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Sunday, 11 December 2016

Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu delivers aid to Muslim people from Ducheertan Village in Maungtaw Township. Photo: State Counsellors Office Information Committee

Aid flows into northern Rakhine

Aid from the UN, the Rakhine

State Government and NGOs has
flowed into two local communities in northern Rakhine State,
where unrest occurred following
attacks by violent armed men on
border posts on October 9 that
killed nine police officers.

The Rakhine State Government and the organization

One More delivered food to 318
households from five village
tracts in Maungtaw Township
yesterday.
The aid included 79 bags of
rice, 159 viss of cooking oil, 159

viss of beans, 159 viss of salt

plus basic medicines.
Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu, Mr Chris Carter,
UN senior adviser for Rakhine
state, and officials left Sittway
for Maungtaw by watercraft on
Friday morning and visited the

villages of the two communities

in the northern and southern parts
of Maungtaw.
At a meeting with the Muslim community in Ducheertan
Village, Ywathitkay Village and
Ohntaw Village, Chief Minister
U Nyi Pu expressed his delight

at seeing an improved socio-economic situation for the residents,

calling on them to abide by the
law as the situation in Maungtaw
District returns to normal.
The two communities need
to live in peaceful coexistence
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Government troops find nine bodies,

weapons and ammunition in Mongko

The mine detector seized from MNDAA armed group.

Photo: State Counsellors Office Information Committee

Government troops seized

assorted arms and ammunition
and found two bodies of members
of the MNDAA armed group and
seven bodies of civilians during
area clearance operations in the
Mongko area on Thursday and
Friday.
Following a skirmish with
the MNDAA on Friday, government troops found two bodies of MNDAA members, four
M-22 assault rifles, two .22 calibre weapons, four air rifles, nine
ammo cartridges loaded with bul-

lets, four pairs of binoculars, 175

rounds of ammunition, 11 grenades, two RPG mortar rounds,
one land mine, two sets of walkie-talkie, one mine detector, one
backpack, two uniform jackets of
the Kachin Independence Army
(KIA), 33 complete sets of uniforms and seven bodies of civilians, according to the office of the
Commander-in-Chief of Defence
Services. In a separate incident
nearby, troops seized one M-22
rifle and one cartridge containing
20 bullets and one gun string in a

bush east of the Mongko military

outpost.
Similarly, the troops discovered one M-22 rifle, three cartridges, three grenades and 300
bullets in a sugarcane plantation
near Ward-6 in Mongko on Friday.
They also discovered two
RGP mortar rounds, one grenade,
45 bullets for a machine gun and
20 bullets for an M-22 rifle near
Haymoelon Village around 2
pm on Friday.Myanmar News
Agency

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11 December 2016

Vardah forming over

Bay of Bengal not likely
to move into Myanmar
Myanmars Department of
Meteorology and Hydrology
(DMH) has issued a yellow
warning for Cyclone Vardah
forming over the Bay of Bengal,
predicting that it may not move
into Myanmar.
The cyclone could still cause
squalls and rough seas off and
along the Myanmar coasts, with
surface wind speeds reaching 35
miles per hour, the announcement said.
The weather bureau has
warned fishing boats and vessels
against the rough seas.

Cyclone Vardah in the

Southeast Bay of Bengal has intensified into a severe cyclonic
storm. It will continue to move
west-northwestwards, gradually moving closer to the state of
Andhra Pradesh on the coast in
India. The system is likely to gain
more strength during the next
24 hours, weakening thereafter.
Vardah is likely to make landfall over Andhra Pradesh coast
between Nellore and Machilipatnam during the afternoon
or evening hours of December
12.GNLM

Universities in Myanmar
and Britain discuss
educational cooperation

Union Minister Dr Myo Thein Gyi gives talks on education reforms of

Myanmar at Warwick University. Photo: MNA
A Myanmar delegation
led by Union Minister for Education Dr Myo Thein Gyi
discussed the possibilities for
cooperation between the universities in Britain and Myanmar
during their trip to the United
Kingdom from 27th November
to 7th December.
One of the focuses of the
discussion included conducting
English language courses for

higher education and basic education teachers in Myanmar at

the British Council.
The delegation also visited
Warwick University, Manchester University and Liverpool
University. The union minister explained the education reforms of Myanmar at Warwick
University and Oxford Universitys St Hughs College.
Myanmar News Agency

Myanmar youths participate in an event held in commemoration

of the International Human Rights Day which falls on the 10th of
December 2016 in the Peoples Park in Yangon. Myanmar National
Human Rights Commission has been handling complaints that
lodged to it. A total of 495 complaints were received during the
period starting from 1st of January 2016 to the present point in time
and they have been reviewed in accordance with the Procedures.
Photo: Phoe Khwar

Inle night bus terminal to construct by January, 2017

The construction of Inle night
bus terminal is to be finished
no later than January 2017, it is
learnt from the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism.
Currently, we are building
the night bus terminal at Nyaung
Shwe town. Presently, the visitors vehicles can pack near Bokyoge bronze statue and Independence Monument Ground at
day time, said U Ohn Maung,
Union Minister for Hotels and
Tourism at the Sustainable De-

velopment of responsible tourism

forum in Yangon on 7 December.
Night market will be
opened at the Independence
Monument Ground in Nyaung
Shwe from 4 pm to 10:30 pm.
The passenger buses can stop
after market hours to reduce the
traffic problems.
The traffic jam occurred all
the time in Inle because of the
trucks and the passenger buses.
The Inle road is too narrow. The
passenger buses can stop at Inde-

pendence Monument Ground at

the day time and the night market
will be opened at the night time.
We can implement the project
starting from 4 January, said
Union minister U Ohn Maung.
KBZ Company donated Ks
100 million to build the night
bus terminal and U Aung Myo
Min Din and Daw Su Su Tin
family donated KS 1.05 million
to supply the electricity at night
bus terminal.Myitmakha News
Agency

Twelve pistons
seized
While conducting area clearance operations on hills near
Mayin Taung and Mhaw Taung
Villages in Maungtaw, security
forces seized eight guerilla uniforms and 12 pistons, which are
assumed to be used in landmines hidden in a bush on Friday.
Myanmar News Agency

Contestants take
a selfie during a
kick-off event for
the upcoming Miss
Universe pageant, in
Pasay, Metro Manila
Kiranmeet Kaur Baljeet Singh from Malaysia, Chalita Suansane from Thailand, Htet Htet
Htun from Myanmar, Sari Nakazawa from Japan, Jenny Kim
from Korea, and Kezia Roslin
Cikita Warouw from Indonesia
(L-R) take a selfie during a kickoff event for the upcoming Miss
Universe pageant, in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines December
10, 2016.Reuters

Twelve pistons and uniforms seized from MNDAA armed group. Photo:
State Counsellors Office Information Team

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11 December 2016

Mr Chris Carter, UN senior adviser for Rakhine State delivers aid to

Muslim people from Ducheertan Village in Maungtaw Township. Photo:
State Counsellors Office Information Team

Rakhine people from Thayargon Village in Maungtaw Township gather to get aid from Rakhine State Government, UN and One More. Photo: State Counsellors Office Information Team

Aid flows into northern Rakhine

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and need to give correct information to local authorities, said U
Nyi Pu at the meeting.
He also invited open, transparent discussions with the villagers while meeting with the officials of the UN and UNHCR, who

were also present at the meeting.

Mr Chris Carter also clarified
the reasons for the trip.
Chief Minister U Nyi Pu, Mr
Chris Carter and officials of the
UN delivered aid including clothing, blankets, mosquito nets and
family kits to the villagers of the

Muslim community.
In the afternoon, the Chief
Minister and UN officials visited
Rakhine villages including Ale
Thankyaw, Oodaung, Shwebaho
and Bohdigon villages and distributed aid to the villagers Global
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People from Thayargon Village receives aid from the organization One
More aid group. Photo: State Counsellors Office Information Committee

Myanma Democracy Film Week event to be

held in September 2017

Myanmar Navy rescues

Thai vessel

A meeting to organise Myanma

Democracy Film Week Event
was held at Myanmar Radio
and Television in Yangon yesterday.
Union Minister for Information Dr Pe Myint discussed production of doucmentaries to commemoratie of the event.
Responsible personnel the
Myanmar Motion Picture Association and film professionals
reported on production of seven
films and television series for the
event from15 to 21 September,
2017.
Later, members of the film

A sport fishing vessel owned by

the Namjai Ranong Company of
Thailand had to be rescued by
the Myanmar Navy yesterday
after its engine failed about 120
miles west of Kawthoung.
The boat, a Namjai-9 sport
fishing vessel, was at anchor
when a navy ship arrived to
rescue it with 17 people aboard

and video censor board reported

on their functions and filmmakers discussed their challenges.

The meeting ended with the

closing remarks by the union minister.Myanmar News Agency

Warning shots kill motorcyclist

Union Minister Dr Pe Myint holds meeting with personnel from Myanma
Motion Picture Association. Photo: MNA

Joint armed groups collect extortion

from vehicles in Shan State
A joint force of the KIA, the
TNLA, the MNDAA and the
AA stopped all vehicles on the
Namtu-Lashio Road in Namtu Township, Shan State on

including 9 Chinese, two Britons, three Thai crew members,

two Myanmar nationals and one
Myanmar tour guide.
The vessel set out from Kawthaung on Monday.
The navy ship provided
necessary assistance to the shipwrecked victims.Myanmar
News Agency

Friday night and demanded

money in order to pass, it has
been learnt.The joint force reportedly extorted Ks500,000
from each vehicle for an un-

known period of time and then

retreated to areas near Parchin
Village yesterday morning.The
traffic has since returned to normal.Myanmar News Agency

Warning shots from security forces killed a motorbike

rider who refused to stop for a
security check in Lashio on Friday.
While conducting area
clearance operations in Lashio,
security forces instructed the
rider of the motorbike heading
from Namtu to Lashio to stop at
about 10 pm, but the motorbike

rider refused to halt.

As a result, security forces
fired warning shots that hit the
rider.
Security forces found a
mine in the toolbox of the motorbike, according to a press release of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence
Services.Myanmar
News
Agency

Four fined for breaching curfew in Maungtaw

Patrolling at night in Maungtaw,
police detained four people including Kyaw Myo Lwin of Minbargyi Street in Myoma (East)
Ward at about 9:50 pm.
Found to be in breach of the
curfew, they were charged at the

township court under section 188

and fined Ks. 20,000 each.
Curfew was imposed on
Maungtaw from 7 pm to 6 am for
regional stability following violent attacks on the Kyikanpyin
Border Guard Police Command

Centre, the Ngakhuya Area Office and the Kotankauk Police

station on 9 October.
Since 9 December, curfew
has been imposed on Maungtaw
under Section 144 of Martial
Law. Myanmar News Agency

A modern explosive device found in the motorcycle.

Photo: the Myanma Motion Pictures Association

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11 December 2016

Ks3.6 billion to be spent on waterway

development and prevention of riverbank erosion

Photo shows an eroded river bank of Ayeyawady River. Photo: Myitmakha News Agency
A project to develop waterways
and to prevent erosion of riverbanks will be implemented
in the villages beside the Ayeyawady River in early 2017,
it is learnt from Mandalay Regions Water Resources and
Improvement of River Systems
Department.
Field studies were conducted in October, 2016. Tenders
were invited by the department

beginning from December 5.

