khin Moe Moe nominated in line with legal affairs, have therights to argue with legal facts” given by the district court is correct. However,Yangon Division Court issued an order for the district court to summon andexamine legal expert Daw Khin Moe Moe as a defence witness in order to hearthe case more thoroughly.—MNA

YANGON, 9 June —Course No 1 on carpentry,

YANGON, 9 June—No. 2 of Chindwin GonyiMagazine published byMonywa TownshipWriters and JournalistsAssociation came outtoday.

Chindwin Gonyi Magazine in circulationThe book is available

at Monywa TownshipWriters and JournalistAssociation, MonywaDistrict Information andPublic RelationDepartment and book

shops in Monwya at theprice of K 2000 per copy.

The book hascovered poems, cartoons,articles and short storiesand novels.

MNA

Judgement delivered on statements byboth sides as to dismissing three

witnesses nominated by the accused

58 receive carpentry, bricklaying andsteel fixing skills in Putao

bricklaying and steelfixing of the training

school for development ofnational races in PutaO,Kachin State, wasconcluded at the trainingschool on 5 June.

A total of 58 trainees— 29 from PutaO, fourfrom NaungmonTownship, 25 fromMachanbaw township —completed the course.

During the training,the trainees were providedwith meals, accom-modation and aids for thetraining free of charge.

The training school isunder the Education andTraining Department ofthe Ministry of Progressof Border Areas andNational Races andDevelopment Affairs.

MNA

Drinking water from air humidity

Drinking water from air humidity.

and research scientistshave found a way ofobtaining drinking waterfrom air humidity. Thesystem is basedcompletely on renewableenergy and is thereforeautonomous.

Cracks permeate thedried-out desert ground,the landscape bearstestimony to the lack ofwater. But even here,where there are no lakes,rivers or groundwater,considerable quantities ofwater are stored in the air.In the Negev desert inIsrael, for example, annualaverage relative airhumidity is 64 percent –in every cubic meter of airthere are 11.5 millilitersof water.

Internet

STUTTGART, 8 June —Not a plant to be seen, the

desert ground is too dry.But the air contains water,

Transforming roofs from wasted space to energy source

Nanoscale zipper cavity responds to single photons of lightPASADENA, 8 June —

Physicists at the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology(Caltech) have developeda nanoscale device that canbe used for force detection,optical communication,and more.

The device exploitsthe mechanical propertiesof light to create anoptomechanical cavity inwhich interactionsbetween light and motionare greatly strengthenedand enhanced.

These interactions,notes Oskar Painter,associate professor ofapplied physics at Caltech,and the principal

Scanning electron microscope image of an array of“zipper” optomechanical cavities. The scale andsensitivity of the device is set by its physical mass(40 picograms/40 trillionths of a gram) and the

nanoscale gap between the two nanobeams.

investigator on theresearch, are the largestdemonstrated to date.

The device and the

work that led to it aredescribed in a recent issueof the journal Nature.

Internet

RICHLAND, 9 June —The flexible rooftop solarpanels - called building-integrated photovoltaics,or BIPVs - could replacetoday’s boxy solar panelsthat are made with rigidglass or silicon andmounted on thick metal

PNNL, Vitex Systems and Battelle are working toadapt a film encapsulation process that would

enable flexible solar panels like this.

frames. The flexible solarshingles would be lessexpensive to install thancurrent panels and madeto last 25 years.

Mark Gross, a seniorscientist at the Departmentof Energy’s PacificNorthwest National

Laboratory said, “Flexiblesolar panels could easilybecome integrated into thearchitecture ofcommercial buildings andhomes. Solar panels havehad limited successbecause they’ve beendifficult and expensive toinstall.”

Researchers at PNNLwill create these flexiblepanels by adapting a filmencapsulation processcurrently used to coat flatpanel displays that useorganic light-emittingdiodes, or OLEDs. Thework is made possible bya Cooperative Researchand DevelopmentAgreement recentlypenned between VitexSystems and Battelle,which operates PNNL forthe federal government.

PNNL researchersdeveloped the thin filmtechnology in the 1990s.At the time, the lab’s teaminvestigated 15 possibleapplications, includingsolar power.

Internet

Director U Soe Win of Kachin State DACpresents first prize to a winner at carpentry,bricklaying and steel fixing course.—MNA

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YANGON, 9 June—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defencereceived a visitinggoodwill delegation ledby Senior Minister of theRepublic of SingaporeMr. Goh Chok Tong, whoarrives in Yangon, at the

Lt-Gen Myint Swe receivesSingaporean goodwill delegation

YANGON, 9 June —Myanmar Women’sAffairs Federationdonated 2,100 dozens of

MWAF donates stationery, school uniformsto school-age children in Ayeyawady Div

exercise books and 2,100dozens of pencils, 2,100dozens of school uniformsto school-age children in

Ayeyawady Division on2 June.

During the schoolenrollment activity and aceremony to presentschool uniforms toschool-age children at No1 Basic Education HighSchool in Pathein,Members of the centralexecutive committee ofMWAF Daw Ni Ni Winand Daw Tin Tin Nwehanded over exercisebooks and schooluniforms to schoolchildren from Pathein,Hinthada, Pyapon andLabutta districts. DivisionEducation Officer ofAyeyawady Division UKhin Maung Yi reportedon measures taken forschool enrollment in thedivision and spoke wordsof thanks.—MNA

invitation of PrimeMinister General TheinSein, at the guest houseon Alan Pya PagodaRoad in Dagon Town-ship, here, yesterdayafternoon.

Also present at the callwere Chairman of Yangon

Division Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint, officials andSingaporean Ambassadorto Myanmar Mr. RobertChua Hian Kong.

