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1 Volume I, Number n Waning Day of Tagu 1376 ME Two-century-ol monastery boasts high cultural stanar of Myanmar Myeik, 4 April King Boaw ha been on the throne in Manalay Royal Palace when he appointe the chief of Petaung istrict as the tenth commissioner of Myeik in 1175 Myanmar Era. The new commission- Ngapali s fame as beach estination on the rise With crystal clear water an a pristine 8-mile stretch of san, Ngapali in westernmost Myanmar is an unspoile seasie getaway of the kin covete by international travelers. Situate 7 kilometers from Thanwe in Rakhine State, Ngapali overlooks I N S I D By Ye Myint Myanmar observes mine awareness ay the Bay of Bengal an is only a 30-minute flight from Yangon. The beach is renowne for its safety for swimming, as well as the well-preserve natural state of its ecosystem. Nestle on palm-line shores, its fame is growing throughout Myanmar an Southeast Asia. Its reputation as one of the best beaches in Myanmar is a raw for tourists from aroun the worl, especially Europeans. Visitors can take boat trips to explore nearby islans with coral reefs, or see the lifestyle of local people in fishing villages. With more flights to Thanwe airport, which is being upgrae, an a growing number of hotels, tourist numbers are on the rise. Accoring to the Ministry of Hotels an Tourism, measures are being taken to preserve Ngapali s ecosystem an environment by banning taking san from beach, estroying submerge rocks an reefs, an littering. Ngapali is increasingly fame for its pristine natural environment. Photo: Ye Myint Solar-powere LEDs set to illuminate Upper Myanmar township er ha a mansion built there an rule the town for three years. An emergency situation prompte the king to sen for the commissioner to the palace. Having no esire to leave his mansion as it was, the commissioner onate it to a Buhist monk name Bhaanta Kosala through religious rites. As a result, the mansion was converte into a monastery, which was then name Min Kyaung, literally meaning a monastery The last ol Myanmar capital city Ratanapon [Manalay] Part II onate by a royal commissioner. Some ancient architectural features of the monastery remain intact even after more than two hunre years, isplaying the high stanar of Myanmar s architecture of ancient times. In aition, items of over 200 years can be seen there. Some of them inclue lacquer objects, bronze Buha Images, bronze cups an trays, wall paintings an warrobes embroiere in gol, an a portrait of the first presiing Sayaaw. Bhaanta Chanima, current presiing Sayaaw, maintains the religious eifice, where Buhist literature is now taught to stuent monks an novices. Min Kyaung is a mustgo place for history enthusiasts. Zaw Myo Naing (Myeik, IPRD) Yangon, 4 April Police uncovere 14 cases of human trafficking in March, rescuing 83 victims, most of whom were men sol to work as force labourers in Thailan, Police Captain Min Naing sai Saturay. In March, Myanmar s anti-human trafficking boy arreste 18 traffickers, mostly women, he ae. Accoring to police, the number of human trafficking cases between January an March this year has reache 29. Shan State E Page-3 Page-2 Page-9 Page-8 Upper House speaker honours valiant citizens in northern Shan State city Nay Pyi Taw, 4 April Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U Khin Aung Myint, accompanie by famous artistes, visite Lashio in northern Shan State on Saturay to honour fallen soliers in Laukkai conflict, an to comfort woune military forces, members of Myanmar Re Cross Society an meia persons. Water shortages must be aresse in hot season Police save 83 trafficke victims in March Competition By Khaing Thana Lwin Page-8 The speaker sai Laukkai conflict was not resulte from cracks in political ieology an ethnic issues, instea, it was base on the gree of rug lor who trie to control on the three estates of aministrative, legislative an juicial in Kokang Self-aministere Zone. (See page 3) tops the chart with 9 cases, followe by Kachin State an Bago Region with 5 cases respectively. The police uncovere five cases uring the perio involving women who were force into prostitution. The authorities arreste 44 traffickers uring the three months, but 24 suspects are still at large. Accoring to official figures, the number of trafficking cases from 2006 to 2014 reache 1123 nationwie. The majority of victims came from Shan State an were sol into force marriages in China. Figures for human trafficking incients in 2014 exceee the previous year s total of 102 nationwie, with police focusing more on such cases, Pol Cap Min Naing sai at a conference. Myanmar s Central Boy for Suppression of Trafficking in Persons plans to increase temporary shelters for victims in borer areas, especially in Tachileik, where many victims have taken shelter at monasteries. Police usually take action against suspects uner Section 24 an 25 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law enacte in 2005, which is being rewritten in cooperation with both local an foreign legal experts, Police Lt-Col Khin Maung Hla sai in an interview with the Global New Light of Myanmar. GNLM

2 2 Solar-powere LEDs set to illuminate Upper Myanmar township By Kyaw The-ein (MNA) Nay Pyi Taw, 4 April Inustrial firm JJ-Pun, in partnership with First Myanmar Investment Co. Lt. an Philips Lighting, recently announce plans to light up off-gri areas in Upper Myanmar with the installation of solar-powere LED Community Light Centres. The initiative aims to improve quality of life for people living off the elec- tricity gri an to emonstrate the possibilities of sustainable evelopment in rural areas of Myanmar, JJ- Pun sai. CLCs are areas of approximately 1000 square metres, the size of a small soccer pitch, illuminate using a new generation of highly efficient solar powere LED lighting. During the past year Philips Lighting has carrie out CLC projects across Kenya, Ghana an South Africa, an is on target to reach 100 such centres by the en of Drawing on this success, Myanmar s first CLC will be constructe in Ngar Zinyine village in the Taa-U Township of Upper Myanmar. Construction of the CLC is scheule to be complete uring October Bringing light to the vast amounts of people in Myanmar currently living off the electricity gri will act as an enabler for both social an economic evelopment within these communities, JJ-Pun managing irector Philipp Hoffmann sai. I am elighte the Community Light Centre programme gives us a sustainable means to achieve this an hope our actions emonstrate the important role sustainable evelopment has to play in Myanmar s moernisation. local news Well-wishers share merits for onations of religious eifices Health workers provie insecticie-treate nets in Malaria risk areas Monyin, 4 April Health workers in Monyin Township, Kachin State, provie 9575 insecticie-treate nets free of charge to people living in 15 villages in the township in March, accoring to health officials. To prevent malaria transmission, the staff also emonstrate use of of the nets. During their tour of the villages they provie free health care to chilren uner five, expectant mothers an elers. In the past Monyin Township ha only 245 health staff incluing 19 physicians, but in 2015 April, 10 new physicians were appointe in Monyin Township. GNLM-001 Artesian well benefits people living in ari zone: NyaungU Township Rural Area Development Department, Manalay Region, sank an artesian well in Nyaungbinkan village in fiscal year. The well can provie villagers with 2500 gallons of water per hour. Thiha Ko Ko (My) Mins of youths improve with Buhist culture Kawlin, 4 April The secon Buhist cultural course kicke off at the monastery in Gwaygyo village in Kawlin Township, Sagaing Region, in the last week of March, uner the guiance of the avice of Natyewin monastery Bhaanta Panita. On the occasion, well-wisher U Shwe Min- Daw Yin Yin Htwe onate K3 million an course equipment to village elers. Shin Janaka, Shin Kavina an Shin Khemacara of Thitsawea meitation centre from Patheingyi Township have been giving lectures to the trainees on the 10-ay course. Ko Ko Nyein-Kaw Lin Police, local authorities an officials explain traffic rules to roa users in Myanaung, Ayeyaway Region on 1 April to reuce traffic accients uring the Maha Thingyan Festival perio. Win Bo (Township IPRD) Kawlin, 4 April An electrician was kille trying to restore power following a severe storm in Kawlin, Sagaing Region, on 2 April. Literacy campaign starts in Myaway Township Myaway, 4 April A basic literacy campaign began in Myaway, Kayin State, as of 1 April. On 2 April, Deputy Commissioner of the istrict U Lwin Ko Oo an township epartmental officials together with those of social organiza- Manalay, 4 April A ceremony to share merits for construction of two prayers halls, religious builings an an archway was hel at Weponlayama Makkhaya monastery in Chanayethazan Township on 3 April. Well-wishers Thiha Thuhamma Theingi, Thiri Thuhamma Theingi Daw Nwe Nwe San an family offere onations to venerable monks on the occasion. They onate religious eifices an social welfare worth K418 million in Manalay, Sagaing, Mahaaungmye an Wetlet townships. Tin Maung (Manalay) Electrician kille repairing power supply after storm tions visite the teaching sessions in the wars an villages. A total of 137 university stuents an 134 basic eucation teachers are instructing 1,490 local people at 142 teaching sessions in Myaway. Htein Lin Aung (IPRD) The storm amage homes an businesses. It blew the roof off Myoma Market, flinging goos an corrugate iron sheets into the air. Local resients evae the sheets on the roas. Electrician U Ba Maung ie while trying to repair power lines. Ko Ko Nyein (Kawlin)

3 National Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint lays a wreath at the Memorial for Fallen Heroes in Lashio. mna Upper House speaker... (from page 1) U Khin Aung Myint sai U Phone Kyar Shin was a former communist party member an prouce illegal rugs at the borer area before an after he returne to legal fol. He sai Phone Kya Pro-peace rallies hel in Shan State Kyaukme, 4 April Some 15,000 ethnic people marche here on Saturay her to support raft peace eal between the government an arme groups signe in last week. Uner the slogan Peace is expectation of all people; To a peaceful an prosperous new emocratic state; Union Peace: Victory of Secon Panglong Agreement, the rally in northern Shan State of Kyaukme township was taken part by people of Shin s forces brutally kille 14 members of police after the government forces raie his rug an weapon factories in Phon Kya Shin s insurgents attacke Laukkai area in early 2015 after strengthening his forces. Shan, Bamar, Danu, Palaung an Kokang ethnics. Peace campaigners also calle for continuous efforts for peace, national reconciliation an political ialogues with ethnic people. In Linkyay Township, southern Shan State, a total of 1,200 locals launche peace emonstration, with messages Stop fighting immeiately; Peace is essential for genuine emocratic state; Anarchists are our common enemies. People take to street to show thier support for raft peace eal between the government an arme groups. mna The protest organizer U Sai Aung Than sai, We got permit from authorities for this legal emonstration to support peace-making efforts in the country. A local also sai, Anyone who ie in more than 60-year ol civil conflict is our nationals. It is a loss for both their families an the State. He ae their emonstration was aime to prevail their thirst for lasting peace. MNA Yangon, 4 April imyanmar Co. will hol the country s biggest property expo at Tatmaaw convention hall here in May, the online avertising group s managing irector U Nay Min Thu sai Friay. Featuring talks by 20 real estate experts, the event will run from 1 to 3 May. Over 50 companies will sell flats an conominium apartments uring The Upper House speaker also congratulate U Moe Kyaw Than, a member of Myanmar Re Cross Society, who ie of attacks by Kokang arme men. U Khin Aung Myint also appreciate the works of meia persons who covere the conflicts at risk of their lives. The speaker an members of parliament provie cash an kin to the families of Myanmar Re Cross Society, woune soliers an their fallen army comraes. The tour was joine by popular artistes such as Director Zin Yaw Maung Maung, Nan Su Rati Soe, Thiri Shin Thant, No No Kay, Ju Ju Kay an Han Thi. MNA Yangon, 4 April International mine awarenesscampaign was hel here on Saturay as the worl marks the 10th UN International Day of Mine Awareness an Assistance in Mine Action esignate by the Unite Nations. Uner the theme for this year s ay More than Mines the ceremony was hel at Kanawgyi Palace Hotel an jointly organize by civil service organizations an NGOs. Yangon region s Chief Minister U Myint Swe sai the number isable persons has been increasing ue to internal conflicts, aing that Myanmar opposes the use of lan mines. Myanmar has commemorate this ay two consecutive years in 2013 at Myanmar Peace Centre an in 2014 in Loikaw, Kayah State. Dr Su Su Thar Tun, senior avisor at the UN on Peace an Development, rea the message of UN Secretary-General, followe by explanation of Mr. Yann Myanmar s biggest property expo to come in May By Khaing Thana Lwin the three-ay expo, he sai. At least 5,000 flats an cono apartments will be sol at the expo, with the organiser expecting more than 3,000 visitors to come to the free event, U Nay Min Thu sai at a press conference. House hunters will have access to home loan services through the Construction an Housing Development Bank, he sai. Myanmar observes mine awareness ay We have a plan to hol another property expo in Manalay by the en of this year an to conuct property seminars every two months, the managing irector of imyanmar tol the Global New Light of Myanmar. During the press conference on Friay, imyanmar Co. also introuce its imyanmarhouse anroi application an property magazine. Lea eveloper U Aung Khant Zaw sai 3 Faivre, programme irector at Hanicap International, on challenges of mine clearance works. Later, Lt-Col Thant Zin, chairman of Peace Myanmar Ai Founation, appreciate the guests, an the chief minister looke aroun lan mine etecte items an pictures isplaye at the ceremony. Government an ethnic arme group signe raft ceasefire agreement last week after a marathon talks since Presient U Thein Sein aministration has taken office in With more than US$2.4 billion in assistance in over 90 countries for conventional weapons estruction programs since 1993, the Unite Nations has applie mine action expertise to an increasingly wie range of explosive hazars, from unexploe missiles, artillery shells, rockets, grenaes an mortars, to unsafe an unsecure weapons an ammunition, improvise explosive evices an cluster bombs. MNA Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe observes booths isplaye at ceremony to mark International Day of Mine Awareness an Assistance in Mine Action. mna the new mobile app allows users to uploa property avertising free of charge. Users can also rea property-relate news an vieos through the app. The May issue of the imyanmarhouse.com property magazine was publishe ahea of scheule, with information about the economic impact of the housing market, Executive Eitor U Thant Wai Soe sai. GNLM