All the projects will start
this financial year. We plan to
implement the projects only
when the water level in the river decreases. Some parts of the
project will be implemented by
the private companies. We will
provide the technology, said
Director U Toe Aung Lin of the
department.
The waterway develop-

ment and riverbank erosion

prevention measures will be
implemented in Singu, Madaya, Patheingyi, Sintgaing,
Taungtha and Myingyan townships.
The project will cost
Ks3.6billion, it is learnt from
Mandalay Regions Water Resources and Improvement of
River Systems Department.
Myitmakha News Agency

Tuberculosis cases in
Mandalay increased by
56 over past 11 months
THE number of patients living
with tuberculosis in Mandalay
Region has risen to 635 this year
from 579 last year, an increase
of 56 cases, according to the
200-bed TB Special Hospital in
Patheingyi Township in Mandalay Region.
According to figures collected over the past nine months, people between the ages of 30 and 50
were found to be the group most
affected by the communicable
disease, said Dr Moe Zaw, medical superintendent of the hospital.
Dr Moe Zaw said that the
hospital continues to treat not
only TB patients, but also patients with multi-drug resistant
TB (MDR-TB), which is present
among patients who have also
contracted HIV. Some of them
are being treated in the serious
disease section of the hospital as
in patients. The majority of TB
patients are from Mandalay followed by Shan State, Sagaing Region and Magway Region.
A specialist in infectious dis-

eases at the 200-bed TB Special

Hospital established in 1996 said
the disease has strong correlations to poverty and sub-standard
living condition. TB cases are
reported mostly in peri-urban areas. The outbreaks of the cases are
linked to living standards. A decline in the poverty rate may reduce the outbreak of the disease
the specialist said.
According to a World Health
Organisation survey, Myanmar
has one of the highest burdens of
tuberculosis in the world with an
estimated 180,000 new cases of
TB every year, more than 40,000
of them in children. It is estimated
that over 20,000 people die from
TB each year. About 9,000 people are annually diagnosed with
multi-drug resistant TB.
The WHO report shows that
there are approximately 500,000
people with MDR-TB around the
world. In Myanmar, it is found
that about 5 per cent of new TB
patients have MDR-TB.Myitmakha News Agency

Over Ks41 billion cut from 2017-2018 budget

Aung Thant Khaing
Over Ks41 billion was cut from
the 2017-2018 fiscal year budget,
said U Myat Thu, Minister for
Regional Planning and Finance
on Friday a on the second day of
the Mandalay Hluttaw emergency meeting.
The Mandalay Region Government has already directed the
ministries not to ask for a higher
budget than absolutely necessary.
Among the budget cuts, over
Ks5 billion was cut from the Irrigation Department, over Ks1

billion from the Water Resources and Utilization Department,

Ks600 million from the Directorate of Water Resources and
Improvement of River Systems, Ks400 million from the
Meteorology and Hydrology
Department, over Ks5 billion
from the Electric power, over
Ks1 billion from the General
Administration
Department,
over Ks3 billion from the Fire
Service department, Ks100 million from the Agriculture Department, Ks100 million from
the Livestock Breeding and

Veterinary Department, Ks700

million from the Forestry Department, Ks600 million from
the Dry Zone Greening Department, over Ks1 billion from the
Environmental Conservation
department, over Ks1 billion
from the Sports and Physical
Education department, over
Ks6 billion from the Urban and
Housing Development Department, Ks893 million from the
Development Affairs department, and over Ks11 billion
from Mandalay City Development Committee.

3,000 solar-powered lamp posts

and CCTV installed at pagodas
Over 3,000 solar-powered
lamp posts will be erected
along with closed-circuit television cameras at pagodas
in Yangon region in 2017, it
is learnt from Yangon Region
Government.
The Yangon region government will supply 3,000
out of 100,000 solar-powered

lamp posts to supply lighting

at night. We will also install
the CCTVs, said Daw Naw
Pan Thinzar Myo, Kayin ethnic minister of Yangon region
government at the Sustainable
Development of Responsible
Tourism forum in Yangon on
Wednesday.
The lamp posts will be

installed using foreign companies investment, not with the

government budget.
There are over 100,000
lamp posts in Yangon region
but it will take two years to
install all of them. Thus, only
3,000 lamp posts will be installed in the initial phase.
Myitmakha News Agency

The 200-bed TB Special Hospital in Patheingyi Township, Mandalay

Region, which has seen a marked increase in the number of tuberculosis cases. Photo: Myitmakha News Agency

news

Yaba seized in Kyaikhto, Mon State

Police from Kyaikhto Myoma seized Yaba tablets on
Thursday from a guest house in
Kyaikhto Township, Mon state.
We received the information and went to the guest
house. We found a man seemingly waiting for the customers
to sell the drugs beside the guest
house. As he looked suspicious,
we searched him and found the
yaba tablets in his pockets. He
was promptly arrested, said
Police Inspector Zaw Myo
Lwin.
Ko Paing, also known as
Soe Moe Paing Thu, 21, was
arrested after 67 yaba tablets
worth Ks335,000 were found
on him.
Police have filed charges
against the suspect under sec-

tions 15/ 19(A)/20(A)/21 of the

Anti-Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Laws.
Myitmakha News Agency

Ko Paing, also known as Soe Moe

Paing Thu.
Photo: Myitmakha News Agency

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11 December 2016

Solomon Islands scrambles to reach areas

hit by second major quake

Thailands poor
people get
giveaway cash
from govt banks

Sydney The Solomon

Islands plans to dispatch
emergency supplies to areas affected by a 6.9 magnitude aftershock on Saturday, a day after a much
larger tremor triggered a
tsunami warning that send
hundreds of coastal people
fleeing into the hills.
General Secretary of
the Solomon Islands Red
Cross Joanne Zoleveke
said the supply boat could
take almost 24 hours to
reach Makira Island, which
lies close to the epicentre of
Fridays deeper 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Both quakes triggered
tsunami warnings which
were lifted a short time later.
We are working with
the National Disaster Office of the Government
and weve mobilised our
emergency response teams
to accompany the government officers and other
international non-governmental organisations that
are going on this boat,
Zoleveke said.
Makira Islands airstrip services small planes
incapable of shuttling the
volume of aid required for
the relief effort.

BANGKOK Nearly 7
million people, officially
categorised as impoverished, are receiving a sum
of giveaway cash from government banks throughout
Thailand.
Under condition set
by the Ministry of Finance,
those who may earn no more
than 30,000 baht (about 857
US dollars) per year are entitled to 3,000 baht (about
85.7 US dollars) and those
who may earn more than
30,000 baht but less than
100,000 baht (about 2,857
US dollars) per year are entitled to 1,500 baht (about
42.8 US dollars) in giveaway cash. According to
an official of the ministry,
about 8.27 million Thais had
earlier filed for the governments grant nationwide.
However, 6.98 million
of those people were certified by the authorities as eligible to the giveaway cash,
the official said.
Prime Minister Prayut
Chan-o-cha earlier commented that the governments grant was not a populist campaign and that it
was merely meant to help
stimulate the countrys
grassroots economy.
Beginning on Saturday
until the end of this month,
the eligible poor can get
money from the government
banks the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural
Cooperatives, the Government Savings Bank and
Krung Thai Bank. The money is available via ATMs
throughout the country.
Xinhua

Solomon Islands Red Cross Auki Branch officers distribute aid to families affected by Saturdays earthquake, at Malaita
Province on the Solomon Islands, on 9 December 2016. Photo: Reuters
We still dont have
that much detail but we
know people are really
affected by whats happened, Zoleveke said.
Zoloveke said based
on reports received by
two-way radio, Fridays
quake caused significant
damage and forced people
from homes in the town of

Kirakira on Makira Island,

about 200 km from the Pacific Island nations capital
of Honiara.
She said she knew of
only one reported casualty,
a
25-year-old
with
non-specific injuries. The
remoteness of the region
and the failure of communications meant it was im-

possible to know the full

extent of any injuries or
damage, she said.
Australia has provided
A$50,000 ($37,235) worth
of supplies and a helicopter to undertake an initial
assessment of affected areas to help target relief efforts, Zoloveke said.
Suzy Sainovski of

World Vision in Honiara

said staff from the humanitarian organisation in Kirakira saw people fleeing to
higher ground.
One of the reasons
we need to get them shelter assistance (is) because
its the start of the wet season here, Sainovski said.
Reuters

Japan launches cargo spaceship to take supplies to ISS

(JaTANEGASHIMA,
pan) Japan launched a
rocket late Friday carrying
an unmanned cargo spaceship loaded with supplies
for the International Space
Station.
The H-2B rocket car-

rying the Kounotori6 cargo

transporter blasted off from
the Tanegashima Space
Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan at 10:26 pm.
If successfully put
into orbit around the

Earth, the spaceship is expected to dock with the

space station on Tuesday,
according to the Japan
Exploration
Aerospace
Agency.
The cargo spaceship
is carrying 5.9 tons of

supplies including food,

drinking water and other
daily necessities for astronauts on board the ISS,
seven ultrasmall satellites
developed by some universities and firms, and Japanese-made lithium-ion bat-

teries for use on the space

station.
The launch of the
Kounotori6 was delayed
from its originally scheduled 1 October launch due
to a leak in its piping.
Kyodo News

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11 December 2016

Japan SDF in South Sudan may withdraw

if security worsens: defence chief
TOKYO Japanese Defence Minister Tomomi Inada has said Self-Defence
Forces personnel stationed
in South Sudan to take part
in UN peacekeeping operations could withdraw if
the security situation deteriorates with a protracted
gunfight.
The situation could
abruptly change so we will
consistently gather necessary information for ensuring safety, Inada said
in a recent interview with
Kyodo News and other media before SDF members

become ready Monday to

perform their new task of
rescuing UN staff and others in response to an urgent
request.
Inada said she is not
concerned about the new
mission in line with Japans
new security legislation,
which provides them with
more leeway in the countrys war-renouncing Constitution. The SDF troops
are well trained and the
chief commanding the unit
in South Sudan is a person
who can assess the situation calmly, the minister

added. In the capital Juba,

more than 270 people died
in July due to a large-scale
clash between government
forces and rebels. While
admitting that the overall
security situation in South
Sudan is tough, the Japanese government has said
Juba is relatively calm.
If a gun battle lasts
longer than the (July) fighting, and the SDF cannot secure their safety, it is possible that we would consider
their withdrawal, Inada
said.
The new role legally

includes a rescue operation

of foreign military personnel but Inada said such a
scenario is not expected
in actual situations. Foreign
troops can protect themselves.
The rescue mission
remains controversial at
home, with some critics
warning that the new role
could lead SDF members to
become embroiled in overseas military actions for the
first time since World War
II, in possible violation
of the postwar Constitution.Kyodo News

Aussie experts call for 9-to-5 work week

to be scrapped during heatwaves
CANBERRA Health
and weather experts in Australia have called for the
traditional 9-to-5, 38-hour
work week to be revised in
the case of extreme heatwaves.
Peng Bi, professor of
public health at the University of Adelaide, said on Saturday that as Australia con-

tinues to experience more

heatwaves during the brutal
summer months, workplaces need to adjust accordingly so worker health is not
put at unnecessary risk. He
told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
that working traditional
hours in a heatwave could
be detrimental to the health

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of many workers particularly older workers and

pregnant women, for example.
During a heatwave,
the 38-hour, nine-to-five
week may not be the best
thing, or the most healthy
way to work, Peng said.
I reckon some regulations should be set up to get

employers to pay attention

to the occupational health
and safety of their employees, he said.
Peng said lawmakers
should consider drafting
legislation which would
amend Australias health
and safety laws to accommodate the changing climate.Xinhua

Security council meets on

North Korea human rights
despite China opposition
UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations Security Council discussed on
Friday what a senior UN
official described as appalling human rights violations in North Korea,
despite a failed attempt by
China to stop the third annual meeting on the issue.
Chinas UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi said the
Security Council was not
a forum for discussing human rights issues and still
less for the politicization
of the human rights issue.
Given the current
context, where a plethora of dire challenges are
confronting international
peace and security, the
council should scrupulously honour its responsibility and focus on issues
concerning international
peace and security with
undivided attention, Liu
told the 15-member council.
China, an ally of
Pyongyang, called a rare
procedural vote to try to
stop the meeting. Nine
countries voted to hold the
meeting the minimum
required while Angola,
China, Egypt, Russia and

Venezuela were against.

