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Volume XVIII, Number 331 14th Waxing of Tabaung 1372 ME Friday, 18 March, 2011

Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing

offer provisions to Ovadaçariya Sayadaws,
members of SSMNC, SCWCSAO, Tipitakadhara
Tipitakakovida Sayadaws, title recipient Sayadaws
NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Chairman of the Senior
State Peace and Development Council Commander- General
in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than
Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attended the Than Shwe
ceremony to offer meals to State Ovadaçariya and wife
Sayadaws, members of the State Sangha Maha Daw
Nayaka Committee and the State Central Working Kyaing
Committee of the Sangha of All Orders, Tipitakadhara
Tipitakakovida Sayadaws and title recipient Sayadaws Kyaing
organized by the State Peace and Development present
Council and families of Defence Services (Army, offertories
Navy and Air) at Sasana Maha Beikmandaw in the
to
precinct of Uppatasanti Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw at
9.30 am today. Chairman
Also present on the occasion were State of SSMNC
Ovadaçariya Sayadaws, members of the State Sangha Dr
Maha Nayaka Committee and the State Central
Working Committee of the Sangha of All Orders, Bhaddanta
Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Sayadaws and title Kumara-
recipient Sayadaws and nuns, Vice-Chairman of the bhivamsa.
State Peace and Development Council Deputy Com- MNA
mander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-
in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye
and wife Daw Mya Mya San, Member of the State
Peace and Development Council Thura U Shwe
Mann and wife Daw Khin Lay Thet, Prime Minister
U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win, Secretary-
1 of the State Peace and Development Council Thiha
Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife Daw Khin Saw
Hnin, Member of the State Peace and Development
Council U Tin Aye, General Min Aung Hlaing of the
Ministry of Defence and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla,
Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Nyan
Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein,
senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence
and their wives, the commander of Nay Pyi Taw
Command and wife, ministers, the Chief Justice, the
Attorney-General, the Auditor-General, the chairman
of Civil Service Selection and Training Board, deputy
ministers, departmental heads, officials and guests.
(See page 8)

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw

Kyaing Kyaing offer meals to members of the
Sangha.—MNA

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives

* Stability of the State, community peace and * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop- * Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire
ment of other sectors of the economy as well nation
tranquillity, prevalence of law and order * Uplift of national prestige and integrity and
* National reconsolidation * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system
* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of preservation and safeguarding of cultural her-
* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitu- technical know-how and investments from sources inside the itage and national character
tion country and abroad * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit
* Building of a new modern developed nation in * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the * Uplift of health, fitness and education stand-
accord with the new State Constitution hands of the State and the national peoples ards of the entire nation

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PERSPECTIVES People’s Desire

Friday, 18 March, 2011 * 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
Prevent infectious diseases * Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State
Our planet nowaday is experiencing global
* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy
warming and some countries are facing natural
disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes,
floods, wildfires and landslides.
Farmers receive loans, MYANMAR GAZETTE
Due to changes of weather, it is necessary to fertilizer in Shwebo NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—The State Peace
and Development Council has confirmed the
place special emphasis on health care services
being provided to the people, and preventive District appointment of Director-General U Hsan Aung
of Transport Planning Department under the
measures are to be taken against common diseases NAY PYI TAW, 17 March — Chairman of Sagaing Ministry of Rail Transportation on expiry of the
in respective seasons. Region Peace and Development Concil Commander one-year probation period.—MNA
At present, untimely rains and overheat of North-West Command Brig-Gen Soe Lwin
attended a ceremony to assist in agricultural After the ceremony, the commander visited
may cause the diseases and complaints namely techniques and to lease loans to farmers in Shwebo rice field in Wetlet Township and viewd farmers
dengue hemorrhagic fever, malaria, diarrhea, on 14 March. planting rice seedlings in the field.
dysentery, catching cold, cough and pneumonia. During a ceremony, a responsible official The commander also visited Yadana Theinga
Mosquito carries dengue hemorrhagic fever reported to the commander on leasing loans and Bridge construction project in Shwebo Township
distributed bio fertilizer to farmers. and inspected the construction works. —MNA
that infects among the people through spawning of
mosquito at wells, ponds, water tanks and water Myanmar donates cash to Japanese Govt for quake, tsunami victims
pots. Priority is to be given to controlling mosquito NAY PYI TAW, 17 March — A ceremony to hand
due to infection of DHF. All the people are to carry over donation of the Government of the Union of
out sanitation at their environs on the first priority Myanmar to the Government of Japan, as humanitatrian
assistance to the victims of the recent earthquake and
as mosquito and fly carry infectious diseases.
Tsunami that struck Sendai City, Tohoku Region and
Diarrhea and dysentery may cause infection North Eastern parts of Japan, was held at the Ministry
among the people young and old at any time and of Foreign Affairs, Yangon, today.
any where. Especially, the said two depend on After conveying words of sympathies, on
behalf of the Government of the Union of Myanmar,
unclean environment and drinking water. Unclean Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win handed
foods and drinking water, unwashed hands and fly over cash donation of US$100,000 to H.E. Mr
are vectors for diarrhea and dysentery. Takashi Saito, Ambassador of Japan who returned
All the national people are to pay attention words of thanks.
The ceremony was also attended by senior
to sanitation of their environs and take care of officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
personal hygiene as part of measures to prevent staff members of the Japanese Embassy.
common diseases. Moreover, they all are to take MNA
heed of health warnings issued by the Ministry of Minister U Nyan Win presents US$ 100,000
Health in all seasons. for quake, tsunami victims of Japan through
Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar
Mr.Takashi Saito. —MNA
Japanese nuclear radiation
unlikely to affect Myanmar 48th Myanma Gems Emporium goes on for eighth day
Gems Entrepreneurs
No radioactive element in Association and Jade
rainwater of Myanmar Merchants Association
from abroad who
NAY PYI TAW, 17 March — Some nuclear contributed to
facilities in Japan are facing nuclear disaster in the successful holding the
aftermath of massive earthquake of 9.0 Richter emporium.
scale which shook Sendai on North Eastern parts The emporium
of Japan on 11 March and triggered off 10-metre for the eighth day was
high Tsunami waves. attended by 8692 local
Very close neighborhood around the and foreign gem
reactors is at risk of radiation and beyond 20 merchants. Jade lots
kilometres (12.5 miles) radius the threatened were sold through
facility is safe for public, according to experts. It tender at Mani Yadana
is far unlikely that Myanmar will be at risk of Jade Hall. From 14 to
Mines Minister U Ohn Myint cordially greets local and foreign gems
radiation stemming from Japan tens of thousands date, 10,870 lots of jade
of miles away. merchants. —MNA
were sold through the
The Ministry of Science and Technology is NAY PYI TAW, 17 Mines U Ohn Myint and members supervised tender system. Sales of
detecting rain water to find out whether radioactive March—Chairman of visited the emporium the emporium. jade lots will start
elements are in rainwater if the radiation of the Central Committee today. Officials pre- through competi-
Japanese reactor affects the country. Findings for Organizing the 48th Secretary of the sented certificates of tive bidding system
revealed that there is no radioactive element in the Myanma Gems emporium Managing honour to responsible tomorrow to 22 March.
rainwater of Myanmar.—MNA Emporium Minister for Director U Thein Swe persons of Myanmar MNA

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80 people reportedly killed in

