Development tasks facilitated in southern Shan State

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Established 1914
Volume XVI, Number 191
12th Waning of Thadingyut 1370 ME
Four social objectives
Four economic objectives
Four political objectives
* Stability of the State, community peace
and tranquillity, prevalence of law and
order
* National reconsolidation
* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution
* Building of a new modern developed nation
in accord with the new State Constitution
Sunday, 26 October, 2008
* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development 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 inside
the country and abroad
* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the
hands of the State and the national peoples
* Uplift of the morale and morality of the
entire nation
* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and
preservation and safeguarding of cultural
heritage and national character
* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit
* Uplift of health, fitness and education
standards of the entire nation
Development tasks facilitated in
southern Shan State
NAY PYI TAW, 25 Oct— Maj-Gen Min Aung
Hlaing of the Ministry of Defence yesterday morning
met with departmental officials of the Zawgyi-1 hydel
power station of Hydroelectric Power Generating
Enterprise at Bahtoo Station Yeiktha, Yaksawk Township, Shan State (South) and gave instructions on
regional development.
Next, Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and party
inspected the layers farm of U Law Kyan in
Thitpintaung Village, Ayethaya Myothit, Taunggyi
Township, thriving niger, pigeon pea and paddy on
either side of the road, condition of roads and bridges.
After that, Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing met with
officers and other ranks at Bayintnaung Hall of
Mongping Station and presented medicines, sports
equipment and provisions.
Afterwards, Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and
party proceeded to Mongping Basic Education Middle School (Branch) and inspected construction of
school buildings and its environs. During the tour,
Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing presented cash award to
the headmistress of the school and medicines and
medical equipment for Mongping Rural Health Centre through a health staff.—MNA
Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing visits Mongping Basic Education Middle School (Branch).
MNA
Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Myohaung
dual railroad facilitates smooth
transport of passengers, commodities
Article: Maung Ku Than
A passenger train heads for Mandalay along Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Myohaung dual railroad
section.
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7/30/18, 11:56 PM
For ensuring smooth and speedy flow of
passengers and commodities from Yangon to upper
Myanmar, the Yangon-Mandalay railroad is most
reliable facility. In the past, Yangon and Mandalay
was connected with single railroad. Up-trains and
down-trains waited for each other along the single
way in their runs. Therefore, passengers encountered difficulties in erratic schedules of the trains
and possible risks.
Despite trying to overcome the difficulties,
partial success could be gained. Accomplishment
of the plan could not be achieved. Nowadays, the
government has overcome the difficulties on Nay
Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Myohaung dual railroad section.
(See page 11)
2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 26 October, 2008
People’s Desire
PERSPECTIVES
UN members to work
hard together for more
prosperous world
The United Nations established for the
well-being of the world people is in its 63rd
anniversary this year. The UN represents the
global community more than any other
international organization, and is struggling
for realizing the Millennium Development
Goals: common vision of building a better
st
world in the 21 century.
Now, the whole world has come under the
threats of climate change that has caused a
growing number of natural disasters. And
the world people are facing food insecurity,
fuel insecurity, the spread of epidemics and
deadly weapons, and the scourge of terrorism.
It is now shockingly alarming that food
insecurity has posed a strong impact on about
one billion people around the world. Food
insecurity and soaring prices of food have
exacerbated the hardships of the people of
the developing countries.
Accordingly, members of the United
Nations are obliged to work together to
address the issues and problems including
food insecurity. The advances in the fight
against malaria throughout the world are the
results of top-notch science and technology
and harmonious implementation of control
campaigns by the countries concerned.
UN member countries have yet to make
continued efforts to deal with such great
challenges as seeking alternative fuel for
energy security, reduction of outbreak of
natural disasters triggered by climate change,
and long-term economic growth of world
countries.
The United Nations is now in intensive
pursuance of the Millennium Development
Goals of building a better world in the 21st
century. Therefore, all member countries
are to work hard together for the future
prosperity of world people.
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Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views
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Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy
Hsinyadana strain paddy field yields 222.5
baskets an acre in Nay Pyi Taw
NAY PYI TAW, 25 Oct—Commander of Nay Pyi
Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin attended the
harvesting of the 30-acre model field of Hsinyadana
strain monsoon paddy of the local regiment at Pinlaung
junction here this morning.
Capt Khin Maung Oo, in charge of the farm gave
accounts of the purpose and conditions of the model
plantation, and arrangements for harvesting the field.
Member of the board of directors of Good Brothers
Thai guests study teak plantations
NAY PYI TAW, 25
Oct — Minister for
Forestry Brig-Gen Thein
Aung received Deputy
Managing Director Mr
Amnart Khampalikit of
Forestry
Industry
Organization of Thailand
and members of a group
who study private
commercial
teak
plantations at the ministry
here yesterday morning.
The
Thai
delegation members
visited and studied the
private commercial teak
plantations in Kyangin
and Myanaung in
Ayeyawady Division and
Pyi and Paukkhaung
townships in Bago
Division established by
Phyo Sithu Co. — MNA
YANGON, 25 Oct — A ceremony to honour the
sales promoters, who had been on holiday in Bangkok,
Thailand, during Thingyan holidays this year under
the sponsorship of Ba Gyan & Brothers Co Ltd, the
sole agent of UAE-made Golden Power Brand engine
oil and RBI Brand rubber products, took place at the
Traders Hotel on Sule Pagoda Road here in conjunction
with a get-together on briefing on vacation programmes
for 2009 to be organized by Ba Gyan & Brothers Co
Ltd.
Managing Director U Ba Gyan extended
greetings and Director Ma Aye Mya Yadana spoke
words of thanks. The managing director briefed on
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Managing Director U Ba Gyan briefs
attendees on pakage tours for 2009 of
Ba Gyan & Brothers Co Ltd.—MNA
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Thai delegation visits teak plantations of
Phyo Sithu Company in Paukkhaung
Township.—FORESTRY
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Brothers Co Ltd
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Co U Myo Zaw reported on use of modern farming
implement, modern harvester, and combine-harvesters.
The commander inspected sample paddy plants,
paddy and rice, and farm implements. He viewed the
harvesting of the plantation, and the two-acre
Hsinyadana strain paddy field of farmers U Bo Nyunt
and U Hla Thein near the model field.
The per acre yield of the model paddy field was
222.5 baskets (green) and 210 baskets (dried).—MNA
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
sending of 35 sales promoters, who could carry out the
biggest sales, to Bangkok for their Thingyan holiday in
2008 and sending of 50 sales promoters in 2009.
Ba Gyan & Brothers Co Ltd is also planning to
distribute original spare parts of Toyota, Mitsubishi,
Honda, Isuzu, Nissan and Mazda.
Spare parts of those cars will be available on the
ground floor of Building No. 198, Bo Myat Tun Street,
Pazundaung Township, here, beginning
1 December. The showroom will be opened at Room
No. 1, Building No. 35, Bayintnaung Market in
Mayangon Township (Ph: 680597).
MNA
THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 26 October, 2008 3
Abbas’ forces deploy in West Bank
city of Hebron
HEBRON, (West Bank),
25 Oct — Palestinian
security forces are deploying in Hebron as
part of President
Mahmoud Abbas’ programme to strengthen
his control over the West
Bank.
Around 550 officers
are taking up positions in
the city, the third in the
West bank to be reinforced with forces loyal
to Abbas.
Hebron is the West
Bank's largest city and
considered a stronghold
of the militant Islamic
Hamas
movement,
which rivals Abbas’
Fatah. Hamas seized
Gaza by force in June
2007 and Abbas wants to
prevent a repeat in the
West Bank.
Palestinian security
officials said the deployment, which began in the
early hours of Saturday,
was coordinated with
Israel.Several hundred
Jewish settlers live in the
center of Hebron, under
heavy army guard.
Internet
Pakistan’s tribesmen hold remains of missile allegedly fired by US forces on
the outskirts of Pakistan’s tribal area of Miran Shah along Afghanistan
border on 23 Oct, 2008. Suspected US missiles struck a Taliban-linked school
in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing nine people, intelligence
officials said, in an apparent sign of American frustration with the country’s
anti-terror efforts.—INTERNET
Iraqi workers remove
debris at the site of a
suicide bombing in
Baghdad. Iraq took
DHAKA, 25 Oct — Two Bangladeshi development
control of the central
workers
in the Afghan province of Ghazni have been
Shiite province of Babil
kidnapped,
their employer said on Saturday, in the latfrom US forces, in what
local officials said was est of a string abductions in the troubled country.
Mahbub Hossain, executive director of the Banglafurther sign of security
desh
Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), the
gains across the wartorn nation.—INTERNET largest foreign development organization in Afghanistan, said it was not known who abducted the men.
“Our Kabul office informed us on Friday two of
our Bangladeshi men were abducted as they were going to a branch office in Ghazni,” Hossain said.
“We don’t know who abducted them and where they
have been taken,” he said.
Brac is the biggest private charity working in Afghanistan since 2002. It works on development
projects, including building schools, roads and
clinics.The insurgent Taleban movement, which controlled Afghanistan until it was ousted by a US invasion in 2001, has been behind a string of abductions
of Afghan and foreign nationals in the country.
Afghan policemen and security officials at the
The Taleban have tried to use hostages to barter with
site of a shoot-out in Kabul on 25 October.
the government and have killed a number of them.