Senegal abstained.
US Ambassador to
the United Nations Samantha Power told the
council that Pyongyang
had displayed increasingly aggressive behavior
throughout 2016 by conducting a record number
of missile launches and
two nuclear tests.
We see the DPRK
(North Korea) regime
grow its illicit weapons
programme rather than
growing its own children,
said Power, citing World
Health Organisation data
that one in four North
Korean children suffers
stunted growth from malnutrition.
She warned North
Korean officials, saying:
We are methodically
documenting your abuses
and your impunity will not
last forever. When the day
comes that you are publicly held accountable, we
will be ready.
Earlier this year, the
United States angered
North Korea by blacklisting its leader Kim Jong
Un for human rights abuses.Reuters

After impeachment, South

Korea prime minister
urges calm, vigilance

South Korean Prime Minister and the acting President

Hwang Kyo-ahn releases a statement to the nation at the
Goverment Complex in Seoul, South Korea, on 9 December
2016. Photo: Reuters
SEOUL South Koreas
prime minister sought to
calm anxiety over national security and to reassure
financial markets on Saturday, a day after parliament
voted to impeach President
Park Geun-hye, making
him acting leader.
Prime Minister Hwang
Kyo-ahn, who assumed
presidential authority late
on Friday after the overwhelming
impeachment
vote, and with more protests
against Park due later on
Saturday, called on authorities to ensure that rallies are
peaceful.
So far, financial and
foreign exchange markets
have been relatively stable
and there are no signs of
unusual movements by the
North, but all public servants should bear vigilance
in mind as they conduct
their duties, Hwang told a
meeting.
He said national security was the priority and
reiterated that the military
should be on high alert for
any provocation by old rival
North Korea, including the
possibility of cyber attacks
aimed at sowing confusion
in the South.
Parks powers were
suspended after 234 of parliaments 300 members voted to impeach her, meaning
more than 60 members of
her own party backed the
motion against her.
The
impeachment,
which has to be reviewed
and approved by a ninejudge Constitutional Court
within 180 days to remove
Park from office, sets the
stage for her to become the
countrys first elected leader to be ousted in disgrace.
Park, 64, the daughter
of a former military ruler,
is accused of colluding with
a friend and a former aide,

both of whom prosecutors

have indicted, to pressure
big businesses to donate to
foundations set up to back
her policy initiatives.
Park, who is serving a
single five-year term ending
in February 2018, has denied wrongdoing but apologized for carelessness in her
ties with her friend, Choi
Soon-sil.
For six consecutive
Saturdays, huge crowds
have gathered in central
Seoul in peaceful demonstrations calling for Park
to step down, with another
planned for Saturday.
The candle-lit rallies we have been holding
and the weekend rally in
Kwanghwamun will go
on, organisers said in a
statement, referring to an
imposing gate that opens to
an imperial palace in front
of the presidential Blue
House, where Park remains
despite losing her powers.
The impeachment is
the start, not the end, they
said.
If Park leaves office
early, an election must be
held within 60 days. She
would also lose presidential
immunity from prosecution.
Prosecutors have named
Park as an accomplice in
their investigation.
Earlier, the Bank of
Korea said the financial
market impact of the impeachment appeared to be
limited after a meeting to
review policy measures
that it may take. Governor
Lee Ju-yeol asked for close
monitoring of the markets.
The United States,
which has about 28,500
troops stationed in South
Korea, was in close contact with South Korea and
remained a strong ally, the
White House said late on
Friday.Reuters

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11 December 2016

IA says Russia intervened to help

C
Trump win White House
Washington The CIA has
concluded that Russia intervened
in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win
the White House, and not just to
undermine confidence in the US
electoral system, a senior US official said on Friday.
US intelligence agencies
have assessed that as the 2016
presidential campaign drew on,
Russian government officials devoted increasing attention to assisting Donald Trumps effort to
win the election, the US official
familiar with the finding told Reuters on Friday night on condition
of anonymity.
Citing US officials briefed on
the matter, the Washington Post
reported on Friday that intelligence
agencies had identified individuals
with connections to the Russian
government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the
Democratic National Committee
and others, including the chairman
of Hillary Clintons presidential
campaign, to WikiLeaks.
US President Barack Obama
ordered intelligence agencies to
review cyber attacks and foreign
intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he
leaves office on 20 January, the
White House said on Friday.
As summer turned to fall,
Russian hackers turned almost all
their attention to the Democrats.
Virtually all the emails they released publicly were potentially damaging to Clinton and the
Democrats, the official told Reuters.
That was a major clue to

news in brief

Death toll rises as cargo train explodes

in Bulgaria
Sofia At least five people were killed and 25 injured when
a cargo train derailed and exploded in the northeastern Bulgarian
village of Hitrino, demolishing around 20 buildings, police said on
Saturday.
At least three of the victims remain in critical condition and
the number is likely to rise, authorities said.
There will be more casualties for sure, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said after arriving to the village,
some 280 km northeast of capital Sofia and home to around 800
people. Seven of the trains tanks, carrying propane-butane and
propylene, derailed at the station of the village, hit electricity line
and exploded in flames on Saturday, National Railway Infrastructure Companys general director Mincho Lambrev said.Reuters

Julian Assange, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks speaks via

video link during a press conference on the occasion of the ten year
anniversary celebration of WikiLeaks in Berlin, Germany, on 4 October
2016. Photo: Reuters
their intent, the official said. If
all they wanted to do was discredit
our political system, why publicize the failings of just one party,
especially when you have a target
like Trump?
A second official familiar
with the report said the intelligence analysts conclusion about
Russias motives does not mean
the intelligence community believes that Moscows efforts altered or significantly affected the
outcome of the election.
Russian officials have denied
all accusations of interference in
the US election.
A CIA spokeswoman said the
agency had no comment on the
matter.
The hacked emails passed to
WikiLeaks were a regular source
of embarrassment to the Clinton
campaign during the race for the

presidency.
US intelligence analysts have
assessed with high confidence
that at some point in the extended presidential campaign Russian
President Vladimir Putins government had decided to try to bolster Trumps chances of winning.
The Russians appear to have
concluded that Trump had a shot
at winning and that he would be
much friendlier to Russia than
Clinton would be, especially on
issues such as maintaining economic sanctions and imposing additional ones, the official said.
Moscow is launching a similar effort to influence the next
German election, following an escalating campaign to promote farright and nationalist political parties and individuals in Europe that
began more than a decade ago, the
official said.Reuters

French elections third man kicks

off campaign for presidency
PARIS Frances popular former economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, gets his campaign
for the French presidency into
gear with a rally in Paris on Saturday which should mark him
out as a dark horse in the race for
the Elysee.
The 38-year-old Macron,
once a protege of President Francois Hollande, has faced strong
criticism from the Socialists for
deciding to stand as an independent in the 2017 election outside
of the party structure.
He has steadfastly refused
pleas most recently by former prime minister Manuel Valls
who is seeking the Socialist party
ticket to join in the Lefts attempts to decide on a single candidate for next springs election.
Macron, a former investment banker, will be hoping for a
turnout of more than 5,000 at his
rally on Saturday, eclipsing last
weekends modest gathering by
the Socialists when party grandees struggled to re-energise the

Emmanuel Macron, head of the

political movement En Marche
or Forward and candidate for
the 2017 French presidential
election, attends an economic
forum in Paris, France, on 1
December 2016. Photo: Reuters
faithful at a gathering that drew
only 2,500 supporters.
Polls show there is little
chance of any left-wing candidate reaching the election run-off
next May and, barring an upset,
the stage seems set for a head-tohead between conservative Francois Fillon and far-right leader

Marine Le Pen.
Fillon, a centre-right former
prime minister who has pledged
to cut deep into the public sector,
would easily beat the anti-immigrant and anti-euro Le Pen, taking two thirds of the vote if the
polls are correct.
Macron quit as economy
minister in the Valls government
after he set up his own political
movement called En Marche,
which translates as Forward or
Onwards.
Promising to be neither
on the left nor on the right, he
is widely seen as a wild card in
an election that will be fought on
high unemployment, national security and immigration.
Some say he could fragment
the leftwing electorate and enhance Le Pens chances of reaching the second ballot next May.
Opinion polls show him
consistently ahead of Socialist
candidates such as Valls who
will compete for the party ticket
in late January.Reuters

France seeks to extend state of

emergency until July PM Cazeneuve
Paris The French government will propose extending the state
of emergency until July 15 2017 due to presidential and parliament
elections in spring next year, prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve
said on Saturday.
The socialist government imposed the state of emergency,
which gives police extended powers to search and arrest, in November 2015 following the attacks on Paris last year.
The extension needs to be approved by parliament, which will
debate the proposal on Tuesday. The senate will review it on Thursday. Reuters

Two runners die at Xiamen Half-Marathon

XIAMEN (China) Two Chinese runners died on Saturday after
they collapsed at Xiamen International Half-Marathon in southeast
Chinas Fujian province, according to the local organizing committee.
A runner, with the surname Lin, fell down and suffered sudden
heart failure with 4.5 kilometers to go before the finish. The other
runner, surnamed Wu, fell down after crossing the finish line.
Both runners were given first aid by medical staff and immediately sent to hospital, where they were pronounced died.
The organisers expressed their deep condolences to the runners families. The Xiamen International Half-Marathon used to be
a spin-off race of the annual IAAF gold label race Xiamen International marathon, which will be staged on 2 January 2017, and has
been separated as an independent race since 2016. The organisers
did not demand compulsory physical exams in the registration process for participants.Xinhua

China, Japan agree on early launch of air,

maritime contact system
HAIKOU China and Japan have agreed to work for the creation
of an air and maritime contact system between their defence ministries as early as possible.
The agreement was reached during the sixth round of high-level consultations on maritime affairs between the two countriess
various departments, held from Wednesday to Friday in Chinas
southern city of Haikou.
They also agreed to hold the first meeting of expert discussions
on marine pollution before March 2017, and expand information
exchanges to jointly crack down on transnational crimes such as
smuggling and drug trafficking. The two sides pledged to beef up
cooperation on fisheries management and sign a marine search and
rescue agreement as early as possible.Xinhua

Vucic: We are considering 25-year

concession for aiport
BELGRADE The Serbian government is considering offering
a 25-year concession for Belgrades Nikola Tesla Airport, which
would bring a 350-400 mln euro advance payment and a further 1011 mln every year, PM Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.
A decision has not yet been made, but the government is closest to offering a concession, he said.
We would go for an advance payment for the entire contract
and an annual concession fee. A tender procedure would be opened
and I think we would be able to secure a 25-year concession,
Vucic said. Talks about this are underway with concession adviser
Lazard Freres, Vucic added. Tanjug

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Whither the future of Myanmar Cultural HeritageMyanmarsar, Myanmarsagar?