US drone strike in Pakistan
Islamabad, 17 March —At least 80 people were method and the jirga was
killed in US drone strikes launched Thursday called to settle the dispute.
morning in different parts of Pakistan’s northwest Member of National
tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local state- Assembly from the
run Urdu TV channel PTV, but the report failed to region, Kamran Khan,
give details other than saying 12 missiles were fired condemned the drone
at different targets in the afore-said area. strike and said that mostly
innocent people were
killed and injured in the
Thursday’s strike.
Residents said that they
had seen four drones Afghan police men are seen near the body of their colleague as they
hovering over the area arrives at the site of explosion in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on 7 March,
before and after the 2011. An Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman says a roadside bomb in
attack. They said two the eastern city of Jalalabad has killed two policemen and wounded
aircraft fired missiles. another 25 people.—INTERNET
Thursday’s strike is
the 23rd of its kind in Blast kills two soldiers, injures five
Pakistan since 2011 and
also one of the most others in Pakistan
deadly strikes in the ISLAMABAD, 18 March—At least two soldiers were killed and 5 others
country over the last few injured in a blast that occurred Thursday morning in Pakistan’s southwest
US drone.—XINHUA years. To date, at least Province of Balochistan, reported local Urdu TV channel Duniya. According
187 people have to the report, the blast took place at about 9:20 am local time at the Dera Murad
Late Thursday morning, there came in the news reportedly been killed in Jamali District in east Balochistan when a group of Frontier Corps soldiers on
that US drones launched a strike in the Datta Khel area such strikes since this duty were attacked by a remote-control blast. No group has claimed the
of North Waziristan. Initial reports by most of the local year.—Xinhua responsibility for the attack.—Xinhua
media said that two missiles were fired at a house in
which militants were said to be holding a meeting
inside, killing 4 people and injuring several others.
Two children killed in
The elder said that the strike killed 41 people NATO strike: Afghan
including six tribal elders and some children. The
injured were later transferred to the hospital in official
Miranshah and some of them were in critical condition, KABUL, 17 March—A NATO air strike killed two
said hospital sources. The tribal elder rejected the children, an Afghan official said Tuesday, threatening
reports that the target was a meeting held by militants. to fuel a row over civilian deaths as a top US commander
He said that all were local tribesmen. He said that the said foreign troops were halting the Taleban’s progress.
Madda Khel tribe had sold a chromite mine on 8.8 NATO said it had targeted suspected insurgents in
million rupees (slightly over 100,000 US dollars) to a the raid, which took place near where nine people —
man and both parties later disagreed over the payment who Afghan officials said were children collecting
Vehicles burn as fire
firewood — were killed in an air strike earlier this
Somali pirates hijack Indonesian fighters douse the
flames following a
month.
The incident is likely to stoke controversy after
flagged bulk carrier car bomb that
President Hamid Karzai rejected an apology by General
ripped through a
NAIROBI , 17 March—About 30 to 50 Somali pirates have hijacked David Petraeus, the US commander of NATO-led
crowd outside a
Indonesian flagged and owned bulk cargo carrier approximately 320 nautical troops in Afghanistan, over the earlier incident in
hospital in Iraq’s
miles North East of the island of Socotra in the Somali Basin, EU anti-piracy eastern Kunar Province.
restive northern city
mission said on Thursday. “Last night, two children who were irrigating their
of Kirkuk on
EU Naval Force Somalia spokesman Paddy O’Kennedy said the MV Sinar land were hit by a coalition air strike and both were
16 March, 2011.
Kudus was pirated on Wednesday and within 24 hours of being taken, she was killed,” Abdul Marjan, the district chief of Sawkai in
XINHUA
used to launch an unsuccessful attack on the MV Emperor. He said the MV Kunar, told AFP.—Internet
Sinar Kudus, which is Indonesian flagged and owned, was on its way to Suez
(Egypt) from Singapore when it was attacked.
“Details of the attack are not known at this time but initial reports from the
Over 40 insurgents killed in Afghanistan
crew stated that 30 to 50 pirates had boarded and taken control of the vessel,” KABUL, 17 March— two days.” ISAF said in a insurgents in mountainous
O’Kennedy said. The MV Sinar Kudus has a crew of 20, all Indonesian. He NATO forces in separate statement released here. Kunar Province, some 185
said a skiff with five pirates on board was launched from the Indonesian vessel operations in Afghanistan The ongoing km east of Kabul.
and attacked the Emperor but was repelled by the armed force from the killed more than 40 operation is focused on “Coalition forces
merchant vessel.—Xinhua Taleban insurgents over disrupting the insurgent’s killed more than 10
the past two days, the ability to traffic narcotics suspected insurgents in
NATO-led International and weapons, as well as Shigal wa Sheltan District,
An Afghan
Security Assistance Force destroy Improvised Kunar Province,
disabled woman (ISAF) on Thursday said. Explosive Device (IED) yesterday,” the statement
in a wheel chair “International Se- making facilities in the reads.
asks for alms in curity Assistance Force Province, some 555 km Coalition forces
Herat, west of killed more than 30 south of capital City of observed an unknown
Kabul, insurgents in an ongoing Kabul, it said. number of suspected
Afghanistan on offensive operation in According to the insurgents with weapons
Reg-e Khan Neshin statement coalition forces near a combat outpost and
15 March, 2011.
District, Helmand killed more than 10 declared an imminent
INTERNET Province during the past suspected Taleban threat.—Xinhua

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SDF helicopters dumping

water on No 3 reactor
TOKYO, 17 March—Helicopters from Japan’s Self-Defence
Forces have begun dumping water on the Number Three reactor
building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in an
effort to cool down a spent fuel storage pool.
Two CH-47 helicopters began scooping up seawater and
releasing it over the reactor on Thursday morning after another
helicopter checked radiation levels in the air.
The first water-dropping operation was completed at around
10:15 AM. The mission is part of efforts to cool the storage pools
at the Number Three and Four reactors. The cooling systems at
both reactors are not functioning, raising fears that spent fuel The photo released by Tokyo Electric Power
rods could melt and release radioactive material outside the
Japan’s Self-Defence Forces’s Co on 16 March, 2011, shows No3 reactor (L)
building. Water is believed to be evaporating from the Number
helicopter scoops water off Japan’s Three reactor’s storage pool. Authorities have confirmed that and No4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi
northeast coast on its way to the temperatures in the Number Four reactor’s storage pool are
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power rising. Efforts are also being made to douse the Number Three plant. The fire struck on early Wednesday at
plant in Okumamachi Thursday reactor from the ground. Eleven large-capacity fire trucks from
morning, on 17 March, 2011. the building housing of the No4 reactor of the
the SDF are heading to the site.
Helicopters are dumping water on a The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has sent riot- Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles)
stricken reactor in northeastern squad trucks equipped with water cannons. The trucks were
Japan to cool overheated fuel rods originally deployed to douse the Number Four reactor, but they north of Tokyo.
inside the core. will be used to spray water on the Number Three reactor instead.
INTERNET XINHUA
The work is expected to begin around noon.—Internet

More than Fukushima plant begins

5429 to install new power lines
people T OKYO , 17 March—Tokyo Electric Power
Company, the operator of the stricken Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, says it will begin
confirmed work to install new power lines to restore the plant’s
cooling systems.
dead The 3 reactors at the plant lost cooling
capabilities due to a power outage following the
TOKYO, 17 March—
earthquake on Friday and damage to an emergency
Japanese police have so
power generator from subsequent tsunami.
far confirmed 5429
The company is taking measures such as
deaths in Friday’s
injecting water to the reactors by using pump
devastating earthquake
trucks, but recovery of the cooling functions is not
and tsunamis that hit
in sight.
northeastern Japan. 5429
The company says it will start work to set up
people are still missing. power lines from the high-voltage cables near the
But the current plant on Thursday afternoon in an effort to regain
number of missing power supply.—Internet
people reflects only the
Japan Ground Self-
number actually
registered with the police. Defence Force High radiation levels detected 20 km A truck rests atop a
building at the
Police say the number members search for
the victims of Friday’s
from plant destroyed fish
may be in the tens of market in Ofunato
tsunami in Miyako, TOKYO, 17 March—Japan’s science ministry has observed radiation levels
thousands. five days after the
Iwate Prefecture, of up to 0.33 millisieverts per hour in areas about 20 kilometres northwest of
In Miyagi Prefecture, devasting
the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Experts say
2,896 people have been northern Japan, on 14 earthquake and
exposure to such radiation for 3 hours would result in absorption of 1
confirmed dead and March, 2011, three ensuing tsunami.
millisievert, or the maximum considered safe for 1 year. The ministry gauged
2,362 are missing. days after a massive The official toll of
radiation levels for 10 minutes from 8:40 PM local time on Tuesday at 3 places
Iwate Prefecture has earthquake and the the dead and
in Fukushima Prefecture, whose residents are being instructed to stay indoors.
confirmed 1,705 deaths, ensuing tsunami hit the missing rises to
The measurements produced readings as low as 0.22 millisieverts per
and says 3,834 people country’s east coast. nearly 13,000.
hour. It is not known whether these levels have changed since the
are missing. INTERNET INTERNET
measurements.—Internet
Fukushima has 542
confirmed deaths and 6.1-magnitude quake hits near the east coast of
more than 3,226 missing.
In the Kanto Region,
Honshu, Japan
dozens of people died in TOKYO, 17 March— Geological Survey said. The quake is 271
the disaster, including 19 An earthquake The epicentre, with km east of Fukushima,
in Ibaraki and 7 in Tokyo. measuring 6.1 on the a depth of 25.3 km, was where the Fukushima
More than 315,000 Richter scale jolted near initially determined to nuclear power plant was
people have sought the east coast of be at 40.19 degrees damaged by a 9.0-
refuge in about 2,300 Honshu, Japan 1:13 pm north latitude and magnitude earthquake
shelters. local time (0413 GMT) 142.20 degrees east last Friday.
Internet on Thursday, the US longitude. Xinhua

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A bottle of Potassium Iodide is seen

alongside a bottle of strong iodine
Parents: A safety net for adult children
solution and potassium iodide oral MINNEAPOLIS, 17 March— There is adults are more likely to receive
solution. Hawaiians are rushing to evidence that parental assistance for financial support for living expenses,
get iodide pills to protect against children who are young adults or to live in the parental home.
radioactivity from a quake-crippled promotes progress toward autonomy Almost half of the respondents
Japanese nuclear power plant, and self-reliance, US researchers say. received either money for living
according to store owners on the Study author Teresa Swartz and expenses or lived with their parents,
Pacific island US state. colleagues collected data to examine or both, in their mid-20s. However,
INTERNET the conditions under which young only 10 percent to 15 percent received
financial or housing help when in
Health Tip: Signs that Gene therapy reduces symptoms their early 30s, Swartz says. The
likelihood of receiving financial help
headaches need attention in Parkinson’s patients decreased 15 percent each year, and
Most everyone suffers from an occasional headache. the likelihood of living with parents
But frequent, severe headaches could be an indication BEIJING, 17 March— A new study has shown that gene therapy decreased by 18 percent each year,
of a more serious health problem. can reduce symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s, media reports Swartz says. “These results indicate
The Womenshealth.gov Web site says these said Thursday. The study, published in the journal Lancet Neurology, that young people do eventually
warning signs should prompt a visit to your doctor: is the first to show positive results in a test of gene therapy against become independent of parents as
* Headaches that occur multiple times each month a sham operation in 45 US Parkinson’s patients. they grow older,” she says.—Internet
and persist for hours or days. The treated group showed a 23.1 percent improvement on a
* Headaches that are so severe that work, school scale of Parkinson’s symptoms six months after treatment, compared
and home life are affected. to a 12.7 percent improvement for patients who received sham
* Headaches accompanied by tingling or surgery, according to the published research. “Gene therapy is no
numbness, changes in vision, vomiting or nausea. longer just a theory,” said Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at New
* Headaches accompanied by pain surrounding York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Centre, and
the ear or eye, convulsions or stiffness in the one of the study authors. “We are getting much closer to a reality
neck. where this treatment can be offered to patients.”
* Losing consciousness or feeling confused during In patients with Parkinson’s disease, their brains get overactive
headaches. after losing the normal supply of a chemical called GABA. The new
* A headache that follows an injury to the head. treatment, gene therapy, works by inserting billions of copies of a
A new study has shown that gene therapy
* Headaches that suddenly occur when you’ve gene into patients’ brains that helps them produce more GABA. can reduce symptoms in patients with
rarely had headaches in the past. Kaplitt said the results might spur similar treatments for other Parkinson’s, media reports said
Internet brain disorders like Alzheimer’s, epilepsy and depression.—Xinhua Thursday. —XINHUA