INTERNET
Internet
Bangladeshi men
kidnapped in Afghanistan
Two foreigners, one Afghan
shot to death in Kabul
KABUL, 25 Oct —An Afghan police official says
two Germans and one Afghan have been shot to death
in front of a Western shipping company in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
Gen. Ali Shah Ahmadzai, Kabul’s deputy provincial police chief, says the two Germans worked for
the international shipping company DHL. The shooting took place in front of DHL’s office.
Saturday’s shooting follows the slaying in Kabul
of a dual South African-British citizen by Taliban gunmen earlier in the week.—Internet
Pakistan troops capture militant
stronghold
K HAR , (Pakistan ),25
Oct — Pakistan’s army
captured a militant
stronghold near the Afghan border, the military
said Saturday, a breakthrough in an offensive
against the Taleban and
al-Qaida that has sent
nearly 200,000 civilians
fleeing for safety.
Maj Gen Tariq Khan
said government forces
captured Loi Sam, a strategic town in the Bajur
tribal region, earlier this
week “and killed the militants who were hiding
there.”
Bajur is part of Paki-
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stan’s tribal belt that has
become the refuge of
Taleban and al-Qaida
fighters waging an intensifying insurgency on
both sides of the frontier.
Pakistan’s
army
launched an offensive in
Bajur in early August,
saying the region had become a “mega-sanctuary”
for militants who had set
up a virtual mini-state.
Commanders had reported stiff resistance near
Loi Sam, which sits on a
key road, from local
Taleban militants reinforced by foreign fighters
including some from Af-
ghanistan.
Khan said troops had
now overrun the area and
were in “complete control” of the town. Eleven
tribal militias had joined
the government side in the
region, he said.
Khan said a total of
1,500 suspected militants
and 73 troops had died in
the operation so far.
The army has acknowledged that residential areas have been badly damaged from fighting and its
use of artillery and
airstrikes, but has provided no figure for civilian casualties.—Internet
Men inspect a gym destroyed in Friday’s bombing in the Abu Dshir district of
Baghdad, Iraq, recently. A car bomb exploded in the main outdoor market in
Abu Dshir Friday killing 13 and wounding 27, police said.—INTERNET
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
Bolivia alleges US role in violent
jungle clash
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad points during the inauguration
of Iran’s fourth gas refinery feeding on natural gas from the joint IranQatar field in the Persian Gulf, in the port town of Assalouyeh 940 miles
(1,500 kilometers), south of the capital Tehehran, Iran, on 21 Oct, 2008.
INTERNET
Statement: China, Vietnam agree to find
lasting solution on South China Sea issue
BEIJJING, 25 Oct —
China and Vietnam agreed
to find a “basic and lasting”
solution acceptable by
both, said a joint statement
issued on Saturday in
Beijing.The two sides
reaffirmed to observe the
consensus by both and the
spirit of the Declaration
on the Code of Conduct on
the South China Sea, to
keep in place the negotiation mechanism on this
issue, and try to find a basic
and lasting solution
accepted by both in
accordance with the
United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea
in 1982.
Meanwhile, the two
sides pledged to consult
on finding a proper area
and way of making joint
exploration, said the
statement.
The two sides would
join hands to safeguard
stability of the South China
Sea, not take any action
that would complicate or
escalate disputes, said the
statement.
The two sides agreed,
in the principle of starting
from the simpler step,
to collaborate on oceanic
research, environmental
protection, meteoro-
logical and hydrological
forecast, oil exploration,
and information exchanges
by the two armed forces.
Internet
LA PAZ,(Bolivia), 25
Oct — A top Bolivian
official on Friday accused
the United States of
backing armed antigovernment groups in a
violent jungle clash that
left 15 people dead last
month, including 13
supporters of leftist
President Evo Morales.
Presidential Minister
Juan Ramon Quintana said
that Bolivia would
“denounce before the
entire world” that the US
had “participated in the
massacare” on 11Sept, in
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involvement” in the
province. US officials
could not be reached for
comment Friday night.
Morales has frequently
accused the US and its aid
programs of conspiring
against his government.
American officials have
denied the charges.
An already tense
relationship between the
two countries has soured
dramatically in recent
months. Bolivia booted its
US ambassador last month,
and Washington quickly
followed suit.—Internet
It is difficult for OPEC to sustain oil
price by cutting output
VIENNA, 25 Oct — In the
face of the ongoing global
financial crisis, it has
proved difficult for the
Organization of the
A Russian technician works at the Bushehr
nuclear power plant at the Iranian port town of
Bushehr, 1200 kms south of Teheran in 2007. US
sanctions on a Russian firm which allegedly
violated a ban on sales of sensitive military
technology to Iran will have a “negative” impact
on talks between world powers on Tehran’s
said after the launch of
SLA Mobile’s office in nuclear programme, Russia’s foreign ministry said
Friday.—INTERNET
Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
The market for mobile
content is developing
fast due to increasing
consumer demand, Stirk
MOSCOW, 25 Oct—A passenger on board a Russian
said.
“We registered our domestic flight has attempted to hijack the plane, local
business in Kuala Lumpur media reports say.
Russia’s Interfax news agency reported that the
in March 2007 and over
the last 18 months a lot passenger demanded that the plane divert to Vienna,
has happened,” the New Austria, instead of landing in Moscow.
The passenger was described as drunk, reports said.
Straits Times quoted Stirk
Air traffic control had been notified that crew
as saying.
The company works quickly regained control of the SkyExpress flight,
closely with the local telco from the Black Sea resort of Sochi, police said.
An official at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport told
players and it hopes to
expand the same kind of Interfax that the person had been “rendered harmless”
relationship with regional and that security personnel were ready to meet him
telcosas well, said its from the plane.
The flight landed in Moscow a little later than
director for Asia Pacific,
scheduled
and investigations into the incident were
Craig Richards.
continuing,
said Russian media. —Internet
Internet
Britain’s SLA Mobile
launches office in Malaysia
KUALA L UMPUR, 25
Oct — Britain’s mobile
content provider SLA
Mobile, which has made
Malaysia’s capital Kuala
Lumpur as its Asia Pacific
hub, is not unduly worried
about the impact a global
recession will have on its
prospects in the region,
local media reported on
Saturday.
Mobile data services
market in Asia is one of
the fastest growing, and
Malaysia is leading it,
SLA Mobile founder and
chief executive officer
Nic Stirk said.
“I do not see that the
global financial turmoil
will decrease demand for
mobile content ... but a
slowdown maybe,” he
the remote Amazonian
province of Pando.
Quintana did not
provide any evidence for
the charge or elaborate on
what he meant by the word
“participate,” alleging only
that the US “accompanied
the criminal policies”
of Pando’s opposition
governor, Leopoldo Fernandez, who has since been
jailed for allegedly
fomenting the violence.
Quintana also accused
the US Agency for
International Development of unspecified “direct
Russian passenger jet
‘hijacked’
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) to
sustain oil prices by cutting
the output, observers say.
On Friday, OPEC
announced the cut of daily
oil output by 1.5 million
barrels. But instead of
boosting the oil price in the
international market, the
move prompted world oil
prices to plunge to a 17month low.
Brent North Sea crude
for December delivery was
slashed to 61.08 U S dollars
per barrel, which was last
seen in March 2007. New
York’s main contract, light
sweet crude for December
delivery slumped to 63.05
dollars a barrel, the lowest
since May 2007.
On 11 July, 2008, the oil
price hit a record high of
147.27 dollars per barrel,
but it has plunged sharply
thereafter. Over the past
three months, oil price has
seen a steep slide in the
international market, partly
triggered by the financial
crisis across the world.
Internet
Blasts hit two Basque
train stations
MADRID, 25 Oct — A bomb ripped through a train
station in Spain’s Basque Country early on Saturday and hours later another station was hit by
molotov cocktails but no one was hurt in either incident, a police spokesman said.
The bomb exploded at about 0030 local time in
the town of Berriz, causing considerable damage, a
spokesman for Basque police said.
About two hours later two molotov cocktails hit
another train station in Amorebieta, the spokesman
said.—Internet
Railway employees examine damage to a train
station ticket office following a bomb attack in
Berriz on 25 Oct, 2008. —INTERNET
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang
(R, front) and European Commission President
Jose Barroso (L,
front) attended
the opening ceremony of ChinaEU School of
Law at the China
University of Political Science
and Law in
Beijing, China,
on 24 Oct, 2008.
XINHUA
Singapore Lee says world economy
to recover in 3 to 5 years
SINGAPORE, 25 Oct —
The world economy will be
restored in three to five
years if the banking system
does not malfunction, Singapore’s Minister Mentor
Lee Kuan Yew was quoted
as saying on Friday.
Lee was speaking to
some 700 delegates at the
closing dialogue of the inaugural Singapore Human
Capital Summit on Friday
night, according to local
TV Channel NewsAsia.
Lee, Singapore’s first
prime minister, said no one
can predict how long or
deep the current market turmoil will be. But he predicted that Asia would do
better than other regions,
provided China and India
continue with strong annual growth of around 8 to
9 percent.
He advised the audience
to use the current downturn
to upgrade employees.
“I think this is the time
when things are down,
when you have increased
unemployment. Use that
time to build up skills and
knowledge. Invest in it. We
do that each time, so when
the recovery takes place,
we got a better qualified
workforce to go upto the
next level,” he was quoted
as saying.
Xinhua
Brazil willing to help
Israel-Palestine peace talks
RIO DE JANEIRO, 25 Oct
— Brazil’s President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva said
on Friday that his country
would like to offer a helping hand in the peace negotiations between Israel
and the Palestinians.
At a meeting in Brasilia
with Palestinian Minister
of Information and Foreign Affairs Riad Al
Malki, Lula said that his
administration is also
willing to cooperate in the
areas of energy, infra-
structure and sports with
Palestine.
