DOMESTIC NEWS: The palm of peace: Current signatories set to extend truce offer to non-signatories...White ballot paper sections will appear yellow at polls: UEC...Tatkon residents pay respect to senior citizens...Mandalay holds diabetes prevention talks...GI Group launches Myawady- Yangon-Mandalay-Muse express bus route...Chinlone skills demonstration marks successful completion of rice offering...Workshop focuses on voting process for voters with disabilities...Township MCWA provides uniforms to members...President inspects development tasks in Rakhine State...85 more Myanmar fishermen arrive home...Tatmadawmen must take ethnics into account, abide by rules of UEC...Employers to assist staff in voting this Sunday...Police launch investigation into bus attack...Yangon-Mandalay express train to take only 12 hours by 2016...Traditional medicine, health services provided to locals of Ottarathiri Tsp...Mandalay Ward election sub-commissions handing out voter identity slips...Demonstration at No 9 long staple cotton field in Chauk...Township residents support ceasefire agreement..... "OPINION": "What the end of politics would be like?" by Myint Win Thein..... ARTICLE: "Hotels can accommodate increasing number of tourists" by Ko Moe..... POEM: "History is a fiction" by Saikat Kumar Basu