Canada seeks closer Philippines to pursue

open skies policy
economic ties with Africa MANILA, 17 March— Philippine President Benigno S Aquino
OTTAWA, 17 March— Canada was the largest III has signed Executive Orders (EO) No 28 and 29, which will
foreign investor in Africa’s mining industry and its further open up the country’s aviation industry, Presidential
businesses were well positioned to take a leading Communications Development and Strategic Planning Secretary
role in the continent’s economic development, a Ricky Carandang said Thursday.
senior official said Tuesday. A monitor displaying the conversion EO 28 contains the reorganization of the Philippine Air
Peter Van Loan, the Canadian Minister of rate of the US dollar against the negotiating panel and the air consultation panel, while EO 29
International Trade, was addressing a symposium Japanese yen is shown at a foreign authorizes the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Philippine Air
on “Africa Rising: Entrepreneurship and Innovation exchange firm on Thursday, 17 Panels to pursue more aggressively the international civil aviation
Frontiers” in Canada’s largest city of Toronto, an March, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. The liberalization policy. EO 29 aims to “ease restrictions” on domestic
official release says. dollar plunged to 76.53 Japanese yen aviation. “To boost the country’s competitiveness as a tourism
“Canada is committed to strengthening its late Wednesday in New York, falling destination and investment location, there is a need for the country
commercial ties with Africa and expanding trade far below the April 1995 low of 79.75 to pursue more aggressively a liberalization policy in international
with the continent,” he said, adding that Canadian yen, as leaks of radioactivity from a aviation through the grant of third, fourth and fifth freedom rights
businesses offered expertise in key economic sectors stricken Japanese nuclear plant have and unrestricted capacities and frequencies to foreign air carriers,
in Africa. deepened the Asian country’s woes among others,” EO 29 reads. The president has also given the Civil
Canadian companies had the expertise to take following last week’s massive Aviation Authority one year to resolve the issue with the United
on a leading role in developing key sectors in earthquake and tsunami.—INTERNET States and the European Union (EU).—Xinhua
Africa, such as telecommunications, agriculture, S Korean financial regulator tightens rules for directors at savings banks
energy, transportation, infrastructure, natural in an effort to keep major
resources and education. savings banks shareholder’s wrong-
In 2010, bilateral trade with Africa reached SEOUL, 17 March— the Financial Services for irregular lending doing in check.
almost 13 billion Canadian dollars (13.2 billion US South Korea’s financial Commission (FSC) practices at local savings To prevent riskier
dollars). regulator announced a set suspended operations of banks, will be penalized loans from growing
On 27 Jan, 2011, Canada announced the start of tightened regulations eight local savings banks for their wrongdoing with more, the FSC plans to
of free trade negotiations with Morocco, its first on savings banks this year, which have as much as 40 percent of limit the ceiling of
partner on the African continent and seen as a Thursday in a bid to been damaged by fines against their illegal lending per borrower to
gateway to Mediterranean and North African improve the financial troubled construction activities, the FSC said. 10 billion won (8.8
markets. Canada has so far held discussions with health of the distressed project financing loans. The regulator also million US dollars) or 20
close to 50 countries on its ambitious free trade and sector. Major shareholders, tightened qualifications percent of their equity
investment agenda.—Xinhua The move came after who have been blamed for non-executive capital.—Xinhua

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Woman gets 18 years for double killing The Yellow River runs
through the Ulan Buh
BELFAST, 17 March— years, The Irish Times and Lesley Howell, 31, Desert in Dengkou
A woman was sentenced reported. Mr Justice were killed by carbon County of north
to at least 18 years in a Anthony Hart said he monoxide poisoning in China’s Inner
Northern Ireland prison gave her a shorter 1991. Their bodies were Mongolia Autonomous
for helping her lover minimum sentence than found in a garage in Region, on 16 March,
murder their spouses 20 that of her former lover Castlerock in what was 2011. As temperature
years ago. because Colin Howell, a staged to look like a rises, ice in the Yellow
The judge said Hazel dentist now serving at suicide. River melts. Each
Stewart, 48, has shown least 21 years, was the Stewart was con- year, 60 million tonnes
“little real remorse” for mastermind of the victed 2 March by a jury. of sand from the Ulan
her actions as he gave killings. Howell admitted the Buh Desert ends up in
her a life sentence with Trevor Buchanan, killings two years ago. the Yellow River.
no release for at least 18 32, a police constable, Internet XINHUA

China discovers virus that killed Microsoft web browser

36 after getting tick bites IE 9 on its way
BEIJING, 17 March—Chinese scientists have discovered BEIJING, 17 March—After one-year effort
a previously unknown virus carried by ticks which led to of developing, Microsoft is going to release
at least 36 deaths in six provinces by last September, its newest web browser Internet Explorer 9
according to the latest issue of the New England Journal of at 9:00 pm Pacific time on Monday,
Medicine published Thursday. according to media reports.
The virus SFTSV (severe fever with thrombocytopenia The IE 9 will be the first major Web
syndrome bunyavirus) was recently discovered by scientists browser to include a do-not-track tool that
at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention helps people keep their online habits from
The Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft lands near the (CDC). being monitored, which makes Google Inc.
town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on 16 March, People with the virus can experience fever and multiple and Apple Inc. the only big providers of
2011.—INTERNET organ failure. browsers that haven’t yet declared their
The presence of the virus was confirmed in 171 patients support for a do-no-track system in their
Russian Soyuz returns from six provinces in China. It resulted in at least 36 deaths
by September 2010.
products.
IE 9 can work on computers running
safely from space mission CDC Director Wang Yu said between late March and
mid-July 2009, symptoms of the infectious disease in
Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating
systems, but not compatible with Windows
K OROLYOV , 17 March—A Russian Soyuz humans were reported in rural areas of central Hubei and XP. This final release-to-Web version of IE
spacecraft carrying a US-Russian trio of astronauts Henan Provinces, but the cause of the symptoms were 9 represents the ninth release since the first
landed safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after unknown then. platform preview of the browser appeared
staying on the $100-billion International Space Major clinical symptoms included fever, at the MIX 10 Web developer event, said
Station (ISS). thrombocytopenia, gastrointestinal symptoms, and Ryan Gavin, the senior director of Internet
US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian leukocytopenia, and there was “an unusually high initial Explorer business and marketing. Gavin
cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri case fatality rate of 30 percent,” Wang said. pointed out that the browser has already
arrived at 3:54 am ET, said Russia’s Mission Control Li Dexin, director of the CDC’s virus institute, said made its mark in Microsoft’s download
in Korolyov just outside Moscow. farmers living in mountainous areas were most prone to history. “We’re seeing now upwards of two
“There has been a soft landing. The capsule is tick bites which were prevalent between May and July. percent share already on Windows 7 for IE
on earth,” an announcer at Russian Mission Control The virus institute had conducted test on more than 600 9, even in beta stage. It was the fastest
said to huge applause. shares of patients’ blood serum, which showed that the adopted beta ever in Microsoft’s history,”
The textbook landing will help allay growing SFTSV was the killer.—Xinhua he said.—Xinhua
concern about relying solely on Russia for rides to
the space station, which is shared by 19 nations, Mexico detains 89 undocumented Central
just before NASA mothballs its shuttle later this
year. American migrants
A mishap in October meant three astronauts MEXICO CITY, 17 March— Mexican migratory detainees are 80 men, five women and four minors.
had to remain an extra day in orbit, scrambling to agents detained 89 Central American undocumented The operation was carried out by agents of the
free jammed latches. migrants in Tepeapulco municipality in Hidalgo National Institute of Migration, state police and
Spectators watched the Soyuz TMA-01M enter state, centre of the country, the Interior Ministry municipal police.
the atmosphere, leaving behind two flight engineers, said on Wednesday. According to the National Institute of migration
American Catherine Coleman and Italian Paolo The Ministry said in a statement that the (INM) some 300,000 undocumented migrants enter
Nespoli aboard the ISS, which is shared by 16 undocumented were detained in the last 48 hours, Mexico each year illegally, most of them stay
nations. and that among them there are 58 Honduran, 16 working in Mexico and very few are able to reach
Reuters Guatemalans and 15 Salvadorians. Among the the United States.—Xinhua

Over 100 people evacuated from Western A man checks his

Australian flooded town surfing board near
waves at Arpoador
SYDNEY, 17 March—More than 100 people have been evacuated from a
Beach, in Rio de
severely flooded town in Western Australia’s east Kimberley Region, where
45 homes have been destroyed and another 20 remain uninhabitable, the Janeiro, Brazil, on
government of Western Australia (WA) said on Wednesday. 16 March, 2011.
The Department for Child Protection (DCP) said 103 people have been Strong winds and an
evacuated by helicopter and bus from Warmun to Kununurra in far northern extratropical cyclone
WA.
created rough seas off
Another 100 people were housed overnight at Turkey Creek, a small
Aboriginal community situated between Kununurra and Halls Creek in the southeast coast of
northern WA and will be evacuated on Wednesday, the DCP said.—Xinhua Brazil.—XINHUA

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 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 18 March, 2011 7