4 4 Ex-Japan PM Murayama to atten China s WWII event in September Beijing, 4 April Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama sai on Friay he is planning to atten a ceremony that China will hol in September marking the 70 th anniversary of the en of Worl War II. If I receive a formal invitation, I inten to go, Murayama, who serve as prime minister from June 1994 to January 1996, sai in a telephone conversation with Kyoo News. Murayama sai he recently got a call from China s ambassaor to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, saying the country wants to invite him to the event. China calls the anniversary its victory in a war of resistance against Japanese aggression. The former socialist prime minister is known for penning a statement in 1995 apologizing for the suffering Japan inflicte on its Asian neighbours through colonization an wartime aggression. The so-calle Murayama statement was release on the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of the en of the war. The ocument is highly regare by China an many other countries. China has invite worl leaers, incluing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whom it sees as a historical revisionist, to atten the cer- emony in Beijing. Among major countries, besies Russian Presient Vlaimir Putin, it is still unknown who will take part in the ceremony, which will be combine with a major military parae. The likelihoo of Abe travelling to China for the commemoration is very slim, Japanese government officials sai last month. China has been wary of what Abe may say on the occasion of the 70 th anniversary of Japan s efeat in the war an has calle on him not to water own the Murayama statement an other past apologies issue by Tokyo. Last month, China sai it has also invite foreign arme forces to march in the military parae expecte to be stage in Tiananmen Square to remember history, commemorate the martyrs, cherish peace an open the way to the future. The last major military parae in China was hel in 2009 to mark the 60 th anniversary of the founing of the People s Republic of China. Until now, a military parae has been stage every 10 years in Beijing on the country s founing ay on 1 October, but not on the war anniversary. Kyoo News regional Camboia evacuates eight citizens from conflict-hit Yemen Phnom Penh, 4 April Camboia has evacuate eight Camboian Muslim stuents strane in conflict in Yemen, Koy Kuong, a spokesman for the Camboian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sai on Saturay. The Camboian Embassy to Kuwait has closely cooperate with the Malaysian Embassy to Yemen to evacuate 8 Camboian Muslim stuents from Yemen because the current situation in this country coul not guarantee security A man cleans the ash from volcanic eruption of Mount Sinabung at Kuta Tengah village in Karo istrict of Inonesia s North Sumatra Province, on 3 April, Mount Sinabung volcano in Karo istrict of Inonesia s North Sumatra province erupte on Thursay afternoon, spewing a column of ash by up to 2 km to the sky an triggering small-scale evacuation, official sai here earlier on Friay. Suga wants honest exchanges with Okinawa ami US base row Naha, (Japan), 4 April Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihie Suga sai on Saturay he wants to honestly communicate with the Okinawa governor, ahea of their meeting ami growing tensions over the planne relocation of a US military base within the prefecture. Suga, the top government spokesman an one of the closest aies to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrive in Okinawa, where he will meet with Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Sunay, their first meeting since the governor for our citizens, he sai in a news statement. Currently, the 8 Camboian Muslim stuents are staying in a safe place uring the waiting for the return to Camboia, he sai. Security sharply eteriorate in Yemen since early was electe last year with support from voters opposing the relocation plan, which is part of a Japan-US agreement. I want to have an honest exchange of opinions with Governor Onaga over easing the buren of Okinawa in hosting (US) bases as well as promoting its (economic) evelopment, Suga tol a meeting of the local chapter of Abe s Liberal Democratic Party. At the talks with Onaga, Suga is likely to restate government hopes for unerstaning March when conflict erupte in several provinces in the country s southern regions. The conflict kille more than 500 people over the past two weeks. The Shiite Houthi group launche attacks on Aen from people in Okinawa towar the long-staning plan to relocate the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station within the islan prefecture, which alreay hosts most of the US military facilities in Japan. On Saturay, Suga will atten a ceremony marking the return to Okinawa of a housing area use by the US military, agree by the two countries in 2013 as part of their efforts to ease the hosting burens of the prefecture. Kyoo News China says Iran eal goo for Sino-US relations Beijing, 4 April This week s framework nuclear eal with Iran was also goo for boosting relations between China an the Unite States, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sai in a call with US Secretary of State John Kerry. The agreement can be attribute to all sies seizing a historic opportunity through concerte efforts, Wang tol Kerry, China s foreign ministry sai in a statement release late on Friay. China an the Unite States, both taking on major responsibilities in safeguaring the international nuclear non-proliferation system, maintaine goo contact with each other uring the negotiations, while instilling positive energy into bilateral relations, the statement cite Wang as saying. In a bi to finalise a comprehensive eal as scheule, China will maintain close coorination with all parties concerne, incluing the Unite States, an continue to play a constructive role uring the process, Wang ae. While China an the Unite States are at loggerheas over everything from cybersecurity to the value of China s yuan currency, the worl s two largest economies also cooperate closely on certain international issues, incluing the Iranian an North Korean nuclear isputes. The Chinese statement cite Kerry as saying that the Unite States appreciates China s important an constructive role in the latest Iran nuclear talks. The tentative agreement, struck on Thursay after eight ays of talks between Iran an six worl powers in Lausanne, Switzerlan, clears the way for a settlement to allay Western fears that Iran coul buil an atomic bomb, with economic sanctions on Teheran being lifte in return. It marks the most significant step towars rapprochement between Washington an Teheran since the 1979 Iranian revolution, an coul potentially en ecaes of international isolation, with far-reaching political consequences in the Mile East. China an Iran have close iplomatic, economic, trae an energy ties. China s crue oil imports from Iran jumpe by nearly 30 percent last year Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to their highest average level since 2011, as Iran s largest oil client booste shipments after an interim eal ease sanctions on Teheran. Inian presient signs lan orinance re-promulgate by Moi gov t New Delhi, 4 April Inian Presient Pranab Mukherjee has signe off on the lan acquisition orinance, which was reissue last week uner unusual circumstances after the government faile to pass it in Parliament, sai local TV channel NDTV on Friay. This is also the first time for the presient to bypass one house of the Parliament, the Upper House, to sign the orinance to let it be re-promulgate. The orinance, or emergency executive orer, seeks to make lan purchase easier for inustry an to evelop roas, ports an power stations, among other infrastructure projects. To reissue it, the government cut short the buget session in one house of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha or Upper House of Parliament, which refuse to enorse the bill. The Inian Constitution says the house where the bill is pening has to be prorogue, or cut short, for the government to re-promulgate an orinance. Parliament is currently on a month-long recess after the Buget session that starte on 23 February. However, the orinance will now be presente in both houses of Parliament again. The Lower House of Parliament or Lok Sabha has alreay overwhelmingly enorse it. The orinance inclues nine changes mae when a bill to replace it was passe in the Lok Sabha last month. With no possibility of the bill making it through the Rajya Sabha, where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party an its allies are in a minority, the government ha no option but to issue the orinance again. A unite opposition le by the Congress has terme the orinance anti-farmer an vowe not to let it pass. city, which Yemeni Presient Ab-Rabbu Mansour Hai eclare as the temporary capital after he fle weeks of house arrest by the Houthis in the capital Sanaa. Last Thursay, a Saui-le coalition starte airstrikes on Houthi targets in Sanaa an other cities, saying the multinational action was to protect Hai s legitimacy an force the Houthis to retreat from cities it seize since September 2014.

5 5 worl UN kicks off new roun of talks on Security Council reform New York, 4 April Diplomats at the Unite Nations are expecte to shift into high gear for iscussions on Security Council reforms in the weeks ahea following preliminary intergovernmental negotiations in late March. As part of its push to join the exclusive club of permanent members, the Japanese government uner Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expecte to lobby har for reforms this year, the 70th anniversary of the founing of the global organization. Japan will be working together with Brazil, Germany an Inia that form the so-calle Group of Four (G-4) to revamp the organization s most powerful ecision-making boy. Negotiations starte on 26 March uner the initiative of Jamaican Ambassaor Courtenay Rattray, the chairman of the intergovernmental negotiations in the current General Assembly session, accoring to Japanese Ambassaor Motohie Yoshikawa. Rattray has presente a three-phase approach to the negotiations an aske member states to submit by mi-april their positions on key points of iscussions, such as to what extent the council shoul be expane, sources familiar with the matter sai. The secon phase woul be interactive ialogue sessions to explore each other s positions, followe by the thir stage of conensing the ocument to prouce a negotiation text, the sources sai. Any plan to transform the council, entruste with such powers as imposing sanctions an even paving the way for military action, requires enorsement by two-thirs of the UN member states to amen the UN charter. Reaching this threshol will be ifficult, given the eep ivisions among members over how reforms shoul be unertaken that were manifeste in previous intergovernmental talks. During a General Assembly meeting on Security Council reforms in November, Antonio e Aguiar Patriota, Brazilian ambassaor to the Unite Nations, likene reform Cabinet OKs bill to scrap overtime pay for white-collar workers Participants in a rally hel in Tokyo by the Labour Lawyers Association of Japan on 3 April, 2015, raise signs bearing a message expressing their opposition to a planne bill to scrap working-hour limits for high-income professionals with annual salaries of million yen ($90,000) or more. Uner the so-calle white-collar exemption system, people who engage in research an evelopment, an other professionals such as ealers at financial institutions will be given the option of being exempt from working-hour regulations. Kyoo News ebates to a carousel running enlessly in circles, even after participants ha exhauste the major points of contention, an mae a plea to push the agena forwar. The Unite Nations now encompasses 193 member states, nearly quarupling from 51 when it came into being 70 years ago. The Security Council, however, has maintaine a 15-state quota since four nonpermanent seats were ae in The council is currently mae up of five permanent members with veto powers Britain, China, France, Russia an the Unite States an ten nonpermanent members who are electe from regional groupings for a twoyear term. Japan has serve on the Security Council ten times as a nonpermanent member with the last stint in A majority of member states are believe to share the view that the council shoul have an expane roster. The G-4 is seeking to increase both permanent an nonpermanent membership. The Consensus Group, comprising Italy, South Korea an other countries, argues that only the nonpermanent quota shoul be expane. In 2005, the G-4 introuce a resolution to the General Assembly seeking to a six permanent an four nonpermanent members. It was eventually scrappe in the face of opposition from the Unite States, China an other countries. Since 