MNA

Singaporean SeniorMinister

Mr. Goh Chok Tongarrives in Yangon

YANGON, 9 June— Atthe invitation of PrimeMinister General TheinSein of the Union ofMyanmar, a visitinggoodwill delegation led bySenior Minister of theRepublic of Singapore Mr.Goh Chok Tong arrivedhere by special aircraft

yesterday afternoon.They were welcomed

by Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint, Chairman ofYangon City Develop-ment Committee Mayor

Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin,Singaporean Ambassadorto Myanmar Mr. RobertChua Hian Kong, deputydirector-general ofProtocol Department underthe Ministry of ForeignAffairs and officials atYangon InternationalAirport.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 June– At the invitation ofPrime Minister GeneralThein Sein, SeniorMinister of the Republicof Singapore Mr. GohChok Tong and party,together withAmbassador of theRepublic of Singapore tothe Union of MyanmarMr. Robert Chua HianKong, arrived here at 9:10am today by a specialaircraft of Singaporean airforce to pay a goodwillvisit to Myanmar.

Senior Minister of theRepublic of SingaporeMr. Goh Chok Tong and

Singaporean Senior Ministerarrives in Nay Pyi Taw on

goodwill visitparty were welcomed byMinister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win anddepartmental heads at NayPyi Taw airport.

Senior Minister of theRepublic of SingaporeMr. Goh Chok Tong andparty proceeded to the CityHall of Nay Pyi Taw andthere Chairman of Nay PyiTaw Development Com-mittee Mayor Col TheinNyunt briefed Mr. GohChok Tong onconstruction tasks carriedout and being carried outin Nay Pyi Taw.

After that, Mayor ColThein Nyunt and the

Senior Minister of theRepublic of Singaporeexchanged souvenirs.

Next, the SeniorMinister of the Republicof Singapore and partywent round Nay Pyi Tawin a motorcade to view thedevelopment of Nay PyiTaw and constructionwork being carried out.

In the evening, theSenior Minister of theRepublic of Singapore leftfor Mandalay and Ministerfor Foreign Affairs UNyan Win anddepartmental heads sawthem off at Nay Pyi Tawairport.—MNA

CEC member of MWAF Daw Ni Ni Win

presents exercise books and school uniforms

to a school girl. —MNA

Prime Minister

General Thein Sein

receives delegation

led by Senior

Minister of

Singapore Mr. Goh

Chok Tong in Nay

Pyi Taw. (News on

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NAY PYI TAW, 10 June—U Nyan Win,Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union ofMyanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to HisExcellency Mr Luis Amado, Minister of State andForeign Affairs of the Portuguese Republic, on theoccasion of the National Day of the PortugueseRepublic, which falls on 10 June 2009.—MNA

Foreign Minister felicitatesPortuguese Minister of State

and Foreign AffairsNAY PYI TAW, 9June—Minis ter forForestry Brig-Gen TheinAung visited the mainworkshop of EngineeringDivision of the MyanmarTimber Enterprise hereyesterday.

In response tothe reports by officialsconcerned, the ministergave instructions, andinspected the mainworkshop.

He alsoinspected the drivingcourse and basicmechanic course at theTraining Centre of theenterprise.

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Minister visits main workshop, training centre

NAY PYI TAW, 9 June — The total number of confirmed cases of theA/H1N1 flu virus across the world rose to 25,288 while the number of death tollhas totaled 139 since its outbreak on 17 April, and the virus has spread to 73countries including Mexico, according to the information released yesterdayby the World Health Organization.

The virus A/H1N1 may be mutated into the global human pandemicdisease. Therefore, the Ministry of Health commenced the necessarypreparedness task on 25 April.

Not to break out the influenza A/H1N1 in the territory of Myanmar, theMinistry of Health is taking preparedness measures such as daily virusobservation, preparations for medical treatment, providing of medicines andmedical equipment and laboratory apparatuses to the hospitals and makingready for use of the special patient wards.

With regard to situations of outbreak of the influenza, the preventivemeasures and dissemination of health knowledge are being issued to the peoplethrough TV, radio and dailies in time.

Since 29 April, the visitors have been under medical checks atinternational airports, international seaports and border check-points.

Up to now, the Ministry of Health released information that there is nocase of influenza A/H1N1 in Myanmar.—MNA

Myanmar still an influenzaA/H1N1 free country

Health Ministry taking preventive measuresagainst influenza A/H1N1 NAY PYI TAW, 9 June — The total number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1

flu virus across the world mounted to 25,288 while the number of death toll hasreached 139 since its outbreak on 17 April, according to the information releasedyesterday by the World Health Organization.

Experts from Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department of the Ministryof Livestock Breeding and Fisheries and OIE held a meeting to discuss mattersrelated to veterinary services meeting the set standards of OIE at Sedona Hotel inYangon today. It was attended by experts from OIE led by President Dr GardnerMurray of OIE, officials from ministries concerned and organizations and mediamen. Participants of the meeting discussed ways for cooperation in promotion of theveterinary services to prevent infectious diseases from animals to human.

Meanwhile, educative talks on prevention of the influenza A (H1N1) washeld at the office of Myaungmya District Peace and Development Council yesterdayand Acting Director-General of the LBVD Dr Aung Gyi and experts gave talks onawareness against the A (H1N1). Around 135 personnel from governmentaldepartments, Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association and MyanmarLivestock Breeding Federation attended the talks.

In Myanmar, there is no outbreak of the influenza A (H1N1) in pigs, theMinistry of Livestock Breeding and Fisheries said. The ministry has urged the peopleto cook pork at 70 degree centigrade (160 degree Fahrenheit) and to observecleanliness when they prepare for cooking to prevent the infection of disease.

MNA

Experts discuss ways to promoteveterinary to prevent animal-to-human

infectious disease

YANGON, 9 June— The first day qualifying cutof the Baron’s “Commands Respect” Amateur OpenGolf Challenge 2009, organized by Myanmar GolfFederation and sponsored by Myanmar Brewery Ltd,was held at Shwemantaung Golf Club, Mandalay thismorning.

