DOMESTIC NEWS: Farmers blame jade mining for dangerous dump soil...Public Health Department to give children polio vaccinations...Cash assistance provided to senior war veterans...Library, dormitories under construction at Taunggyi Buddhist University...Myanmar to set up airport authority...MOH to launch mass polio vaccination campaign in Dec...Old Students pay respect to retired teachers at Myanaung BEHS...Model plot of Palethwe paddy yields about 200 baskets per acre...67th Mingalar and Buddhist cultural exam arranged by YMBA...Irrigation Department at work on breaches of Ngawun Dam...North Okkalapa fire kills girl of nine...Student basketball tournament held in Mandalay..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Death Railway Museum to open by April...Yangon circular trains popular with tourists - Ko Moe...Union minister attends 15th ASEAN Communications and Information Ministerial Meeting...Union minister attends opening ceremony of Hitachi Soe Company...42nd SSEAYP leaves Yangon..... OPINION: "The lynchpin of good governance" - Kyaw Thura.....ARTICLES: "Solving the Garbage Disposal Problems" - Khin Maung Myint..."Moments of serenity and panic at the Tazaungdaing Light Festival" Alec James Wilmot