Khin Maung Oo

verything or every
individual is impermanent. In other words, all
are being consumed by time.
Very often, we see and hear news
about devastation caused by natural disasters and great destruction caused by wars. These are,
in fact, the ruins of physical
properties. With the increasing
population, we need to build
more and more for living, storing or applying for such-andsuch a use. For our increasingly
urbanized society, urban renewal and urban sprawl projects are
urgently needed. At such a time,
some old buildings and unimportant ones need demolishing.
Some may be very old, but if it is
regarded to be things of sentimental value for us, it is required
to be kept intact. That is to say, if
people cherish and value these
old buildings, we are responsible
to maintain them.
Each country has its own
characteristics: culture, customs

and traditions, language, art and

literature. Undeniably, these distinguish us from others. Socially
unacceptable ideas and habits
disappear naturally. But we need
to keep our own image. Our nation owes its existence to the
maintenance of these characteristics by our ancestors, our language of which is an important
factor. Here I would like to express my emphatic regret about
our mother tongue, Myanmar
Language.
It is none other than colonization of Myanmar usages used
only in Facebook, during recent
times. According to our nature,
people like and want to be
avant-garde. Yet, this can be
said to be destroying the Myanmar language accidentally or
otherwise. Myanmar is generally
said to be a monosyllabic language and many words are corrupted Pali words. Out of the
new words they have invented, a
few are presented here. Nyi-

lay-nDav; is a combined word

Nyi and Lay, the former is meant
for brother and the latter for
younger. Now some are writing
and calling each other, Ngyay-an; which means nothing.
Similarly, Mingasaung-r*Faqmif
is being used for Mingalarsaung-r*Fvmaqmif
Mingalarsaung is a corrupted Pali word
and it has a good meaningauspiciousness. Bwa--bG is replacing Bawa--b0 that means
life.
It will be an endless task to
name all these neo-nonsensewords. Before we recognize it,
they are on the lips of most
youths. They may be using these
terms for pleasure, seeming to
fail to notice that they are destroying their own language
themselves. There seems to be
an element of hyperbole in such
a claim that this is a big problem
for the country. This problem
will continue due to our indifference. It is just a matter of time

before our most cherished language will be on the brink of extinction. The government, Ministry of Education, teachers, all
literary workers and conscientious people who love our language are responsible to solve
this problem.
Pali is a spoken language,
not a written one. But it based on
a systematic Pali grammar. It
has no alphabets and writings.
All Buddhas teachings were
transcribed into Sanskrit. Wonderfully enough, Theravada
Sayadaws maintained it for an
enormous period of time. We
need to learn from them. Rome
was not built in a day, but it can
be ruined in a moment. Something new is being built, and old
ones are being conserved and
renovated. Let us protect our
language from being harmed by
our carelessness, understanding
the sentimental value of our cultural heritage from the deepest
part of our souls.

No Need To Respond And Yield To Every Allegation!

ODHITHA

n December 6, I heard
the CNN news referring
to Mr Kofi Annan, the
former UN secretary-general as
saying that he hoped for humanitarian aid workers and media men
to have an access to the place
very soon, in which violent armed
attacks originated, making people
convinced of the Rakhine Affairs.
The above statement was
made by Mr Kofi Annan, chairman of the Advisory Commission
on Rakhine State during the visit
to northern area of Rakhine area
in the state of instability, accompanied by the commission members.
As regards the fact, the Mirror Daily describes in its December 7 issue as follows:
I had an access to the place
of conflicts, managing to discuss
with those concerned. Here, I
would like to say that the Tatmataw, the military sector plays
an important role in protecting
the benefits of Rakhine State.
Yet, it is necessary to take careful
attention of protecting rights of
civilians in the region. In terms of
these, there had had prolonged arguments. Some governments say
that security needs to be prioritized with freedom of civilians to
be reduced, severed or suspended
as needed depending upon situations, in fighting against terrorism. In my opinion, it is a questionable one whether security

will be attained eventually if human rights and freedom of people have been abandoned. Availability of live news coverage of
newsmen in the area will lessen
spreads of rumors, I hope. Transparency is the best way to conquer rumors.
I happened to entertain a
thought of Mr Kofi Annans sayingTransparency is the best
way to conquer rumors.
When I analyzed who spread
rumors, I noticed political instigators. At such a time when social media websites are very popular with people, there may be
political instigations to arouse
hatred and furore among people
by using these digital media. Rumor can be construed in two
meaningsthe first one is the
outbreak of a riot as an omen in
advance, for example, people
know the day of Apocalypse will
come to the world beforehand,
inter alia.
The second one is the kind
of knowledge of news about imminent events or unreasonable
news whose sources are not
known.
Rumor which ignites racial
or religious hatred among people
is categorized into unreasonable
one of unconfirmed sources. It
can cause a great harm to the
whole populace. Last year, rumors on private banks in our country begot a serious anxiety among
people.
Concerning current rumors
on Rakhine State, people had

best take care of everything so as

not to make wrong responses out
of anxiety. The most important
thing is for the public to respond
to those prudently whenever rumors occur.
Yet, we need not respond to
every fabricated story that we
hear every day, and concurrently
we need not yield to every allegation. Some disappear per se,
without our influence to control
them. We should note that some
will worsen just at the time when
we try to control them.
We must hold the concept
that as long as our stance and
deeds are right, we need not respond. Our right deeds will solve
problems to emerge. Not making any responses, ipso facto
cannot be assumed to be Yielding to. Our Reverend Sayardaw,
Ashin Vijja(Daik Oo) reprimands in writing that Not making any responses is just getting
rid of unnecessary feelings, without being conceived in our minds.
We need to respond to some
words which are really-needed
for making responses. Such an
action is just a deed to bring
about mutual understanding between one and another, not a aggressive response. Therefore, bilateral discussions or dialogues
must be done whenever a problem occurs. In the term of modern usage, dialogue and diplomacy are of great importance.
Recently, diplomatic tension
between ASEAN member countries is being heard. It is none

other than the outbreak of consequent criticism of Malaysian

Prime Minister, Najib Razaks
talk at the mass rally demonstrating against Rakhine Affairs.
Dr Mahathir Mohammad,
former Malaysian Prime Minister
criticized that Najib Razak
should deal with the problem
only by the diplomatic way instead of taking part in demonstrations. The former questioned the
latter why he had chosen the way
of demonstrating instead of exercising the right to solve by diplomatic ways. Demonstrations are
ways for people opposing to governments to use, but the government itself need not stage a
demonstration, Dr Mahathir
said in a press conference concerning Democratic Action Party(DAP)s National Conference.
He added that he himself
was no longer a Cabinet member,
thus having the right to demonstrate.
Meanwhile, an opposition
leader,Dr WAN Azizah also criticized over Najibs action. He
said he supported Dr Mahathirs
assumption that Najib need not
take part I demonstrations, and as
a prime minister, he should release a statement as an approach
between the governments.
All kinds of solutionsin
diplomatic ways, in social or political waysare based on rightful judgment, reasonable thinking and performing for the benefit
of the majority.
Instead, provided that we re-

spond to every word with our

feelings, we will be stuck in the
rut of sequence of mistakes. Thus
I think that we are required not to
make prompt response to these
false allegations.
We must remove unbeneficial words out of our minds. Failing that, all responses will turn
up as our mistakes. Here, I want
to share 4 characteristics of a
speech. They are 1/ beneficial
speech, 2/ sweet & pleasany
speech, 3/ solemn speech and 4/
justifiable speech. These must be
exercised as ethics.
In the Anguttara Pali of the
Buddha, it is referred that 8 characteristics of a diplomat are understanding of what the other
party delivers to the other concerned, recounting exactly what
one delivers, memorizing all,
performing exacting, understanding the literal meaning, reproducing words for others to understand, knowing whether it is
beneficial or not, managing to
avoid any arguments or altercations.
To sum up, we assume that
we need to be careful and prudent
as worldly beings. False news,
extreme propaganda instigating
racial and religious conflicts is to
emerge among us all the time.
After assessing if they are beneficial or not, wholesome or unwholesome, we should perform
in the best way. I am well
convinced that we need not respond and yield to every allegation.

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11 December 2016

UK retail sales in
November show
strongest growth in 14
months BDO
London Britains retailers
enjoyed their strongest monthly
sales growth for 14 months in
November, helped by a return to
growth in the fashion sector for
the first time since January, industry data showed on Saturday.
UK high street sales rose 1.7
per cent year-on-year in November, according to BDO, the accountancy and business advisory
firm.
Like-for-like growth in the
fashion sector was 1.5 per cent,
it said.
Robust growth in consumer spending has been one of the

main things sustaining Britains

economy since Junes vote to
leave the European Union. But
many retailers expect to have to
raise prices next year, probably
squeezing consumer demand.
Consumer spending may
appear to be robust for now as
many people are having a final
shopping spree while the economy is exceeding growth expectations, Sophie Michael, head
of retail and wholesale at BDO,
said.
(But) the challenges facing retailers continue to mount,
which will inevitably impact on

A woman looks at a coat in a discount clothing shop in Blackpool, Britain, on 7 November 2016.
Photo: Reuters
retailers costs and consumers
disposable income and the question is when not if the spending squeeze will come.

The BDO data contrasts

with more subdued numbers
from the British Retail Consortium, published on 6 Decem-

ber a disparity which may be

partly explained by the slightly longer period of the BDO
data.Reuters

Bitcoin hits highest levels in almost three years

LONDON Web-based digital
currency bitcoin hit its highest
levels in almost three years on
Friday, extending gains since India sparked a cash shortage by removing high-denomination bank
notes from circulation a month
ago.

Bitcoin was trading as high

as $774 on the New York-based
itBit exchange, up almost 1 per
cent on the day and the highest since February 2014, having
climbed almost 9 per cent in the
past month.
Bitcoin is a cash alternative

Samsung to disable
Note 7 phones in the US
via software update
New York Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday
that a software update for Galaxy Note 7 smartphones will be
released mid-December in the
United States preventing them
from charging and functioning
as mobile phones, rendering
them useless.
The smartphone maker said
that more than 93 per cent of all
recalled Galaxy Note 7 devices
had been returned as a part of
its exchange programme in the
United States.

The US Transportation Department and other agencies in

October ordered Galaxy Note 7
owners from carrying the devices or stowing them in checked
baggage during flights following reports of fires in replacement Note 7 devices.
However, Verizon Communications Inc said it would
not take part in the update because of the added risk this
could pose to Galaxy Note7
users that do not have another
device to switch to.Reuters

A customer uses his Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 as he waits

for an exchange at companys headquarters in Seoul, South Korea,
on 13 October 2016. Photo: Reuters

that can be used for moving money across the globe quickly and
anonymously with no need for a
central authority to process transactions. It has climbed around
80 per cent so far this year, far
exceeding its 35 per cent rise in
2015.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced a shock

move on 8 November to ditch
500 and 1,000 rupee notes
worth a combined $256 billion
that he said were fuelling corruption, being forged and even
paying for attacks by militants

who target India.