After the first qualifying cut 18-hole round,Executive U Ko Ko Lay of Myanmar Golf Federationpresented the prizes to Naing Ye Lin who stood firstwith 69 strokes, Myo Zaw Aung, second with 72strokes, Tun Tun Oo, third with 73 strokes, Than NaingOo, fourth with 73 strokes, Maung Me, fifth with 73

First qualifying cut of Baron’s “Commands Respect”Amateur Open Golf Challenge 2009 held in Mandalay

strokes and Nyunt Win Tun, sixth with 73 strokes.General Sales Manager U Kyaw Kyar of MyanmarBrewery Ltd presented prizes to Aye Min Cho whostood in seventh position with 75 strokes, Myo Tun,eighth with 75 strokes, Soe Min Min Oo, ninth with 77strokes, Thiha Aung, tenth with 78 strokes, Naing Lin,eleventh with 78 strokes and Khin Maung Aye, twelfthwith 78 strokes. The second qualifying cut will be heldat Myanmar Golf Club at 9-mile on Pyay Road inYangon on 15 June, and only over 18- year participantswill be allowed and also be organized through thestroke play (scratch) system.—MNA

YANGON, 9 June— Organized by the fisheriesDepartment under the Ministry of Livestock and Fish-eries, a ceremony to open “Marine product process-ing technology with organic system” course was heldat the Thiri Annawa hall of Myanmar Fisheries Fed-

“Marine product processing technology with organic system” course openseration on Bayintnaung Road, Insein Township herethis morning, with a speech by acting Director-Gen-eral of Fisheries Department U Khin Ko Lay.

A total of 44 trainees from marine productfactories attended the two-day course.—MNA

Influenza may break out in any season,especially in a transitional period between twoseasons. If infected with flu, a person has high bodytemperature, muscular pains in the whole body,high temperature in eyeballs, running nose, sneezingand cough for three or four days.

The infectious disease is due to the virus thatcan naturally proliferate in a transitional periodbetween two seasons. A patient will recover fromthe illness if he/she practises personal hygiene.

To prevent influenza,(a) avoid taking a bath just after being in the hot

sun for some time,(b) practise personal hygiene,(c) do not go to busy places, take enough rest,(d) have nutritious food,(e) have fruit and vegetables which are rich in

Vitamin C; have medical check-up in anearest clinic or hospital if necessary.

Ministry of Health

Prevent influenza

Myanmar, second in Japan-MekongU-15 friendship football tourney

YANGON, 9 June—Myanmar stood second atJapan-Mekong U-15 friendship football tournamentheld at J Village in Japan.

Myanmar had three wins, one draw and oneloss in five matches. Host Japan secured first.

The Myanmar team was welcomed back atYangon International Airport by officials of theMyanmar Football Federation and their relatives thisevening.—MNA

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung inspects the mainworkshop of the Engineering Division of the Myanmar Timber

Enterprise.—FORESTRY

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To write articles onsector-wise developmentof Rakhine State, thenews team of theMyanma Alin Dailyrecently visited the officeof Rakhine State ForestDepartment under thearrangements of RakhineState Peace andDevelopment Council.

At the office ofRakhine State ForestDepartment, we hadinterviews with DeputyDirector U Than Myintof Rakhine State ForestDepartment andAssistant Director UMaung Maung Zaw ofSittway District ForestDepartment.

Deputy Director UThan Myint explained,“A total of 4,238,340acres of Rakhine State iscovered by the forests,accounting for 46.64 percent. Rakhine StateForest Department isimplementing the aimsof the Ministry ofForestry: earning foreignexchange, exposingillegal timber, regularlyestablishing forestplantations, setting upwatershed plantations,

Rakhine State with thick foliage of valuable forestsArticle: Reporter Singu Soe Win; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Valuable plants seen in part of forests inRakhine State.

“Forest plantations are being protected atforest reserves and protected public forests.”U Than Myint, Deputy Director of Rakhine

State Forest Department.

Teak plants designated in the protected area of Buthidaung Township, Rakhine State.

conservation of forestreserves and protectedpublic forests as well asgreening the arid zonesand Bago mountain rangeand organizing theentrepreneurs to establishprivate forestplantations.”

Rakhine State has 13forest reserves on 522,623acres of land, 20 protectedpublic forests on1,163,641 acres of landand one environmentalconservation region on433,843 acres of land.There are 2,120,107 acresof forest area, accountingfor 23.32 per cent in thestate.

The deputy director

said that Rakhine State hasbeen establishing forestplantations in accordancewith the annual plans. Atotal of 1350 acres ofcommercial (teak)plantation, 1,000 acres ofcommercial (ironwoodtree) plantation and 250acres of mangroveplantation, totalling 2600acres were established in2008-2009.

He continued to saythat the departmentundertook forestconservation, extension offorest plantations, theamendment of 70 squaremiles of forest reserve areaand fire preventivemeasures at 14,005 acres

of forest plantations.Forest products are

being extracted accordingto the annual economicplans. The efforts of thestaff of the department areto be put on record as theyearned K 74.5 million forthe State within sevenmonths.

As part of efforts forcarrying out the task onprogress of border areasand national races, a totalof 30 acres of commercial(teak) plantation with3,000 saplings wereestablished in MaungtawTownship, 20 acres ofplantation with 8,000saplings in ButhidaungTownship. Teak,ironwood, physic nut andother saplings weredistributed to the localpeople free of charge.During the tour, we sawthriving saplings inMaungtaw andButhidaung Townships.

With the aim ofrealizing the goals of thefive-year plan from 2007-2008 to 2011-2012, theeradication of slash andburn system wasundertaken in Buthidaung,Maungtaw, Kyauktaw,

Minbya, An, Taungup andGwa townships. Newforest plantations wereestablished in the availablespaces. In this regard, atotal of 40,517 acres ofcommercial teakplantation, 25,031 acres ofironwood plantation, 8260acres of village fuel woodforests, 900 acres ofmangrove plantation and350 acres of watershedplantation, totalling75,058 acres had been setup in the region.