2009, intergovernmental negotiations have been conucte in every General Assembly session, but no major stries have been mae. The 69 th an current session opene last September an runs for one year. Rattray took over the chair from Afghan iplomat Zahir Tanin, who ha serve in the post since Tanin sai in a recent interview with Kyoo News that he ecie to leave the post he hel over five years because he felt the political will to move forwar was lacking. Kyoo News Key Taleban commaner kille in eastern Afghanistan Kabul, 4 April Afghanistan s security forces raie Taleban hieouts in the eastern Warak province early on Saturay, killing four militants, incluing key commaner Mullah Wazir alias Mullah Fari, an injuring three others, the provincial government sai. Units of security forces, acting upon intelligence reports raie Taleban hieouts in Jalriz an Jaghato istricts in the wee hours of Saturay. As a result, four rebels, incluing a key commaner Mullah Wazir alias Mullah Fari, were kille an three others injure, the government sai in a statement. Mullah Wazir, accoring to the statement, ha serve as military leaer of Taleban outfit in Warak province an his killing can be a major setback to the Taleban militants in Warak an ajoining provinces. During the operations, a number of arms an ammunitions, incluing 100 kg explosives, were also iscovere from the hieouts of the militants, the statement sai. The Taleban has yet to make comment. Inia s ruling BJP committe to peaceful ties with Pakistan New Delhi, 4 April Inia s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has aopte a new foreign policy formula, which calls for peaceful an cooperative relations with Pakistan in fighting terrorism, local meia reporte on Saturay. The BJP aopte a resolution uring its national executive meeting on Friay in the southern city of Bangalore, presenting a five-point formula of its foreign policy, sai The Hinustan Times. The policy pitche for peaceful engagement with Pakistan to gain the neighbour s cooperation to root out terrorism in the region, sai the report. It also praise the government of Prime Minister Narenra Moi for firmly an appropriately responing to the provocations on the borer allegely by Pakistani troops. The BJP is committe to builing peaceful an frienly relations with Pakistan, preicate on an en to terrorism, it sai. US says woul back Inia buying US aircraft carrier technology US Defense Acquisition Chief Frank Kenall speaks to journalists at a news conference at the 2014 Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, southern Englan on 14 July, Washington, 4 April The US government woul support selling General Atomics electromagnetic launching system for aircraft carriers, an other key technologies, to Inia, the Pentagon s chief weapons buyer tol on Friay. Defence Unersecretary Frank Kenall, who heas a joint US-Inia efence trae an technology effort, sai he was optimistic about the two countries efforts to cooperate on a planne aircraft carrier for Inia. I m optimistic about cooperating with them on that, Kenall tol in an interview, when aske about the possibility of Inia acquiring the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) built by privately hel General Atomics, which is base in San Diego, California. They re going to have to make their own ecision about what technology they want, but I on t see any funamental obstacles to them acquiring some of our carrier technologies, if they want them, he sai. Inia wants to use stateof-the-art US technology to boost the range an potency of a planne aircraft carrier, in a move that woul eepen cooperation between both countries an counter China s military influence in the region. General Atomics, which has also propose selling the system to Brazil, says selling the system to foreign countries coul help lower the cost of installing the system on the new Geral R For class of US Navy aircraft carriers being built by Huntington Ingalls Inustries Inc. The new system helps jets launch off a flat eck at a faster rate an with less fatigue to the aircraft. Kenall sai the issue woul be aresse by a new working group that is being set up by the two countries. The Pentagon recently appointe Rear Amiral Thomas Moore, the Navy s two-star programme executive officer for aircraft carriers, to lea the US part of the working group, sai Pentagon spokeswoman Maureen Schumann. Moore will work with his Inian counterpart, Rear Amiral-select Surenra Ahuja, a former Inian test pilot, to set up the first meeting of the group in the next couple of months. S Korea, Japan, US to hol talks on efence cooperation mi-april Seoul, 4 April Senior efence ministry officials from South Korea, Japan an the Unite States will hol two-ay talks from 16 April in Washington to iscuss promoting trilateral efence cooperation, South Korea s Defence Ministry sai on Friay. Details on the agena are being worke out, but the talks are expecte to focus on North Korea s growing military threats. Prior to the trilateral meeting, South Korea an the Unite States plan to hol bilateral talks on efense cooperation on April in Washington. The South Korean ministry also sai US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter will visit South Korea on 9-11 April an hol talks with South Korea s Defence Minister Han Min Koo on 10 April. Kyoo News

6 6 NPT confab chairwoman pays tribute to A-bomb victims in Nagasaki Nagasaki, 4 April Algerian iplomat Taous Feroukhi, who will chair an upcoming UN conference to review the implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, visite Nagasaki on Saturay an pai tribute to the victims of a US atomic bomb roppe on the city in Feroukhi lai a white wreath at groun zero near where the bomb exploe nearly 70 years ago on 9 August. She tol reporters that it was meaningful to have visite a city evastate by atomic bombing on the year marking its 70 th anniversary. Feroukhi s trip, incluing her visit on Friay to Hiroshima, another Japanese city that was hit with an atomic bomb, was aime at getting a better unerstaning of the evastation cause by the weapon ahea of the review conference starting 27 April in New York. Kyoo News US Clinton campaign signe lease for Brooklyn HQ Washington, 4 April The campaign of likely US presiential caniate Hillary Clinton has signe a lease to house its heaquarters in Brooklyn, New York, a source with knowlege of Clinton s plans sai on Friay. Clinton, a former US secretary of state an the wife of a former presient, is expecte to launch her White House bi for the 2016 election later this month. Her campaign will occupy two floors of an office builing at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in the Brooklyn Heights neighbourhoo, accoring to the source. The ientity of the lease holer on the Brooklyn space was unclear. If it is Clinton s campaign-in-waiting, the expeniture woul trigger a 15-ay winow in which she must officially form her campaign. Several criteria were consiere by Clinton an her future campaign staffers when selecting the Brooklyn location, the source sai. First an foremost, Clinton wante the campaign heaquarters to be outsie of Washington, D C Brooklyn Heights was chosen for its accessibility, given its proximity to multiple metro lines an easy access to the city s airports. The availability of housing for staffers who will be relocating to the area an the perception that the neighbourhoo is somewhere people will enjoy spening time were also factors, the source sai. Politico first reporte the lease on the Clinton campaign heaquarters on Friay. 2 n black box confirms co-pilot s intention to own Germanwings plane Paris, 4 April The secon black box of the crashe Germanwings A320 passenger jet has confirme its co-pilot s intention to eliberately lower the aircraft s altitue, French authorities sai on Friay. The French Bureau of Enquiry an Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) confirme in a Press release on its website that the Flight Data Recorer was sent to the BEA office on Thursay evening, aing that BEA teams trie to open it immeiately upon its arrival. A preliminary reaing showe that the co-pilot in the cockpit use the autopilot to lower the plane to an altitue of 100 feet (aroun 30.5 metres), an that several times uring the escent he change the autopilot settings to increase the spee of the escening aircraft,the BEA sai. The BEA sai it woul continue its analysis to etermine the specific factual progress of the flight. The BEA ha manage to extract useful ata from the first black box, the Cockpit Voice Recorer, which was retrieve last week. The stuy of the file inicate that the co-pilot eliberately estroye the aircraft. The airbus A320, operate by Lufthansa s buget airliner Germanwings, crashe in the southern French Alps on 24 March while flying from Barcelona, Spain to Duesselorf, Germany, killing all 144 passengers an six crew members on boar. worl Big TV ebate of British election campaign yiels no clear winner (L-R) Natalie Louise Bennett the leaer of the Green Party, Nick Clegg the leaer of the Liberal Democrats, Nigel Farage the leaer UKIP, E Miliban the leaer of the Labour Party, Leanne Woo the leaer of Plai Cymru, Nicola Sturgeon the leaer of the Scottish National Party (SNP) an Davi Cameron the leaer of the Conservative Party an Britain s current Prime Minister stan uring the leaers televise election ebate at Meia City in Salfor in North Englan, in this 2 April, 2015 hanout picture provie by ITV. Salfor, (Englan), 4 April The main TV ebate of Britain s national election campaign yiele no clear victor with four opinion polls proucing four ifferent winners, but Davi Cameron s attempt to appear the most statesman-like appeare to have pai off. The event, on Thursay night, was stage less than six weeks before a close national election on 7 May as polls suggest Cameron s Conservatives an E Miliban s opposition Labour Party are neck-an-neck with neither on track to win a majority. The results of four snap opinion polls unerscore why the election that will ecie who governs Britain an its $2.8 trillion economy is being wiely escribe as the closest an most unpreictable since the 1970s with voters naming no fewer than four winners. One poll sai Scottish nationalist leaer Nicola Sturgeon ha won, another sai Labour s Miliban ha narrowly triumphe, a thir sai Cameron, Miliban an UK Inepenence Party leaer (UKIP) Nigel Farage ha come joint first, while a fourth sai Cameron an Miliban ha both won. None of the leaers manage to eliver a killer line that woul set them apart from the other participants. There was clearly no knock-out blow, sai Peter Kellner of pollster YouGov. Jonny Tuor, 17, who aske one of the questions on the night, tol afterwars: Some performe well in answer to certain questions, other performe well on ifferent subjects, but there was no efinitive winner. In a result that will calm Conservative nerves, a Comres/ITV poll showe 40 percent of voters juge Cameron was the most capable of leaing Britain, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu elivers a statement to the press at the Prime Minister s office in Jerusalem, on 3 April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sai on Friay any framework agreement between Iran an the international community must commit to recognizing Israel s right to exist. compare to 28 percent for Miliban. However, the ebate has ha little effect on voting intentions accoring to the first national poll since. A Survation survey for the Daily Mirror ha Labour on 33 percent an the Conservatives on 31 percent, unchange since its last poll a week ago, although Miliban s personal approval rating ha receive a boost. In an unusual format for Britain, Cameron face off against six political rivals in what was the first an only full TV ebate of a campaign that has yet to stir voters, many of whom say they feel jae espite a rising economy. In one of Cameron s more animate moments in an otherwise reserve performance, he pointe to his rivals, one-by-one, an sai: What I m hearing is more ebt an more taxes, more ebt an more taxes, a lot more ebt an more taxes, some more ebt an more taxes, an efinitely more ebt an more taxes. A rare moment of rama came when a female auience member briefly interrupte Cameron to complain about the number of homeless people sleeping in the streets. Netanyahu says in any nuclear eal Iran must recognize Israel s right to exist Jerusalem, 4 April Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sai on Friay that any final nuclear eal with Iran must inclue a commitment from Teheran recognising Israel s right to exist. Netanyahu, whose aress to the US Congress last month faile to stop the Unite States an five other major powers agreeing a framework accor with Tehran on Thursay, mae the eman after his security cabinet met to iscuss the eal. Israel emans that any final agreement with Iran will inclue a clear an unambiguous Iranian commitment of Israel s right to exist, Netanyahu sai in a statement. Israel will not accept an agreement which allows a country that vows to annihilate us to evelop nuclear weapons, perio. US Presient Barack Obama, who calle Thursay s agreement a historic unerstaning, calle Netanyahu within hours of the talks concluing, saying the eal represente progress towar a lasting solution that cuts off Iran s path to a nuclear weapon. But Netanyahu sai a final accor base on what was agree in Lausanne, Switzerlan woul threaten the survival of Israel an rather than blocking Tehran s path to the bomb, woul pave it. This eal woul legitimise Iran s nuclear programme, bolster Iran s economy an increase Iran s aggression an terror throughout the Mile East an beyon, Netanyahu sai. It woul increase the risks of nuclear proliferation in the region an the risks of a horrific war. Obama mentione several times uring his speech on the eal that the Unite States stoo with Israel on security an woul not allow any aylight between their positions, but the reassurances have not satisfie Netanyahu. Israel, believe to be the only nuclear-arme state in the Mile East, has previously sai it coul take pre-emptive military action if necessary to stop Iran getting such weapons.

