DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe sends felicitations to Austria; Prime Minister Lt-Gen Soe Win sends felicitations to Republic of Austria; Yangon-Kyaukphyu road, invaluable land route for over 300,000 people of Kyaukphyu, Yanbye townships - Londawpauk Bridge inaugurated in Rakhine State; Presiding Sayadaw of Twantay Nyaung Waing Kyaungtaik passes away; Doh-Kyeywa (Our Village) Journal in circulation; Final of Eighth Minister for Home Affairs? Championship Shield Volleyball Tourney held; Junior World Ranking Tennis Tournament begins; Seminar on Pre-primary Network to be held; Factories under Ministry of Industry-2 inspected; Donations for Theravada Buddhist Missionary Monastery in Paris; Agricultural tasks inspected in Lashio; Chairman of CSSTB receives Japanese Ambassador; C.T. Scanner donated to hospital; Foreign Minister sends felicitations to Austria; Functions of Development Affairs Department inspected; Myanmar Furniture Fair-2004 goes on; Text books donated to schools in Hlaingthaya; Performing Arts Competitions Work Committee chairman and sub-committee members, managers meet; Mahosadha Marionette Contest continues; Ministry of Information offers ‘soon? to monks; Hlawga Park kept open on Full moon day of Thadingyut; Prize Presentation Ceremony of Bagan Open Golf Championship held; Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions continue; Kyansitmin (King Kyansitt) Film penetrates foreign market; UNION OF MYANMAR MINISTRY OF RAIL TRANSPORTATION MYANMA RAILWAYS INVITATION TO SEALED TENDER... "PERSPECTIVES": "For the sake of national and public interests" (page 2).