Brazilian Foreign Relations Minister Celso
Amorim said that Brazil’s
involvement in the peace
talks may be announced
during French President
Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitri
Medvedev’s visits to Brazil.
“We believe that countries like Brazil may bring
some fresh air to the peace
negotiations,” he said.
Amorim added that the
current international financial crisis will be the
prior subject to be discussed with the Russian
and French presidents.
Malki thanked Lula’s
willingness to help the
negotiations and to receive Palestinians from
Iraq. “Some of them are
still having problems to
adapt, but the Brazilian
government has extended
them warm help,” he
said.—Xinhua
A Long March-4B rocket carrying satellites coded as the 03 Group of the
Shijian-6 serial research satellites blasts off from the launch pad at the
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north China’s Shanxi Province, on
25 Oct, 2008.—XINHUA
Venezuela
announces
slash on oil
production
All items from Xinhua
News Agency
C ARACAS , 25 Oct —
The Venezuelan government announced Friday a
slash on crude oil production by 129,000 barrels
per day, from the current
daily output of 3.6 million
barrels.
The announcement was
made by Rafael Ramirez,
Venezuelan energy and oil
minister and president of
Petroleos de Venezuela, at
an extraordinary ministerial meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
in Vienna.
OPEC announced at
the meeting on Friday that
it would slash oil production by 1.5 million barrels
a day. The reduction will
take effect on 1 Nov.
Ramirez said that
OPEC's move was very
important to avoid the collapse of the oil prices.
Xinhua
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Plane crash kills four
in N Israel
Young ladies in costumes of minority groups perform tea ceremony during a
tea promotion activity held in Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou Province,
on 24 Oct, 2008. More than 100 tea factories and traders from 38 counties in
Guizhou Province exhibited their tea products here Friday.— XINHUA
Moderate quake hits easternmost Indonesia
JAKARTA, 25 Oct — An earthquake with magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter Scale
rocked easternmost of Indonesia on Saturday morning, with no report of damage
or casualty, meteorology agency said here.
The quake struck at 7:31 am Jakarta time (0031 GMT) with epicenter at 122
km southeast of Manokwari in West Irian Province and at 34 km in depth, an
official of the agency said.
Indonesia sits at a vulnerable zone called “the Pacific Ring of Fire” where two
continental plates, stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and
Southeast Asia, meet, causing frequent volcanic movements.—Xinhua
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
JERUSALEM, 25 Oct— Four people were killed in
a light plane crash in northern Israel on Friday, local
daily Ha’aretz reported on its website.
The pilot and her three passengers of the Cessna
172 small plane were pronounced dead at the scene
and investigation is underway on what caused the
crash, said the report, adding the plane lost communication shortly after taking off.
Investigators were quoted as saying that evidence
from the wreckage did not suggest the pilot attempted
an emergency landing but rather the plane hit the
ground at a steep angle while dropping with considerable momentum.—Xinhua
Colombian military helicopter
crashes for engine failure
BOGOTA, 25 Oct — A Colombian military helicopter Friday went down due to engine failure in
northwestern Colombia, with no casualties, military
sources said.
The helicopter, which belongs to the Air Force of
Colombia (FAC), crashed after engine failure in the
municipality of Anori, said Colonel Juan Barrera,
commander of the 14 Brigade of the Armyin the department of Antioquia.
Barrera dismissed that the accident was caused
by an attack from an armed group.—Xinhua
Notorious Taleban commander arrested
in S Afghanistan
KABUL, 25 Oct — Afghan police on Thursday
carried out an operation
against a notorious Taleban
commander, Mullah Juma
Gul, Thursday morning
and arrested the target successfully in southern Afghan province of Uruzgan,
said a police official on Friday.
Juma Gul Humat, the
provincial police chief told
Xinhua that police forces
ambushed the regional
Taleban leader Mullah
Juma Guloutside his hideout in Chahar Chinu district
of Uruzgan, arresting him
and one of his fellows
Mullah Abdul Hakim.
“Mullah Juma Gul, who
has over 150 armed men,
was suspected of facilitating and involving in several
attacks against Afghan and
international troops,” the
police chief said.
During the search of
their hideout, two satellite
phones, two AK-47s, some
pistols and walkie-talkies
Paraguayan rescue workers inspect the remains of a Cessna 402 twin engine
airplane that crashed in a wooded area in Limpio, 20 km (12.5 miles) north of
Asuncion, on 24 Oct, 2008. The plane, property of medical insurance comLOS ANGELES, 25 Oct — The number
pany Asismed, crashed due to mechanical failure killing all five occupants,
of people sickened by a salmonella outlocal aviation officials said.—INTERNET
break has risen to at least 32 in Los Angeles, health officials said on Friday.
BEIJING, 25 Oct — General Xiao Ke, a former vice
defence minister and president and first-political-commissar of the Military Academy, died of illness at the
age of 102 in Beijing on Friday.
Xiao was “an excellent member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a time-tested, faithful communist fighter, and a proletarian revolutionary and
militarist,” according to an official press release.
Xiao was a former member of the Consultant
Committee of the CPC Central Committee, a former
vice chairman of the Fifth National Committee of the
The number of people sickened by a
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
salmonella outbreak has risen to at
(CPPCC), and a former member of the Central Milileast 32 in Los Angeles, health officials
tary Commission.—Internet
said on 24 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET
were found and seized by
police, he added. However,
Taliban militants have yet
to make any comment.
Separately, the US-led
Coalition forces killed
three armed militants and
detained four suspected
militants during an operation targeting the Haqqani
terrorist network in eastern
Afghan province of
Paktika on Thursday, said
a Coalition statement issued here on Friday.
Internet
Salmonella outbreak sickens 32 people in Los Angeles
Veteran
army
leader
dies at
102
Fat dolphins going on a
diet at Japan aquarium
Dolphins at a Japanese marine park
are going on a low fat diet after
developing pot bellies and failing to
look sharp in their aquatic performances.
Kinosaki Marine World in western
Japan said Tuesday that all its 19
dolphins have been on a low fat diet
since late August, when they started
failing to hit jumping targets and keep
upright while treading water.
“We were puzzled by their poor
performance, then we noticed they
looked rounder,” said park spokesman
Haruo Imazu.
Poor sleep tied to memory trouble in black seniors
Older African Americans who have
difficulty falling asleep seem to be more
likely to have memory problems, a new
study suggests.
The study, of 174 African Americans
ages 65 to 90, found that those who said
they often had a hard time falling asleep
tended to have poorer scores on standard
tests of memory.
Research shows that up to 40 percent of
older adults have sleep disturbances,
particularly trouble falling asleep. Poor
sleep has also been linked to problems
with memory and other cognitive
functions. However, no studies until now
have looked at this relationship specifically
in older black adults — who, some research
suggests, tend to be especially vulnerable
to sleep problems.
In the current study, reported in the
journal Research on Aging, investigators
found that participants who’d been having
trouble falling asleep over the past year
generally had lower scores on tests of
short-term and working memory. Working
memory refers to the ability to tackle
multiple tasks at once. The link between
sleep and memory problems held when
the researchers accounted for several other
factors, including depression and overall
physical health.
Ruff journey: Atlanta
dog found in Florida
An undated handout picture from Yeti
ProjectNepal, received on 20 Oct, 2008,
shows what is alleged to be the footprint of
a Yeti (left) measured on the Dhaulagiri
mountain and compared to a human
footprint (right). A team of Japanese
adventurers say they have discovered
footprints they believe were made by the
legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan
regions of Nepal and Tibet.
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Ten children and five adults have been
hospitalized and are recovering from their
illness, according to the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health
(LACDPH).
The outbreak which was first detected on
15 Oct was traced to a kitchen that supplies
food to 39 preschools run by Volunteers of
America of Greater Los Angeles, said president of this non-profit organization Bob Pratt.
The victims fell ill with salmonella infection
after eating meals prepared by the kitchen,
the LACDPH said.Two days after the outbreak was detected, public health officials
closed the central kitchen, and asked it to
throw away the remaining food and thoroughly clean the kitchen. The central kitchen
reopened this week, Pratt said.—Internet
An Atlanta pooch traveled more than
400 miles for a Florida vacation, but
even that might not have been enough
for the golden retriever.
Pepper the dog was covered in fleas
and dirt when a St Petersburg man found
him outside a travel office during a
thunderstorm. Jay Getman took the dog
to a veterinarian. A microchip implanted
in the dog’s neck helped him reunite the
dog with his grateful owner last week.
Pepper went missing from a dog sitter's
home nine months ago when his family
was in Mexico.
Wei Shengchu inserts needles into his
forehead during a self-acupuncture
performance in Chongqing Municipality, China. Wei inserted 1,200
needles into his head during the show.
According to local media, the sixtyyear-old has the Guinness World
Record for self-acupuncturing, having
inserted 1,790 needles in his face.
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
Belarusian Leonid Kulakov feeds
sparrows with seeds mouth-to-beak
in Minsk, Belarus.
Robbers leave loot because
getaway car too small
Two armed robbers hijacked a security
van with $1.3 million inside but were
forced to abandon more than half the
cash because their small getaway car
could not carry it all, Malaysian police
said Tuesday.
The robbers and their compact getaway
car were still at large with $524,000
following Monday’s heist near Kuala
Lumpur, said district police chief
Shakaruddin Che Mood.
The robbers stole a small car then held
up guards in the security van at a shopping
mall. One robber drove the van away and
the other followed in the car, Shakaruddin
said.