A PlayBook for fighting Apple and Nikkei closes 5.68% higher

Google A man
walks
past a
225 Average jumped
488.57 points to 9,093. 72.
Mike Lazaridis, president The broader Topix index
stock was up 50.90 points, or
and co-chief executive price
officer of Research in 6.64 percent, to 817.63.
board in
Motion, holds the new a street, Trading volume on
Blackberry PlayBook on 14 the main section shrank to
with a screen projection March, 4905.37 million shares
of the device as he speaks 2011 in from 5777.15 million
at the RIM Blackberry Tokyo, Tuesday. On the First
developers conference in Japan. Section advancing shares
San Francisco, XINHUA beat declining ones 1,541
California on 27 TOKYO, 17 March— with the key Nikkei index to 121, with 15 others
September, 2010. Tokyo stocks closed up 5.68 percent. remaining unchanged.
INTERNET sharply higher Wednesday The benchmark Nikkei Xinhua
W ATERLOO , 17 March—Once upon a time,
BlackBerry was king. Then came the iPhone, Australian climate adviser sets range for
followed by Android. And BlackBerry seemingly
lost its way — if not quite its throne. carbon tax
Research In Motion is holding on to profit
growth and impressive margins. For all the C ANBERRA , 17 March— Australian federal percent per year before being replaced by a
consumer appeal of Apple products, BlackBerry is government climate change adviser Ross Garnaut floating price in an emissions trading scheme in
still dominant in corporate mobile communications on Thursday suggested that the carbon tax should 2015.
and RIM sells millions of its workaholic devices be set at between 19.6 US dollars and 29.4 US Professor Garnaut said half of the revenue
each quarter to a growing global audience. dollars a tonne when it is introduced next year. from a carbon tax should be returned to low to
But the attention of investors, analysts and
Earlier, the federal government announced middle-income households through tax cuts,
developers is drifting elsewhere and the Canadian
company, in the midst of a major platform and its plan to introduce a fixed price on carbon from welfare changes and energy efficiency measures.
product transition, is seen possessing but a small July 2012. The carbon tax will then morph into “Overall, lower and middle income earners
window of opportunity to reinvigorate itself and an emissions trading scheme in three or five in Australia will be better off directly as a result
match the momentum of rival mobile monarchs years time. The details of the carbon tax and the of these arrangements and in addition future
Apple and Google. amount of compensation are yet to be determined. generations of their family will be protected
The PlayBook tablet computer, due to launch Professor Garnaut on Thursday released the from dangerous climate change,” he told the
within weeks after a six-month pitch, is RIM’s first
latest update of his landmark 2008 climate change National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday.
product to use an industrial-strength operating
system based on QNX, a powerhouse microkernel report, calling for an initial carbon price of He has also suggested some revenue go to
(rather than the typical monolithic kernel) which between 19.6 US dollars and 29.4 US dollars a businesses to invest in emissions-reducing
RIM bought last year and aims to incorporate into tonne. technologies.
its future smartphones.—Reuters He said the price should then rise at four Xinhua

Iran 19 pigs test positive to illegal additive in

launches China’s Henan Province
bio-capsule Z HENGZHOU , 17 statement. workers at local animal
March— Nineteen pigs in The city government quarantine stations have
into space central China’s Henan is also investigating more been fired or suspended
TEHERAN, 17 March Province have tested than 1,300 pig farms and from duty, it said.
— Iran has launched a positive to having a 130 feed and vet drug All suspected meat
Photo taken on 16 March, 2011 shows a banned additive in their stores, said the statement. products have been taken
bio-capsule into space destroyed bus in Linfen, north China’s Shanxi
with its Kavoshgar-4 urine, the city government No results have been off shelves, and all
Province. A truck-bus collision killed 12 people said Thursday. disclosed yet. feedstuff and meat
rocket, the official IRNA on Wednesday in north China’s Shanxi Out of 689 pigs Fourteen people, confirmed to contain the
news agency reported Province, local authorities said. The accident awaiting slaughter and including seven pig farm additive have been
on Thursday, quoting occurred at around 5 am in Yaodu District of processing by Jiyuan managers, six brokers and destroyed. Tests would be
the media bureau of Linfen City. Twenty-seven people were aboard Shuanghui Food Co, Ltd, one purchaser of Jiyuan further performed
Iran’s presidential the bus while three people were in the truck at 19 tested positive to Shuanghui, were under throughout the province,
office. the time of the accident.—XINHUA having Clenbuterol, an police custody, according said Li Mengshun, chief
The aero-space
researchers of Iran’s 12 dead in road accident illegal additive poisonous
to humans, according to a
to the
government.
provincial of the provincial animal
husbandry bureau.
Space Organization
launched the capsule on in north China Jiyuan City government At least 6 officials and Xinhua
Tuesday, the bureau was
TAIYUAN, 17 March—A truck-bus collision killed Photo taken on
cited as reporting by
12 people on Wednesday in north China’s Shanxi 16 March, 2011 shows
IRNA.
Province, local authorities said. the pigs at the Jiyuan
The purpose of the The accident occurred around 5 am in Yaodu
launch of the test-capsule Shuanghui, a
District of Linfen City. Twenty-seven people were subsidiary company of
was to study the aboard the bus while three people were in the truck
performance of the Shuanghui Group, in
at the time of the accident.
system and the sub- Jiyuan, central
Nine people died at the scene, and three died
systems of program- China’s Henan
later in hospital. Sixteen others were injured.
ming, said the report. Province.
Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
Xinhua Xinhua XINHUA

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Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw
Kyaing Kyaing and party share merits gained.—MNA

Senior General Than the Chairman Sayadaw.

Vice-Senior General
Shwe, wife… Maung Aye and wife Daw
Daw
(from page 1) Sangha Maha Nayaka Mya Mya San offered Kyaing
Staff Officer Committee Presiding robes and alms to
Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Nayaka of Bhamo Secretary of SSMNC Pre- Kyaing
U Thura of the Religious Monastery of Mandalay siding Nayaka of
Affairs Department acted Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Chaukhtetgyi Phayagyi offers
as MC. Guru Abhidhaja Agga Sasana Nuggaha Monas-
Members of the Maha Saddhammajotika tery of Yangon Agga alms to a
Sangha and the congre- Dr Bhaddanta Maha Pandita Agga Maha
gation opened the Kumarabhivamsa. Saddhamma Jotikadhaja religious
ceremony by reciting Members of the Bhaddanta Khemin-
title
Namo Tassa three times. Sangha recited Metta dasami.
Senior General Than Paritta. SPDC member Thura recipient
Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Senior General Than U Shwe Mann and wife
Kyaing and party took the Shwe and wife Daw Daw Khin Lay Thet nun.
Nine Precepts from Kyaing Kyaing offered presented robes and of-
Chairman of the State robes and provisions to fertories to Vice- MNA

Chairman of the SSMNC Chairman Sayadaw Pre- Kyu Kyu Hla offered
Presiding Nayaka of siding Nayaka of Lewun robes and alms to
Masoeyein Monastery of Monastery of Thaton Abhidhaja Maha Rattha
Mahaaungmyay Town- Township of Mon State Guru (title recipient) Ab-
ship of Mandalay Agga Agga Maha Pandita Agga bot of Mandalay Maha
Maha Pandita Bhaddanta Maha Saddhamma Wizitayon Monastery
Tejosarabhivamsa. Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta Bhaddanta Viçarinda-
Prime Minister U Sirinda. bhivamsa.
Thein Sein and wife Daw SPDC member U Tin The Commander-in-
Khin Khin Win donated Aye also presented robes Chief (Navy), the Com-
robes and alms to Vice- and provisions to mander-in-Chief (Air) and
Chairman Sayadaw Pre- Chairman of senior military officers of
siding Nayaka of Tipitakadhara Ovada- the Ministry of Defence
Myasigon Monastery of çariya Committee donated robes and provi-
Toungoo Agga Maha Abhidhaja Maha Rattha sions to members of the
Pandita Agga Maha Guru (title recipient) Ab- Sangha.
Saddhamma Jotikadhaja bot of Paukmyaing Mon- Secretary Sayadaw
Bhaddanta Pandavamsa. astery of Mandalay Bhaddanta Kheminda-
Secretary-1 Thiha Bhaddanta Aggavamsa- sami delivered a sermon,
Thura U Tin Aung Myint bhivamsa. and the Senior General and
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San offer Oo and wife Daw Khin General Min Aung wife and party shared
provisions to Secretary of SSMNC Agga Maha Pandita Agga Maha Saw Hnin offered robes Hlaing of the Ministry of merits gained.
Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta Khemindasami.—MNA and provisions to Vice- Defence and wife Daw (See page 9)

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 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 18 March, 2011 9

Senior General Than presented offertories to title

recipient nuns.
Shwe, wife… After the cer-
emony, Senior General
(from page 8) Sasanam Çiram Titthatu. Than Shwe, wife Daw
The ceremony Later, Daw Kyaing Kyaing and party
came to an end with three- Kyaing Kyaing, wife of offered meals to members
time recitation of Buddha Senior General Than Shwe, of the Sangha.—MNA

SPDC member Thura U Shwe Mann and wife Daw Khin Lay Thet
offer robes and provisions to Vice-Chairman Sayadaw of SSMNC
Agga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta Tejosarabhivamsa.
MNA

Prime Minister U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win present
robes and alms to Vice-Chairman Sayadaw of SSMNC Agga Maha
Pandita Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta
Pandavamsa.—MNA

SPDC
member
U Tin Aye
presents
robes and
alms to
Tipitaka-
dhara
Ovaçariya
Committee
Chairman
Secretary-1 Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife Daw Khin Abhidhaja
Saw Hnin donate robes and offertories to Vice-Chairman Sayadaw of Maha
Rattha
SSMNC Agga Maha Pandita Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Guru (title
Bhaddanta Sirinda.—MNA recipient)
Bhaddanta
Aggavamsa-
bhivamsa.
MNA