7 worl Aen, 4 April Fighters loyal to Yemen s presient pushe Houthi fighters back from central Aen on Friay after they were reinforce with weapons parachute into their beleaguere section of the southern port city by Saui-le warplanes. The military setback for the Shi ite Houthis came after ays of avances in Aen, the last major foothol of fighters loyal to Presient Ab-Rabbu Mansour Hai, espite a weekol Saui campaign of air strikes to halt the Houthis an bolster Hai. Sunni Muslim power Saui Arabia, alarme by the Iranian-allie Houthis march on Hai s powerbase in Aen, launche its air campaign nine ays ago along with regional backers. The intervention marks Riyah s most assertive move yet to counter what it sees as a sprea of Shi ite Iran s power in the region, a proxy struggle also playing out in Syria, Iraq an Lebanon. Aen resients sai the Houthi fighters an their allies withrew from the central Crater istrict as well as one of Hai s presiential resiences which they took 24 hours earlier. A spokesman for the Saui-le coalition, Brigaier General Ahme Asseri, sai the logistical support airroppe at awn on Friay ha helpe turn the tie for Hai s fighters. They receive the support an they were able to change the situation on the groun, riving the Houthi militias out of the palace an the areas that they ha briefly taken control of, he tol a news briefing in Riyah. The crates of light weapons, telecommunications equipment an rocket-propelle grenaes were parachute into Aen s Tawahi istrict, on the far en of the Aen peninsula which is still hel by Hai loyalists, fighters tol. The Houthis, fighting alongsie soliers loyal to former presient Ali Abullah Saleh, emerge as the Supporters of Yemen s former Presient Ali Abullah Saleh, hol up their weapons uring a rally against airstrikes, in Sanaa on 3 April, strongest force in Yemen after they took over the capital Sanaa in September. After they turne on Aen last week, Hai fle abroa an has watche from Riyah while his remaining authority has eroe. Turmoil in the Arabian Peninsula s poorest country comes after year of separatism, tribal conflict, sectarian violence an an insurgency by al-qaea militants targete by US rones. Local militia forces sai they kille 10 Houthis uring the fighting which pushe the Shi ite movement out of Crater. Two brothers working for the Re Crescent were shot ea while evacuating woune to an ambulance, the ai group sai. Militia forces blame the Houthis an sai the fighters also kille two patients when they shot at the ambulance taking casualties from Aen s peninsula to a hospital on the mainlan. The coalition, trying to reassert Hai s staning before any political settlement, has sai that sening groun troops into Yemen remains an option. Officials have ecline to say whether special forces have alreay eploye. Saui ambassaor to Washington Ael al-jubeir sai on Thursay the kingom oes not have formal troops on the groun in Aen. Tribal sources in Yemen sai on Friay that Saui Arabia ha starte to remove parts of a fence along its borer with the northwestern Yemeni provinces of Saaa an Hajja. This coul be a prelue to an incursion by groun troops, but may also be part of more moest efforts to secure the frontier area, which on some stretches inclues a buffer zone between the two countries. Saui Arabia s Ekbariya television sai two borer guars were kille in an attack after usk on Friay near Dhahran. It gave no etails. US government sources sai on Thursay that, although Washington believes Saui Arabia an its 7 Yemeni fighters repel Houthis in Aen after arms rop Somali militants threaten more blooy attacks against Kenya Mogaishu, 4 April Somali militants on Saturay threatene to stage more blooy attacks on Kenya after the group s fighters kille nearly 150 people uring an assault on a Kenyan university on Thursay. Four maske al Shabaab gunmen went on a killing spree in a pre-awn rai, hunting own an executing stuents in a college campus in Garissa, a northeastern town about 200km (120 miles) from the Somali borer. The al-qaea aligne group sai the attack was retribution for Kenya s presence in Somalia an mistreatment of Muslims within Kenya. No amount of precaution or safety measures will be able to guarantee your safety, thwart another attack or prevent another bloobath from occurring in your cities, the group sai in an e statement. In the message, irecte at the Kenyan public, the group vowe a long an gruesome war, saying Kenya s cities will run re with bloo. The eath toll in the attack on the Garissa University College has risen to 148, Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery sai late on Friay, aing that police were interviewing five suspects after making three aitional arrests on Friay. The rai on Thursay was the biggest attack on Kenya since 1998, when al-qaea bombe the US embassy in the capital Nairobi an kille more than 200 people. Kenya Aministration policemen stan in front of Garissa University College in Garissa on 4 April, allies have eploye a military force along the borer which is large enough to launch a full-scale invasion, there was no inication that Riyah was planning such a move soon. The UN relief coorinator Valerie Amos sai 519 people have been kille in the fighting in the past two weeks an nearly 1,700 woune, without specifying whether those figures inclue combatants. The fighting has force Washington to evacuate military personnel from Yemen, a main battlefiel in its rone war against al-qaea. Suspecte al-qaea fighters storme a military base in the port town of Mukalla, killing at least five soliers an ransacking its ammunition store, resients sai. The attack came a ay after the militants broke into Mukalla jail an free scores of prisoners incluing a prominent local al-qaea leaer, ientifie by officials as Khale Batarfi. Russia calls UN meeting to iscuss a humanitarian pause in Yemen Unite Nations, 4 April The Unite Nations Security Council will meet on Saturay on Yemen after Russia calle for a meeting to iscuss a proposal for a humanitarian pause in Saui-le air strikes on the country. Saui Arabia is leaing a coalition of Arab states in an air campaign against Shi ite Houthi fighters, who emerge as the most powerful force in the Arabian Peninsula s poorest country when they seize Yemen s capital last year. The Russian mission to the Unite Nations sai it ha calle for the close-oor consultations of the 15-member council to iscuss an issue of humanitarian pause uring coalition air strikes in Yemen. The council is ue to meet at 11 am (1500 GMT) on Saturay. Yemen Presient Ab-Rabbu Mansour Hai fle Aen last week in the face of the Houthi offensive, which has continue to avance espite nine ays of air strikes by the Saui-le coalition aime at riving back the Iranian-allie Houthis an restoring Hai s authority. Islamic State takes 90 percent of Damascus refugee camp Beirut, 4 April Islamic State has taken control of 90 percent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts where 18,000 civilians have suffere years of bombing, army siege an militia control, a monitoring group sai on Saturay. The harline group s offensive in Yarmouk gives it a major presence in the capital. Islamic State, the most powerful insurgent group in Syria, is now only a few kilometers from Presient Bashar al-assa s seat of power. The Unite Nations has sai it is extremely concerne about the safety an protection of Syrians an Palestinians in the camp. Civilians trappe there have long suffere a government siege that has le to starvation an isease. The situation in Yarmouk is an affront to the humanity of all of us, a source of universal shame, UN Relief an Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesman Chris Gunness sai. Yarmouk is a test, a challenge for the international community. We must not fail. The creibility of the international system itself is at stake, he sai. The Islamic State on Wenesay launche an attack on other groups of fighters in Yarmouk, in particular Aknaf Beit al- Maqis, an anti-assa militia of Syrians an Palestinians from the camp. Islamic State supporters poste photos on social meia of the severe heas of two men they sai ha been beheae after fighting for Aknaf Beit al- Maqis. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict from Britain, sai Islamic State an al-qaea s official Syria wing, the Nusra Front, mae gains overnight, pushing into the northeast of the istrict, close to central Damascus. They now control 90 percent of the camp, it sai.

8 8 opinion Water shortages must be aresse in hot season By Aung Khin Summer season in Myanmar lasts from March to May, while April is the hottest month of the year, with aytime temperatures in the central areas normally peaking at above 40 egrees Celsius. In ari zones, water shortages still nee to be aresse. Many people in those areas are suffering the harmful effects of extreme heat. More than four Competition * Competition means : (1) A situation in which people or organizations compete with each other for something that not everyone can have. (2) An event in which people compete with each other to fin out who is the best at something. (3) Competition is rivalry between people or organizations. * Let s explore the wier meanings of competition in the following manner : C for Customer O for Offerings M for Marketing P for Prouct, Price, Places, Promotion E for Exceeing Expectations T for Targeting I for Innovation T for Tough-mineness I for Insight O for Online Marketing N for Never Say Die * CUSTOMER In oing business, you cannot avoi competition. Whatever sort of business you o, you have to compete for the customer, without whom, there coul be no business. Theoore Levette, the business an marketing guru sai: Customer is business. Management guru Peter Drucker also sai: The business of business is to create customers. Every businessman knows quite well that Customer Is The Only Revenue Source. It is sai in the Myanmar homegrown sense, If business is the Night, Customer is the Moon, bright! If business is the Fish, brother, Customer is Water! * OFFERINGS A business offers its prouct or service. But, actually, what a business offers to its customer is the benefits, solution or answer to satisfy the nees an wants an expectations of the customer. It shoul be remembere that: The Seller sells Benefits, an The Buyer buys Value. * MARKETING In competition, marketing can be a competitive avantage. Marketing is Targeting the Customer. The main function of marketing is to get an to keep customers. There are three types of marketing, viz.: Internal Marketing (Between the business an the Employees) External Marketing (Between the business & Customers) Interactive Marketing (Between the Customer an the Employee) Â The aim of Internal Marketing is: To recruit an retain Top Talents in the forms of Best of Bree or Best of the Class. Â The aim of External Marketing is: To Excee Expectations of the customers. Â The aim of Interactive Marketing is: To eliver the Delightful Experience to the Customer in The Moment of Truth. * PRODUCT, PRICE, PLACE AND PROMOTION (The 10-P s Marketing Mix) Prouct to eliver Core Benefits Price to etermine Cost Place to create Convenience Promotion to be in touch with the Customer in Communication People to provie Caring Process to provie Accuracy & Spee Comfortability Physical-Evience to provie Image Confience Philosophy (Business) to eliver Best Value Purpose (Business) to create Win-Win-Outcomes Policy (Business) to put the Customer First * EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS To have a cutting ege in competition, it is very important for the business to be able to By Kyi Mun thousan villages face water scarcity uring the hot summer months in Manalay region alone. Hot weather also ries up rinking water pons in many villages, forcing villagers to ig wells for water. Extreme ay temperatures can also increase the risk of flu, skin allergies an other illnesses. When the boy s temperature control system is overloae ue to hot weather, people suffer heat-relate illness. Normally, the boy cools itself by sweat. Uner some conitions, sweating is not enough to cool own the boy. In such cases, a person s boy temperature rises rapily. Excess boy temperatures can amage the brain or other vital organs. Labourers an venors are most at risk from heat-relate illnesses, in some cases ying from them. They cannot affor to follow the suggestion of the authorities an experts to stay inoors in the aytime. Electricity shortages are another problem Myanmar experiences in hot season. Lower water levels in ams an reservoirs impact the country s prouctivity. As the economy of Myanmar is largely reliant on water resource, sufficient supply of water is funamental for the country. Write for us We appreciate your feeback an contributions. If you have any comments or woul like to submit eitorials, analyses or reports please wallace. tun@gmail.com with your name an title. Due to limitation of space we are only able to publish Letter to the Eitor that o not excee 500 wors. Shoul you submit a text longer than 500 wors please be aware that your letter will be eite. excee the expectations of the stakeholers: Customers Employees Owners/ Shareholers Community & the Entire National Economy * TARGETING In competition, it is very important to thoroughly know: Strengths of Ourselves & } } Weaknesses the Competitors Opportunities for Ourselves & Threats the Competitors Knowing thoroughly well ourselves as well as the enemy will eliver to us a hunre victories in a hunre battles, sai Sun Tzu. We must target at multiplying our strengths an opportunities an eliminating our weaknesses an threats. We shoul also target at having a winning ege in : Strategy Objective Distinctive Capabilities Comprehensive Resources, an Morale * INNOVATION To be competitive, to survive, to prosper an to grow, we have got to be creative an innovative. We must passionately cultivate a creative an innovative environment an culture. We shoul be always reinventing our business processes, vision an strategy. The whole organization must be working har an smart victoriously with the conquering spirit. Our motto shoul be something like: Innovate or ie. * TOUGH-MINDEDNESS To compete effectively, we have got to be tough-mine. We must avance steaily from strength to strength. Strategically we must have an offensive plan of action, an tactically we must have a very strong an invincible efensive prepareness. We shoul be: Tough & strong in financial viability Tough & strong in operational efficiency Tough & strong in managerial effectiveness Tough & strong in Customer & Employee Satisfaction Tough & strong in Competitive Avantage * INSIGHT To be avantageously competitive, we must have insight into cultivating an inculcating : Big View Long-term View as well as the Short-term Wins Prior Planning Plus Preparations Promoting Peak Performance Practice Distinctive Capabilities Comprehensive Resources an Inomitable Spirit * ON-LINE MARKETING To beat the competitors, it is imperative to penetrate the on-line market. Market-share Growth must be relentlessly pursue in two-pronge attacks in the brick & motor market an in the Internet Market. Initially, online market shoul be penetrate in niches of our unique strengths an capabilities. * NEVER SAY DIE Business itself is a tough affair. Competition is tough, ruthless an big in scope. We have got to be resolute, fear no sacrifice an surmount all ifficulties to win victory after victory. We must forever rive, strive, thrive, arrive an revive. * CONCLUSION Competition in Business is very intense, ruthless an very wiesprea. There is even cut-throat competition in the business worl. Such a ruthless competition is ubbe: the rat race, og-eatog culture an a ma practice. Anyhow, there are many ecent, broa-mine an kin-hearte business people, also. In business, a fair an square type of competition can also be exercise. In such high-principle an ecent competition, the competitors usually focus on the following winning characteristics of business objectives an strategies calle QUIVERS: Quality Uniqueness Innovation Value Excellence Relationships Service U Kyi Mun resiing in Yangon is a consultant of NAING Group Capital Co.,Lt.