NEWSALBUM
Post-Disaster Mental Health Course SWRR Minister receives IFRC officials
concludes
NAY PYI TAW, 24 Oct
— The closing ceremony
of Post-Disaster Mental
Health Course, conducted
by the Embassy of the
Republic of Singapore, took
place at Sedona Hotel,
Yangon this evening.
Singaporean
Ambassador Mr Robert H
K Chua and Deputy
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Chairman of the Tripartite
Core Group U Kyaw Thu
made speeches on the
occasion.
The Singaporean
Ambassador presented the
completion certificates to
the trainees.
A total of 35 staff
officers of the Ministry of
Health, the Ministry of
Social Welfare, Relief and
Resettlement, the Ministry
of Construction, the
Ministry of Home Affairs
and the Ministry of
Education attended the tenday course.
The course aimed at
providing assistance in
alleviating psychological
impact of disaster and it was
conducted under the trainthe-trainers approach by
experts from the related
fields in Singapore. The
topics of the course covered
Overview of Disaster,
Psychological Impact of a
Disaster, Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder, Guidelines
in
Psychological
Intervention, Psychological
First
Aid,
Crisis
Intervention and Listening
Skills, Community and
Family Interventions,
Death,
Grief
and
Bereavement
and
Management
of
Depression.
MNA
Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe receives Mr A Listair Henley
and party. — MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 24
Oct—Minister for Social
Welfare, Relief and
Resettlement Maj-Gen
Maung Maung Swe
received Head of Asia and
the
Pacific
Zone
Department Mr A Listair
Henley and party of
International Federation
of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies at
Maykhala Hall of the
ministry, here, this
morning.—MNA
Myanmar Medical Association
conference on 14 Jan
YANGON, 25 Oct—
The 55th medical
conference of Myanmar
Medical Association will
be held at the office of
MMA from 14 to 20
Singaporean Ambassador Mr Robert H K Chua presents completion
certificate to a trainee. — MNA
IAAF Youth Coaching Course
(Level 1) opens
YANGON, 25 Oct –
Jointly organized by
International Association
of Athletics Federations
and Myanmar Track and
Field Federation of the
Ministry of Sports, the
opening of IAAF Youth
Coaching Course (Level
1) was held at Goal Hotel
in National Football
Training
Centre,
Thuwunna, here, this
morning.
Chairman
U Tun
Lwin
presents a
laptop to a
responsible
person of
Shwekyitha
Lubricant
Trading
(Bayintnaung).
executives of MTFF,
course instructors and
trainees.
On behalf of the
Minister for Sports,
Director-General
U
Thaung Htaik made an
opening address and posed
for a documentary photo
together with the trainees.
Altogether
30
trainees are taking the one
week course.
MNA
Myanmar
Medical
Association of No. 249,
Theinbyu Street, Mingala
Taung Nyunt Towhship,
Yangon not later than 28
November.—MNA
Archery team leaves for Philippines
YANGON, 24 Oct—A
Myanmar archery team led
by Secretary U Kyaw Oo
of Myanmar Archery
Federation that will take
rd
part in the 3 Asian
Archery Grand Prix and
rd
the 3 SEA Archery
Championship to be held
in Manila of the Philippines
from 24 to 30 October left
here by air this morning.
They were seen off at
Yangon International
Airport by officials of the
Ministry of Sports and
executives of the MAF.
MNA
Director-General U Thaung Htaik addresses opening of IAAF Level
Youth Coaching Course. — SPED
Quality PTT lubricant introduced
YANGON, 25 Oct—A ceremony to
introduce PTT lubricant was held in
conjunction with the ceremony to
honour the sales agents at Traders Hotel
on 21 October.
Managing Director of Tunn Star Co
Ltd U Aung Naing Tun and Executive
Vice President of PTT Public Co Ltd
Mr Artasith Pothiapinyanvisuth
extended greetings and explained the
background history and functions of
PTT Public Co Ltd.
MNA
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It was attended by
General Secretary of
Myanmar
Olympic
Committee DirectorGeneral U Thaung Htaik
of Sports and Physical
Education Department
and officials, the general
secretary of central work
committee of Myanmar
Women’s
Sports
Federation and members
of the board of patrons,
the vice-chairmen and
January 2009.
Those wishing to
put forward their papers
to the conference can
contact the secretary of the
education committee,
7
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
Next, those from the companies
presented gifts to the sales agents who
stood first, second, third, fourth and fifth
in the sale of PTT lubricant during the
eight months of 2008.
Tunn Star Co Ltd is the sole agent to
distribute quality PTT brand gasoline,
diesel, various kinds of lubricant,
hydraulic oil, gear oil, compressor oil,
auto oil, engine oil for motorcycles and
special lubricant for vessels produced by
PTT Public Co Ltd of Thailand.—MNA
Ministers meet officials
of companies from PRC
Minister for Commerce Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein receives Chairman
Mr Zhou Yu Hao of Guangxi Biayon Company of the PRC.—MNA
Sagaing Division PDC Chairman’s Cup
Football Tournament kicks off
YANGON, 25 Oct –
Chairman of Sagaing
Division Peace and
Development Council
Commander of North-
West Command Brig-Gen
Myint Soe delivered an
address at the opening of
Sagaing Division PDC
Chairman’s Cup Football
Tournament at the sports
ground in Monywa on 21
October and watched the
match.
MNA
Province at Liguan Resort
on 20 October. They
discussed cooperation in
transport sector and other
sectors and mutual
interest.
Minister for
Communications, Posts
and Telegraphs Brig-Gen
Thein Zaw met South-East
Asia region In-charge Mr
Liu Peng Chang of Alcatel
Shanghai Bell Co and
discussed production of
machinery parts at Liguan
Resort on 21 October. On
22 October, the minister
met Deputy Minister for
Information
and
Communications of the
Socialist Republic of
Vietnam Dr Tran Duc Lai
and they discussed
promotion of investment
in communications sector.
On 22 October,
Minister for National
Planning and Economic
Development U Soe Tha
attended dinner hosted by
Minister for Commerce of
the PRC Mr Chen Deming
in honour of Economic
Ministers from ASEAN
nations who attended the
5th
China-ASEAN
Business and Investment
Summit held at Jilinge
Restaurant
Qinxiu
Mountain Resort in
Nanning.
Deputy Minister for
Foreign Affairs U Maung
Myint and the DirectorGeneral of Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of
Guangxi
Zhuang
Autonomous Region
discussed
bilateral
cooperation at Minyuan
Shintu Hotel in Nanning
on 22 October.
Deputy Minister for
Electric Power No. 2
Brig-Gen Win Myint met
the Chairman of Yunnan
United Development Co
(YUPD),
General
Manager Mr Yuan
Xizlung of Central China
Power Grid Co (CCPG)
and Chief Financial
Officer Mr Xing Wei of
Shichuan Machinery and
Equipment Import and
Export Co Ltd (SCMEC)
at Liguan Resort on 21
October. They discussed
matters relating to
electric
power
equipment.
MNA
Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-Gen Thein
Zaw meets Mr Liu Peng Chang, SEA region In-charge of Alcatel
Shanghai Bell Co.—MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 25
Oct — The ministers and
the deputy ministers met
officials of the respective
companies in Nanning, the
People’s Republic of
China after attending the
5th China-ASEAN Expo
and the 5th China-ASEAN
Business and Investment
Summit held in Nanning,
Guangxi
Zhuang
Autonomous Region, the
PRC.
Minister for Commerce
Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein
met Chairman of Guangxi
Biayon Co Mr Zhou Yu
Hao on 20 October and
Mayor of Nanning Mr
Huang Fangfang at Liguan
Resort on 21 October.
They discussed matters on
trade and investment and
construction of Myanmar
trade representative’s
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office in Nanning.
Minister for Mines
Brig-Gen Ohn Myint met
Managing Director Mr Liu
Jinguan of BCK National
Investment Co Ltd on 20
October, Board Chairman
Secretary PHD Guan
Yueqing Director General
Manager Researcher and
party on 21 October and
Deputy Chief Mr Zhang
De of Foreign Economic
Cooperation Division of
Department of Commerce
of Yunnan Province at
Liguan Resort on 23
October. They discussed
matters on economy and
investment.
Minister for Electric
Power No. 1 Col Zaw Min
met Chairman of CGGC
Co, Chairman of Ying Jing
Duayan Hydro Power
Development
Co,
Chairman of Guangxi
Electric Power Investment
Co, Chairman of China
Datang Corporation,
Chairman of Yunnan
Provincial
Power
Investment Co, Yunnan
United
Power
Development Co, ViceChairman of Henergy
Group Co, Chairman of
China Power Investment
Co at Liguan Resort on 20
October. Their meetings
focused on cooperation
in hydro-electric power
projects.
Minister for Transport
Maj-Gen Thein Swe met
the Chairman of BCK
National Investment Co
Ltd and the Deputy
Director of Foreign
Economic Relations
Division, Economic
Division of Yunnan
Minister for Electric Power No. 1 Col Zaw Min receives the Chairman
of China Power Investment Co and party.
MNA
Deputy Minister for Electric Power No. 2 Brig-Gen Win Myint meets
the Chairman of Yunnan United Development Company (YUPD).
MNA
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
Maj-Gen Khin Zaw inspects
regional development in…
(from page 16)
Afterwards, MajGen Khin Zaw and party
inspected construction
project of Ganantaung
Bridge on YangonSittway motor road,
rubber plantation in
Pyeinchaung village,
thriving paddy fields
along the road and
condition of road
sections, near milepost
No (146/4).