Dy Education Minister visits BEHS No.6 in Zabuthiri

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March — Taw District this morning. The deputy
Deputy Minister for Education U minister called on them to discharge
Aung Myo Min met with supervisors their duties in accord with directives
and assistant supervisors at the office and rules and regulations. Next, Deputy
of Basic Education High School No.6 Minister U Aung Myo Min inspected
in Zabuthiri Township of Nay Pyi rooms at the exam centre.—MNA
Myanmar Tennis Team leaves for Kuala Lumpur
YANGON, 17 March— A two- Sports and Physical Education
member Myanmar Tennis Team of Department and Treasurer of MTF U
Myanmar Tennis Federation left here Tin Htoo.
for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to take Before in ITF 14&Under Asian
part in ITF 14&Under Asian Championships 2011 Group (I) Tennis
Championships 2011 Group (I) Tennis Tournament, selected tennis players
General Min Aung Hlaing of Ministry of Defence and wife Daw Kyu Tournament to be held in Jakarta of from Groups (II), (III) and (IV) will be
Kyu Hla offer robes and provisions to Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Indonesia from 21 March to 4 April. in training for the competition together
They were seen off at Yangon with selected coaches of ITF from 17
(title recipient) Sayadaw Bhaddanta Viçarindabhivamsa.—MNA
International Airport by officials of to 20 March.— MNA

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State Ovadaçariya Sayadaw passes away Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo provides

State
YANGON, 17 March— necessary assistance to Myanmar citizens
State Ovadaçariya
Ovadaçariya NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Ministry the office was closed for about a half
Sayadaw Abbot of Maha
of Foreign Affairs today released a day. Now, the embassy is kept open
Sayadaw Withutayama Monastery
statement saying an earthquake and is carrying out consular affairs of
Abbot of of Pakokku in Magway occurred on 11 March in Japan is the Myanmar. In addition, the Embassy
Maha Region Agga Maha worst in 140 years. The quake caused helps Myanmar citizens who want to
Withutayama Pandita Bhaddanta minor damage to five-storey depart from Japan. To be able to
Monastery Sumangala, aged 80 and Myanmar embassy in Tokyo and a avoid dangers in the aftermath of the
of Pakokku 60 vasa, passed away at crack appeared in it. In order to be earthquake, the embassy will continue
9.20 pm on 16 March free from danger, office on the second to provide necessary assistances to
Agga Maha
( W e d n e s d a y ) , floor was moved to the first floor. So, them.—MNA
Pandita
according to the
Bhaddanta Department of Religious
Sumangala. Affairs.
Nay Pyi Taw Thingyan Festival Tour
MNA MNA Golf Cup on 14 April
N AY P YI T AW , 17 in the team event and golf courses each for
Construction of tower across Hline March—The Tour Golf from the first to the fifth three days.
Cup for Nay Pyi Taw prizes to the winners in Any team may be
River inspected Thingyan Festival 2011 the individual event. formed with six players
Y ANGON , 17 March—Deputy boxes. will be held at Royal The best team is well including two Pros and
Minister for Electric Power No. 2 Dr In the afternoon, the deputy minister Myanmar Golf Course, worth getting the Tour players are to take part
Win Myint on 26 February morning visited the 230-KV Hlinethaya-Ahlon Yepyar Tatmadaw Golf Gold Cup and gold in the tournament at
inspected the Power System Protection power grid (Hline river crossing) tower Course and City Golf prizes plus 1 million Handicap Zero level.
and Test Lab (Yangon) of Myanma construction project on Strand Road in Course from 14 to 16 each, the second, sliver Golf enthusiasts
Electric Power Enterprise in Ahlon Ahlon Township. Officials reported on April. prizes and K 700,000 may contact Nay Pyi
Township. progress of works. The tour will be and the best player, gold Taw City Development
In-charge Superintending Engineer After inspecting the worksite, the categorized into gold prize and K 1 million Committee, Ph: 067-
U Soe Min Tun reported on deputy minister instructed officials to and silver levels for the and the second best 414617 or 414289
organizational set-up, strength of present place emphasis on worksite safety and individual divisions. player, silver prize and (Fax), not later than
staff, duty and functions and meter test timely completion of tasks.—MNA First and second prizes K 700,000, after 8 April.
will be presented daily partaking in the three MNA
16151.1 acres of poppy plantations razed
N AY P YI T AW , 17 March, 2011. Hsihseng in Shan State
Fire breaks out in Zabuthiri Township
March —During the As more 442.3 acres and 14.3 acres in Putao N AY P Y I T AW , 17 due to amber. A total of February in 2011. Fire
2010-11 poppy cultiva of poppy plantations— in Kachin State— were March— A fire broke nine huts were destroyed Service Department has
tion season, 15708.8 destroyed from 7 to 13 out at a group of workers’ by the fire. Negligence reminded the public to
428 acres in Mongping,
acres of poppy March, the poppy hut in Zabuthiri
Kengtung, Mongmit, was accounted for 77.57 be aware of fire and take
plantations were acreage which was under Township of Nay Pyi
Kutkai, Namhkam, percent of the fires preventive measures.
destroyed from 1 destruction reached Taw District on 13
September, 2011 to 6 Lashio, Mongton and 16151.1 acres.—MNA March. The cause was occurred during MNA

Farmers fetching much … who was selling water

melons near Shadaw
the fruits. Prices were
fixed at K 900 to K 1000
of human. The
succulent fruits can be
(from page 16) so we bag about K Village. She said that she per fruit. After harvesting free from thirsty in the
With regard to price 900,000 as net income. grew one acre of water water melons, she has hot and dry season.
of fruit in the market, he We sent the fruits to melons Shadaw Village. planned to grow onion, Cultivation of water
explained, “Water markets near Nay Pyi Due to better market chilli and green gram on melon can fetch much
melons could be sold at Taw, Mawlamyine, situation, she sent water the same land. income in a short time,
900 to 1000 kyats per Yangon and nearby melons to Muse. She The largest amount so the farmers should
fruit depending on the Tatkon. Due to utmost cultivated 2000 plants of of water melon can be grow water melon on a
size. We spent K efforts in cultivation, we water melon on one acre harvested in February commercial scale.
500,000-K 600,000 of could get higher price this of land. Customers and March. This fruit Translation: TTA
cultivation cost per acre. year than last year.” arrived there and bought contributes to the health Kyemon: 13-3-2011
Fruits from one acre He continued to say
fetched about K 1.4 that he grew 2000 water
U Zaw Wan of
million to K 1.5 million, melon plants per acre.
Shadaw Village seen
He removed young fruits
except the best one. with a succulent water
Before sowing the seeds, melon.
he soaked the seeds in be fed with wastage of
water for 12 hours. Next, cow and kimira fertilizer,
the seeds were kept in the he said.
paddy for two nights for He further explained
warming. After that, each that the plants were to be
seed was sown in a small fumigated if necessary. In
plastic bag. Within seven about two months, the
to eight days, the sprouts water melon can be
developed with three to plucked for sale, he added.
Ma Zar Zar Nyo of four leaves. So, they We had an interview
Khayansatgon could be grown in the with Ma Zar Zar Nyo of
Village. field. The saplings must Khayansatgon Village, A water melon plantation seen with fruits.

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Indian central bank raises key interest