9 article The last ol Myanmar capital city Ratanapon [Manalay] Part II Maha Sahamma Jotika haja Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt In the founing an urbanization of his new capital city Yaanapon [Manalay] Yaanapon Naypyitaw, King Minon was fortunate enough to have abunance of knowlege an experiences at his isposal. First an foremost was the two previous capital cities Inwa an Amarapura which gave him goo experiences an lessons to take an ba experiences an lessons to avoi. The strategic location an natural resources facilities of Inwa guie King Minon to the site of Manalay which covers by far much larger an wier areas than that of Inwa an which is surroune by natural environment of foreste hills, natural lakes, man-mae reservoirs an ams, natural streams an ug-up canals. If Inwa coul boast of its site on the four raine off an lan fille natural lakes, Inbu In, Ohn hne In, Nga Gyi In an Kyauk hmaw In an its location at the confluence of five rivers, the Ayeyaway, the Samon, the Duhtaway, the Zawgyi an the Paunglaung, Manalay Yaanapon Naypyitaw was compose in poem, sung in songs an eulogize in history an literature for its green environment an unsurpassing sceneries. Two prominent songs of the time which are still popular as classic are Mya Man Giri an Man Taung Letyar. They are as follows:- jrref;*d& 1^[ jrref;*d&? aovmawmif eef;wnfaxmif? bkef;a&mifaeok Yvif; aemifnduk? a&tbk EG,fawmf&if;? &mqlql? jynfolc0yfpif;? a&tbkef;awmf? EIef;avsmfpHaysmfcif; awzmwk ;vk YjzK;a0? ref;xmae atmifaz,smjynf Yrif;]2 2^[ajymifvl;em*&kpm?aomfwmaiGvQH rsk;jrwfq'éf? a&teef;bh kawmf a&muf&ma&tuk,fawmf jynfawmfek ifiha&tbh kwgif;]2 [qef;rl&m?olzma&tcyif;? a&tbkef;awmf?eief;avsmfphaysmfcif;? awzmwk ;vk YjzK;a0? ref;xmae atmifaz,smjynf Yrif;]2 This song was compose by Prince Pyin Si. It eulogizes the glory an greatness of the two brothers [King Minon an his younger brother Crown Prince Kanaung] who jointly foune the new capital city at the foot of Manalay hill. The song traces the escenancy of the two brothers from the ynasty of Shwebo [Konbaung ynasty or King Alaungpaya s ynasty]. All tributary chiefs an subjects pai their allegiance an homage to the two brothers. They were relate to Saan White Elephant in their previous existences. Saan White Elephant was silvery white like the moon. Beautiful court laies atten on them. They are victorious rulers of Manalay capital city. The secon song was also compose by the same composer Prince Pyin Si. It is wellknown in classical song category. It is name Man Taung Let Yar. ref;awmifvufsm [ref;awmifvufsm? bkef;aev? EIef;avawZma0jzm? 0if;xefvk Y0g? [rsm;pgmak vfajca0aeaygif;]2 aumif;atmifck? aumif;atmifck? Ak'ïf avmif;r ku? jrkueef;wnfaxmif? [rif;jrwfaemif? ukef;abmifaengef YaoG;]2 'Dygajray:? ausmfes HUa&;]2 bkef;awmf[kef? ajcmufbh kewf&gm? vgefysuhart;vk Y? ab;awmfajr;rsef [xd;&mph? eufoef ck ca&;]2 a&tbkef;awmfaevma0jzm? ref;vufsm ewf&gma&ok Yat;]2 'k kr mav 'kr mmukifysuh? art;w,fart;w,fav;? eeḿuefoma&jr? at;w,f? at;w,f? at;w,fav]2 [[k a&s;av? &mzn*kvfjynfvk? pnfa[k awmfu [ef;wmrk Y]2 ab;&efcyforf; av;awgwk Y? ab;&efcyforf;av;awg Ywk Y? jirf;av? jirf;avygvs? jirf;avjirf;avygvs? MumwHqyfeJ YAsm'wfawmfvm? ref YcGef;av?cGef;av cskjrom]2,of{&m ywfum0k if;onf? wk if;av;xmed? a&tjynfa&tbh keef;? a&,ofog,fjzm? pd;vmargufjzk;? &Gmonf Yrk ;? bkef;wefck ;? a&trk ;aigrk ;&Gm? qifjzl&wemqufrnfcka&mufvm? tk av bkef;awzg? aeeief;jzm [eeḿa&0ef;&hc? ywfvnfum a&tref;awmifawmfom]2 [tk qef;ygvs? jrkueef;0wefom]2 [jrefcsmzefvsaengef YrSm]2 bkef;avjrwfa0qm? [tk avphugjref;onf? ref;av;a&tjynf? wk if;avxmed]2 yh kra0;bk? a&mufvkygjyd? jrwfaemifnd? omudaeok YxGef; [&Tef;&Tef;a0? xgef;wufae? usufoa& aigvpef;? aovmawmif a&tref;? qef;avy qef;ph kpgm? a0,efewfeef; yh kok Yyg? eeḿa&0ef f;&hc? ywfvnfum? a&tref;awmifawmfom? tk qef;ygvs jrkueef;0wefom? [jrefcsmzefvsmaengef YrSm]2 bkef;avjrwfa0qm [tk av phugjref;onf? ref;av;a&tjynfwk if; avxmed]2 [yh kra0;bk? a&mufvkygjyd? jrwfaemifnd? omudaeok YxGef;]2 The song escribe in poetic language an imagery the founing of the new capital city an builing of a new palace by the two brothers [King Minon an Crown Prince Kanaung] who are escenants of Thetkya race of Gotama Buha. They are great gransons of royal ancestors. Their fame an glory sprea to the six planes of celestial worl. Cool, clear water from Lake Nana, fille with fragrant Pauma lotus blooms, flows clockwise aroun Manalay hill. Like in ays of yore in the royal city of Rajagaha in Inia of Buha s lifetime, the Baho Si (central clock rum) boome, riving away all angers from new capital city of Yaanapon Napyitaw, The new capital city emerge accoring to the prophesy of Lor Gotama Buha when sojourne on the summit of Manalay hill. The Ayeyaway river tenerly wins about the new capital city. A newly iscovere white elephant is now presente to King Minon. Manalay Palace city looks like Tavatimsa, the celestial city of Saka Deva [Thuner go]. New capital city an new palace rule an reigne by two brothers [King Minon an Crown Prince Kanaung] are not far away. We have arrive now. There are other classical songs extolling an eulogizing Manalay new capital city an new palace. Later song composers such as Nantaw Shey Saya Tin, Manala Saya Hnyar (A.1. Saya Hnyar), Saya Tauk an Myo Ma Nyein mae Manalay hill an Yatanapon Naypyitaw Manalay as their favourite themes in their hit songs. In Myanmar chronicles an history as well as in literature Manalay hill an Yaanapon Naypyitaw Manalay were extensively recore or escribe. The Yetkan zin hill, the Naga Yit hill, the Shin Ma Lei hill, the Mei U hill, the Ko-yin Maung hill, the Yankin hill, the Yeytagung hill, the Manalay hill, the Kywe na-pha hill, nearby an the sagin marble hill range, PyinOoLwin [Maymyo] hills, Mogok hill range, Kyaukse hill range, Pyet-kawei hill range at not so far istances from which rain water an spring an fall waters constantly provie enough aquatic quantity to Manalay Naypyiaw through the natural streams an ug-up canals connecting with the natural lakes an reservoirs such as Nana an Aungpinle reservoirs, Seiaw Gyi, an natural lakes such as Hsinphyu Kan, Zaung Kalaw, Tet Jhey In. Shwe laung, Shwe Ta-chaung, Yatana Nai, Thingaza which are the half natural half manmae stream-cum-canal supplying water to Yaanapon Naypyitaw. Unlike Taungthaman In lake which blocke Amarapura for its urban expansion, the sai aquatic sources at Manalay site lie at safe istances giving extensive spaces for spillover of Manalay urban population. Besies the mighty Ayeyaway river that wins about zigzaglly from its northern most reaches of the confluence of the Nmaikha an the Mali Kha (Myitsone) after passing many efiles, becomes mil an tame as it reaches the fourth efile at Thabeik Kyin, only half-a-ay motor car rive to the north of Manalay. From thence southwar the Ayeyaway turns into a ancing lay, caressing an kissing Manalay only to keep it apart from the Minwun an the Sagaing hill ranges along the banks, facing Manalay. These hill ranges are otte with religious monuments an eifices of the past historic perios of Myanmar history. Hence the topographical isavantages of Amarapura were not repeate at the site of new capital city Yaanapon Naypyitaw (Manalay). King Minon consulte his ministers, Brahmin Priests, Soothsayers, Astrologers, learne Buhist monks, city an town planners, architects engineers an lan surveyors. He left no stone unturne in the founing of his new capital city. By now, many experts from the avance western countries ha arrive at Myanmar capitals as King s servicemen or private consultants. We therefore, notice some influence an impact of Italian, the French an the German urban esigners an city planners in King Minon s capital city about which we will learn in the subsequent instalments of this article. Here we woul learn how the new capital city was efine an emarcate an how palace city (Nan Myo Taw) was built in the centre. In the efinition an emarcation of the new capital city, King Minon publicly announce an emarcate the Swe Myo Taw Thit Myey [the site of the new capital city) emarcate by golen chain (a&tmuk;owfajr] as follows:- Starting from the south-east corner, which is the junction of the Thanbaya Stream with the Myitngè River on the east of the Shwezayan Pagoa, the bounary goes west along the water s ege on the right bank of the Myitngè river, with Mekkhaya Myonè (township) on the far sie to the south-west corner which is the junction of the Myitngè river with the Ayeyaway river; thence north along the left bank of the Ayeyaway river to the Shwegyetyet Pagoa, thence along the water s ege on the west sie of Pyilonan hlawgaza, Yinaw, Shangale an Kontha Islans, thence along the left bank of the Ayeyaway river to Thayethman, thence across the left arm of the Ayeyaway river an along the water s ege on the west sie of Malaka an Alaung Islans, to Hlainggyun on the left bank of the Ayeyaway river to the north-east corner which is Powa North Village at the junction of the Natpauk branch of the Maaya river with the Ayeyaway river, with Ngasigu myonè on the far sie; thence east along the left bank of the Natpuak branch of the Maaya river, which marks the bounary between Ngasingu myone an Kyawzin zeik to the northeast corner which is Nyaunggyaung village at the far en of Maaya myonè, with the point at which four myonès meet on the far sie; thence south along the western foot of the hill range to the starting point. The above emarcate area for the new capital city was about four square miles. But later it graually extene as urbanization spille over. The palace city [Nan Myo Taw) was built at the centre in accorance with Myanmar cosmography the concept of the centre of the Universe. Capital city surroune the palace city on four sies, facing four carinal irections. The east sie was marke Ashey Pyin, the west sie, Anauk Pyin, the north sie Myauk Pyin an the south sie Taung Pyin. Altogehter 54 living quarters were foune on these four sies. They were as follows:- Ashey Pyin [East Sie] 1. Kyun Lone Maw (2) Wizaya Mahi (3) Zeya Mingala (4) Bhumi Zeya (5) Maha Zeyabon (6) Pyi Gyi Myet Hman (7) Pyi Gyi Myet Shin Anauk Pyin [West Sie] (8) Amarasan Khaung (9) Amarahtani (10) Pyi Lone Chantha (11) Mawgagiri (12) Pale ngwe yaung (13) Pyi gyi kyet thayey (14) Aung Myey Yan Lon (15) Zabu Kyetngan (16) Chan Aye Tha Zan (17) Tu Lut Yan Aung (18) Beymei Lut Shaung (19) Aung Nan Yeikthar (20) Yaana Bhumi (21) Maha Aung Myey (22) Kyun Lon Kyey Nyar (23) Shwe Phone Shein (24) Kyun Lon U Shaung (25) Tampaway (26) Than Hlyet Maw (27) Sein Pan (28) Dae Wun (29) Pyi Gyi Pyaw Bwe (30) Thiri Haymar (31) Thiri Marlar (32) Aung Myey Thar Zan (33) Pyi Gyi Yan Lon (34) Min Te E Kin (35) Phone Taw Yaung (36) Nyaung Kwe. Myauk Pyin [North Sie] (37) Mya Kyun Tazaung (38) Mya Nan Aung Myey (39) Mya Nan San Yar (40) Mya Nan Bonthar (41) Mya Kyun Myey Ngu Taung Pyin [South Sie] (42) Pat kon Pyaw Bwe (43) Zabu Myet Shin (44) Pat Kon Wun Kyin (45) Yan Myo Lon (46) Maha Nwe Zin (47) Thet Kya Nwe Zin (48) Mawra Giwar (49) Sitara mahi (50) Hay Mar Zala (51) Kinsana Mahi (52) Hayma Marlar (53) Chan Mya Tha Zi (54) Aung Chan Thar. These quarters were given classical names by royal orer, some are Pali names from Jataka stories, some are auspicious Myanmar names. But they were commonly known by the names of ethnic groups who occupie those quarters or names an status of their services or their occupation. For examples, Amarahtani, Magagiri, Haymazala, Kinsana Mahi, Sitara Mahi, Mawgagiwa are Jataka names. Chan Mya Tha Zi, Pyi Gyi Pyaw Bwe, Pyi Gyi Yan Lon, Aung Myey Thazan, Setkya Nwe Zin, Maha Nwe Zin, Yan Myo Lon were names given by the king. Besies military servicemen s living quarters have their own names such as Marabin, Taung taya Nga Ze, Shwe Lan, Atwin Chauk Su, Apin Chauk Su, Shey taw Pyey, etc. Kathe su, Ponagon, Kala pyo, Taryean, Tayoketan, Yoaya Su, Lin Zin Yat are ethnic group's quarters. Wa Tan, Kyi thun khat Tan, Kyauk sit Tan, Dha Tan, Tittar Tan, Hpan chet Tan, Bi Tan, Hman Tan, Myet par Yat were quarters for traers, craftsmen, artists an professionals. The resients of these quarters faithfully live in their quarters, If by chance, ue to inter-marriage or ue to turn of their fortunate life, they were oblige to move to other quarters they ha to inform an get permit from the Council of the Elers of the quarters concerne. All quarters were planne out on the esigns of square or oblong, never on the esigns of triangle or circle. They face the palace city as a token of respect an homage to the king an his royal family. Especially for the servicemen, house esign an size must conform to the stanar prescribe by royal orer. Even with regar to the royal family from the Crown Prince own war strict prescription of the esign an size of their wellings were faithfully ahere to on pain of punishment. (to be continue) 9