The department istaking preventivemeasures againstdeforestation of naturalforests, designation ofprotected public forest andnurturing of forestplantations. Moreover, thedepartment is carrying outplant propagation tasks ofvaluable trees and fillingnew teak and ironwoodsaplings in the places ofvacant areas as upgradingthe forests. In 2008-2009,the rangers upgraded theforests on 200 acres of land

and plant propagation on600 acres of land.

From 2006-2007 to2008-2009, a total of 900acres of mangroveplantation were grownin Yanbye andMaungtaw townships. Atotal of 46.64 per cent ofRakhine State is coveredwith forest plantationwith thriving teak,ironwood and othervaluable trees andperennial plant.

The effort of theForest Department aloneis not adequate forconserving naturalenvironment andprotecting the forests.The local people shouldjoin hands with thedepartment forundertaking the forestconservation task withactive participation so asto maintain the beautyof Rakhine State in thelong term.

Translation: TTAMyanma Alin:

21-5-2009

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Man shot dead by suspectedmilitants in S Thailand

BANGKOK, 9 June—A Thai man in Thailand’ssouthernmost province of Yala was gunned down onMonday morning by suspected militants. The victimwas Arsae Kama, 39, was attacked by the suspectedmilitants, while he was working in his rubber farm,police said.

Kama was a member of Banglang village, Bajohsub-district of Ban-nang-star District in Yala Province.

Thailand’s South comprises mainly threesouthernmost provinces - -Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat— and some part of Songkla Province. Insurgentviolence has killed over 3,500 people in this restiveSouth since its resurrection in January 2004.

MNA/Xinhua

Colombiannavy seizes

over 1.6 tonsof marijuana

BOGOTA, 9 June—TheColombian Navy seizedabout 1.7 tons ofmarijuana and detainedfour people on Mondaymorning in a ship sailingfrom the Pacific Ocean toPanama. The Navy saidthe marijuana was packedin 35 bags withoutregistration, and thedetainees, whoseidentifications were stillunrevealed, would beinvestigated.

The drugs had beendestroyed, it said. TheColombian Navy hasseized over 9.5 tons ofmarijuana so far this year,which was worth of abouteight millions US dollarsin the blackmarket.

MNA/Xinhua

Manmohan is great leader notonly of India but of world

Japan, Russia urged to issue 2020greenhouse goals

A man walks by Barclays Capital offices in New York 8 June, 2009.—INTERNET

London, 9 June—British Prime MinisterGordon Brown hasdescribed his Indiancounterpart ManmohanSingh as a great leader notonly of India but of theworld.

“It is a great honourfor any democraticcountry in the world tohave a leader like DrManmohan Singh. He is agreat leader not only ofIndia but of the world,”Brown was quoted assaying by leading Non-Resident Indian (NRI)Labour MP VirenderSharma.

Sharma, who wasspeaking at a functionorganized by the IndianOverseas Congress hereSunday night to celebratethe victory of CongressParty in the recent generalelections in India, said hehad raised the issue in theHouse of Commons and

replying to the discussionBrown had praised Singh.

He said Singh hasemerged as one of the threemajor leaders along withUS President BarackObama and British PrimeMinister Gordon Brown atthe recent G-20 summithere. “As an Indian I feelproud of India,” he said.Sharma said that the Indiandiaspora in the UK shouldsend a united message toSingh that it was fullybehind him so that Indiacould become a majoreconomic power by 2020.

Indian OverseasCongress presidentBalwant Kapur saidCongress President SoniaGandhi, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh andyouth Congress leaderRahul Gandhi were mainlyresponsible for the party’sgood performance in therecent elections.

MNA/PTI

Empty display case where Piccaso’s sketchbook had been stolen.—INTERNET

Picasso book of sketches stolen from Parismuseum

PARIS, 9 June—A notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolenfrom the Paris museum that bears the painter’s name, authorities said on Tuesday.

The book is reportedly worth several million euros (dollars).The theft took place between on Monday and Tuesday morning at the Picasso

Museum, France’s Culture Ministry said. It was discovered on Tuesday morning, apolice official said anonymously, as police are not authorized to discuss cases publicly.

The stolen sketchbook, shiny red with the word “Album” inscribed in gold on thefront, dated from 1917 to 1924, the Culture Ministry statement said. It measured 6.3inches by 9.5 inches (16 by 24 centimeters) the ministry said.

The Picasso Museum, in Paris’ old Marais neighborhood, is dedicated to theSpanish-born painter, a founder of the Cubist movement and leading 20th centuryartist.—Internet

In this photo provided

by Julie Patterson, a

tornado is seen from

Aurora, Colorado on

Sunday 7 June, 2009.

INTERNET

OSLO, 9 June—Japanand Russia should publish2020 goals for greenhousegas emissions to help spurUN talks on a new climatetreaty, the head of the UNClimate ChangeSecretariat said onMonday.

Other developednations have already settargets and the lack ofJapanese and Russian datawas holding up the June1-12 talks among 181nations in Bonn,Germany, on a new pactdue to be agreed inCopenhagen inDecember.

“A number of critical... ones are missing —Japan and Russia,” Yvode Boer told a webcastnews conference aboutprogress in the talks on asuccessor to the KyotoProtocol, the existing UNpact for curbingemissions. “It’s reallyimportant now to get thoseremaining numbers on thetable.”

Japanese PrimeMinister Taro Aso aimsto publish a 2020 goal foremissions in the comingdays. Options outlined byexperts range from a riseof 4 per cent over 1990levels to a cut of 25 percent. Russia has not said

when it plans to issuenumbers.

“There is a significantlack of progress in theKyoto process, the keynumbers are still missing,that that is slowing downthe debate,” de Boer said.Russia is the world’snumber three greenhouse

gas emitter, Japan numberfive.