rates by 25 basic points
M UMBAI , 17 March— Indian and domestic liberalization of
central bank Reserve Bank of India petroleum pricing.
(RBI) announced on Thursday that it The central bank also warned that
will hike key interest rates by 25 the continuing uncertainty on energy
basis points (bps) to contain inflation. and commodity prices may vitiate
Indian repo rate for RBI to inject Indian investment climate, posing a
liquidity to the system and reverse threat to current growth trajectory.
repo rate for RBI to drain liquidity Though it’s early to assess
from the market are lifted to 6.75 macroeconomic impacts of natural
percent from 6.45 percent and 5.75 disaster in Japan, substitution of
percent from 5.5 percent, thermal for nuclear energy in Japan
respectively. may exert further pressure on
The monetary tightening move petroleum prices, said the monetary
falls in line with market expectations policy review issued by RBI. Troupers perform dance drama “Liberation” during
but will bring some pressure to the Indian central bank has raised the Shanxi Art Festival held at Shanghai Grand China Mobile
banking system. key interest rates eight times since Theater in east China’s Shanghai, on 16 March,
Meanwhile, RBI revised its March 2010 to curb persistent inflation 2011. Seven performance featuring traditional buys handsets
Shanxi characters, including the dance drama “A
inflation forecast by the end of March
upwardly to around 8 percent from
with repo and reverse repo rate lift by
2 percent and 2.5 percent, Handful of Sour Dates” and “Liberation” directed distributor at
previous projection of 7 percent, due
to higher international crude oil prices
respectively.
Xinhua
by Zhang Jigang, will be staged at the festival from
16 March to 6 April. —XINHUA
36 mln USD
H ONG K ONG , 17
Workers
drag a
Two men killed at Travelers camp in March—China Mobile
announced Wednesday
submarine England it entered into an
cable agreement to acquire the
MILDENHALL, 17 March — A 40- lead a nomadic or semi-nomadic life.
year-old suspect was arrested In England they can be either Romani, entire share capital of
onshore in
Wednesday on suspicion of killing the group formerly known as Gypsies, China Topssion Comm-
Chengsi unication Co, Ltd at 237
two men at a Travelers’ camp in eastern who originated in India, or Irish
Island, million yuan (about
England, police said. Travelers, a group that developed its
Zhoushan The man, whose name had not yet own dialect and lifestyle. 36.05 million US
City, east been released, was being held for Suffolk Chief Superintendent dollars).
questioning, the BBC reported. Stewart Gull said at a news As China Mobile
China’s
The double shooting occurred conference the bodies were found Communications Cor-
Zhejiang Tuesday at Willow Park, a trailer camp Tuesday night after a local resident poration, one of the
Province, in the village of Beck Row near reported hearing what sounded like vendors, is the ultimate
on 16 Mildenhall in Suffolk. One of the gunfire. He said both men had visible controlling shareholder
March, bodies was found in a burning car, shotgun wounds. of China Mobile, the
and the fire spread to two trailers, the Gull said the killings might be acquisition constitutes a
2011. Newmarket Journal said. related to a 17 Feb shooting at Willow connected transaction.
XINHUA Travelers are people who typically Park.—Internet Other vendors inclu-
‘Oliver Twist’ workhouse saved from Explosion leaves two dead, de ZTE Corporation,
Eastern Communica-
demolition two missing in central China tions Co,Ltd, Beijing
LONDON, 17 March — Heritage minister can’t be demolished and Digital China Limited,
CHANGSHA, 17 March — A plant thought to Ningbo Bird Co, Ltd and
The British government John Penrose said the any redevelopment must have been abandoned exploded Wednesday,
announced Monday it austere Georgian edifice take account of its Shenzhen Huawei
leaving two dead, two missing, in central China’s
has given protected was “an eloquent “special architectural Investment & Holdings
Hunan Province, an official said Thursday.
status to a former reminder of one of the and historic interest.” Co, Ltd.
The explosion occurred at 7:30 pm at the plant
workhouse thought to grimmer aspects of The run-down in Linwu County of Chenzhou City, which After years of
have inspired Charles London’s 18 th -century building in central shattered windows of nearby houses, killed two operation, Topssion has
Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” social history.” London had been slated people at the scene, said the official of the county’s managed to accumulate
a move that should save He said the building to be replaced by a new government. As of Thursday, two people were rich experience in
the building from had been given Grade II housing development, still missing. terminal business, with
demolition. listed status, meaning it but local residents and An initial investigation found that the blast strong distribution and
academics fought a was caused by illegal explosives production, police retail capabilities and a
campaign to save it. said. Two suspects had been detained by police. sizable sales volume.
The young Dickens Xinhua Xinhua
lived nine doors away
and scholars say the A girl demonstrates
sights and sounds of the the traditional Chinese
building were probably Suzhou Embroidery at
the basis for the the Ideal Home Show
workhouse where held at Earls Court
orphan Oliver is
Exhibition Centre in
In this 24 Feb, 2011 file photo, people walk by a incarcerated in his 1838
novel, and where he is London, Britain, on 16
dilapidated brick building in central London, where
historians believe its neighbour and author Charles punished after saying, March, 2011.
Dickens used the building, which was once a workhouse, “Please, sir, I want some XINHUA
as inspiration for his novel Oliver Twist.—INTERNET more.”—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICE Airlines monitoring radiation, making Quake strikes
MV HAL ADMIRALTY VOYNO(020N) adjustments to flights in Japan near Vanuatu, but
Consignees of cargo carried on MV HAL ADMI- TOKYO, 17 March —
RALTY VOY NO (020N) are hereby notified that the
Air carriers are watching no tsunami threat
vessel will be arriving on 18.3.2011 and cargo will be SYDNEY, 17 March—A
the situation at Japan’s
discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it will lie
Fukushima Daiichi nu- 6.5-magnitude earth-
at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the
byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. clear power plant closely, quake has struck in the
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 making contingency Pacific Ocean near
am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day plans and routing adjust- Vanuatu but officials say
now declared as the third day after final discharge of ments to keep operations there is no danger of a de-
cargo from the Vessel. running smoothly and structive tsunami. The US
No claims against this vessel will be admitted protect passengers and Geological Survey said
after the Claims Day. crew from radiation risks. Alitalia has rerouted Tokyo flights to Osaka, the quake hit Thursday
German airline Lufthansa Japan.— INTERNET afternoon about 50 miles
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT
MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY and Italian carrier Alitalia Lufthansa’s flights to has been scanning aircraft (77 kilometres) northwest
AGENT FOR: M/S HARTMANN ASIA have rerouted flights to and from Frankfurt and returning from Japan for of the Vanuatu capital of
CONTAINER LINES and from the Tokyo area Munich are going to radiation. Port Vila. It was 17 miles
Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 to other Japanese airports. Osaka and Nagoya in- “To date, none of the (26 kilometres) under the
stead of Tokyo/Narita “in tests has detected any ra- sea floor.
Scientists say quartz is key to an effort to ensure that dioactivity,” the statement The Hawaii-based Pa-
cific Tsunami Warning
understanding quakes [the airline’s] operations said.Alitalia started rerout-
to Japan remain as stable ing all of its flights in and Centre said historical data
SALMON, 17 March— earth’s crust. The scientists as possible and provide out of Tokyo airports to showed no threat of a de-
Underground quartz discovered that quartz sufficient capacity for its Osaka on Wednesday. structive widespread tsu-
deposits worldwide may crystal deposits are found passengers,” Lufthansa Spokesman Clemente nami. —Internet
be behind earthquakes, wherever mountains or said in a statement. The Senni said the change is
mountain building and fault lines occur in states altered schedule is ex- designed to guarantee un- Five dead in
other continental tectonics,
a discovery that may aid in
Security guards stand
like California, Idaho, pected to last as least interrupted service to its
Nevada and Utah.
California
through the weekend. passengers.
predicting tremblers,
in front of a 300 kg
quartz piece two days
Reuters Since Sunday, the airline Internet plane crash
according to a study L ONG B EACH , 17
released on Wednesday.
before the opening of
an exhibition of crystals
Boy sells ‘manly’ scented candles March — A twin-engine
The findings by Utah NEW YORK, 17 March — A 13-year- plane crashed on takeoff
discovered in the region
State University geophy- old boy from the US has launched his from the airport in Long
of the Saint-Gotthard
sicist Anthony Lowry and own line of scented candles meant for Beach, Calif, on
mount, in Fluelen, near
a colleague at the men, with fragrances that include bacon, Wednesday, killing five
Lucerne, on 29 March,
University of London, to New York-style pizza, sawdust and the people and injuring a
2007.—INTERNET
be published Thursday in smell of a fresh leather baseball mitt. sixth, authorities said.
the journal Nature, may Reuters. Hart Main, from Marysville in central The dead included lo-
solve a riddle of the ages He and research Ohio, said he got the idea for his cal developers Jeff
about the formation and partner Marta Perez- “Mancans” when he was making fun Berger and Tom Dean,
location of earthquake Gussinye examined of his sister for selling candles with girly and bicycle advocate
faults, mountains, valleys temperature and gravity scents for a school fundraiser. Mark Bixby, the Long
and plains. “Certainly the across the Western United Columbus station WCMH-TV re- Beach Press-Telegram
question of why mountains States from a movable ported he launched his company last reported. The identities
occur where they do has network of seismic Thanksgiving, making the candles using A boy from the US has launched a of the other to people
been around since the instruments to describe the scores of empty cans from soup he do- range of scented candles for men. who died hadn’t been
dawn of time,” Lowry told geological properties of the nated to a soup kitchen. —Internet released.— Internet
INTERNET
This dog has just been bought for £1m. Naked neck chicken mystery solved
only does this help our understanding
So why is he so valuable? EDINBURGH, 17 March — British sci-
entists have helped discover why a type of developmental biology and give
European Cup final three months later, of chicken with a bald neck has such a insight into how different breeds have
Hong Dong’s practical uses are decid- distinctive appearance. Researchers at evolved, but it could have practical
edly limited. the Roslin Institute at the University implications for helping poultry produc-
So why so much money? For the of Edinburgh found the way vitamin A tion in hot countries, including those in
same reason that a caffe latte costs a lot is converted by the skin on the the developing world.”
more than it used to, that last year 33 Transylvanian naked neck chicken Internet
Chilean miners returned to a shut down combined with a protein in the flesh al-
mine, and that a vase sold for £53m in lowed it to shed feathers around its
an auction in Ruislip, West London. Be neck.
The Tibetan mastiff is more com- it milk, copper, works of art or pedigree A total of 12 scientists worked on
monly black and gold. — INTERNET the research from Heriot-Watt
dogs, if the Chinese want something,
University in Edinburgh and locations
LONDON, 17 March —The assembled they get it, whatever the price. “The Ti-
in France, Mexico and Switzerland.Dr
ranks of the press shook their heads in betan Mastiff in the UK will tradition- Denis Headon, who led the research at
disbelief when, in 1979, Trevor Francis ally sell for £600 to £1,000,” explained the Roslin Institute, said: “We found
was revealed as the first £1m footballer. Bill Lambert of the Kennel Club. “The that the substance produced from
Now, someone has paid almost that sum high price is a reflection of how the breed vitamin A on the skin combined with
for a red Tibetan mastiff.Big Splash, or has become a fashionable and revered the protein BMP12 contributes to its
Hong Dong in Chinese, has been sold status symbol in China. Prices will vulture-like appearance.
for 10million Chinese yuan, some similarly rise amongst certain breeds in “A genetic mutation affects BMP12 British scientists have helped dis-
£945,000. But while Francis scored the the UK when they are perceived to be contributing to the loss of feathers. The cover why Transylvanian naked
winning goal for Nottingham Forest and fashionable, but never to this extent.” skin on the neck is therefore primed to neck chickens have such a
his new master, Brian Clough, in the Internet lose feathers as a result of this. “Not distinctive appearance.— INTERNET

