DOMESTIC NEWS: First national volunteer work camp aims to raise youth empowerment...Festival at Kyauktawgyi Pagoda crowded with pilgrims, visitors...Wellwishers donate foods, meals and snacks to poor people...Gardeners satisfy flower demand of people...Hsimeekhon Port, Myotha Industrial Park projects gaining momentum...Experience shared to faculty members at University of Economics...Library ready to serve broadening scope of people...Performing Arts Competitions kick off in Yangon East District...Deputy Information Minister on inspection tour of townships in Magway Region...Harvest of monsoon paddy demonstrated on model plot...Myitson-Mandalar trains to run on Mandalay-Myitkyina railroad...Fire brigade refreshes skills of firefighers...Supplies donated the aged in Kani...Champion Yangon Region women?s football team honoured...Performing arts competitions kick off in west and north districts of Yangon...Milk gruel fed to primary students.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice President meets Vice Chairman of CPPCC...MNPED announces rules for doing business in Thilawa SEZ...Speaker of Pyudaungsu Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw arrives in Rome...Myanmar hopes for opening of wholesale shops of vegetables...WMF shares techniques for maintenance of Myanan Sankyaw Golden Palace...Mandalay International Trade Show and Automobile Sales attract Mandalarians...Victorious Sepak Takraw team arrives back home....."PERSPECTIVES": "Land is life of peasant farmers as well as country" by Myint Win Thein.....ARTICLE: "Concrete Jungle or Concrete wood?" Tommy Pauk.