10 10 Singapore eyes highest proportion of younger iabetes patients Singapore, 4 April Singapore has the highest proportion of younger patients with type-2 iabetes across nine Asian territories, Channel NewsAsia reporte on Friay, citing a stuy by the Asian Diabetes Founation. The two-year stuy polle 319 patients from Singapore, Thailan, China, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Inia, South Korea, Taiwan an Vietnam, it sai, aing that in Singapore, three in 10 ha iabetes before the age of 40, the highest proportion with younger patients. Singapore currently has 498,190 patients with type-2 iabetes, an it still poses great challenge to keep glycaemic uner control among them. Diabetes has no symptoms. So when you are young, you on t really think it s a problem because there is no symptoms, you on t experience pain an you are not aware of its complications, Dr Ben Ng, consultant physician at Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Meical Centre tol Channel NewsAsia. Because of that, people on t care. They think they are oing well. On top of that, many other lifestyles such as too goo a iet, lack of exercise an a seentary lifestyle all contribute to increasing weight an increasing risk of iabetes. business & health Toyota s Aqua likely to have been FY2014 top-seller in Japan Tokyo, 4 April Toyota Motor Corp s Aqua hybri is likely to have been the top-selling car in Japan in fiscal 2014, maintaining the top spot for the thir straight year, with sales estimate at about 228,000 vehicles, inustry sources sai on Friay. Daihatsu Motor Co s Tanto vehicle was the top-selling car in calenar 2014, but Aqua overtook Tanto uring the three months through March as Toyota revampe parts of the hybri vehicle release in December Final sales ata for the fiscal year ene Tuesay will be available next Monay, when the Japan Light Motor Vehicle an Motorcycle Association releases ata for minicars an the Japan Automobile Dealers Association sales figures for larger vehicles. The Tanto is believe to have ranke secon in fiscal 2014 with estimate sales of about 215,000, the sources sai. File photo taken in December 2014 in Nagoya, central Japan, shows a moel of Toyota Motor Corp s Aqua hybri. The Aqua is likely to have been the top-selling car in Japan in fiscal 2014, maintaining top spot for the thir straight year, with sales estimate at about 228,000 vehicles, inustry sources sai on 3 April, Minivehicles, with engines up to 660 cc, are expecte to account for seven of the top 10 best-selling moels last fiscal year, the sources ae. Kyoo News With eman growing for less-expensive cars with superior fuel efficiency, minivehices account for about 40 percent of the new cars sol in Japan. But the tax rate on minivehicles was raise this month, possibly having a negative impact on sales going forwar. Kyoo News Heavy metal losses for China s rare earth companies Beijing, 4 April Two of China s major rare earth miners reporte sharp falls in profits in 2014, in the face of poor eman an weak prices. Major proucer, REHT reporte on Friay 5.84 billion yuan (949 million US ollars) in operating revenue in 2014, own 31.1 percent from Net profits plummete by 57.4 percent to 643 million yuan, accoring to the company s annual report. On the same ay, China Minmetals Rare Earth Co poste a 64.8 percent rop in operating revenue to 702 million yuan an its balance sheet turne from black to re with 55.8 million yuan in net losses. China Minmetals eliberately reuce sales last year, leaing to great losses. Both enterprises blame weak eman an low prices. Rare earth prices are at a multi-year low, espite a slight re- boun at the en of Upgraing the inustry, big enterprises were merge with ozens of small miners aroun the en of last year to establish six major rare earth groups: REHT, China Minmetals, Xiamen Tungsten Co, Aluminum Corporation of China, Guangong Rare Earth Co an China Southern Rare Earth Group. The rare earth branch of Xiamen Tungsten mae a loss in 2014 an the remaining three firms have yet to release their annual reports. Rare earths, a class of 17 minerals, are some of the most sought after metals ue to their military use an role in green technology like win turbines an car batteries. China meets over 90 percent of the worl eman, but at the cost of much pollution. To curb environmental egraation an protect resources, China began to set quotas an high uties on rare earth exports in 2010, causing friction with the European Union, Japan an the Unite States. A WTO ruling last August eclare the measures inconsistent with WTO rules an China s Accession Protocol. China remove quotas on 1 January this year an will cancel export uties on 3 May. China s rare earth inustry has always been beset by problems incluing illegal mining, smuggling an a lack of competitiveness ue to weak research an evelopment. When all barriers are lifte, regulators will face fresh pressure an will nee effective instruments if the inustry is to prosper, sai Wu Yiing of Jiangxi University of Science an Technology. The Ministry of Inustry an Information Technology, watchog of the rare earth inustry, sai new projects will be controlle, prouction planne an exports regulate. US as only 126,000 jobs in March, unemployment rate unchange at 5.5 percent Washington, 4 April The US economy ae 126,000 jobs in March, falling short of economists estimate of 245,000 an the unemployment rate hel steay at 5.5 percent, the latest sign the labour market might be slowing own, the Labour Department reporte on Friay. The increase in employment marke the first time the monthly job growth was below the key 200,000 benchmark, which was typically associate with a strengthening job market, over the past year. Last month, employment continue to tren up in professional an business services, health care an retail trae, while the mining, manufacturing an construction sectors lost jobs, the epartment sai. The mining an logging inustry, which inclues oil an gas extraction, she 11,000 workers in March an has lost 30,000 jobs so far in 2015 ue to the recent ecline in oil prices. The manufacturing an construction sectors also cut 1,000 jobs in the month, respectively. After revisions, employment gains in January an February were 69,000 less than previously reporte. Job gains have average 197, 000 per month in the first quarter of 2015, own from an average of 324,000 in the fourth quarter of 2014, accoring to the report. The slowing job market might reflect the weak economic growth in early 2015, which was attribute to severe col weather, inventory ajustments an the strengthening ollar. We are seeing some weakness in the incoming ata on economic activity. That coul be concerns about whether or not that woul stall improvement in the labor market, Davi Stockton, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, tol in a recent interview. Wage growth for US workers remaine moest. Average hourly earnings rose 7 cents to US ollars in March an were up only 2.1 percent over the past 12 months, which suggests unerlying slack remains in the labour market. The latest worse-than-expecte job report might make the Feeral Reserve, the US central bank, to be cautious in eciing when to start raising interest rates. The central bank has kept benchmark short-term interest rates near zero since December Fe Chair Janet Yellen sai last week she expecte an increase in the target range for the feeral funs rate to be warrante later this year, as long as the labor market continues to improve. Stockton preicte the central bank is more likely to wait until September to start hiking interest rates, as Yellen signale a little bit esire to see more ata to confirm the improvement of the US economy. Fe officials will make better jugment by September whether the early part of the year s weakness in the ata was just temporary or whether it signale more serious slowown, he sai.

11 science & technology Tearown of new Samsung Galaxy smartphone suggests eeper loss for Qualcomm Seoul / San Francisco, 4 April Samsung Electronics Co Lt use more of its own chips to power the new Galaxy S6 smartphone than it i for the preecessor S5, accoring to an early tearown report, in a blow to US chip supplier Qualcomm Inc. Samsung is not only using its own Exynos mobile processor, as ha been wiely reporte, but also ecie to rely on its in-house semiconuctor business to source other parts, incluing the moem an power management integrate circuit chips, Ottawa-base consultancy Chipworks sai in a web posting ate on 2 April. Samsung is counting on its new flagship Galaxy S6 an S6 ege phones to help revive earnings momentum after a isappointing Strong sales of system chips such as its Exynos processor coul also help boost earnings, analysts an investors say. The Galaxy S6 also comes with Samsung s Shannon moem chip, US phone carrier AT&T sai on its website. It s pretty clear if they re using Shannon for the moem for AT&T that they re trying to use all-samsung silicon, sai Jim McGregor, an analyst at A hostess isplays the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Ege smartphone uring the Mobile Worl Congress in Barcelona on 2 March, Tirias Research. With their market share going own they re uner pressure to increase profit margins. The finings suggest a eeper loss of business for Qualcomm in the new generation of Samsung s flagship hansets than anticipate previously. Tearown reports of the preecessor Galaxy S5, release last year, showe the US chipmaker supplie several components that Samsung has supplante with its own this year, base on the phone Chipworks investigate. Qualcomm sai in January that a key customer ecline to use its new Snapragon processor in an upcoming flagship phone presume to be Samsung s Galaxy S6. But it ha been unclear whether Samsung woul rop Qualcomm s moem chips as well. Qualcomm is the inustry leaer in LTE, the most avance moem technology, but Samsung, Intel, MeiaTek an others have eveloping their own offerings. Samsung an Qualcomm i not immeiately reply to requests for comment. Inonesia plays harball with smartphone manufacturers Jakarta, 4 April When Polytron became the first Inonesian company to prouce 4G-capable smartphones last year, it change the Manufacture in China inscription on its hansets to Mae in Kuus, a town in Central Java. Polytron relocate prouction from China to comply with local-content rules introuce in The regulations have raise concerns about higher manufacturing costs an hung question marks over an inustry champione by the Inonesian government. The Unite States has presse Inonesia to relax the rules, which it says will hamper efforts of tech giants such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to expan into one of the worl s last big markets where use of smartphones has yet to truly take off. Assembling far from China s electronics supply chain means it costs up to 50 percent more to manufacture a mobile phone in Inonesia, accoring to Polytron, a smaller player among local phone brans. Honestly, we are oing it because of the regulation, to be in compliance, Polytron spokesman Santo Kaarusman tol. The government rampe up enforcement of the rules last year. The regulations are part of a push uner Presient Joko Wioo to transform Inonesia from an economy that consumes proucts into one that prouces them, in his attempt to boost economic growth an eliminate the country s trae eficit. Most mobile phones sol in Inonesia are mae in China. There was no phone manufacturing inustry in Inonesia until last year when 15 companies submitte plans to the Inustry Ministry to start prouction. Among them was Samsung Electronics Co Lt ( KS), which opene a factory near Jakarta. The regulations require importers of smartphones to manufacture in Inonesia or have their import licenses revoke by 2016 or 2017, epening on when they receive their licence. Employees at a Polytron showroom pose with the company s line of smartphones an tablets in a shopping mall in Jakarta on 1 April, Beijing, 4 April Mozilla Corp, creator of the popular Firefox web browser, sai on Thursay it woul follow Google Inc an no longer recognize new certificates of trust issue by a Chinese Internet agency. Google s Chrome an Mozilla s Firefox are some of the worl s most wiely use browsers, an the moves coul isrupt users accessing a broa range of Chinese web sites. As a result of Mozilla s step, users of Firefox may get a warning when attempting to visit sites certifie after 1 April by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CN- NIC), the boy that aministers China s Internet by allocating an certifying IP aresses an web omain names. CNNIC issue a statement on Thursay calling Google s move unacceptable an unintelligible an aske the web giant to consier its users interests. Zhang Jing, a representative of CNNIC s me- Mozilla to also reject Chinese Internet boy s certificates 11 A man is seen next to a Firefox logo at a Mozilla stan uring the Mobile Worl Congress in Barcelona, on 28 Feb, ia relations epartment, coul not immeiately provie comment about Mozilla s move when reache late Friay. Mozilla an Google have both objecte to CN- NIC elegating its authority to issue certificates to an Egyptian company calle MCS Holings, which mishanle the matter last week. MCS Holings attribute a security lapse that took place on a test network to human error. Internet authorities aroun the worl issue certificates of trust to websites to verify their authenticity when visite by a web browser. Hackers coul in theory impersonate unverifie websites an intercept ata using a man-in-themile attack. Google an Mozilla have sai they woul allow CNNIC to reapply so its certificates coul be recognize again. Chrome is the worl s most popular esktop an tablet browser, with nearly 50 percent share, while Microsoft Corp s Internet Explorer has nearly 18 percent compare to Firefox at 16.9 percent, accoring Statcounter. Fault link means larger quakes possible on US west coast San Francisco, 4 April Researchers with University of California at Berkeley have proven that two faults in the Golen State are actually one, an that the two coul rupture together in an earthquake more estructive than previously thought. The maximum earthquake on a fault is proportional to its length, so by having the two irectly connecte, we can have a rupture propagating across from one to the other, making a larger quake, lea researcher Estelle Chaussar, of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, sai in a press release issue on Thursay by UC Berkeley. What the postoctoral fellow an her colleagues have worke on are the 70-km-long Haywar Fault, known as one of the most angerous in the Unite States as it runs through large population areas near San Francisco, an the Calaveras Fault, which runs about 123 km. Knowing that the Haywar Fault ens just short of the Calaveras Fault, there has always been ambiguity about whether the two are connecte, sai Chaussar. People have been looking for evience of this for a long time, but only now o we have the ata to prove it. The UC Berkeley team use 19 years of ata from European Space Agency satellites to map groun eformation an measure creep along the southern en of the Haywar Fault, an foun that the creep i not stop at its presume en, but continue on another 15 km an the trace merge with the trace of the Calaveras Fault. In aition, seismic ata show that micro-earthquakes on these faults 3-5 kilometres unergroun have also merge, Chaussar sai. With this evience from surface creep an seismicity, we can argue for a irect junction on the surface an at epth for the two faults. The researchers also foun that the unergroun portion of the Haywar Fault meets the Calaveras Fault 10 kilometres farther north than where the creeping surface traces of both faults meet. This geometry implies that the Haywar Fault ips at an angle where it meets the Calaveras Fault. The US Geological Survey (USGS) upate seismic hazars last month an estimate a 14.3 percent likelihoo of a magnitue 6.7 or greater earthquake on the Haywar Fault in the next 30 years an a 7.4 percent chance on the Calaveras Fault. The estimates are base on the assumption that the two faults are inepenent systems, an that the maximum quake on the Haywar Fault woul be between magnitues 6.9 an 7.0. Given that the Haywar an Calaveras faults are connecte, the energy release in a simultaneous rupture coul be 2.5 times greater, or a magnitue 7.3 quake. It woul be even greater, Chaussar sai, if the rupture extene south to where the Calaveras Fault meets the San Anreas Fault, which has prouce major quakes in the past.