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London 2012 countdown

clock makes false start
London Olympic spokeswoman laughed off
organisers were left red- the malfunction, adding
faced on Tuesday when a “it is not our clock.”
huge clock in Trafalgar Trafalgar Square is
Square marking the where Londoners
countdown to the 2012 gathered in 2005 to hear
Games stopped just hours their city announced as
after being unveiled at a winning bidders.
The countdown clock for the London Olympics glitzy ceremony. Omega said the clock,
is unveiled in Trafalgar Square in central The steel digital clock with its unique design for Babies play tricks.
London, England, on 14 March. The measuring 6.5 metres tall 2012, had been developed
countdown clock stopped on Tuesday in an and five metres long froze by experts and fully tested The magic of North Korea: a
embarrassing incident less than a day after it with 500 days, 7 hours, 6 ahead of its launch.
was unveiled in a glitzy launch. minutes and 56 seconds to “We are currently disappearing plane
go before the start of the looking into why this North Korea, renowned for its secrecy and
German submarine lost Games. happened and expect to incredible artistic performances, is now planning
It had been unveiled have the clock functioning the ultimate magic show — complete with
during World War One found on Monday by London as normal as soon as disappearing aircraft.
off Dutch coast Olympic organising
committee (LOCOG)
possible,” a spokesman
added.
The North’s state-run KCNA news agency
reported that the capital Pyongyang would host a
The Dutch Navy has discovered a German
chairman Sebastian Coe The clock’s design “new form” of magic show in which the aircraft, a
submarine which was lost along with its more than
and four British Olympic draws heavily on the bus full of passengers and elephant would be
40 crew members during World War One, the Dutch
gold medallists, coinciding geometric lines of the 2012 made to disappear.
Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday.
with 6.6 million Games logo and Greenwich Mean The Pyongyang Circus, which has conducted
The Ministry said the missing SM U-106
tickets going on sale. Time, organisers said. 250 tours around the world, has won more than 70
submarine was found about 40 miles (64 kilometres)
“We are obviously Omega will also awards including 36 gold prizes at 38 international
north of the Dutch island of Terschelling. It was
discovered by the Navy vessel Hr Ms Snellius in very disappointed that the provide the timepieces for circus festivals, KCNA reported.
October 2009, but its discovery was not announced clock has suffered this the Games, as they have Impoverished and isolated North Korea is
until Wednesday. technical issue,” a done since 1932. famous for its mass gymnastics and dancing
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the Ministry said in a statement. founder Kim Il-sung.

Warrant issued for “Kill Bill” Daniel Radcliffe to play

star Michael Madsen “How to Succeed” after
BEIJING, 17 March—
An arrest warrant has
judge to issue the warrant.
The bail has reportedly
“Harry Potter”
been issued for already been set for BEIJING, 17 March—
American actor Michael 26,000 US dollars. The “Harry Potter” actor
Madsen, who was absent Madsen married Daniel Radcliffe is leaving
from a hearing in his three times, to Georganne Hogwarts and starring in
child or spousal support LaPiere, Jeannine his first Broadway
case, according to Bisignano and current musical, a revival of the
foreign media report wife Deanna Morgan. He 50-year-old Tony Award
Sunday. is responsible for the and Pulitzer Prize winner
Madsen, 53, alle- support of five children Cast members Robert Pattinson (L), Kristen
“How to Succeed in
gedly owed nearly in total. Stewart (C) and Taylor Lautner pose at the
Business Without Really
570,000 US dollars in The 53-year-old star premiere of “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”
Trying”.
child and spousal filed bankruptcy back during the Los Angeles Film Festival at Nokia
theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles For Daniel Rad-
support. in 2009, when he was cliffe,this play will be his Daniel Radcliffe.
He failed to show up on 24 June, 2010.—INTERNET XINHUA
unable to pay personal second Broadway
for a hearing in his loans from Pierce
ongoing child or spousal Brosnan and Quentin Twilight Saga: “Breaking appearance. As early as
2007, he has made his
finishing the sixth film in
support case last week, the franchise—“Harry
which prompted the
Tarantino. He appeared
earlier this month in
Dawn” stars evacuated due stage debut in a revival of
the 1975 Tony-winning
Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince”.
New York City for the to tsunami warning best play “Equus” after
This time in “How to
screening of the “The Succeed’’, Radcliffe is
BEIJING, 17 March—“Breaking Dawn”, the production on “The Twilight” has
Bleeding” to celebrate going to play J Pierpont
been postponed due to the tsunami warnings in Canada. The cast and crew
the DVD release. including stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner were forced to evacuate from Finch, a young window
Madsen, brother of the set of the movie. cleaner who, with the
Oscar nominee Virginia This film, which is shooting in a Vancouver Island beach area in British help of a Machiavellian
Madsen, is world- Columbia, has been delayed owing to tsunami advisories following the strong guidebook, climbs to the
famous for his excellent earthquake that struck Japan early on 12 March, according to a statement Summit top of a huge company
performance in movie Entertainment said to MTV News. while, of course, winning
“Kill Bill” and vedio Although the cast was not in any danger, the “Twilight” co-stars along with a girl’s love along the way.
game “Reservior the rest of the Wolf Pack were transported out of the region for safety measures, Audiences have been
“Kill Bill” star Dogs.” reported US magazine. “All cast and crew were evacuated to base camp. pleased with the news.
Michael Madsen. Xinhua Everyone is safe and sound,” writes a Twilight Sage page on Facebook.—Xinhua Xinhua

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Germany’s Schalke fire West Ham boss Grant

coach Magath S P O R T S charged over ref criticism
BERLIN, 17 March — Clemens Toennies.
Champions League Having won the
Ferguson gets five-match ban LONDON, 17 March —
West Ham manager
Wednesday.
Grant accused Jones
quarter-finalists Schalke Bundesliga title with both over ref rant Avram Grant has been of favouring Stoke after
sacked coach Felix Wolfsburg and Bayern earlier this month. charged with improper the official failed to spot
Magath on Wednesday Munich, Magath has been The United manager conduct following his a handball when Frederic
in an acrimonious split dismissed from his role as ignored advice from his criticism of referee Piquionne equalised for
following a crisis both coach and manager club’s legal department Mike Jones in the Ham- West Ham in the first
meeting of the German of the club with ex- and vowed to contest mers’ FA Cup defeat half.
club’s board. Hoffenheim coach Ralf charges of improper con- by Stoke last weekend, “Maybe this
“We made revisions Rangnick reported to be Sir Alex Ferguson duct, but has now been hit the FA confirmed on (Piquionne’s goal) is the
and found things are not favourite to take over. LONDON, 17 March — by a hefty ban as his team reason the referee started
as we need them to be,” Magath’s assistant Manchester United man- enter a critical phase of the the second half very,
said the Schalke chairman, Seppo Eichkorn took ager Sir Alex Ferguson has season. very strange. Until they
training on Wednesday. been banned for five Ferguson had appeared scored the goal, he gave
A legal battle now matches following his ti- to question Atkinson’s in- fouls and penalties, eve-
looms, with Magath set to rade against referee Mar- tegrity when he stated that rything for them,” Grant
take his former employ- tin Atkinson, the Football he had wanted a “fair ref- West Ham United’s was quoted as saying.
ers to court to try to claim Association announced eree” to control the match Manager Avram Grant. Internet
back 12 million euros on Wednesday. with Chelsea.
($16.5 million) of lost Ferguson landed in hot “You want a fair ref-
Chelsea in the mood for
Champions League
quarter-finalists
earnings following the ter-
mination of a contract that
water with the FA after eree, or a strong referee Euro run, says Ancelotti
blasting Atkinson’s per- anyway — and we didn’t LONDON, 17 March — riding their luck at the
Schalke sacked coach had been due to run until formance in the Red Dev- get that,” said Ferguson in Carlo Ancelotti insists other end when Dame
Felix Magath, 2013. ils’ 2-1 defeat against Chel- the aftermath of the de- Chelsea are in the perfect N’Doye’s free-kick hit a
INTERNET Internet sea at Stamford Bridge feat.—Internet condition to win the post in the first half.
Abidal prepares for Korean sides on top in Champions League even Internet
though his side made hard
season-ending operation Asian Champions League work of killing off Copen-
MADRID, 17 March — NEW DELHI, 17 March — hagen in the last 16.
France defender Eric Suwon Samsung Ancelotti’s side ad-
Abidal had been enjoy- Bluewings and Jeonbuk vanced to the quarter-fi-
ing his best season ever Motors romped to compre- nals of Europe’s elite club
with Spanish champions hensive 4-0 wins in the competition with a 2-0 Chelsea’s Fernando
Barcelona, but is now Asian Champions League aggregate victory over the Torres (L) sees a chance
preparing to go into hos- on Wednesday as South Danish champions, but at goal saved by FC Co-
pital for surgery to France defender Ha Tae-Gyun (centre) they made life difficult for
Korean sides continued penhagen’s goalkeeper
remove a liver tumour. Eric Abidal of South Korea’s Suwon themselves in the goal-less
their powerful start to the Johan Wiland (R) during
The club said the op- Barcelona called for competition. Bluewings celebrates second leg at Stamford their UEFA Champions
eration would begin at “the utmost respect for Elsewhere, China’s scoring against China’s Bridge on Wednesday. League first knockout
4:00pm (1500GMT) on his right to privacy”. Shandong Luneng beat Ja- Shanghai.—INTERNET The Blues squandered round 2nd leg match at
Thursday. Sports daily Mundo pan’s Cerezo Osaka hat-trick against China’s a host of chances to dis- Stamford Bridge in
That was a day earlier Deportivo, quoting 2-0 at home. The match Shanghai Shenhua. miss Copenhagen, while London.—INTERNET
than originally planned, sources at the club, said between Kashima Antlers The result was never in
for organisational rea- Barca hope the tumour and Sydney FC was post- doubt after Ha put Suwon Aldridge has 30 in Portland’s
sons and not due to any has been detected early
deterioration in his enough.
poned due to the earth- ahead early as the hosts victory over Dallas
quake and tsunami in Ja- dominated. Oh Jang-Eun off the bench, including
condition, the club said. Internet PORTLAND, 17 March —
pan. added a second before the LaMarcus Aldridge a key jumper with less
Yandle, Rozsival lift Coyotes Suwon top Group H
with two wins out of two
break while two second- scored 30 points and
half goals from Ha sealed Brandon Roy added 21
than a minute to go, as the
Portland Trail Blazers
over Flames 4-3 after Ha Tae-Gyun hit a the win.—Internet beat the Dallas Mavericks
C ALGARY , 17 March 19 seconds apart early in 104-101 on Tuesday
— Keith Yandle and the third period to lift the Benzema strikes again as Real end night.
Michal Rozsival scored Phoenix Coyotes to a 4- Champions League last 16 jinx The Blazers led 100-
94 with 3:50 left, but
3 win over the Calgary MADRID, 17 March — the first time since 2004
Flames on Tuesday Jason Terry’s basket nar-
Real Madrid put their re- with a comfortable 3-0 rowed it to 100-99. Roy
night in a key Western cent European woes be- win over Lyon on hit a pair of free throws
Conference matchup. hind them to reach the Wednesday. before a pull-up jumper
Yandle put Phoenix quarter-finals of the Real had crashed out that made it 104-99 with
up 3-1 with his 11th goal Champions League for at the last 16 stage of the 47 seconds left.
at 1:53 of the third when Champions League for Dirk Nowitzki hit a
Phoenix Coyotes’ Michal his centering pass de- six successive seasons, pair of free throws, but
Rozsival, right, from the flected in off the knee of but new coach Jose after a timeout with 8.8
Czech Republic, cele- Flames defenceman Jay Dallas Mavericks’ Jason seconds on the clock, he
Mourinho brought an
brates his goal against the Bouwmeester. missed a 3-point attempt
end to that jinx. Kidd (2) goes to the bas-
Calgary Flames with The Coyotes in- from the corner and time
Goals from Marcelo, ket as Portland Trail ran out for the Mavericks.
Vernon Fiddler, center, creased their lead to Real Madrid’s French Lyon old boy Karim Blazers’ Wesley Mat- Nowitzki finished with
and David Schlemko, left, three when Roszival’s forward Karim Benzema and Angel di thews (2) defends in the 28 points and 11 re-
during the third period of point shot went through Benzema celebrates Maria secured victory as second quarter of an bounds for Dallas, which
an NHL hockey game in a crowd and beat Flames after scoring a goal Madrid progressed 4-1 NBA basketball game on shot 59.7 percent for the
Calgary, Alberta, on 15 goalie Miikka Kiprusoff. during the Champions on aggregate. 15 March, 2011, in Port- game.
March, 2011.— INTERNE Internet League.—INTERNET Internet land, Ore.—INTERNET Internet