The cryptocurrencys value
has been highly volatile after
rocketing above $1,100 in 2013,
it had fallen to around $150 by
early 2015. But it has since stabilized, staying above $500 for the
past six months.Reuters

Hawkish Fed a potential speed

bump for stock bulls
NEW YORK Next weeks Federal Reserve meeting and possible
signals on the pace of rate hikes for
next year could pose the biggest
risk yet to the rally the US stock
market has seen since last months
presidential election.
While investors have long
anticipated the Fed will raise rates
at the 13-14 December meeting
in what would be its first such
move in a year and second in nearly a decade the worry for some
stock investors is that the Fed takes
a more aggressive stance on inflation and future hikes.
Stocks have set a string of
record highs since the 8 November election on hopes of a pickup
in US economic growth, thanks to
President-elect Donald Trumps
promises of increased infrastructure spending, lower taxes and easier regulations.
US investors seem optimistic
about prospects of future growth,
but the question remains if the Fed
does as well.
The US central bank should
announce new economic forecasts
next week, along with a rate hike.
If inflation is expected to pick up
quickly, the Fed may need to raise
rates faster than investors expect,
and that could be a negative for US
stocks.
If they believe that inflation

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in
New York City, US, on 8 December 2016. Photo: Reuters
is going to march higher and more
rapidly ... That would give the market reason to pause, said Quincy
Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial in Newark, New
Jersey.
I dont think investors want
to hear that this is going to be an
aggressive Fed.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen will
more likely want to reassure investors that the transition to higher
rates will be gradual, she said.
Last December, the Fed raised
rates for the first time in nearly a
decade, and later signaled four
more hikes would come in 2016.
But the outlook quickly changed as

the economy did not pick up speed,

oil prices fell further and the stock
market plunged at the start of 2016.
Next week, the market is
going to try to key off of whether
we are going to fall into the oneto-two (hikes), or the three-to-four
for 2017, said Jason Ware, chief
investment officer at Albion Financial Group in Salt Lake City.
If in the statement and the
discussion afterwards it appears
that the Fed is getting more concerned that they are behind the
curve and they have to tighten
more aggressively than the market
currently expects, that could knock
stocks back. Reuters

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11 December 2016

Drone strike kills militant

linked to Charlie Hebdo attack
Washington A US drone
strike in Syria has killed an Islamic State militant linked to the
7 January 2015 attack on satirical
weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris,
defence officials said on Friday.
Boubaker el Hakim was
killed late last month in Raqqa,
the Islamic States defacto capital in Syria, the officials said,
adding he was believed to be involved with planning the attack.
Charlie Hebdo, known for
its satirical covers gleefully ridiculing political and religious
leaders, lost many of its top editorial staff when brothers Cherif
and Said Kouachi, armed with
assault rifles and other weapons,

broke into an editorial meeting

and killed 12 people and wounded 11 others.
The attacks prompted a
worldwide solidarity movement,
with the Je Suis Charlie (I am
Charlie) slogan going viral on
social media.
Islamic State, which has
controlled parts of Iraq and Syria
in recent years, has lost some territory this year to Iraqis and Syrians supported by a US-led coalition of air strikes and advisers.
Apart from the killings at Charlie
Hebdo, Islamic State sympathizers around the world have carried
out other shootings and bombings of civilians.Reuters

People visit the ruins of the historic city of Palmyra ahead of a musical event at its amphitheatre, Syria, on 6
May, 2016. Photo: Reuters

Syrian army rushes forces to historic

Palmyra in IS battle
Beirut The Syrian army
said it has sent reinforcements
to Palmyra, where Islamic State
fighters have advanced to its
outskirts in some of the heaviest
fighting since the group lost the
historic city earlier this year.
The group had taken over
areas to the northwest and southeast of Palmyra, and clashes continued on Saturday, the army said
in a statement.
A rebel commander from the
Jaish al-Mujahideen group based
in the Aleppo countryside said

the IS attack was forcing the Syrian government to divert troops

from Aleppo, where the army and
its allies are on the verge of a major victory against rebels.
The army did not specify where reinforcements were
brought from.
Islamic States assault,
which began late on Thursday,
has killed dozens of Syrian soldiers and quickly taken over
grain silos and control of some
oil and gas fields around Palmyra, monitoring group the Syrian

Observatory for Human Rights

said.
A statement by Islamic
States Amaq online news agency said the militants had pushed
towards Palmyra airport on the
towns eastern outskirts, which
Russian forces have been using
to support the Syrian army.
A US-led coalition which
is separately fighting against the
jihadist militants said late on Friday it had carried out 168 IS oil
tanker trucks near Palmyra in a
large air raid.Reuters

Gunmen gesture as they return to their car after the attack outside the
offices of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo (seen at
rear) in this still image taken from amateur video shot in Paris, on 7
January, 2015. Photo: Reuters

US allies caution Trump on Syria strategy

WASHINGTON/PARIS Key
US allies in Europe are quietly
expressing concern over President-elect Donald Trumps approach to Syria, warning that his
pledge to work more closely with
Russia, Damascus main backer, will do little to diminish the
terrorist threat emanating from
Syria.
The diplomatic persuasion
campaign has taken on new importance in recent days as the
Syrian army, backed by Russia,
Iran and Shiite militias, appears
poised to retake all of Aleppo
city in a major defeat for Western-backed rebels.
Moscow and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are expected to cast Aleppos fall as the
end of a revolt against Assad that
began in March 2011, although
Western analysts predict the civil
war, which has killed more than
300,000 people and made more
than half of Syrians homeless,
will continue, perhaps for years.
Western diplomats, who described discussions with Trump
advisers on condition of anonymity, said their message was that a
US alliance with Russia, and by

extension Assad, to crush groups

like Islamic State will backfire.
Trump has said defeating Islamic State was a higher priority
than persuading Assad to step
down.
On Syria the new administration says crushing Islamic
State is its priority, but weve
explained our view that without
a political solution in Syria those
efforts will be fruitless because

new pockets of radicals will reform, a senior French diplomat

told Reuters.
France has been the target of
coordinated attacks claimed by
Islamic State. Western capitals
fear that a prolonged conflict will
exacerbate mass refugee flows
in which radicalized individuals
might hide.
A political solution in Syria,
as envisioned by Western pow-

A member of Forces loyal to Syrias President Bashar al-Assad carries

his weapon as he walks past damaged buildings in a government held
area of Aleppo, Syria, on 9 December 2016. Photo: Reuters

ers, would involve a transition

in which Assad eventually left
power. Assad, from the minority
Alawite sect, cannot unite Syria
and quash extremists after nearly
six years of warfare, they argue.
In a rare public speech
in London on Thursday, Alex
Younger, chief of Britains MI-6
intelligence agency, said, we
cannot be safe from the threats
that emanate from (Syria) unless
the civil war is brought to an end.
And brought to an end in a way
that recognises the interests of
more than a minority of its people
and their international backers.
Trump has frequently said
that he wants to work with Russia to fight Islamic State, which
holds territory in Iraq and Syria,
and other militant groups.
When you think about
it, wouldnt it be nice if we got
along with Russia? he said
during a campaign rally in July.
Wouldnt it be nice if we got together with Russia and knocked
the hell out of ISIS? Trump added, using another name for Islamic State.
US defence officials have
repeatedly said the vast majority

of Russian strikes in Syria are not

against Islamic State.
How Trump will actually
proceed remains unclear. He has
not named a secretary of state,
and some current and prospective
members of the president-elects
national security team have
voiced more skeptical views of
Russia.
Trumps transition team did
not immediately respond to a request for comment on the allies
concerns.
What were getting from
our conversations with the Trump
administration is that already
they are toning down the prospect
of a Russia-US deal on fighting
Islamic State and a full-on rapprochement with Moscow, the
senior French diplomat said.
A senior Arab diplomat also
was cautious about Trumps Syria policy.
We cant really predict it
now, the diplomat said.
A diplomat from another US
ally, while declining to discuss
the American political transition,
expressed doubts about the advisability of a Western alignment with
Moscow and Assad.Reuters

education 11

11 December 2016
READING : DAYS GONE BY
Michael took a very special trip last month. He went back to Fullerton, his home town.
Michaels visit to Fullerton was very special to him. He was born there, he grew up there,
but he hadnt been back there since he finished high school.

He went to places he hadnt gone to in years. He walked through the park in the center
of town and remembered the days he had walked through the same park with his first
girlfriend. Her passed by the empty field where he and his friends had played baseball
every day after school. And he stood for a while in front of the movie theater and thought
about all the Saturday afternoons he had spent there sitting in the balcony, watching his
favorite movie heroes and eating popcorn.

He also saw people he hadnt seen in years. He visited several of his old neighbors who
had never moved out of the neighborhood. He said hello to the owners of the candy store
near his house. And he even bumped into Mrs. Riley, his tenth-grade science teacher.
During his visit to his home town, Michael remembered places he hadnt hone to things
he hadnt done, and people he hadnt seen since his childhood. Michaels trip back to
Fullerton was a very nostalgic experience for him. Going back to Fullerton brought
back many memories of days gone by.
READING CHECK-UP
TRUE, FALSE, or MAYBE?
I.
Answer True, False, or Maybe (if the answer isnt in the story.)
1. Michael moved back to Fullerton last month.
2. He hadnt seen Fullerton in years.
3. When Michael passed by the field last month, children were playing
baseball.
4. Michael enjoyed going to the movies when he was young.
5. The ice cream shop was near Michaels home in Fullerton.
6. Michael rode on the merry-go-round when he was a young boy.
7. Some of Michaels old neighbors still live in the same neighborhood.
8. Mrs Riley still teaches science.
II.

He did things he hadnt done in a long time. He had some homemade ice cream at the ice
cream shop, he rode on the merry-go-round in the park, and he went fishing at the lake
on the outskirts of town. For a while, he felt like a kid again. He hadnt had homemade
ice cream, ridden on a merry-go-round, or gone fishing since he was a young boy.

WHICH IS CORRECT?
1. I always enjoy eating Aunt Bettys (home town, homemade) food.
2. The new shopping mall is located in the (outskirts, outside) of our
city.
3. She recently visited the town where she had ( spent , grown up)
her childhood.
4. I bumped (through, into) an old friend on the street the other day.
5. The hadnt been (back, by) to
their old neighborhood in several
years.
6. Seeing my old college friends was a
( nauseous, nostalgic) experience
for me.

