DOMESTIC NEWS: President attends ceremony at Maha Thakyayanthi Buddha image...Toungoo celebrates 505th anniversary...Outstanding B.Ed graduate of Sagaing wins gold medal...Yangonites enjoy festivities on fullmoon day of Tazaungmon...Locals flock to capital?s pagodas...Journalists association to pay respects to senior journalists...Myanmar?s first stock market to open on 9 December...Kathina robes offered to senior monks...Pyawbwe residents receive needed electricity...MCDC constructing low-income housing...Faculty members of Mandalay University?s Geology Department honoured...Villagers receive commercial fruit production training...MCDC organises risk assessment for city workshop...Upgrade of RC roads in Ngathainggyoung...Local farmers instructed on use of combine harvesters in Aunglan Tsp..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar still ranked third in landmine casualty tally: report...Government donates robes to Myanmar monks in India...Japanese business hotel opens in Yangon...Vice-Senior General Soe Win meets Thai Minister of Defence...Myanmar?s first stock market to open on 9 December...Hot-air balloon tourists fly over Mandalay City..... OPINION: "Moderate nationalism must reign supreme" - Kyaw Thura.....ARTICLE: "When cancer strikes a child" - Jessica Mudditt.