12 12 Malaysia charges cartoonist over tweets critical of juiciary Kuala Lumpur, 4 April Malaysian prosecutors on Friay slappe a recor nine seition charges against a political cartoonist over a series of tweets he poste criticizing the incarceration of opposition leaer Anwar Ibrahim. Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, 52, better known by his pen name Zunar, pleae innocent to the charges, which are base on a series of nine tweets he poste on 10 February slamming the Feeral Court s ecision on the same ay to sen Anwar back to jail for five years over a soomy conviction. In one of the tweets, Zulkifli wrote in the Malay language, The lackeys in black robes are prou to han own the sentence. Zulkifli went on to suggest that the juiciary was bought an the verict was preetermine. Anwar has steafastly maintaine that his soomy charge an conviction are the result of a plot by the ruling elites to ruin his political career. No one has been charge nine times for seition. The most is two, Zulkifli s lawyer Latheefa Koya tol reporters outsie the courtroom. A efiant Zulkifli appeare at court wearing a purple outfit similar to the uniform that police etainees wear while in lock-up. He even brought his own hancuffs an pose for photographers. Zulkifli ha spent three ays in a police lock-up after being picke up for investigation over the tweets on 10 February. How can I be neutral if even my pen has a stan? Being neutral in Malaysia means you are supporting the corrupt government, he tol reporters. To mark his ay in court, he even poste a caricature of himself on Twitter with the wors, I will keep rawing until the last rop of my ink. If foun guilty, Zulkifli faces up to three years in prison or a fine of up to 5,000 ringgit (about $1,370) or both. Zulkifli has previously been etaine on seition charges, having ha several brushes with the authorities over pointely political cartoons that poke fun at the ruling elites. His works have been seize an some banne from publication. The present nine seition charges will likely not be the last for him. Kyoo News worl Heavy smoke an blaze are seen at a liqui storage facility of Ultracargo, one of the major liqui storage companies of Brazil, in Santos, Sao Paulo state in Brazil, on 3 April, The fire broke out here on Thursay, accoring to the local press. Search to continue for 13 people missing after Russian trawler s sinking Vlaivostok, (Russia), 4 April The efforts to search woul continue on Saturay for the 13 people who were missing after the fishing freezer trawler they boare sank off Russia s Kamchatka Peninsula Thursay morning, a local official sai on Friay. The past ays went by without positive news regaring searching effort, UK spie on Argentina over Falklans from 2006 to 2011 sai RIA Novosti in a report quoting an official with the Far East ivision of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry as. Accoring to him, 65 people aboar the trawler were ientifie. The trawler, with 132 people on boar, incluing 81 Russians an 51 foreigners, sank in freezing water of the Okhotsk Sea at 6: 15 am local time Thursay. Rescue crew hoiste 119 people from the water, of whom, 56 were proclaime ea. There were 13 people missing. Sixty survivors, along with 56 ea boies, were evacuate to the Korsakov port in Sakhalin region, while three fishermen in extremely serious conition were sent to the istrict hospital in Magaan city earlier on Friay, accoring to a spokesman for the ministry s Kamchatka epartment. The cause of the accient is uner investigation. An investigative epartment of the Far East sai that the investigation results of possible safety rules violation will be announce in a week. Owner of the trawler, Magellan LLC, planne to pay compensation to the Buenos Aires, 4 April Britain spie on Argentine military an political leaers to ensure the security of the Falklan Islans from 2006 to 2011, accoring to a local television channel, citing intelligence ocuments provie by US whistle blower Ewar Snowen. Channel TN (TN com. ar) sai it got the ocuments from a team of reporters in Brazil who have been working with Snowen. One of the ocuments, labelle Top Secret an ate 2010, escribe efforts to collect high-priority military an leaership communications, it sai. Tensions over the Falklans still simmer more than 30 years after the two countries fought a brief war, won by Britain, for control of the South Atlantic archipelago. The islans lie 300 miles (480 km) off the Argentine coast an 8,000 miles (12,870 km) from Britain. About 2,800 people live on the islans, where the main inustries are raising sheep, fishing an some tourism. Oil has also been iscovere in the area, raising the stakes in the ispute over control of the archipelago. TN reporter Eie Fitte sai he learne of the ocuments several ays ago when he receive a series of telephone calls from Snowen s meia team in Rio e Janeiro. Each call laste less than one minute in orer to scuttle wiretapping attempts, he sai. The caller summone him to Rio the next ay, an aske him to be at a esignate corner of the city at 4 pm to collect the ocuments, Fitte sai. He was taken to a bunker where he was aske to turn over his cellphone while he Libya Dawn fighters check passing cars near a local checkpoint in the al-tusha area, west of al-azizia, Libya, on 3 April, Clashes continue in al-azizia on Wenesay between pro-government forces an the Islamist arme coalition Libya Dawn. families of the victims an promise to cover the cost of sening the boies home. Russian Defence Ministry earlier rejecte meia reports that the trawler collie with a Russian submarine, saying no Russian Naval submarines were in that particular area of the Okhotsk Sea at the time of the tragey. Russian Presient Vlaimir Putin has collecte the material that appeare on TNs website on Friay. A spokesman for Britain s Foreign Office sai the government woul neither confirm nor eny the reports. No one from the Argentine government was immeiately available to comment. Former US intelligence contractor Snowen lives in Russia after leaking sensitive information about US surveillance programs. Argentine forces seize orere Yury Trutnev, Presiential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Feeral District, to work with relevant epartments an take charge of the treatment of the injure an other necessary assistance. Chinese Presient Xi Jinping on Friay sent a message of conolences to Putin over the sinking of the trawler. the Falklans in 1982 an Britain sent a task force to retake them in a brief war in which more than 600 Argentine an 255 British servicemen were kille. Britain s government sai last week it woul reinforce its military presence on the Falklans to counter the very live threat pose by Argentina. Argentina ismisses such talk as posturing ahea of upcoming British elections. N Korea fires five shortrange rockets into Yellow Sea in two ays Seoul, 4 April North Korea fire four short-range rockets into the Yellow Sea on Friay, a ay after firing a similar rocket towar the same area, South Korea s Joint Chiefs of Staff sai. The projectiles, believe to have a range of 140 kilometres, were fire between 4:15 pm an 5 pm from Dongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province, the JCS sai in a statement. The North Korean military fire the rockets apparently as a gesture of efiance against an annual US-South Korean military exercise that has been uner way since 2 March. The rill is scheule to run until 24 April. Kyoo News

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Ahram sai the bombs exploe in front of the Ahme Oraby school near the Imbaba police station. It sai bomb exports ha corone off the area an were searching for anymore explosives in the area. Most of the worst in a campaign of bomb attacks in Egypt have hit the Sinai peninsula, a remote but strategic region borering Gaza, Israel an the Suez Canal. But smaller blasts have become increasingly common in Cairo an other cities. Imbaba has been hit by similar incients before. In February, a bomb exploe outsie an Imbaba restaurant, killing one. An Egyptian militant group allie with Islamic State claime responsibility on Friay for attacks on military checkpoints which kille 15 soliers an two civilians in the Sinai. 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Weather report BAY INFERENCE: Weather is generally fair in the Anaman Sea an East Cental Bay an partly clouy elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal. FORECAST VALID UNTIL EVENING OF THE 5 th April, 2015: Rain or thunershowers are likely to be isolate in Upper Sagaing Region, Kachin, Chin an Rakhine (North) States an weather will be partly clouy in the remaining Regions an States. Degree of certainty is (60%). STATE OF THE SEA: Seas will be moerate in Myanmar waters. OUTLOOK FOR SUBSEQUENT TWO DAYS: Continuation of likelihoo of isolate rain or thunershowers in the Northern Myanmar areas. Tourists walk on the Bai Causeway at the West Lake in Hangzhou, capital city of east China s Zhejiang Province, on 4 April, Saturay was the first ay of three-ay-long holiay of Qingming Festival, or Tomb-sweeping Day. 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It poste a picture on its website showing three chilren lying next to each other with pieces of papers with the ate 3 March, 2015 written on them. coul not immeiately verify the authenticity of photo. No injuries in Germanwings plane emergency laning in Stuttgart an unknown efect of the plane aroun 11 am local time, some one hour after the Germanwings Flight 4U 814 boun for Venice took off from Cologne. The plane mae an emergency laning at Stuttgart Airport aroun ten minutes later, with noboy being hurt, the report sai, quoting the manager of the airport, Georg Funel. Funel sai it is being examine whether the passengers shoul switch to other Germanwings flights or the emergency laning aircraft can be repaire quickly.

14 14 Robert Pattinson, FKA Twigs engage? Los Angeles, 4 April Disney is working on a new aaptation of A A Milne s Winnie the Pooh (2017). The Mouse House is eveloping a live-action movie base on the chilren favourite story with inie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry ( Listen Up Philip ) on boar, reporte Ace Shhowbiz. The new story will follow an ault Christopher Robin as he revisits Hunre Acre Woo an reconnects with the iconic resients that inclue the titular bear, his best buy Piglet, Eeyore the onkey, Tigger, an Kanga the kan- Los Angeles, 4 April Twilight star Robert Pattinson is reportely engage to girlfrien FKA Twigs after just six months of ating. The couple exchange promise rings with each other last month, reporte Us magazine. I hear they were telling people they were promise rings, but I haven t seen Pattinson wearing one. They only tol a few people about the engagement. They ve been inseparable. He s planning on going to Coachella to support her. They ve been living together an he s been calling her his greatest love, a source sai. It was reporte in September 2014 that the Brimstone actor, 28, an the buzze-about British singer (real name: Tahliah Debrett Barnett), 27, were ating. PTI Twilight star Robert Pattinson & girlfrien FKA Twigs Ma Men star January Jones Tom Hary signe on for three more Ma Max movies Los Angeles, 4 April Hollywoo star Tom Hary will reprise his key role in the three upcoming films of the hit Ma Max franchise. In an interview with Esquire where he grace the cover for May issue, it is reveale the British hunk has inke a multi-picture eal to reprise his role in the franchise. He is expecte to play the titular role mae famous by Mel Gibson in the next three more instal- ments. Still, he plays it own as saying, Everything s base on figures an how things are perceive. Inevitably it s a business. The fourth entry in the franchise, Fury Roa is irecte by George Miller from the original movies. It will arrive Statesie on 15 May. Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, an Zoe Kravitz are among the cast. PTI Disney announces Winnie the Pooh live-action movie Disney is working on a new aaptation of A A Milne s Winnie the Pooh (2017). PTI garoo among others. The announcement comes after Disney reveale plan to revive Mulan in a live-action feature film. The stuio is also bringing Pete s Dragon to life with inie filmmaker Davi Lowery ( Ain t Them Boies Saints ) at the helm. Other upcoming Disney remakes inclue The Jungle Book from irector Jon Favreau, Beauty an the Beast (2017) from irector Bill Conon, an Dumbo from irector Tim Burton. They join Alice in Wonerlan, Maleficent, an Cinerella. PTI Hollywoo star Tom Hary will reprise his key role in the three upcoming films of the hit Ma Max franchise. PTI entertainment January Jones oesn t nee marriage Lonon, 4 April Ma Men star January Jones says marriage isn t important to her because she oes not nee the tax write-off. The 37-year-ol actress, who recently starte ating her The Last Men on Earth co-star Will Forte, insists she is not afrai of tying the knot, reporte Contactmusic. I think when I was younger I was keen on having marriage, kis an all that. But as I got into my late twenties an early thirties, all my ieals shifte an having a ocument to prove love wasn t really important to me. It s the relationships that were important, an I still think that way, she sai. But Jones amits she probably wouln t reject a proposal from the right man. I mean, if someone came along an was obsesse with marrying me, I woul think about that. But growing up, all my family was marrie an never really got ivorce, so marriage was a big eal, it was something you efinitely i, so it s not that I m afrai of it. I just on t nee the tax write-off. PTI Vin Diesel cemente his han, footprints in Hollywoo Boulevar Los Angeles, 4 April Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel was honoure at a ceremony in Hollywoo Boulevar. He was accompanie by his girlfrien an his chilren as he left his han an footprints, reporte Ace Showbiz. This 47-year-ol actor looke manly with navy suit he wore. He is the 282 n movie star to receive the exclusive honour. Before the cementing process, he gave a speech an elivere it with some jokes. Diesel, who was born Mark Sinclair Vincent on 18 July, 1967, cemente his han an footprints at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywoo. Not only his han an footprints that were cemente, but he also aske his chilren to put their fingers on the cement. Showing her support for the actor at the ceremony, his girlfrien Paloma Jimenez looke stunning in an all-white ress. She flaunte her figure although she ha just given birth to their thir chil, Pauline. PTI 34 th Istanbul Int l Film Festival hel in Turkey Turkish irector Suleyman Turan (2 n L) makes a speech at the opening ceremony of 34 th Istanbul International Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey on 3 April, Over 200 films from Turkey an aroun the worl, incluing Chinese movie The Golen Era, will be shown in the following 16 ays of 34 th Istanbul International Film Festival.