Answers : I . No 2.Yes 3.No 4.Yes

5.Maybe 6.Yes 7.Maybe 8. Maybe
II.1. homemade 2.outside 3.spent 4. into
5.back 6. nostalgic

YANGON TO BANGKOK
Flight no.
TG-304
TG-2302
TG-302
TG-306
PG-706
PG-702
PG-708
PG-704
8M-335
8M-331
UB-017
UB-017
UB-019
UB-019

Dep
09:50
15:00
15:00
19:50
6:00
10:30
15:30
18:20
7:30
16:30
15:45
17:45
8:00
8:55

Arv
11:45
16:55
16:55
21:45
8:15
12:25
17:25
20:15
9:15
18:15
19:15
19:15
9:30
10:25

Days
Daily
1,5,6,7
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
2,4,6,7
1,3,5
3,5,7
1,6

BANGKOK TO YANGON
Flight no.
TG-303
TG-2351
TG-301
TG-305
PG-701
PG-707
PG-703
PG-705
8M-336
8M-332
UB-020
UB-018
UB-020

Dep
8:30
12:55
17:35
21:40
08:00
12:00
21:00
11:00
19:45

Arv
10:15
14:20
19:25
23:30
9:45
13:45
22:45
13:35
21:45

Days
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily

Flight no.
FD-251
FD-255
FD-253
FD-257
DD-4234
DD-4230
DD-4238
SL-200
SL-206

Days
7
2,4,5,7
3,6
1,5

Flight no.
8M-012
8M-712
CZ-3055
CZ-3055

Dep
07:00
8:40
11:35
17:40

Dep
12:30
14:15
8:40
14:40

Flight no.
8M-231
SQ-997
MI-515
MI-519
MI-522
MI-533
3k-584
3K-582
TR-2823
UB-001

Dep
8:20
10:25
14:20
17:35
16:20
13:35
19:40
11:35
9:45
7:30

Days
Daily
Daily
1,3,5
Daily
4,6
2
Daily
1,3,4,5,6,7
1,2,4,5,6,7
Daily

Flight no.
8M-232
SQ-998
MI-522
MI-518
MI-516
MI-533
3K-583
3k-581
TR-2822
UB-002

Dep
13:40
07:55
11:30
15:15
12:00
11:30
17:30
09:10
7:20
13:00

Arv
11:30
13:15
15:50
22:20

YGN TO NRT
Flight no. Dep
Arv
NH-814 22:10 06:45

Dep
7:15
11:35
16:20
20:15
10:30
6:30
19:25
08:45
17:10

Arv
8:00
12:25
17:05
21:10
11:15
7:15
20:15
10:00
18:35

Days
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily

Arv
15:45
15:50
10:35
16:40

Arv
Days
15:15
Daily
09:20
Daily
15:30
4,6
16:40
Daily
13:25
1,3,5
12:45
2
19:00
Daily
10:40 1,3,4,5,6,7
8:45 1,2,4,5,6,7
14:30
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
NH-813 11:00 16:30

Arv
7:50

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
KE-471 18:30 22:30

YGN TO KUL
Flight no.
AK-505
AK-503
8M-501
8M-501
MH-741
MH-743

Dep
8:30
19:10
16:00
11:45
11:15
16:00

Arv
12:45
23:30
20:15
15:45
15:40
20:15

Days
Daily
Daily
2
1
Daily
1,4,6,7

Flight no.
AK-504
AK-502
8M-502
8M-502
MH-742
MH-740

YGN TO KMG
Flight no.
CA-416
MU-2032
MU-2012

Dep
Arv
12:30 16:00
15:30 18:50
12:55 19:55

Days
Daily
Daily
3

Flight no.
CA-415
MU-2031
MU-2011

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

CI-7915 7:00

Flight no. Dep

Arv
VN-942 12:10 14:55

Arv
11:30

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
VN-957 16:40 18:10

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
FD-245 12:55 15:15

Flight no. Dep

Arv
MI-522
11:30 13:20
MI-533
11:30 14:50

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
PG-709 12:00 13:20

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
MU-2029 13:20 13:15

Days
1,3,4,5,6,7

Flight no. Dep

Arv
PG-721 17:20 19:20

MDL TO KMG
Flight no. Dep
Arv
MU-2030 14:25 17:15

Days
Daily

KMG TO MDL

NYT to BKK
Flight no. Dep
Arv
PG-722 19:50 22:50

Days
4,6
2

BKK TO MDL

MDL TO BKK
Flight no. Dep
Arv
PG-710 14:10 16:35

Days
Daily
Days
3,5
Days
Daily

SGN TO YGN
Days
2,3,4,5,7

Flight no. Dep

VN-943 9:25

Arv
11:10

Days
2,3,4,5,7

HKG TO YGN
Days
Daily
1,3,5,7

Flight no.
KA-250
KA-252
UB-8028

Dep
Arv
21:50 23:45
22:20 00:10
14:50 16:20

Days
1,3,5,7
2,4,6
1,3,5,7

DOH TO YGN
Days
1,4,6

Flight no. Dep

QR-918 20:10

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
PG-723 12:00 12:55

Arv
5:20

Days
1,3,6

Flight no. Dep

Arv
BG-060 13:30 16:00

Days
Daily

Flight no. Dep

Arv
FD-244 11:10 12:25

Days
3,5,6

CNX TO YGN

YGN TO DAC
Flight no. Dep
Arv
BG-061 16:45 18:30

Days
Daily
Daily
3

HAN TO YGN

YGN TO CNX
Flight no. Dep
Arv
PG -724 13:40 15:35

Arv
9:50

Flight no. Dep

Arv
CA-905 19:30 22:50

YGN TO DOH
Flight no. Dep
QR-919 8:05

Dep
Arv
10:50 11:30
14:00 14:30
08:20 11:55

Days
3,7

YGN TO HKG
Flight no. Dep
Arv
KA -251 1:05 5:25
UB-8027 09:00 13:30

Days
Daily
Daily
1
2
1,4,6,7
Daily

SIN TO MDL
Days
2
4,6

Days
Daily

BKK TO NYT
Days
1,3,4,5,6,7

AIRLINE CODES

PEK TO YGN

YGN TO HAN
Flight no. Dep
Arv
VN-956 19:10 21:35

Arv
8:00
18:30
17:45
22:10
15:05
10:15

MDL TO SIN
Flight no. Dep
Arv
MI-533 15:45 20:50
MI-522 14:15 20:15

TPE TO YGN

YGN TO PEK
Flight no. Dep
Arv
CA-906 23:50 0550+1

Dep
6:55
17:20
16:45
21:10
13:55
09:10

KMG TO YGN

YGN TO TPE
Flight no. Dep
Arv
CI-7916 10:50 16:10

Days
Daily

KUL TO YGN

Days
Daily

DAC TO YGN

MDL TO DMK

NRT TO YGN
Days
Daily

ICN TO YGN

YGN TO ICN
Flight no. Dep
KE-472 23:30

YGN TO SGN
Days
7
2,4,5,7
3,6
1,5

SIN TO YGN

YGN TO SIN
Arv
12:40
15:10
18:50
22:10
20:50
20:50
00:10
16:05
2:15
11:45

Days
Daily
1,5,6,7
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
3,5
Daily
1,6,7

CAN TO YGN

YGN TO CAN
Flight no.
8M-012
8M-711
CZ-3056
CZ-3056

Arv
8:45
11:00
14:00
18:50
9:40
14:40
17:35
21:45
11:00
20:05
11:10
21:35
12:05

DMK TO YGN

YGN TO DMK
Flight no.
FD-252
FD-256
FD-254
FD-258
DD-4231
DD-4235
DD-4239
SL-201
SL-207

Dep
8:00
10:10
13:15
18:05
8:45
13:45
16:45
20:30
10:15
19:20
10:35
21:05
11:30

Days
1,3,6

DMK TO MDL
Days
Daily

8M
BG
MH
MU
NH
SQ
PG
UB
VN
3K
AI
CI
DD
KA
MI
TG

=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=

Myanmar Airways International

Biman Bangladesh Airlines
Malaysia Airlines
China Eastern Airlines
All Nippon Airways
Singapore Airways
Bangkok Airways
Myanmar National Airlines
Vietnam Airline
Jet Star
AK = Air Asia
Air India
CA = Air China
China Airlines
CZ = China Southern
Nok Airline
FD = Air Asia
Dragonair
KE = Korea Airlines
Silk Air
QR = Qatar Airways
Thai Airways
TR = Tiger Airline

DAY
1 = Monday
2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday

4
5
6
7

=
=
=
=

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

12 World

11 December 2016

United States, Russia, trade barbs at OPEC, Russia see

smooth road to global
European security meeting
deal on output cut

Photo taken on 9 December 2016 shows a view of the closing session of the 23rd ministerial meeting of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Hamburg, northern Germany. The 23rd ministerial meeting
of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the worlds largest regional security organi
-sation, closed Friday with some consensuses being reached among its member states. Photo: Xinhua
HAMBURG The Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) remained divided over the conflict in eastern
Ukraine at the end of a two-day
meeting in Hamburg, with the
United States accusing Russia of
blocking a resolution.
German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, OSCE
chairman for the past year, said
that even though no formal resolution on eastern Ukraine had
been signed, ministers agreed on
the need for the parties involved
in the war to meet their commitments to end the violence.

But the US ambassador to the

OSCE, Daniel Baer, blasted Russia for what he called its ongoing
obstructionism.
He said many of the few resolutions ultimately adopted were
weakened considerably by Russia, while others, notably on human rights and the Ukraine crisis,
were blocked outright.
Its really important to recognise that on most things in the
OSCE today there is still consensus among 55 or 56 of the 57
participating states, Baer told reporters. It sends a political signal
that Russia is isolated.

Russia annexed the Black Sea

peninsula of Crimea from Kiev in
March 2014, and went on to back
a rebellion in east Ukraine. The
conflict has claimed nearly 10,000
lives and efforts at implementing
a peace agreement, brokered by
Germany and France, have stalled
for nearly two years.
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov in turn accused
Washington of stalling talks about
evacuating remaining rebel-held
parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo,
which is on the verge of falling to
Moscow-backed Syrian government forces.Reuters

Germans see refugees as biggest problem

despite falling numbers
BERLIN More than half of
Germans see refugees and integration as Germanys biggest
problem, a survey showed on Friday, despite the number of newcomers falling significantly on
the year.
A record 890,000 mainly
Muslim migrants from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere
arrived in Europes largest economy in 2015, prompting concerns
about security and integration.
Arrivals have slowed this
year, with the Federal Office for
Migration and Refugees (BAMF)
saying on Friday around 305,000
new asylum seekers were registered in its EASY computer
system in the first 11 months of
2016; but EASY numbers are
seen as too high as some migrants
get registered more than once.
The BAMF received 26,438 asylum applications in November
a fall of around 54 per cent on the
year.
Nonetheless, a survey by
pollster Forschungsgruppe Wahlen for broadcaster ZDF found 58
per cent of Germans deem ref-

VIENNA Russia and Saudi

Arabia said they expect OPEC
and non-OPEC producers to
reach an agreement on Saturday
to curtail oil output and prop
up prices in the first such joint
move since 2001.
We have a deal already.
We are just putting the final
touches. Everything is good!
Khalid al-Falih, energy minister
of OPECs de facto leader and
top oil exporter Saudi Arabia,
told reporters.
Russian Energy Minister
Alexander Novak, speaking
as he joined a breakfast with
OPEC and non-OPEC ministers in Vienna, said: I dont see
such risks (of a deal failing).
The Organisation of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries
will meet producers from outside the group later in the day,
hoping non-OPEC will commit to cutting 600,000 barrels
per day after its own members
agreed a reduction of 1.2 million bpd last week.
OPEC Secretary-General
Mohammed Barkindo said he
expected 12 non-OPEC countries to sign a declaration with
the organisation and fully contribute to cuts of 600,000 bpd or
more.
This is a very historic
meeting ... This will boost the
global economy and will help
some OECD countries to reach
their inflation targets, Barkindo told reporters, referring to
the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which groups most of the
worlds richest economies.
OPEC sources said nonOPEC Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Oman, Mexico, Russia, Sudan,

South Sudan, Bahrain and Malaysia would attend the meeting. Bolivia may also attend and Barkindo
said Brunei had sent its commitments but would not be present.
Many non-OPEC countries
such as Mexico and Azerbaijan
face a natural drop in oil production and several OPEC ministers
going into the breakfast said the
discussions would focus on whether those declines should be counted as contributions.
On Friday, Saudi Arabia told
its US and European customers it
would reduce oil deliveries from
January, signalling it had already
started implementing cuts.
OPEC producers Iraq and Kuwait have also told buyers of their
crude about planned reductions.
From the non-OPEC camp,
so far only top global oil producer Russia and Oman have pledged
cuts, with OPEC and non-OPEC
sources saying Mexico could contribute as much as 150,000 bpd.
In contrast, Kazakhstan
plans to boost output in 2017 as it
launches the long-delayed Kashagan project.Reuters

OPEC Secretary-General
Mohammed Barkindo addresses
a news conference in Vienna,
Austria, on 24 October, 2016.
Photo: Reuters

Scientists detect radiation from

Fukushima disaster on US west coast

Syrian refugees arrive at the camp for refugees and migrants in Friedland, Germany, on 4 April 2016. Photo: Reuters
ugees and integration the most
important problems facing Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkels
popularity has waned since migrants started arriving in large
numbers last summer and she
expects next years federal election, in which she plans to run for
a fourth term, to be tough like
no other.