Developing nationssay that all developednations should publish2020 goals by 17 June —six months before the endof the Copenhagenconference.

MNA/Reuters

Gunmen kill 10, wound 12 in ThailandYALA (Thailand), 9 June —Gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 12 others when

they opened fire with automatic weapons at a mosque during evening prayers inThailand’s restive south, police said on Monday.

A rubber tapper was also dead and nine soldiers were wounded by a roadside bombon Monday, one of the worst days of violence in months in the region borderingMalaysia where a shadowy insurgency has rumbled since 2004.

Police said at least five gunmen sprayed bullets into the mosque in the Cho AirsongDistrict of Narathiwat, one of three mainly Muslim Provinces where more than 3,000people have died in five years of near daily bomb and gun attacks.

“The gunmen sneaked into the mosque and opened fire as the victims kneeled onthe floor praying,” regional Army spokesman Colonel Prinya Chaidilok told Channel11 television.

MNA/Reuters

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV VASCO DA GAMA VOY NO (169)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV VASCO DAGAMA VOY NO (169) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 10.6.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S INTERASIA LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI MAJESTIC VOY NO (93509)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI MAJES-TIC VOY NO (93509) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 10.6.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

Stolen artifacts found in Ill returning to Italy

Four dead, nine missing inUkraine coal mine accident

DONETSK, 9 June—At least four miners were killedand nine reported missing on Tuesday after a coal miningaccident in eastern Ukraine, a government official said,as relatives kept a tearful vigil at the mine.

“Four bodies have been found. The search for the ninemissing goes on,” Ria-Novosti news agency quotedUkrainian Deputy Mining Industry Minister YuriGriadushchyi as telling Kanal 5 television.

Out of 51 miners working in the mine at the time ofthe accident, 38 have been able to escape to the surface,he said. The accident early Monday at the Skochinskymine in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine, was notcaused by an explosion but apparently happened after adischarge of gas three times above the accepted safetynorm 1,300 metres (4,265 feet) underground.

Work using explosives had been under way in themine’s shafts just hours before the disaster, Interfax newsagency reported.

After the accident all mining work was suspended,said Marina Nikitina, a spokeswoman for the State Com-mittee on Workers’ Safety.

“Work is under way to ventilate the shafts and reducethe presence of methane,” the mine’s director ValeriMiminoshvili told reporters.

“I hope we will have managed to clear the debris andventilate the mine in 24 to 36 hours,” he added.

About 30 relatives of the missing miners sat outsidethe entrance waiting for news of their loved ones, someof them reduced to tears. Some had rushed to the scenedressed as they were when the news reached them: inslippers and dressing gowns. One young girl turned upbarefoot.—Internet

Mexican authoritiesraise nursery fire

death toll to 43MEXICO CITY, 9 June—

Two more children diedfrom injuries sustained in afire at a daycare center inthe northern Mexican stateof Sonora, bringing the to-tal death toll to 43, thecountry’s health providersaid on Monday. Therewere a total of 33 childrenstill in hospital, and 20 ofwhom were in grave con-dition, Mexican Social Se-curity Agency DirectorDaniel Karam told a localradio. The social securityagency, which also has theresponsibility for supervis-ing the nursery, is payingfor the injured children’smedical care and for familymembers’ expenses.

Internet

CHICAGO, 9 June— Thou-sands of Italian artifacts —including a handwrittendocument by Benito Mus-solini and antiquities dat-ing to 900 BC— werefound in the home of a latecollectibles dealer, the FBIannounced on Monday.Nearly half the items wereidentified as stolen andwill be returned to Italy,

the FBI said.The collection, worth

between $5 million and$10 million, had beenshipped to John Sisto dur-ing two decades by his fa-ther, who lived in Italy andlikely bought the treasuresfrom thieves who lootedthem from private collec-tions, the FBI said.

Sisto’s relatives discov-

ered the some 3,500 arti-facts, manuscripts and an-tiquities squirreled awayin boxes in his Berwynhome after his death in2007. The collection in-cludes hundreds of Etrus-can artifacts produced be-tween 900 BC and 500BC, parchments andmanuscripts, some withwax papal seals dating tothe 12th century, and morethan 1,000 books anddocuments written bykings and popes.

It also includes a moremodern document hand-written by the fascist dic-tator Mussolini: his hand-written preface to the book“Dux” by MargheritaSarfatti, published in 1926.FBI agents believe Sisto’sfather, Giuseppe “Joseph”Sisto, sent the items to hisson with an eye to sellingthem for a profit.—Internet

A Daunia Vase, part of a collection of millions ofdollars worth of stolen manuscripts and other antiq-uities found in the home of a suburban Berwyn homecollectibles dealer, is shown at FBI headquarters in Chicago, on 8 June, 2009. —INTERNET

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Less sleep associated with high,worsening blood pressure in middle age

Airlines pledge carbon-neutralgrowth by 2020

Healthy diet may boost men’s fertility

Handout photo released in 2008 by the British Antarctic Survey shows of achunk of ice that started to break away from the Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf.

Millions of years ago, rivers ran in Antarctica through craggy mountainvalleys that were strangely similar to the European Alps of today, Chinese and

British scientists reported.—INTERNET

Shannon Scott, a salesperson for Toyota,demonstrates how to plug-in the Toyota PriusHyrbrid vehicle in April 2009 in Washington DC.Toyota Motor Corp’s latest edition of the Prius hybridbecame Japan’s best selling car in monthly sales inMay, pulling ahead of its rival, Honda’s Insight, an industry survey showed on Thursday.—INTERNET

KUALA LUMPUR, 9June—The world’sairlines have committedthemselves to a global capon emissions in 2020,even allowing for a returnto growth after theworldwide economicslump, the industry bodysaid on Monday.

The fuel-hungry airtravel industry, which hasbeen under attack fromenvironmentalists for itscontribution to global

warming, faces estimatedlosses of 20 billion dollarsin 2008 and 2009.