Maj-Gen Khin
Zaw, Commander MajGen Thaung Aye and
party attended the
ceremony to open huskfired gas and dieselmixed use power station.
Chairman
of
Cooperative Limited
and a townselder opened
the station.
Afterwards, com-
Ayeyawady Division
presents Buridat Drama
NAY PYI TAW, 23 Oct – The Buridat Drama
th
Contest of the 16 Myanmar Traditional Cultural
Performing Arts Competitions continued at the
convocation of the University of Veterinary Science
here this evening.
The drama troupe representing Ayeyawady
Division took part in the contest.
Among the audience were Minister for
Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan and wife Daw Kyi
Kyi Win, Secretary of Leading Committee for
Performing Arts Competition Director-General of
Archaeology, National Museum and Library
Department U San Win, judges, officials and
enthusiasts.
MNA
mander
Maj-Gen
Thaung Aye pressed the
button to unveil the
station’s signboard and
Maj-Gen Khin Zaw to
open station’s switch,
and sprinkled the station
with scented water.
The power station
is installed with the two
turbines of 250 KVA and
is built by Kyauktaw
Township
Electric
Power Supply Board and
Myanmar Inventors
Cooperatives Ltd.
MNA
Myanmar get
one more
silver
Y ANGON , 25 Oct—
Myanmar lost 15-21 to
Thailand and won silver
in the final match of Sepak
Takraw (REGU) event on
st
21 October in the 1 Asian
Beach Games 2008 in
Bali, Indonesia.
The co-runners-up are
host Indonesia and the
Republic of Korea.
So far, Myanmar have
won two golds and three
silvers.
MNA
Deputy Director-General Dr Aung Gyi of LBVD attends a ceremony
to hand over draught cattle and buffalo to farmers of storm-hit
regions.—MNA
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Marionette show presented
NAY PYI TAW, 25
Oct—Htet
Arkar
Marionette Troupe of the
Fine Arts Department
under the Ministry of
Culture presented their
marionette drama entitled
‘Htwe Nyo’ at No. 7
Transit Centre in Ywadaw
this evening.
Among
the
audience were Chairman
of the leading committee
for holding the Myanmar
Traditional Cultural
Performing
Arts
C o m p e t i t i o n s
Commander of Nay Pyi
Taw Command Maj-Gen
Wai
Lwin,
Vice-
Chairman of the leading
committee Minister for
Culture Maj-Gen Khin
Aung Myint and wife and
judges.
After
the
marionette drama, those
responsible and judges
reviewed and made an
assessment.—MNA
Ayeyawady Division troupe presenting Buridat Drama.
MNA
Model monsoon paddy plot in
Pantanaw Township harvested
YANGON, 25 Oct—
A ceremony to harvest the
one-acre model monsoon
paddy plantation of
farmer U Kyaw Than
Aung in Phayagyibet
Village,
Pantanaw
Township,
Maubin
District, Ayeyawady
Division was held at the
plantation on 20 October.
Chairman of the
Township Peace and
Development Council U
Mya Oo made a speech
on the occasion and
adviser U Soe Myint of
Supreme Group of
Companies explained
how to use Supreme biofertilizer, farmer U Kyaw
Than
Aung
the
advantages of using the
fertilizer and deputy
manager U Kyi Maung
the effectiveness of the
bio-fertilizer. The oneacre plot has produced
101.05 baskets of paddy
but it produced only
about 70 baskets of
paddy as the biofertilizer was not used.
Altogether 3 bags of
Supreme bio-fertilizer
and 1/4 bag of urea
fertilizer were used in the
model paddy plot.
MNA
Draught buffalo handed over in Hmawbi
Village, Pyapon Township
YANGON, 25 Oct—
Deputy
DirectorGeneral Dr Aung Gyi of
Livestock Breeding and
Veterinary Department
under the Ministry of
Livestock and Fisheries
attended a ceremony to
hand over draught cattle
and buffalo to farmers
of storm-hit regions
jointly undertaken by
FAO and LBVD at
Hmawbi
Village,
Pyapon
Township,
Ayeyawady Division
yesterday morning.
At the ceremony,
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
Dr Aung Gyi said that
cattle and buffalo are
distributed to farmers so
that they can fully engage
in paddy cultivation and
stressed the need for
farmers to properly take
care of the farm animals.
He added that those from
the respective LBVDs
will provide the health
care for the farm animals
that will be used in this
year’s summer paddy
cultivation.
Also present on
the occasion were Head
of Ayeyawady Division
LBVD Dr Myint Htay,
Head of the District
LBVD Dr Kaung Nyunt,
Dr Thanawat Tiensin of
FAO, Secretary of
Pyapon Township PDC
U Tin Htut and officials
and farmers.
Next, Dr Aung
Gyi and Dr Thanawat
Tiensin handed over 150
draught buffalo and 150
bags of feedstuff to the
farmers of Hmawby
Township and Kyan
Village in Pyapon
Township.
MNA
Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts
Competitions continue for tenth day
NAY PYI TAW, 25 Oct –
The 16 th Myanmar
Traditional
Cultural
Performing
Arts
Competitions continued
for the tenth day at the
A boy from Yangon Division taking part in the
basic education level (aged 10-15) boys’ violin
contest.—MNA
A contestant from Mon State competes in
Kwetseik contest.—MNA
Hlawga Wildlife Park opens
on Depavali Day
NAY PYI TAW, 25 Oct—The Forest Department
opens Hlawga Wildlife Park from 8 a.m to 4 p.m
every day. On Depavali Day (28 October), the park
will be kept open from 8 a.m to 5 p.m for better
comfort and convenience of the visitors. —MNA
MFF President U Zaw Zaw, coaches and
Brazilian players pose for photo.—NLM
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A girl from Yangon Division participates in the amateur level (second class) women’s orchestra
contest (Individual). — MNA
designated places here
today.
Among the audience
were Chairman of
Leading Committee for
th
Holding the 16 Myanmar
Traditional Cultural
Performing
Arts
Competitions Commander of Nay Pyi Taw
Command Maj-Gen Wai
Lwin, Vice-Chairman
Minister for Culture MajGen Khin Aung Myint,
Minister for Religious
Affairs Brig-Gen Thura
Myint Maung, Deputy
Minister for National
Planning and Economic
Development Col Thurein
Zaw, Deputy Minister for
Energy Brig-Gen Than
Htay, senior military
officers, Secretary of
leading
committee
Director-General U Sann
Win of Department of
Archaeology, National
Museum and Library,
Secretary of work
committee DirectorGeneral U Yan Naing Oo
of Fine Arts Department
and members, departmental officials, judges
(central), judges from
states and divisions,
contestants and national
races.
Altogether
four
contestants took part in the
Kwetseik contest at the
convocational hall of the
University of Veterinary
Science.
A total of 43
contestants competed in
the amateur level (second
class) women’s and basic
education level (aged 510) girls’ and (aged 1015) boys’ classical song
contests at the auditorium
of the University of
Agriculture. Altogether
19 contestants participated
in the basic education level
(aged 10-15) boys’, (aged
10-15) girls’ and higher
educational level men’s
and women’s violin
contests at the assembly
hall of the Forest Research
Division.
A total of 12
contestants took part in the
amateur level (first class)
men’s and basic education
level (aged 15-20) girls’
xylophone contests at the
training hall of the
University of Agriculture.
Altogether
13
contestants competed in
the basic education level
(aged 10-15) women’s
and (aged 15-20) girls’
and amateur level (second
class) women’s orchestra
contests (individual) at
the convocational hall of
the University of
Agriculture.
MNA
Myanmar-Brazil soccer matches 26, 28 Oct
YANGON, 25 Oct—A
press conference on
introducing the team of old
selected
Brazilian
footballers, who will play
Myanmar-Brazil fund
raising matches, took
place at Hotel Yangon Stadium on 28 October. funds for the storm
here this afternoon.
The proceedings of the victims.
President U Zaw Zaw matches will go to the
NLM
of the Myanmar Football
Federation delivered an
introductory speech.
President U Zaw Zaw and
manager, coaches and
players of the Brazil team
replied to the queries
raised by the journalists.
Later in the afternoon,
the Brazilians taught basic
football to the trainees at
the Sports and Physical
Education
Institute
(Yangon).
The Brazilian team
plays against the team of
old selected Myanmar
footballers at Thuwunna
Sports Grounds on 26
October and against the
selected
Myanmar
A Brazilian player demonstrates how to
football team at Aung San
control the ball.—NLM
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Myohaung dual railroad facilitates
smooth transport of passengers, commodities
Article: Maung Ku Than
(from page 1)
The dual railroad was built with two parallel
railroads. In the past, Yangon-Mandalay railroad
comprised some sections of dual railroad. To link
these dual railroad sections among them, Nay Pyi
Taw Pyinmana-Myohaung dual railroad section was
constructed.
The completed Nay Pyi Taw PyinmanaMyohaung dual railroad section is 157.75 miles long.
A total of 490 rail bridges including 10 major bridges
of above 180 feet long were built along the railroad.
Duel railroad sections were constructed from Yangon
to Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana measuring 225 miles long
and Myohaung-Madalay measuring 2.75 miles long.
Nowadays, the whole railroad from Yangon to
Mandalay measuring 385.5 miles long can be used as
a dual railroad.
Thanks to construction of the Yangon-Mandalay
and Mandalay-Yangon railroads, the trains can save
the driving time and they run through the right time.
