DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe Four political objectives sends message of felicitations to Emperor of Japan; Prime Minister General Thein Sein felicitates Japanese counterpart; Lt-Gen Myint Swe awards championship trophy to Yangon Command team in Tatmadaw Football Tournament; Minister inspects factory projects; MMCWA raises awareness of reproductive health in youths; Foreign Minister sends message of felicitations to Japanese counterpart; Deputy Minister for Labour meets industrial zone management committees and entrepreneurs; Yangon Command Commander attends opening of workshop on road safety; Commander asks after cleft lip and palate patients in Monywa People?s Hospital; With belief NC can grant genuine democracy NLD?s acts unacceptable - 72 NLD members of Ayadaw quit; Home Affairs Minister meets personnel in Toungoo, Mawlamyine; Electric Power No 2 Minister meets personnel in Sittway; Young man stabbed to death in Mingala Taungnyunt Tsp; Nay Pyi Taw Command Commander on inspection tour of hilly regions in East Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana; FAO Senior Adviser and party tour of Kengtung; District News in Brief; Personnel urged to ensure durability of libraries; Minister visits Tikyit Coalfired Steam Turbine; Objectives of the 60th Anniversary Independence Day; Significant night temperatures... "PERSPECTIVES": "Emergence of more river-crossing bridges improves people?s socio-economic life".