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Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas hours MST on 17-3-2011 was (100%). Total sunshine hours
WEATHER on 16-3-2011 was (Nil).
Rainfall on 17-3-2011 was (1.81) inches at Mingaladon,
and Kaba-Aye each and (1.38) inches at Central Yangon. Total
Thursday, 17th March, 2011 rainfall since 1-1-2011 was (5.79) inches at Mingaladon, (6.81)
Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T. inches at Kaba-Aye and (7.01) inches at Central Yangon.
During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (1/2) mph
Lower Sagaing Region, rain or thoundershowers have been from Southwest at (06:30) hours MST on 17-3-2011.
isolated in Upper Sagaing and Magway Regions, Kachin State, Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy over the North
and West central Bay and partly cloudy to cloudy in the Andaman
scattered in Mandalay Region and Rakhine State, fairly widespread
Sea and elsewhere Bay of Bengal.
in Taninthayi Region and Shan State and widespread in the Forecast valid until evening of the 18th March 2011:
remaining Regions and States . Day temperatures were (5°C) Weather will be partly cloudy in Lower Sagaing and Magway
below March average temperatures in Taninthayi Region, (8°C) Regions, rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Upper Sagaing
below March average temperature in Chin and Rakhine States,and and Mandalay Regions, Kachin and Chin States, scattered in Shan,
Ayeyawady Regions, Shan, Kayah and Kayin States, (9°C) to Rakhine and Kayah States and fairly widespread to widespread in
(18°C) below March average temperature in the remaining Regions the remaining Regions and States. Degree of certainty is (80%).
and States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay State of the sea: Strong Easterly winds with moderate to
Pyi Taw (Pyinmana) and Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.16) inch each, rough seas are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and
along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed in strong wind
Hpa-an (2.68) inches, Mawlamyine (2.36) inches, Kyeikkhame
may reach (35) mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere Myanmar
(2.28) inches, Pyarpon and Khayan (2.09)inches each, Billin (1.77) waters.
inches, Launglon (1.93) inches, Yangon (Mingaladon) and Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of
Yangon (Kaba-Aye) (1.81) inches each, Yay (1.77) inches, Thaton continuation of rain or thundershowers in the Lower Myanmar
(1.73) inches and Theinzayat (1.65) inches. areas.
Nay Pyi Taw Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for
Maximum temperature on 16-3-2011 was 73°F. Minimum 18-3-2011: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.
temperature on 17-3-2011 was 64°F. Relative humidity at (09:30) Degree of certainty is (60%).
hours MST on 17-3-2011 was (91%). Rainfall on 17-3-2011 Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for
18-3-2011: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree of
was (Tr). certainty is (80%).
Yangon (Kaba-Aye) Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for
Maximum temperature on 16-3-2011 was 72°F. Minimum 18-3-2011: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.
temperature on 17-3-2011 was 61°F. Relative humidity at (09:30) Degree of certainty is (60%).

Indonesia puts nuclear MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule
power plant as last choice (18-3-2011) Friday)
J AKARTA, 17 March—Indonesia puts nuclear
power plant as the last choice for alternative energy Transmissions Times
source, Kompas daily quoted a minister as saying
on Thursday. Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MST
Oversea Transmission - (18-3-11 09:30 am ~
Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta 19-3-11 09:30 am) MST
Rajasa said that, however, Indonesia does not close
itself on nuclear energy choice. Local Transmission
“Whether there are earthquakes in Japan or not, * Opening
Indonesia puts nuclear as the last choice,” he said. * News
A craftsman operates an embroidery machine at * Myanma Motion Picture and Academy Award
Rajasa said that other energy resources would the Sichuan needlework museum in Chengdu, * News
be more prioritized than nuclear. capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, * Shwe Than Lwin Home For Aged
A member of the National Energy Council * News
16 March, 2011. Establishing in February of
Rinaldy Dalimi told the daily that Indonesia has * A Visit to A Laungdaw Kassapa in Modern
2011, the museum, affiliated to Sichuan Pivot
many coal resources that have not been used Days
optimally as power energy. Point College, features in folk needlework crafts
* Putao Rememberance & IC Live Show
He said that out of 300 million tons of coal and skills, including Sichuan embroidery, tie-
* News
production per year, about 75-80 million tons are dye, and sewing. Besides that, it is also a venue * Mandalay’s Grand Walls and Moat..
exported. “We should consider coal as cheap energy of teaching classes and practical operations on Oversea Transmission
resources. I agree that nuclear becoming the last needlework skills for the students of the college. * Opening
alternative,” said Dalimi.—Xinhua XINHUA * News
* Myanma Motion Picture and Academy Award
7:50 am 4:20 pm 5:35 pm * News
5. Nice & Sweet Song 4. Songs in honour of 10. Images of Innocent * Shwe Than Lwin Home For Aged
8:00 am (66)th Anniversary Child * News
6. Health Programme Armed Forces Day 6:00 pm * A Visit to A Laungdaw Kassapa in Modern
8:10 am 4:30 pm Days
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7. The Mirror Lmages 5. University Of * Putao Rememberance & IC Live Show
6:15 pm
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(TV Lectures) 12. Weather Report * VCD Centre
Oldies 6:20 pm
Friday, -Third Year * Mandalay’s Grand Walls and Moat..
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Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy

Riots beget riots, not democracy
Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire VOA, BBC-sowing hatred

among the people
We favour peace and stability
RFA, DVB-generating public
We favour development outrage
We oppose unrest and violence Do not allow ourselves to be
Wipe out those inciting unrest swayed by killer broadcasts
and violence designed to cause troubles
MWAF donates furniture to
Farmers fetching much incomes through village library in Ottarathiri
cultivation of water melon Township
Article: Zin Bo Min; Photos: Khin Maung Win NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Myanmar Women’s
Affairs Federation on 8 March donated furniture
At the invitation of my friend, we the news said that he cultivates 168 strain water melon on worth K 500,000 to Bawa Tetlan Library opened
crew of Kyemon Daily made a trip to Shadaw one acre of land. He used Kogyi, 164, 168, 314, on 12 April in Ngansat Village of Zalaung Village-
Village in Tatkon Township of Nay Pyi Taw 232, 855, USA, 001 and N/2 strains of water tract of Ottarathiri Township in Nay Pyi Taw District.
District in early March. On our arrival, we witnessed melon seeds. Most of the local growers of Shadaw President of MWAF Dr Daw Thet Thet Zin
thriving water melon plantations near the field of Village sow the 168 strain of water melon seeds. and CEC members presented furniture to the
village. All the strains of fruits are delicious and sweet, he chairman of Village-tract Peace and Development
In an interview near a water melon said. Council and the chairman of the library committee.
plantation, farmer U Zaw Wan of Shadaw Village (See page 10)
The donations of MWAF was aimed at
developing human resources, raising reading habit
of rural people, broadening horizon of the local
people and ensuring maintenance of the books and
publications at the library.—MNA

New bridge put into service

in Sinbaungwe Township
NAY PYI TAW, 17 March — Hailing the 66th
Anniversary Armed Forces Day, the opening of
Yaykyaw bridge across Shwegyin creek was held
at Chisuk village in Sinbaungwe Township
yesterday.
Chairman of Township Peace and
Development Council U Tin Win, Executive Officer
U Myo Naing of Township Development Affairs
Committee and officials formally opened the bridge.
The bridge was built with the contribution of
Local growers of Shadaw Village loading water melons onto a truck for sending them to over K 2.2 million by local people.
countryside. MNA

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