Railroad accidents can be reduced. Passengers enjoy
the fruits of running more trains.
Today, efforts are being made for development
of Nay Pyi Taw in all aspects. In so doing, smooth
transport plays an important role. All the passengers to
Nay Pyi Taw are convenient in their travels thanks to
the Ministry of Rail Transportation. Indeed, the rail
transportation is the most comfortable and cheapest.
Furthermore, by centring Nay Pyi Taw, trains
are running along the routes such as Nay Pyi Taw-
Scientists ID three new candidate genes
for schizophrenia
L OS A NGELES, 25 Oct—American and Dutch
researchers believe they may have identified three
genes tied to the development of schizophrenia.
The suspects are rare copy number variants, or
CNVs—deletions and duplications in the human
genome that appear to interrupt genes associated with
brain function. The three CNVs were common in the
genetic makeup of 54 Dutch patients diagnosed with
deficit schizophrenia, a severe chronic and debilitating
form of the psychiatric disease.
“These genes were not implicated in schizophrenia
before,” researcher Roel A. Ophoff, an assistant
professor with the Center for Neurobehavioral
Genetics at University of California, Los Angeles,
said in a university news release. “So next, we tested
these three genes in a large follow-up study of more
than 750 general-schizophrenia patients and 700
controls. And what surprised us is that roughly 1
percent of schizophrenia patients harbor these genomic
deletions.”
The findings were published in the October issue of
The American Journal of Human Genetics.
Scientists suspect that increased susceptibility to
many other diseases may also be tied to such missing
or duplicated segments of DNA.
Identifying these genes may provide a better
insight into the biology of schizophrenia and why
some people seem to be at a greater risk to develop
the disease, Ophoff said.
Internet
A new way to make sticky tape
see-through
WASHINGTON, 25 Oct —
Researchers have found a
new “see-through” use for
clear sticky tape — it
produces X-rays when it is
peeled off the roll.
The report in the journal
Nature confirms a theory
dating back to 1930 — that
the process of peeling the
tape releases energy not
only in the form of a flash of
visible light, but also an Xray.
Many children hiding
in
closets
have
demonstrated
that
unwinding sticky tape
produces sparks of light.
The phenomenon is called
triboluminescence and is
caused by the movement
of one surface against
another.
Carlos Camara of
University of California,
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Los Angeles and colleagues
used a motorized peeling
machine to unwind a roll of
tape in a vacuum.
They generated enough
X-rays to show the bones
inside their fingers.
“The tape has to be in
the vacuum. Your hand can
be outside,” Camara said in
a telephone interview on
Thursday.
“If you unroll the tape
on your office desk in
ambient conditions you
only get visible light. You
don’t get X-rays,” he added.
This is because gases in the
air slow down the electrons
that produce the X-rays.
“What always makes Xrays in general is electrons
that are moving very fast
and suddenly get stopped,”
Camara, a physicist, said.
Internet
An undated handout
photo of the peel vertex
of scotch tape showing
the roll at left with a
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microns repeased to
Reuters on 23 Oct,
2008. Researchers have
found a new ‘seethrough’ use for clear
sticky tape, it produces
x-rays when it is peeled
off the roll.
INTERNET
Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw-Bagan, Nay Pyi Taw-Pyay
and Nay Pyi Taw-Mawlamyine. In this regard,
infrastructures of the rail transportation sector were
facilitated along the routes by extending of
locomotives, carriages and wagon coaches, upgrading
the engines and building new railways stations.
The government did not focus on commercial
scale of rail transportation facilities. Priority was
given to the interest of the local people who relies on
the rail transportation. Thanks to the government’s
efforts, the fruits of rail transportation facilities across
the nation reflect the unity of all the national people.
*****
Translation: TTA
Kyemon: 12-10-2008
A hot cuppa helps melt hearts?
A waiter carries two
cups of Turkish coffee
at a coffee shop in
Istanbul.—INTERNET
CHICAGO, 25 Oct—It
may seem unlikely, but
simply clutching a warm
cup of coffee can bring on
a flood of warm feelings,
US researchers said on
Thursday in a finding that
suggests a strong link
between physical and
emotional warmth.
“Physical warmth can
make us see others as
warmer people, but also
cause us to be warmer —
more generous and
trusting — as well,” said
John Bargh, a professor of
psychology at Yale
University in Connecticut,
whose research appears in
the journal Science.
Bargh and Lawrence
Williams of University of
Colorado at Boulder ran a
series of experiments to test
the ties between physical
temperature and emotional
warmth.—Internet
Polar bears dying out in
Russian region
MOSCOW, 25 Oct—Polar bears are
dying out in the remote Arctic region of
Chukotka because of melting ice and
increased killing by humans, an expert
with the International Fund for Animal
Welfare warned on Friday.
“If this tendency continues, the
population will disappear very quickly,
said Nikita Ovsyanikov, a researcher
from Wrangel Island natural park in
Chukotka who has spent the past 18
years studying polar bears in the region.
“We need to create new protected
areas in the Arctic,” said Ovsyanikov,
who has conducted research on behalf
of IFAW.
The shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet
is forcing more bears to live on land in
the summer where they often have
trouble finding food, which means they
have to go into villages to scavenge and
are more likely to be shot, he said.
Polar bear furs are also becoming
increasingly popular in Russia, where
the killing of polar bears is strictly
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A polar bear eats a fish as he just
woke up after winter sleeping at the
Zoo in St Petersburg.—INTERNET
forbidden except for self-defence.
IFAW estimates around 100 polar
bears are killed illegally in Russia
every year.
There are a total of around 22,000
polar bears in the Arctic. Five thousand
of them live between Chukotka and the
US state of Alaska and are being forced
further and further north because of the
melting ice, IFAW said.
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ACCRA, (Ghana), 25 Oct
— A top security official
says an Israeli businessman has been kidnapped in
Ghana and the kidnappers
have contacted his family
to demand a $300,000 ransom. National Security
Coordinator Sam Amoo
told the Ghana News
Agency the businessman
was kidnapped on Sunday
in the West African nation
and the kidnappers initially demanded $500,000
ransom, then lowered it to
$300,000.
Officials refused to disclose the identity of the
businessman or any further details about the case.
A task force had been
set up to try to win the Israeli' release.— Internet
Italian satellite launched from California
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE ellite blasted off on Friday
BASE, (Calif), 25 Oct — evening from the CaliforA rocket carrying an Ital- nia coast.
ian Earth-observation satThe Delta rocket II
The third COSMO-SkyMed spacecraft for Italy’s
civil and security Earth-observing system lifts off
from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base
aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 10:28 pm EDT
on 24 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET
lifted off around 7:30 pm
and made an arc south
over the dark Pacific
Ocean as it headed toward
orbit.
The payload was the
third part of a four-satellite system called
COSMO-SkyMed —
short for Constellation of
Small Satellites for Mediterranean Basin Observation — developed under
an agreement between the
Italian Space Agency and
Italy's defense ministry.
The satellites use radar
to create images for civil
protection, defence, science and commercial purposes.
The first two satellites
were launched last year
from Vandenberg, 130
miles west of Los Angeles, and the system
became operational in
August.
Internet
Governor says at least a
Rail agency sues contractor
dozen dead in Yemen flooding
over LA collision
A Malaysian customer shops at a wet market in
Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 25
Oct, 2008. Rising food and transport costs kept
Malaysia’s annual inflation high at 8.2 percent in
September despite cuts in retail gasoline prices,
according to government data released on 24 Oct,
2008.—INTERNET
LOS ANGELES, 25 Oct —
The Southern California
Regional Rail Authority
has filed a federal lawsuit
asking a judge to determine
whether its contractor can
be held responsible for the
deadly collision of one of
its Metrolink commuter
trains and a freight train.
The rail agency, already
facing two lawsuits related
to the 12 Sept disaster, sued
Alleged drug cartel leader charged in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, 25 Oct —
Mexican prosecutors have
charged an alleged cartel
leader and brother of drug
kingpin Ismael “El Mayo”
Zambada and 15 associates with organized crime,
drug trafficking, weapons
possession and attempted
homicide.
Prosecutors said on Friday in a statement that Jesus “The King” Zambada
and the other suspects
have been transferred to
maximum-security prisons to await arraignment.
They were arrested
in Mexico City earlier
this week following a
shootout in which several policemen were
wounded.
Prosecutors describe
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Zambada as a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa
drug cartel in central
Mexico. He allegedly was
involved in crimes includ-
ing smuggling cocaine
and methamphetamines
through the Mexico City
airport.
Internet
Connex Railroad LLC after they could not agree on
whether their contract protects the other from liability, according to court papers released Friday.
Connex provides engineers
who run the Metrolink
trains, including the engineer blamed for the deadly
collision.
“An actual controversy
has arisen and now exists
between SCRRA and
Connex,” according to the
lawsuit, which asks the
court to interpret the contract and determine which
party could be held liable.
Connex is a subsidiary of
Veolia Transportation, a private operator of bus, rail,
shuttle and other transportation services throughout
North America. Veolia
spokeswoman
Erica
Swerdlow said the company
would not comment on ongoing litigation involving
the company.—Internet
SANAA, 25 Oct — At least a dozen people have been
reported dead and tens of thousands have evacuated
an area of Yemen due to flooding, a local official told
the Yemen Post on Friday.
Some evacuees are being taken to schools, but the
schools can accommodate only 10 percent of the
evacuees, al-Khanbashi told al-Masmari, leaving the
rest without shelter at the moment.
The government has promised to send tents as emergency shelter, he said.