But despite the globalfinancial crisis, theInternational Air TransportAssociation (IATA) said atits annual meeting herethat carriers had set anambitious environmentalgoal that other majorindustries had yet to strivefor.“Two years ago we seta vision to achieve carbon-neutral growth on the way

to a carbon-free future.Today we have taken amajor step forward bycommitting to a global capon our emissions in 2020,”IATA chief GiovanniBisignani said.

“After this date, avia-tion’s emissions will notgrow even as demand in-creases. Airlines arethe first global industryto make such a boldcommitment,” he said.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 9 June—Middle-aged adults whosleep fewer hours appearmore likely to have highblood pressure and toexperience adversechanges in blood

pressure over time,according to a reportpublished on Monday inthe Archives of InternalMedicine.

Almost one-third ofAmericans have hyper-

tension or high bloodpres-sure, a conditionthat contributes to sevenmillion deaths worldwideeach year, according tobackground informationin the article.

“Identifying a novellifestyle risk factor forhigh blood pressurecould lead to new inter-ventions to prevent orreduce high bloodpressure,” the authorswrite.

“Laboratory studiesof sterm sleep de-privation have sug-gested potential me-chanisms for a causallink between sleep lossand hypertension.”

Sleep deprivationis associated withincreased activity inthe sympathetic nervoussystem, which controlsthe body’s stress res-ponse. Over time, thisactivation could con-tribute to high bloodpressure.

Swine flu spreads to73 countries

Singapore confirms two moreInfluenza A/H1N1 cases

29 new A/H1N1 flu casesconfirmed in Britain

LONDON, 9 June—Britain’s Department of Healthconfirmed on Monday 29 new cases of A/H1N1 fluinfections, bringing the total number of cases in thecountry to 621.The Department of Health statementsaid all the 29 new cases were from England. The newtotal also included 35 cases in Scotland announced onSunday by the Scottish Executive.

Testing of the A/H1N1 flu virus is now carried outby the Health Protection Agency’s regional networkof laboratories.—Internet

NEW YORK, 9 June—Men who eat healthierdiets may also havehealthier sperm, newresearch from Spainshows.

“A healthy, well-balanced diet is not justimportant for preventingdiseases like diabetes,high cholesterol, or hyper-tension, but it may beuseful for preservingor improving your re-productive health too,” DrJaime Mendiola of the

University of Murcia, thelead researcher on thestudy, told Reuters Healthvia e-mail.

A number of studieshave suggested that thereare links between con-suming certain nutrientsand male infertility,Mendiola and his teamnote in the journalFertility and Sterility.They had previouslyinvestigated the rela-tionship between consum-ption of certain foods and

semen quality, and foundthat men who ate moredairy products and moremeat, and less lettuce,tomatoes, and fruit, weremore likely to have poorsemen quality.

That investigationdidn’t look at specificnutrients. But in this one,Mendiola and his teamcompared the nutrientcontent of the diets of 30men with poor semenquality and 31 men withnormal sperm.—Internet

Two US students diagnosedwith swine flu in Cairo

CAIRO, 9 June—A foreign students’ dormitory for theAmerican University in Cairo has been put under quar-antine for seven days on Monday after two US studentswere diagnosed with swine flu, health and universityofficials said.

The two cases were discovered Sunday night afterthe students exhibited flu-like symptoms and testedpositive for the virus. They were hospitalized and givenTamiflu, said a Health Ministry statement.

“The building and the people inside it have been putunder supervised quarantine, their temperatures are be-ing been checked, and swabs have been taken from theirthroats and mouth and sent to laboratories,” said Nasserel-Sayyed, an assistant health minister in the state-ment.—Internet

GENEVA, 9 June—Swine flu has now spreadto 73 countries with25,288 people known tohave been infected sincethe disease was firstuncovered in April, datafrom the World HealthOrganisation showed onMonday.

The number of deathsrose to 139 after 14 moredeaths were reported,according to the latestWHO tally of confirmedinfluenza A/H1N1cases.Most of the newcases were reported bythe United States, with

2,163 new infections,bringing its total caseloadto 13,217, including 27deaths.

Australia also posted asignificant rise of 175cases, bringing its total to1,051Chile likewise sawits caseload grow by 42to 411 in total.

Flu experts arewatching the situation inAustralia and Chilecarefully as they are partof the southern he-misphere which isentering the flu-pronewinter season.

Internet SINGAPORE, 9 June—Singapore has confirmedtwo more cases of In-fluenza A/H1N1, bringingthe number of total caseshere to 17, the country’sHealth Ministry said onTuesday.

The 16th case is a 40-year-old male foreignerfrom India who is workingin Singapore. He went toMelbourne on 31 May ona business strip and re-turned to Singapore on

Singapore Airlines SQ238on 6 June. He developedsymptoms on 7 June, andlaboratory results con-firmed his infection onMonday evening.

The 17th case is a 25-year-old Malaysian femalewho works as a cabin crewwith Singapore Airlines.She was on holiday inMelbourne and developedsymptoms on 5 June whileshe was there.

Internet

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S P O R T S Barca aims to keep top striker Eto’o

Samuel Eto’o

Italy will experimentat Confed Cup, says Lippi

Italy coach MarcelloLippi, pictured in April

2009, says he will use theFIFA Confederations

Cup starting on 14 Juneto build a team capableof retaining the World

Cup in South Africa nextyear.—INTERNET

Celtic want Mowbray, West Brom admit

Newcastle United for sale at £100mLONDON, 9 June—Newcastle United annnounced

on Monday they were up for sale at an asking price of100 million pounds.

The north-east side were relegated from the lucra-tive Premier League on the final day of the season andowner Mike Ashley, who was almost once beforehounded out of the club by angry fans, has now de-cided to sell-up.

“The board of Newcastle United can confirm thatthe club is for sale at the asking price of 100 millionpounds,” a club statement said.