15 general Fire hits part of GE s Louisville facility, no injuries reporte Louisville, 4 April A huge fire rippe through a section of General Electric s (GE.N) Louisville, Kentucky facility use for warehousing an offices on Friay, forcing the giant inustrial park to shut own for at least the coming week, the company an union officials sai. The fire at GE Appliance Park has been containe, sai Kim Freeman, a GE spokeswoman. No one was injure in the blaze, accoring to company an city officials. Builing six a non-prouction builing which warehouses prouction parts an contains offices suffere extensive amage, accoring to the company spokeswoman. Smoke from the fire at GE s Appliance Park coul be seen more than 10 miles (16 km) away, an ebris was foun more than a halfmile away. Televise aerial footage showe a raging fire, ense ark smoke an collapse builing walls. France bans super-skinny moels in anorexia clampown Paris, 4 April France will ban excessively thin fashion moels an expose moelling agents an the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines an even jail, uner a new law passe on Friay. The move by France, with its fashion an luxury inustries worth tens of billions of euros, comes after a similar ban by Israel in 2013, while other countries, Nearly 200 firefighters battle a massive five-alarm fire at in builing six General Electric Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, on 3 April, GE evacuate the remaining builings in the 900-acre (365-hectare) complex, spokeswoman Kim Freeman sai. The fire was containe to the warehouse an office builing, where no prouction took place, she ae. The fire will force the park, which serves as heaquarters for the company s appliance ivision, to be shut for at least a week, a union official sai. GE sai that an alternate space for the Builing 6 warehousing operations has been ientifie an it oes not anticipate any isruption for customers. The Louisville Zoo, locate nearby, was close ue to the fire as well as heavy rains. Smoke clous came irectly over the zoo, an we are making sure the animals an staff are safe an putting animals insie for the ay, sai Louisville Zoo spokeswoman Kyle Shepher. They nee to make sure everything s safe, sai Dana Crittenon, presient of IUE-CWA Local which represents factory workers at Appliance Park. Unite striker Van Persie not reay for Manchester erby Lonon, 4 April Manchester Unite forwar Robin van Persie is unlikely to be fit for the Premier League erby match against Manchester City later this month, manager Louis van Gaal sai on Friay. like Italy an Spain, rely on voluntary coes of conuct to protect moels. The measure is part of a campaign against anorexia by Presient Francois Hollane s government. Lawmakers also mae it illegal to conone anorexia an sai any re-touche photo that alters the boily appearance of a moel for commercial purposes must carry a message stating it ha The 31-year-ol has misse the last five games with an ankle problem suffere in the 2-1 efeat at Swansea City on 21 February. The Dutchman has alreay been rule out of this Saturay s league game been manipulate. The activity of moel is banne for any person whose Boy Mass Inex (BMI) is lower than levels propose by health authorities an ecree by the ministers of health an labour, the legislation says. The lawmaker behin the bill previously sai moels woul have to present a meical certificate showing a BMI of at least 18, about at home to Aston Villa an aske if he woul be fit to face City on 12 April, Van Gaal sai: I on t think so. The process has to give me signals he is reay for that but I know that from my experience it is not like Manchester Unite s Robin van Persie (R) scores his team s thir goal from a penalty uring their English Premier League soccer match against Burnley at Ol Traffor in Manchester, northern Englan on 11 February, kg (121 lb) for a height of 1.75 metres (5.7 feet), before being hire for a job an for a few weeks afterwars. The law, vote through the lower house of parliament by Hollane s Socialist majority espite opposition by conservative parliamentarians, envisages imprisonment of up to six months an a fine of 75,000 euros ($82,000) for any agency contravening it. that. Van Gaal earlier tol MUTV that Van Persie was recovering along with left back Luke Shaw, who has been out with a hamstring injury. Robin is coming back on the (training) pitch an Luke Shaw has alreay ha a week on there but match rhythm is very important, sai Van Gaal. You cannot compare a player who has been out for four or five weeks to those that have sufficient match rhythm. Van Gaal explaine later in his news conference: We have a process for injure players in the meical epartment, they then go to a football coach for tests an then to me. 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16 2 n Waning Day of Tagu 1376 ME Djokovic an Murray to meet again in Miami final Miami, 4 April Worl number one Novak Djokovic will face Britain s Any Murray in the final of the Miami Open for a thir time on Sunay after the pair triumphe in their semi-finals. The pair have one win each against each other at Miami but Djokovic will be looking for a repeat of his Australian Open win over the Scot an to improve his 17-8 career recor against him. Thir see Murray elivere a controlle an precise performance to beat Czech Tomas Berych 6-4, 6-4 while Djokovic face greater resistance in the form of big-serving American John Isner but still won 7-6(3), 6-2. The first set was onserve throughout but the Serb emerge victorious from the tie-break an never looke back. The four-times Miami champion broke twice early in the secon to open up a 4-1 lea an from then on the match was out of Isner s reach. The big-serving American was unable to create a Any Murray celebrates after his match against Tomas Berych in a men s singles semi-final on ay twelve of the Miami Open at Cranon Park Tennis Centre, Key Biscayne, FL, USA on 3 April, Murray won 6-4, 6-4. single break point in the game but the 29-year-ol, ranke 24 th in the worl, will be encourage by his run to the last four. It is always tough to play someone who serves that well, at times it is frustrating, sai Djokovic. It is important to hang in there mentally, be patient an make him play. I put a lot of pressure on his secon serves, move him aroun the court an always mae him play an extra shot. I am please with my performance. Earlier, in bright sunlight an Floriian heat, Murray broke Berych early in both sets an looke in charge throughout, winning 80 percent of first-serve points while registering four service breaks. Berych mae a break in each set himself but with Murray s efence strong an the Scot making few errors, the Czech was unable to overtake him. The Scot feels comfortable at Miami where he won in 2009 an 2013 an lost to Djokovic in the 2012 final. Murray spens his off-season practice time on the staium court at the Cranon Park Tennis Centre an has clearly acclimatise to the heat an humiity. I ve obviously playe some goo tennis here over the years. The reason for that is because I m extremely familiar with the conitions, with the surface, the way the court plays, he sai. There are little things in the court that maybe players that haven t playe on it that much won t really know. Because I practice on it all the time, I know how the ball bounces in certain areas an which serves work into certain spots on the court an how the ball respons off ifferent spins. So that s why I feel comfortable on it, he sai. Mari, 4 April Atletico Mari mifieler Saul Niguez has recovere from a painful blow to the kineys an will start for the champions in Saturay s La Liga game at bottom sie Coroba, coach Diego Simeone sai on Friay. Saul sustaine the injury in the Champions League efeat at Bayer Leverkusen at the en of February an ha to remain behin in Germany for treatment after the game. He is in very goo shape, Simeone sai of the 20-year-ol Spaniar. He is an important player for us an we have always sai that, the Argentine tol reporters. Hopefully, tomorrow he can return in the same state as he left us in Germa- Milesbrough go top after Bamfor scores again Lonon, 4 April Milesbrough s on-loan Chelsea striker Patrick Bamfor nette his 15 th league goal of the season to help the secon-tier promotion chasers top the Championship table with a 1-0 home win over Wigan Athletic on Friay. Aitor Karanka s Milesbrough have 75 points, one ahea of Bournemouth who rew 1-1 at Ipswich Town, an two in front of thir-place Norwich City after the Canaries won 1-0 at Brighton an Hove Albion thanks to Braley Johnson s secon-half goal. Watfor are fourth, on the same tally of 73 points as Norwich but with an inferior goal ifference, after rawing 2-2 in a topsy-turvy encounter at sixth-place Derby County. Brentfor are fifth on 69 points after romping to a 4-1 victory at Lonon neighbours Fulham. Ipswich an Wolverhampton Wanerers are a further point back in seventh an eighth respectively, on the same points as Derby. There are six games left in the season. The top two go up to the Premier League an the next four teams battle it out in the playoffs for one remaining promotion slot. Milesbrough striker Bamfor will hope to have caught Jose Mourinho s eye at his more illustrious parent club Chelsea after scoring his fifth goal in their last six league games to take his season s tally to 17 in all competitions. The Englan uner-21 striker foun the bottom corner with an effort from outsie the penalty area in the 20 th minute after being tee up by Jelle Vossen. Bournemouth, who were top of the table at the start of the ay, went behin at Ipswich following a sixth-minute goal by Freie Sears but substitute Kenwyne Saul to return for Atletico at Coroba Jones score on his ebut to level with eight minutes to go. Norwich, relegate from the Premier League last season, helpe their chances of an immeiate return with Johnson scoring his 11 th goal of the season at Brighton just past the hour mark. Matej Vyra put Watfor 1-0 up at Derby but the hosts hit back through Darren Bent, with a penalty, an Tom Ince. The visitors ha efener Marco Motta sent off in the 47 th minute for tripping Johnny Russell in the box an giving away the spot kick before Oion Ighalo earne them a share of the spoils with an equaliser 15 minutes from time. Two goals from Stuart Dallas an late efforts from Alan Juge an Jota helpe Brentfor to a thumping win over Fulham. Benik Afobe an Bakary Sako (penalty) grabbe secon-half goals for Wolves who hel off a late Forest rally to win 2-1 at the City Groun. Milesbrough s Patrick Bamfor (R) scores past Manchester City s Fernano Reges uring their English FA Cup 4 th roun soccer match at the Etiha Staium in Manchester, northern Englan on 24 Jan, ny, where he was participating very well. He gets into very goo scoring positions, works well in the mile, knows what we want from him an is very competitive. We nee his talents an tomorrow we hope he can respon in the way he was before he got injure. A win for fourth-place Atletico in Analucia woul lift them above Valencia into Spain s thir automatic Champions League berth an close the gap on secon-place Real Mari to two points. Valencia host sixthplace Villarreal on Sunay, when leaers Barcelona, four points clear of Real at the top, are at Celta Vigo an Real host Granaa. Atletico Mari s Saul Niguez (L) celebrates after scoring a goal at the Vicente Caleron staium in Mari on 7 Feb, Li Na in contention for Laureus awar Shanghai, 4 April Retire Chinese tennis star Li Na will be up against Serena Williams in a six-woman fiel for sportswoman of the year in the Laureus Worl Sports Awars. The other nominees are Valerie Aams, Marit Bjorgen, Genzebe Dibaba an Tina Maze. In the men s fiel, Real Mari star Cristiano Ronalo will compete against number one golfer Rory McIlroy an Formula One motor racing champion Lewis Hamilton. Also in the race are tennis worl number one Novak Djokovic an Worl MotoGP title-holer Marc Marquez, as well as France s Renau Lavillenie, who broke a 21-year-ol worl recor for the pole vault last year. Ronalo s club, Spain s Real Mari, is in the running for team of the year, together with the German men s team which won the FIFA Worl Cup, European Ryer Cup team, Mercees AMG Petronas Formula One team, NBA s San Antonio Spurs an Switzerlan Davis Cup team. The winners will be announce at the awars ceremony in Shanghai on 15 April. Eitorial Section (+95) (01) , Fax (01) Avertisement & Circulation ( +95) (01) gnlmaily@gmail.com R/489 Printe an publishe at the Global New Light of Myanmar Printing Factory at No. 150, Nga Htat Kyee Pagoa Roa, Bahan Township, Yangon, by the Global New Light of Myanmar Daily.