Saba, the Yemen News Agency, said 48 people had
been reported killed or missing.
The flooding comes after more than a full day of
rain in the Middle Eastern country, which normally
receives only a few inches of rain per year.—Internet
Men try to reach a vehicle carrying tourists
stranded in floodwaters in the old district of Sanaa
on Friday.—INTERNET
Sudanese forces, rebels clash in north Darfur
A man identified by Mexico’s Attorney General’s
office as Jesus Zambada Garcia, known as Jesus
‘The King’ Zambada, center, one of the top four
leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, is led away by a
masked police officer as Garcia and other alleged
Sinaloa drug cartel members are presented to the
press in Mexico City, on 22 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET
KHRTOUM, 25 Oct — Sudanese government forces and a rebel faction have
clashed in north Darfur, two rebel groups said on Friday.
Mohamed Abdullah, a commander with a faction of the Sudan Liberation Army
(SLA) headed by Abdel-Wahed Mohamed el-Nur, said his group lost two fighters
but captured a number of government vehicles and weapons in the clash on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Sudanese military could not confirm the incident but said
the army had troops operating in north Darfur.—Internet
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Los Angeles sees highest number of
infections by West Nile virus
US health officials said the Los Angeles area has
seen the highest number of human infections by
West Niles virus this year in its history, with 131
reported cases and three deaths.—XINHUA
LOS ANGELES, 25 Oct Thursday.
“All of Los Angeles
— The Los Angeles area
has seen the highest County is considered
number of human endemic with West Nile
infections by West Nile virus,” said Robert
virus this year in its Saviskas, executive
history, with 131 reported director of the Los
cases and three deaths, Angeles County West
health officials said on Vector and Vector-Borne
Confucius
Institute of
Pisa
founded
in Italy
Disease Control District.
Elderly people or those
with
compromised
immune systems are more
susceptible to West Nile
virus, which can cause
fever, encephalitis or
meningitis.
Most people in good
health who contract the
virus do not show any
symptoms and recover
quickly, Saviskas said.
Seven Californians
have died this year of the
virus, which is transmitted
by mosquito bites. There
have been 345 reported
human cases of West Nile
virus this year in the state,
according to the California
Department of Public
Health.—Internet
ROME, 25 Oct— The Confucius Institute of Pisa, the
fourth of its kind in Italy, was inaugurated on Thursday
at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa.
It was jointly founded by the Sant’Anna School of
Advanced Studies of Pisa and Chongqing University,
which is located in southwest China.
At the inauguration ceremony, representatives from
the two countries said the Confucius Institute of Pisa
will promote Chinese language training and Chinese
culture, enhance the mutual understanding and
friendship between the two peoples.—Internet
A taxi enters a Pemex gasoline station in Mexico City in January 2008.
Energy experts welcomed the Mexican Senate’s approval of a watered-down
energy reform bill, after months of debate, that aims to boost falling
production at state oil company Pemex.—INTERNET
Study finds cold viruses activate killer gene5
WASHINGTON, 24 Oct–
The common cold virus
activates dozens of
immune system genes in
the lining of the nose,
including some natural
anti-virals that might be
used as the basis of new
drugs,
researchers
reported on Friday.
It also appears to shut
down some genes, but to a
lesser degree, the
international
team
reported in the American
Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine.
Of particular interest is
a gene that controls a
natural antiviral called
viperin, said David Proud
of the University of
Calgary in Alberta, who
led the study.
Viperin,
only
discovered in the 1990s,
was known to be involved
in other viral infections
but not the common cold,
Proud said. “This had
never been examined
during
rhinovirus
infections,” he said.
Proud and colleagues,
including a team at cold
remedy maker Procter &
Gamble Co, tested 35
people who agreed to be
infected with a common
cold virus called human
rhinovirus 16.
Hours after infection,
the researchers scraped a
little bit of the lining from
inside the volunteers’
noses and analyzed gene
expression, or activity, in
the cells.—Internet
Dengue fever claims 81 lives in
Malaysia
A trade show visitor walks past a poster of a Sri Lankan aircraft during a trade show
for Asian travel markets on 23 Oct, 2008 in Singapore. Singapore’s trade and
industry minister said that while the current economic slowdown may affect the
tourism industry in the short term, the region is expected to rebound and grow in the
medium term, bolstered by the continued expansion of China and India.—INTERNET
Panama Canal revenue hits record high in fiscal year 2008
PANAMA CITY, 25 Oct — The Panama Canal’s income hit a record high of
2.007 billion U.S. dollars in the 2008 fiscal year ending on 30 Sept, Panama
Canal Authority said on Friday.
The figure represented a growth of 14 percent from the 1.76 billion dollars
in fiscal 2007.
The canal authority said the canal had put up a good performance despite
the impact of the world financial crisis.
Vice President of Canal Operation Manuel Benites said the canal saw an
increase in passenger vessel transits from 205 to 241, up 17.6 percent.—Internet
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KUALA LUMPUR, 25 Oct — A total of
81 people died of dengue fever in
Malaysia from early this year to 18 Oct,
the Health Ministry said, local media
reported on Saturday.
A total of 36,991 cases of dengue
fever had been reported, the Health
Ministry’s disease control division
director Hassan Abdul Rahman said.
Between 12 Oct and 18, 961 dengue
cases were reported in the country.
Several states reported an increase in
dengue cases. Among them were
northern Perak state with a 214 percent
increase, northern Terengganu state
(78.9 percent), the administrative center
Putrajaya (50 percent), central Selangor
state (49.6 percent), southern Johor state
A boy walks on the street
in front of a power station
in Caracas on 22 Oct,
2008. Despite having some
of the world’s largest
energy reserves, Venezuela is increasingly
struggling to maintain
basic electricity, a growing
challenge to leftist
President Hugo Chavez.
Picture taken on 22 Oct,
2008.—INTERNET
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(44.8 percent) and eastern Sabah state
(20 percent), he said.
He blamed public apathy for the
situation, according to report by the New
Straits Times.
Ministry officials and district councils
found that 78.9 percent of Aedes breeding
grounds were in houses and shops, he said.
The ministry had distributed 68,665
leaflets on preventing dengue at Aedesprone locations, Hassan said, adding that
a total of 316 compounds worth 55,665
ringgit (15,549 US dollars) had also been
issued.
He urged the public to spend 10
minutes every week to locate and destroy
mosquito breeding spots around their
house. —Internet
SPORTS
Scolari refuses to rule out new
signings in January
LONDON, 25 Oct — Luiz Felipe Scolari has warned
Peter Kenyon not to shut the Chelsea cheque book
after the club’s chief
executive claimed they
were unlikely to make any
more signings this season.
Kenyon hinted this
week that the January
transfer window would be
a quiet period for the Blues
because Scolari already
has a squad packed with
world-class talent.
But although Chelsea
boss Scolari is happy with
Chelsea’s Brazilian coach his team, he knows injuries
Luiz Felipe Scolari gives or loss of form could force
a press conference ahead him into the transfer
of their Champions market when the window
League match against reopens on New Years’s
Roma at Stamford Bridge Day. “Every week when I
in London, on 21 Oct. meet Peter I say I am
Scolari has warned Peter happy with the squad but
Kenyon not to shut the we don’t know what will
Chelsea cheque book after happen until January,”
the club’s chief executive Scolari said. “Peter says no
claimed they were unlikely until January but that is
normal because it is
to make any more
impossible to buy players
signings this season.
now.—Internet
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Everton
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Man Utd
Sunderland
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Everton's Phil Jagielka (L) and Leon Osman (R)
challenge Manchester United's Park Ji-Sung (C)
during their English Premier League soccer
match in Liverpool, northern England, October
25, 2008. — INTERNET
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LOS ANGELES, 25 Oct —
England midfielder David
Beckham finally confirmed
on Friday he’s in talks for a
short-term loan to AC
Milan in early 2009.
The former England
captain will play his final
game of the MLS season
for the Los Angeles Galaxy
here on Sunday and intends
to be back in a Galaxy shirt
by the start of next season
in late March or early April.
“Although nothing is
confirmed at present, we
can confirm that talks are
taking place with Milan
with regard to a short-term
loan move at the start of
next year,” a short
statement on Beckham’s
official web site said.
“David very much
remains a Galaxy player
and he will be in Los
Angeles for the start of the
2009 MLS season.”
England midfielder
David Beckham, seen
here in 2007, finally
confirmed on Friday he’s
in talks for a short-term
loan to AC Milan in early
2009.—INTERNET
Beckham, 33, has 107
England caps and wants to
stay in match-fit shape by
playing for AC Milan
during the MLS offseason, hoping to prove
himself worthy of
inclusion on the English
national sides coached by
Fabio Capello.
Internet
Real give up on Ronaldo
Sunderland's Djibril Cisse, left, vies with Newcastle United's Fabricio Coloccini, right, during their
English Premier League soccer match at the
Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England, Saturday
Oct. 25, 2008.—INTERNET
Genoa won’t fear Inter,
says Milito
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Beckham confirms
AC Milan loan
ROME, 25 Oct — Genoa’s Argentine hot-shot Diego
Milito insists his team will not be intimidated by Jose
Mourinho’s Inter Milan when they travel to face the
champions on Sunday.
Striker Milito has made
a dream start to his second
spell at Genoa since
returning to the club from
Spaniards Real Zaragoza
and has hit the net five
times in five starts in
Serie A.
He is third in the
scoring charts, alongside
Inter
star
Zlatan
Ibrahimovic.