“Interested parties should contact Newcastle Unitedfor further details.The club will not be making anyfurther comment at the present time.”

Internet

Newcastle United’s stadium, St James’ Park. New-castle United have announced they are up for sale atan asking price of 100 million pounds.—INTERNET

Heskey backs Rooney to putEngland top of the World

England’s Wayne Rooneywalks past the team busprior to a team trainingsession at Arsenal’s train-ing facility in LondonColney, north of London

last week.—INTERNET

Sharapova makes winninggrass return

BIRMINGHAM, 9 June—Former world number oneMaria Sharapova cruised into the second round of theWTA Birmingham grasscourt event here on Mondaywith a 6-4, 6-2 win over Canada’s Stephanie Dubois.

The unseeded 22-year-old Russian, twice a winnerat the Edgbaston Priory Club, will now play American19-year-old Alexa Glatch, who defeated ninth-seededcompatriot Bethanie Mattek-Sands 7-6 (7/2), 6-3.

Sharapova, a three-time Grand Slam winner, reachedthe quarter-finals of the French Open last week after a10-month absence due to a shoulder injury.

It was Sharapova’s first grasscourt match of the sea-son but she raced into a 4-1 lead before surviving a breakand closing out the set. The 2004 Wimbledon cham-pion was broken again early in the second set but hitback to break Dubois in games five and seven to com-plete a routine 74-minute victory.—Internet

Russian tennis playerMaria Sharapova servesduring a match againstCanada’s StephanieDubois in the first roundof the WTA AEGONClassic tournament atthe Edgbaston Priory inBirmingham.—INTERNET

Hewitt hits the grass runningat Queen’s

LONDON, 9 June—Four-time champion LleytonHewitt made a storming start on the first day of the ATP

Lleyton Hewitt of Aus-tralia hits a serve againstEduardo Schwank of Ar-gentina during the firstround match at TheAEGON Championshipstennis tournament atQueen’s Club in west Lon-don. Hewitt won the match

6-1, 6-0.—INTERNET

Tiger takes a trip to Bethpage

Tiger Woods acknowl-edges the gallery aftersinking a birdie putt

on the 17th greenduring the final roundof the Memorial golf

tournament on 7 June,2009 in Dublin,

Ohio.—INTERNET

FARMINGDALE, 9 June—Tiger Woods returned tothe Black Course atBethpage on Monday,tuning up in preprarationfor his US Open titledefense.

Woods made a detouron his way home fromwinning the Memorial inOhio a day earlier, play-ing 18 holes with swingcoach Hank Haney.

Newsday reported thatseveral dozen golfers whoplanned to play at

Bethpage State Park’sfour other courses spiedthe world’s No. 1 playerand immediately pulledout cell-phone cameras.

Woods planned to re-turn home to Florida laterMonday and practice onhis home course atIsleworth leading to theOpen, which is 18-21June.

Internet

BIRMINGHAM, 9 June—Scottish giantsCeltic are trying to tempt manager TonyMowbray to leave his post at relegatedEnglish Premier League side WestBromwich Albion and join them, theEnglish club confirmed on Monday.

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawellhas contacted the Baggies, asking forpermission to approach the ex-Celticplayer, West Brom admitted on its

website. Albion chairman Jeremy Peacemade it clear he wants Mowbray to stayin place, in spite of West Brom’s relega-tion from the Premiership at the end oflast season.

“I made it absolutely clear the ap-proach was not welcome because wehave an ongoing project at Albion inwhich Tony is an integral part.”

Internet

MADRID, 9 June—Barcelonapresident Joan Laporta said onMonday he hoped to hold on toSamuel Eto’o despite interest inthe Cameroonian striker fromsome of Europe’s top clubs.

“We’re trying to find a wayin which he can stay,” he saidafter talks between the player’sagent, Josep Maria Mesalles,and Barca’s director of footballTxiki Begiristain.

That was the message from Messalles too.“The player is not going to be looking to go. He

likes it here and there is no better place to live thanBarcelona,” he said, but added “we’re not ruling any-thing out.”

Eto’o, the top scorer for Barcelona in the leaguethis season with 30 goals, is under contract with theCatalan side until 2010.

But the 28-year-old has reportedly sparked interestfrom big-spending English Premier League club Man-chester City, French side Lyon and Italy’s Inter Milan.

Internet

Queen’s Club grasscourtevent here on Mondaywith a 6-1, 6-0 victory overArgentina’s EduardoSchwank.

Hewitt, a former worldnumber one and Wimble-don champion in 2002,looked as comfortable ongrass as ever as he took just44 minutes to see off his op-ponent, the world number109. The 15th-seeded Aus-tralian, champion here in2000, 2001, 2002 and2006, will play Portugal’sFrederico Gil, a 6-1, 6-3winner against Spain’sDaniel Gimeno-Traver, inthe second round.

Fellow seeds FelicianoLopez and GuillermoGarcia-Lopez, both Span-iards, also progressed to thenext round with straightsets victories. Lopez, the10th seed, beat the USA’sRobert Kendrick 7-6 (7/3),7-6 (7/3), while 16th seedGarcia-Lopez cruised pastYen-Hsun Lu of Taiwan6-1, 6-1.—Internet

WATFORD, 9 June—England forward EmileHeskey believes WayneRooney can fire FabioCapello’s team to WorldCup glory in South Africa.

For the second time inhis England career,Heskey is the foil for oneof the world’s best strik-ers and the Aston Villastar is convinced his part-nership with Rooney canbe even better than the re-lationship he establishedwith Michael Owen.

It was Heskey’s muscu-lar presence that allowedOwen to thrive duringSven Goran Eriksson’sreign. After a spell in in-ternational exile, Heskeywas brought back into the

fold by Fabio Capello be-cause the England coachfelt his selfless stylewould give Rooney roomto flourish.—Internet

IRENE, 9 June—Italycoach Marcello Lippi sayshe will use the FIFA Con-federations Cup startingon 14 June to build a teamcapable of retaining theWorld Cup in South Af-rica next year.