Merkel, whose conservatives

have lost support to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany
(AfD) party, hardened her stance
on migrants integration in Germany at a congress this week and
her Christian Democrats (CDU)
passed a resolution on tackling
forced marriage and honor killings, and cracking down on dual
citizenship. Reuters

NEW YORK Scientists have

for the first time detected radiation from Japans 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster on the west
coast of the United States, local
media reported.
The radioactive matter, in
the form of an isotope known
as cesium-134, was collected in
seawater samples from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in the
U.S. northwest state of Oregon,
according to a report released by
New York Post Friday.
The levels are very low and
cannot harm people eating fish
from the West Coast or swimming in the ocean, Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution,
was quoted as saying by USA
Today.

To put it in context, if you

were to swim everyday for six
hours a day in those waters for
a year, that additional radiation
from the addressed cesium from
Japan is 1,000 times smaller than
one dental x-ray, said Buesseler.
On 11 March, 2011, a massive 9 magnitude earthquake, the
strongest quake ever recorded
in Japan, created three tsunamis
that knocked out the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, causing the
worst nuclear crisis since the
Chernobyl disaster three decades
ago. Massive amounts of contaminated water were released
from the crippled nuclear plant,
more radiation was released to
the air, and then fell to the sea.
Xinhua

world 13

11 December 2016

Tiny parties throng to have their say on Italys new leader

ROME President Sergio
Mattarella is consulting a total of 23 parties to help him
find a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi, showing how little
progress Italy has made in
reducing political fragmentation.
On Friday, Mattarella
met separately with groups
that few Italians have even
heard of, such as the Thought
and Action Party, the Civic Innovators Party and one
known only as Fare!,
which would roughly translate as the Doing party.
The political landscape
is even more fragmented
than it looks. Several of the
delegations holding talks
with the president are actually mini-coalitions and the
total number of movements
in parliament is around 40.
The first group to emerge
from the meetings in Mattarellas sumptuous Rome
palace on Friday recounted
their encounter in German.
They represented the Austrian minority in the South-Tyrol border region.
One of the bigger players, the Northern League,

The Italian Carabinieri band performs before President Sergio Mattarella starts consultations at the Quirinale Palace in
Rome, Italy, on 8 December 2016. Photo: Reuters
which polls show is Italys
third most popular party at
about 13 per cent, said it favoured a snap election rather
than creating a new government with anything other
than a short-term caretaker
role.
We must vote as soon
as possible, Giancarlo

Giorgetti, the Leagues deputy secretary, said after his

meeting with Mattarella.
The presidents consultations will continue on
Saturday, including with
Renzis Democratic Party
(PD), which has more parliamentarians than any other
bloc. The fragmentation of

politics into countless parties and factions is one of the

reasons Italy has had 63 governments in the last 70 years.
Until the early 1990s
an electoral system of proportional
representation
(PR) was widely blamed
for allowing small parties to
prosper, yet since pure PR

was scrapped in 1993 the

fragmentation has only got
worse.
To preserve their existence at elections, tiny parties
merge into broad coalitions,
but then often splinter again
and change names and allegiance once the new parliament has been formed.

At the same time, individual parliamentarians

move freely between parties
from one election to the next,
often changing the make-up
of the majority backing the
government. In the first 18
months of the current parliament, 116 of the 315 senators elected in 2013 changed
their political colours.
The cause of Italys latest political crisis was Renzis decision to resign after
failing to get popular support
for constitutional reforms
aimed at increasing government stability. Critics said
one weakness was that his
proposal did nothing to prevent party-swapping.
Renzis own centre-left
government was propped up
in parliament by centre-right
splinter groups that abandoned Silvio Berlusconis
Forza Italia party after the
last election, including the
New Centre-Right (NCD)
led by Angelino Alfano.
Alfano and the NCD
will meet Mattarella on Saturday, as will Berlusconis
Forza Italia and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement.Reuters

East Japan Railway line suspended since

2011 tsunami partially reopens
SENDAI A 23-kilometer section of East Japan
Railway Co.s Joban Line
reopened Saturday five
years and nine months after
the March 2011 quake and
tsunami.
The reopened section
runs between Soma Station
in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, and Hamayoshida
Station in Watari, Miyagi
Prefecture, both in Tohoku
in Japans northeast, the region hardest hit by the disaster.
There are six stations

on the section. Following

severe damage from tsunami, three of the six
Shinchi, Yamashita and
Sakamoto stations were
moved inland by up to 1.1
km.
This station is a symbol of recovery. I pray
that many people visit this
place, said Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe as he attended
an opening ceremony for
the new Shinchi station.
At 6 am the first
train to Sendai departed
from Yamashita station in

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risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am
to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo
from the Vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted after
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Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture.

I
become
overwhelmed by emotion when
I think about the roads after the quake. I celebrate
the start of the first train,
Yamamoto Mayor Toshio
Saito said at the ceremony.
I want to go to Sendai
for shopping, said Tamaki
Fujikawa, 12, who was at
Yamashita Station with her
mother and younger sister
to see the train off.
Of the whole Joban
Line, chiefly running along

the Pacific coasts to connect

Tokyo and Miyagi Prefecture, only a section in Fukushima Prefecture between
Tatsuta Station in the town
of Naraha and Odaka Station in Minamisoma, remains suspended.
The government hopes
to enable the resumption of
services between Tomioka
and Namie stations, the section running closest to the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power station that suffered
meltdowns in the disaster,
by the spring of 2020 after

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STAR VOY. NO ( ) are hereby notified that the vessel
will be arriving on 11.12.2016 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of M.I.T.T / A.I.P.T where it
will lie at the consignees risk and expenses and subject
to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am
to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo
from the Vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted after
the Claims Day.
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT
MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY
AGENT FOR: M/S REGIONAL CONTAINER
LINES
Phone No: 2301185

People wave off trains leaving the new Shinchi station in

Fukushima Prefecture on 10 December 2016. A 23-kilometer
section of East Japan Railway Co.s Joban Line reopened
five years and nine months after the March 2011 quake and
tsunami. Photo: Kyodo News
reopening other sections
in 2017. I hope that the
interrupted services restart
soon, said Yutaka Suga-

no, a resident of the town

of Shinchi, 69, who was
aboard the train going to
Sendai.Kyodo News

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Consignees of cargo carried on MV PIYA STAR
VOY. NO ( ) are hereby notified that the vessel will
be arriving on 11.12.2016 and cargo will be discharged
into the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at the consignees risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws
and conditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am
to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo
from the Vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted after
the Claims Day.
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT
MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY
AGENT FOR: M/S CONTINETAL SHIPPING
LINE PTE LTD
Phone No: 2301185

14 entertainment

11 December 2016

Motherhood is biggest challenge for

Woman of the Year Madonna
New York Madonna was
presented on Friday with Billboard magazines Woman of the
Year award, but the seven-time
Grammy Award winner said one
of her biggest challenges was
being a good mother.
The biggest accomplishment I think was finishing my
tour, doing my shows every
night. And dealing with the
challenges of being a mother.
Thats always the challenge for
me. Being a good mother, being
an artist, getting through it all,
the Material Girl singer told
reporters on the New York red
carpet.
Madonna, 58, who has four

Madonna. Photo: Reuters

children, in March completed her 82-show Rebel Heart
world tour while embroiled in a
legal battle over the custody of

her 16 year-old son Rocco with

ex-husband Guy Ritchie.
Rocco left Madonna during
the tour to live with Ritchie in
London. The dispute was settled
in September.
The annual Billboard Women in Music awards recognise
women who have made significant contributions to the music
business and who have inspired
other women.
Other honorees on Friday
included, pop singer Kesha,
country-pop star Shania Twain,
jazz singer Andra Day, pop star
Meghan Trainor, electro-pop
artist Halsey and country singer
Maren Morris.Reuters

Country star Garth Brooks in talks

for Trump inaugural celebrations
New York Country star
Garth Brooks is in discussions to
perform at the inauguration of US
President-elect Donald Trump, the
singers representative said on Friday, as organisers of the event denied media reports that they were
struggling to find A-list stars to
take part.
Brooks, 54, one of the worlds
best-selling solo artists, performed
for Democrat Barack Obamas
inauguration in 2009, along with
a line-up that included Bruce
Springsteen, U2, Beyonce, and

Stevie Wonder.
Garth has performed for the
five living presidents, his publicist Nancy Seltzer said on Friday.
While rumour has it that he has
been asked to perform for President-elect Trump, he has not been
able to commit yet.
No celebrities have yet been
announced as taking part in the 20
January inauguration.
Brooks, a Country Hall of
Famer with US sales of more than
135 million albums, is currently
in Hawaii as part of a world tour.