His
goals
have
contributed to Genoa
winning all four of their
Genoa’s Argentine hot- home matches this
shot Diego Milito, seen season, but their away
here in September 2008, form is a different story as
insists his team will not they are yet to pick up a
be intimidated by Jose point on their travels.
Mourinho’s Inter Milan
Even so, Milito is
when they travel to face confident they can turn
the champions on
the tables on Mourinho’s
Sunday.—INTERNET
superstars.—Internet
7/30/18, 11:56 PM
LONDON, 25 Oct — Real Madrid said on Friday that
their pursuit of Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo
is over. The 23-year-old Portuguese winger, who is
under contract at Old Trafford until 2012, was heavily
linked with a switch to Spain earlier this year.
But Real president Ramon Calderon told the BBC:
Manchester (United) would not like to lose him - that
is the situation. They are very clear about that so now
it is a situation we have to forget.”
Ronaldo scored 41 goals last season for United to
spark a Premier League-Champions League double
and Calderon admitted that the player is unlikely to
move to Spain.—Internet
Chris John of Indonesia keeps
WBA title
TOKYO, 25 Oct — Chris John of Indonesia kept his
WBA featherweight title Friday with a unanimous
decision over Hiroyuki Enoki of Japan.
John took control from the outset and won by scores
of 118-110, 118-110, 117-111. This was Enoki’s first
shot at a world title. John improved to 42-0 with one
draw. Enoki dropped to 27-1 with two draws.—Internet
WBA featherweight champion Chris John of
Indonesia, right, fights challenger Hiroyuki Enoki of
Japan in their boxing title bout in Tokyo, Japan, on
24 Oct, 2008. John won by 3-0 decision. — INTERNET
BBC apologizes to Filipinos for
offending show
MANILA, 25 Oct — The
British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) has
formally apologized for a
comedy show it aired that
offended Filipinos both in
the United Kingdom and
in the Philippines, the
Philippine Government
said on Friday.
The apology was
contained in a letter dated
October 10, from BBC
Director General Mark
Thompson to Philippine
Ambassador in Londan
Edgardo Espiritu, the
Department of Foreign
Affairs said in a
statement.
In a 26 September
episode of “Harry and
Paul”, the comedy sketch
showed comedian Harry
Enfield ordering his
Filipino maid to mate with
his
friend
Paul
Whitehouse. The Filipino
woman was shown
gyrating in front of
Whitehouse in an effort
to seduce him..
Following the release
of the show, which
obviously upset the
200,000-strong Filipino
Japan, Pakistan discuss
economic crisis,
terrorism
BEIJING, 25 Oct — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso
met Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the
sidelines of a summit in Beijing on Saturday to discuss the
global economic crisis and counter-terrorism.
Cash-strapped Pakistan, facing the prospect of defaulting on its foreign debts, has approached the International
Monetary Fund to discuss a possible bail out, although no
formal request has been made.
According to Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
Jun Matsumoto, Aso told Gilani he understood that Pakistan faced a huge challenge in dealing with the country's
twin threats of Islamic militancy and looming bankruptcy.
Aso said Friday that Japan was ready to inject more
capital into the IMF if necessary, while leaders at the Asia
Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Beijing called for the IMF to
play a vital role in helping nations struggling in the crisis.
The Japanese leader told Gilani that the world was at a
"critical point in the war on terror," and stressed the importance of international cooperation.—Internet
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—All the tainted dairy
products would be
destroyed in north China’s
Hebei Province, the core
province of milk scandal,
on Saturday, local
authorities said. A total of
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on Filipino domestic
workers in Britain.
Filipinos in both the
Philippines and Britain
protested the “insulting
reference to Filipino
women, typifying them in
a dual role as domestic
workers and sex toys of
their British employers”.
In
the
letter,
Thompson asked the
Filipinos to accept his
“sincere apologies, on
behalf of the BBC, for the
offense
that
this
programme caused”.
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WEATHER
Saturday, 25 October, 2008
Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr
MST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly
cloudy in Kayin State, rain or thundershowers have been
isolated in Mon State, scattered in Kachin, Kayah States
and Bago Division, fairly widespread in Shan and Rakhine
States and widespread in the remaining States and Divisions with isolated heavyfalls in Mandalay and Magway
Divisions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded
were Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin) (1.34)inches, Nay Pyi Taw
(Takone) (1.89)inches, Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) and Magway
(1.46)inches each, Sittway (2.12)inches, Pyapon
(2.05)inches, Pinlaung (2.01)inches, Maungdaw
(1.93)inches and Minbu (1.53)inches.
Maximum temperature on 24-10-2008 was 93˚F.
Minimum temperature on 25-10-2008 was 72ºF. Relative humidity at (09 :30) hours MST on 25-10-2008 was
96%. Total sunshine hours on 24-10-2008 was (5.2)
hours approx.
Rainfall on 25-10-2008 was (0.39)inch at
Mingaladon, (0.32)inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.79)inch at
Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was
(102.95) inches at Mingaladon, (113.31) inches at KabaAye and (133.07) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum
wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from
Southeast at (16:30) hours MST on 24-10-2008.
Bay inference: The depression over West Central Bay
has centered at about (370) miles East Northeast of
Machilipatnan (India), according to the observation at
(15:30)hrs MST today. It is forecast to intensity further and
move Northeast wards. Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy
in the Andaman Sea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.
Forecast valid until evening of 26thOctober 2008:
Rain or thudershowers will be scattered in Kachin, Kayin,
Kayah States and Bago Division,fairly widespread in Shan,
Chin, Mon States, Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Divisions and widespread in the remaining States and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).
State of the sea: Squalls with rough seas are likely
at time off and along Myanmar Coast. Surface wind speed
in squalls may reach (40)mph.
Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of
increase of rain in the Southern Myanmar areas.
Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area
for 26-10-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree
of certainty is (80%).
Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for
26-10-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree
of certainty is (80%).
Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area
for 26-10-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).
R 489
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26-10-08 NL
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7/30/18, 11:56 PM
12th Waning of Thadingyut 1370 ME
Maj-Gen Ko Ko inspects monsoon paddy
harvesting in Hinthada, Kyonpyaw
Maj-Gen Ko Ko of
the Ministry of
Defence inspects
the harvest of
monsoon paddy at
a model plot in
Kyonpyaw
Township.
MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 25 Oct —Maj-Gen Ko Ko of the
Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Ayeyawady
Division Peace and Development Council Chairman
Commander of South-West Command Brig-Gen
Kyaw Swe and departmental officials, viewed harvesting of monsoon paddy, display of monsoon paddy,
gram and edible oil crop seeds, farm equipment,
natural fertilizers and insecticides and winnowing of
paddy at the model plot No.1521 in Kyaungkwin
village in Hinthada Township yesterday.
Maj-Gen Ko Ko and party met with departmental personnel at the office of Kyonpyaw Township PDC and servicemen and their families at the
hall of local battalion in Kyonpyaw.
Next, Maj-Gen Ko Ko and party inspected
harvesting of monsoon paddy, winnowing of paddy,
display of monsoon paddy, gram and edible oil crop
seeds, natural fertilizer and farm equipment at the
model plot No.1001 in Aung San ward in Kyonpyaw
Township, and visited the poultry and chick distribution centre of South-West Command in Apin Hnase
village in Pathein Township and the breeding centre
of the command.
Afterwards, Maj-Gen Ko Ko and party attended the ceremony to harvest the monsoon paddy
at the model plot No. (72-A/68) in Migyaung Taya
Maj-Gen Khin Zaw inspects regional
development in Rakhine State
NAY PYI TAW, 24
Oct — Maj-Gen Khin
Zaw of the Ministry of
Defence who arrived at
Sittway, Rakhine State
met with State and Division level departmental
officials at the meeting
hall of Sittway Station on
20 October. On arrival at
Yotayoke village in
Punnagyun Township,
Maj-Gen Khin Zaw looked
into the trial-running of
power tillers and harvest-
ing of the model paddy
field of farmer U Sein Tun
and presented cash assistance to farmers.
(See page 9)
village in Kangyidaunk Township, and viewed harvesting of monsoon paddy, display of samples of
Hsin Thukha paddy and Hsin Thukha rice and winnowing of paddy.
The plot has produced 120 baskets of Hsin
Thukha paddy per acre.
Maj-Gen Ko Ko and party attended the monsoon
paddy harvesting ceremony at the model plot in
Latpanchaung village in Kyaunggon Township and
viewed harvesting of monsoon paddy.
The plot has produced 122 baskets of Hsin
Thukha paddy per acre and a harvester can harvest an
acre per day. —MNA
Storm news
NAY PYI TAW, 25 Oct—According to the observations conducted at 11 p.m today, the depression
over Westcentral Bay of Bengal is getting intensified
and is moving northeast. It is forecast to cross the
northeastern coast of India and then the west coast of
Bangladesh to inland areas within 36 hours.—MNA
Chelsea v Liverpool:
All things point to draw
LIVERPOOL, 25 Oct—Chelsea, currently leading the English Premiership on goal difference over
Liverpool, face one of the biggest threats to their
unbeaten home-record (a record which has lasted
since Claudio Ranieri’s reign as Blues boss back in
2004) when Rafael Benitez’s team travel to Stamford
Bridge in Sunday’s early kick-off. Chelsea will go
into this clash against their Premier League rivals full
of confidence.
Premiership Latest Verdict: Tight
match which could go either way, but all things point
to a draw.— Internet
Maj-Gen Khin Zaw observes demonstration of power tillers.
MNA
26-10-08 NL
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7/30/18, 11:56 PM

Development tasks facilitated in southern Shan State

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