The ‘Azzurri’ staged

their first training sessionon Monday in chilly,windy conditions at a col-lege in this village be-tween Johannesburg andPretoria ahead of Group Bmatches against theUnited States, Brazil andEgypt next week.

“We will be trying tomix a few youngsters withthe experienced football-ers we have as this is howyou blend a team for theWorld Cup next year,”said the 2006 World Cup-winning coach.

Lippi told reporters hewas relishing the chance tospend three weeks with hissquad, who lead the Re-public of Ireland by onepoint in a European quali-fying group and have agame in hand.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenscattered in Kayah State, upper Sagaing and MandalayDivisions, fairly widespread in lower Sagaing, Magwayand Yangon Divisions and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions with locally heavyfalls in Mon State,isolated heavyfalls in Kayin State, Taninthayi Division.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay PyiTaw (0.12) inch, Kyeikkhame (5.04) inches, Lounglong(4.84) inches, Hap-an (4.81) inches, Yay (3.62) inches,Mawlamyine and Dawei (3.27) inches each, Kyaukpyu(2.32) inches, Myitkyina (1.65) inches, Sittwe andMaungdaw (1.38) inches each.

Maximum temperature on 8-6-2009 was 85°F.Minimum temperature on 9-6-2009 was 70°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 9-6-2009 was 84%. Totalsunshine hours on 8-6-2009 was (Nil) approx.

Rainfall on 9-6-2009 was (0.63) inch at Mingaladon,(0.55) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.51) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (26.10) inches atMingaladon, (31.85) inches at Kaba-Aye and (36.14) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (10) mph from Southwest at (09:30) hours MSTon 8-6-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate to strong in theAndaman Sea and moderate elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 10th June 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be scattered in Kayah State, upperSagaing and Mandalay Divisions, fairly widespread in lowerSagaing, Magway and Yangon Divisions and widespreadin the remaining States and Divisions with likelihood ofisolated heavyfalls in Mon and Kayin States and TaninthayiDivision. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with rough seas are likely attimes Gulf of Mottama, off and along Mon, TaninthayiCoasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (30) to(35) mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderatemonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 10-6-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for10-6-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for10-6-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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French court fines GDF Suezover deadly gas blast

Mulhouse (France), 9 June—A French court finedenergy giant GDF Suez 232,500 euros (321,600 USdollars) on Monday for manslaughter and causinginjury in a gas explosion that killed 18 people in 2004.

The blast, which tore through a five-storey buildingin the eastern city of Mulhouse, also injured 16 people.A broken pipe under a street caused gas to pour into thebasement before exploding. The pipe was made of abrittle type of cast iron which GDF had pledged toreplace in all its pipes by 2000 but it later changed thatpolicy.

“Abandoning the policy of replacing grey castiron, when trade unions had repeatedly underlined thedangers of it, constitutes a fault,” judge ChristineSchlumberger said in the court ruling.

The court denounced “the absence of rigour andchecks in the monitoring of pipes”, but it did not allowsenior GDF executives to be tried as defendants asrequested by the victims’ families.

Gas company GDF, which merged with utilitySuez last year, was fined 200,000 euros in 2006 overa similar case in which 11 people were killed in1999.—MNA/Reuters

Attendees show off their Apple devices as they lineup at Apple Inc’s Worldwide Developers Conference

in San Francisco, California , on 8 June , 2009.INTERNET

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NAY PYI TAW, 10 June—General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar,has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Jose Socrates Carvalho Pinto DeSousa, Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic, on the occasion of the National Day of thePortuguese Republic, which falls on 10 June 2009.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Seinfelicitates Portuguese counterpart

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development ofother 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 inside the coun-try and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education stand-

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 9 June—PrimeMinister General Thein Sein received avisiting goodwill delegation led bySenior Minister Mr. Goh Chok Tong ofthe Republic of Singapore and party atthe hall of Government’s Office here at9.40 am today.

Also present at the call were Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, Ministerfor Science and Technology U Thaung,

Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein

receives SingaporeanSenior Minister

Prime Minister General Thein Sein hosts lunch in honour of SeniorMinister of the Republic of Singapore Mr. Goh Chok Tong and party

Attorney-General U Aye Maung, Direc-tor-General Col Thant Shin of the Gov-ernment’s Office, Director-General UKyaw Kyaw of Protocol Departmentunder the Ministry of Foreign Affairsand Director-General U Kyaw Tin ofPolitical Department under MOFA andSingaporean Ambassador to MyanmarMr Robert Chua Hian Kong.

MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein

welcomes Senior Minister Mr Goh Chok

Tong of the Republic of Singapore in

Nay Pyi Taw.

MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein hosts lunch in honour of Senior Minister Mr. Goh ChokTong of the Republic of Singapore in Nay Pyi Taw. — MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 June—Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein hosted a lunchin honour of SeniorMinister of the Republicof Singapore Mr. GohChok Tong and party atMyat Taw Win Hotel inthe hotel zone here at noontoday.

Present at the lunchwere Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win,Minister for Science andTechnology U Thaung,Minister for Progress ofBorder Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs Col Thein Nyunt,Attorney-General U AyeMaung, Deputy Ministerfor Hotels and TourismBrig-Gen Aye Myint Kyu,the directors-general of theOffice of the State Peace

and Development Counciland the GovernmentOffice, departmentalheads, Ambassador of theRepublic of Singapore tothe Union of MyanmarMr. Robert Chua HianKong and responsiblepersonnel.

Artistes of the FineArts Department under theMinistry of Culture gaveperformance while theguests were having lunch.

After the lunch, PrimeMinister General TheinSein presented a souvenirto Senior Minister of theRepublic of SingaporeMr. Goh Chok Tong.

The Senior Ministerof the Republic ofSingapore gave a bouquetto the artistes and cordiallygreeted them.—MNA

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