He is due to perform in Cincinnati,

Ohio on 21 January the day after the inauguration in Washington.
Asked on camera by celebrity
website TMZ earlier this week if
he would sing for Trump, Brooks
replied Its always about serving.
Its what you do. Brooks stayed
silent during the divisive election in which most stars, including Beyonce, Katy Perry, Jay-Z
and Jennifer Lopez, threw their
support behind Democrat Hillary
Clinton.Reuters

Taylor Swift, Zayn Malik surprise

fans with Fifty Shades Darker duet

Singer Taylor
Swift arrives at the
Vanity Fair Oscar
Party in Beverly
Hills, California, on
28 February 2016.
Photo: Reuters

London American pop star

Taylor Swift and former One
Direction member Zayn Malik
released a surprise duet on Friday after joining forces for the
upcoming Fifty Shades Darker
movie soundtrack.
I Dont Wanna Live Forever will feature in the sequel to
the Fifty Shades of Grey film,
based on the hugely successful
erotic trilogy by E.L. James.
Grammy Award winning
Swift told her fans of the collaboration on Instagram, posting
a picture of what appeared to be
the single cover and a message
reading Z T 50. She also added
a video snippet of the song.
Malik, who quit the
chart-topping boy band One Direction last year, posted a picture
of himself with Swift with the
hashtag #idontwannaliveforever.
Fifty Shades Darker,
starring Jamie Dornan and
Dakota Johnson, is scheduled for release in February.Reuters

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Rihanna denies throwing

shade at Beyonce
Los Angeles Rihanna
has denied that she threw shade
a Beyonce on Instagram after
she did not get nominated for
Album of the Year category at
Grammys. Rihanna earned eight
nods this year, including Record
of the Year for Work, her collaboration with ex Drake her
acclaimed album Anti was not
nominated for Album of the
Year, while Beyoncs stunning
visual album, Lemonade, was.
Shortly after the nominations were announced, Rihanna liked a fans Instagram
post dissing Beyonce, sparking
rumours of a feud between the
two pop superstars. The singer,
28, later took to the social media
to quash fueled speculation.
I never actually read your

caption, thought the pic was

funny and moved right along!
Til I saw it pop up over and
over! (sic) she wrote. Im petty of, yes. But this is just unnecessary! I wish yall would drop
this topic and see things from
the bigger picture! We dont
need to be putting black women
against each other! We deserve
to be celebrated, and the Grammy Academy agrees! (sic), she
added.
Rihanna also made it clear
that despite missing out in the
Album of the Year category,
she was happy to bag 8 nods.
How could yall say that? she
replied to another fans comment saying Anti was snubbed.
8 nominations later! God is
great!!!PTI

Director Verhoeven
to head Berlin Film
Festival jury
Berlin Dutch director
Paul Verhoeven, best known
for films such as Basic Instinct and RoboCop, will
head the jury of the Berlin International Film Festival in
February.
The 67th edition of the Berlinale will be held in the German capital from 9 February to
19 February.
With Paul Verhoeven as
jury president, we have a filmmaker who has worked in a variety of genres in Europe and
Hollywood, Berlinale director
Dieter Kosslick said on Friday.
His creative, multifaceted

boldness and his willingness to

experiment are reflected in the
spectrum of his works.
Verhoeven, also a screenwriter, has worked on action
and sci-fi films such as Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers. He directed
Basic Instinct starring Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas
as well as 2006s Black Book
about a World War II Dutch resistance fighter.
His latest film Elle stars
French actress Isabelle Huppert
as a businesswoman trying to
find the unknown assailant who
attacked her at home.Reuters

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11 December 2016

United States returns stolen 14th

century image of saint to Italy
Washington A stolen 14th century illustration
of a Roman Catholic saint
was returned on Friday to
Italy, where it will be put in
a museum, US Customs officials said.
The image, an ink,
tempera and gold image of
a haloed Saint Lucy, had
spent decades at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which
bought it in good faith in
1952, the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agency said in a statement.
It said the artifact was
turned over in a ceremony at
the Italian Embassy.
A two-year investigation determined that the
item, a leaf of the book, had
been stolen and the museum
turned it over to US officials
last month after another stolen leaf from the same book
turned up in the Swiss market. That leaf has also been
returned to Italy.
The Cleveland leaf,
which measures about 17.4

A page from a 14th century manuscript repatriated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) repatriated to the government of Italy at a ceremony at the Italian Embassy in Washington,D.C., is shown, on 9
December 2016. Photo: Reuters
inches (44.3 cm) by 13.9
inches (35.2 cm), was taken
from a page in an illuminated parchment antiphonary,
a type of hymnal, created
around 1340. Known as Co-

dex D, the manuscript is in a

museum in Castelfiorentino,
near Florence. The customs
agency did not say how or
when the leaf had been stolen. In addition to the man-

uscript leaf, US officials

repatriated a 19th century
painting by artist Consalvo
Carelli that had been stolen
from a home in Naples in
2001.Reuters

Book hand-written
and illustrated by J.K.
Rowling up for sale
London "Harry Potter" fans will be able to
bid for a piece of history
next week when a book
designed, hand-written and
illustrated by J.K. Rowling
goes on sale at Sotheby's
auction house in London.
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is one of six
copies the author produced
to give as gifts to those
who helped bring the story of the boy wizard to
life, and is seen fetching
300,000-500,000 pounds
($378,000-$630,000) at
Tuesday's sale.
A seventh copy was
produced for a 2007 auction to raise money for
the author's charity, Lumos, raising 1.95 million
pounds.
"The Tales of Beedle
the Bard" is a volume of
five wizarding fairy tales
left to Hermione Granger
by Albus Dumbledore in
the final book in the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry

Potter and the Deathly

Hallows". The manuscript
being offered for sale was
presented to editor Barry
Cunningham who signed
Rowling and published
her magical debut "Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and contains
a personal dedication from
Rowling.
"This one has an inscription to Barry, thanking him," said Sotheby's
books and manuscripts
specialist Philip Errington.
"It says, 'To Barry,
the man who thought an
overlong novel about a boy
wizard in glasses might
just sell', which is a lovely
little insight into the role of
author and editor."
Bound in brown Morocco leather, the copy is
adorned with silver ornaments with a skull in
the center and has seven
mounted
rhodochrosite
stones, according to Sotheby's. Reuters

National Museum of Singapore's Glass

Rotunda reopens with new installations
SINGAPORE The National Museum of Singapore's Glass Rotunda reopened on Saturday after two
years of renovation to showcase two new permanent installations, which offers visitors a journey to Southeast
Asia's tropical rainforests
and local old trees.
Upon entering the
Glass Rotunda, visitors
will be greeted by a largerthan-life interactive digital
installation called "Story
of the Forest". Inspired by
the museum's prized collection The William
Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, art
collective teamLab utilizes
cutting-edge technology to
transform 69 drawings from

the collection into animated

illustrations.
Toshiyuki
Inoko,
founder of teamLab, said
this installation is by far the
most challenging digital artwork created by teamLab
due to the massive size and
scale of the Glass Rotunda. With a ceiling measuring 15-meter high and a
170-meter passage stretching down to the base, the
installation is divided into
three segments.
A constellation of flora
that cascade endlessly from
the top of the dome structure
will embrace the visitors at
the upper rotunda. As visitors start their journey down
the passage, they will encounter various fauna such

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rambutan.
At the bottom of the
Glass Rotunda, visitors will
be able to tour the exhibition
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by renowned local photographer and artist Robert
Zhao. Inspired by one of
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West Hams Bilic praises Sturridge before Liverpool trip

London West Ham United
manager Slaven Bilic has admitted his team need to improve in
front of goal and praised Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge who
has been linked with a move to the
Premier League strugglers.
West Ham, who travel to
Anfield on Sunday, are 17th in
the Premier League table, having
scored 15 goals in 14 matches so
far.
The strikers didnt score
enough goals or as many as we
expected but it is not only down
to them, Bilic told British media.
I never want to divide the
team into strikers and the rest.
Although it is the strikers job to
score goals, it is also the responsi-

bility of the whole team.

West Ham have been linked
with a move for Sturridge in the
January transfer window, and
Bilic said he admired the England
internationals natural ability.
Hes one of the biggest talents, hes a great player, the manager said.
The talent is there, the touch,
the finishing, everything is great.
The only thing thats stopped him
being regular for club and country
are the injuries.
Sturridge, who has lost his
starting place to Brazilian Roberto
Firmino under manager Juergen
Klopp, will sit out Sundays match
with a calf injury, and Bilic would
not confirm if he would bid for the

striker in January.
Hes just a player that has
been linked with us, basically, and
weve been linked with almost
every player, he said.
Were always there in contention. Most of the time its absolutely not true, 95 per cent of the
time. But youre asking me about
Sturridge and I have no problem
about that.
All the clubs are thinking
about him because he is that kind
of player. I dont know his work
rate, I dont know his dedication
to his job or whatever but unfortunately for England and for
Liverpool and especially for him
hes injured. Thats his problem.
Reuters

Liverpools
Daniel Sturridge
Photo: Reuters

Messi, Suarez finish off Osasuna

to get Barca back on track
BARCELONA Barcelona put
pressure on La Liga leaders Real
Madrid by picking up their first win
in four games as two second-half
strikes from Lionel Messi and one
from Luis Suarez secured a 3-0 win
at struggling Osasuna on Saturday.
The champions missed a slew
of chances in a dominant first- half
display but their class eventually
shone through when Suarez tapped
Jordi Albas cutback into an empty
net in the 52nd minute to break the
deadlock.

Former footballers (L-R) Mark Williams, Andy Woodward, Steve Walters, Jason Dunford and Matt
Monaghan pose for a photograph after a news conference at the launch of The Offside Trust, an independent group set up to support players and their families who have suffered abuse, in Manchester
northern England, on 5 December 2016. Photo: Reuters

Messi sealed the points in the

72nd by finishing off another pass
from Alba and in stoppage time
the Argentine wizard toyed with
the Osasuna defence to grab the
third and move ahead of Suarez and
Cristiano Ronaldo as the leagues
top scorer with 11 goals. Barca are
second in the standings and provisionally moved three points behind
Real, who host Deportivo La Coruna later on Saturday hoping to set a
club record of 35 games unbeaten in
all competitions.Reuters

Watford beat Everton 3-2

with Okaka double

British police say football child sex

scandal may affect 98 clubs
London British police
investigating allegations of
widespread child sex abuse at
football clubs dating back to
the 1970s said on Friday they
had identified 83 potential suspects and possible links to 98
clubs, including some from the
Premier League.
Police forces across the
country launched inquiries after former player Andy Woodward revealed he had been
abused as a boy by a youth
team coach, prompting other
ex-professionals to come forward with more allegations.
The
National
Police
Chiefs Council (NPCC) said
639 referrals had been made to
officers from a helpline set up
by the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children charity, involving about
350 potential victims.
Allegations received by

police forces across the country

are being swiftly acted upon,
said Chief Constable Simon
Bailey, the NPCC lead for
child protection.
We are also liaising
closely with the Football Association to ensure all relevant
information they hold is shared
to inform investigations moving forward.
The harrowing tales of
abuse suffered by the former
players, some of whom have
broken down in tears in television interviews, have shocked
Britain. They raise questions
about the scale of the problem,
how much clubs and football
authorities knew, and whether
they tried to cover it up.
English footballs governing body, the Football Association, has launched an internal
review into what it admitted
could be one of the sports big-

gest crises, and promised to

fully publicise its findings.
The NPCC said not all
the 98 clubs whose names
were mentioned to the police were under investigation.
The figure spans all tiers of
football, from premier clubs
through to amateur, it said in a
statement. It added that 98 percent of the victims were male,
aged between seven and 20 at
the time.
The football abuse revelations are the latest in a series of
paedophile scandals to have hit
Britain in recent years.
Victims said the scale
of wrongdoing was likely to
be worse than in the case of
TV star Jimmy Savile, a cigar-chomping BBC television
host who abused hundreds
of youngsters over six decades until his death in 2011.
Reuters

Watfords Sebastian Prodl celebrates scoring their second goal during

Premier League at Vicarage Road, on 10 December 2016. Photo: Reuters
London Italy international
Stefano Okaka scored either side of
halftime to give Watford a 3-2 Premier League win over Everton on
Saturday, their first victory over the
Merseyside club in any competition
since 1987.
Watford, who started with
players of 11 different nationalities
in their line-up, went behind in the
17th minute when Romelu Lukaku
scored from close range for Everton after Gareth Barry lobbed the
defence.
The goal was the Belgians
eighth in the league this season but

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the lead was short-lived, Okaka

equalising in the 36th with a backheeled flick at the near post from
Nordin Amrabats cross.
Okaka followed up on his first
Watford goal by heading in the Hornets third from a corner in the 64th
after Austrian Sebastian Prodl had
headed in his first league goal of
the season from Jose Holebass free
kick. Lukaku headed in his second
of the afternoon with four minutes
of normal time remaining but Watford hung on to go seventh in the
standings on 21 points and ahead of
ninth-placed Everton.Reuters

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