DOMESTIC NEWS: 1. Active participation of related ministries, local authorities in implementing factory project (Thabaung) stressed - Prime Minister inspects 200-ton pulp mill project (Thabaung); 2. Development of township depends on efficiency and perseverance of officials playing leading role in the area - Prime Minister calls on departmental officials to make field trips down to rural areas to fulfil requirements; 3. Mingaladon Township BEHS No 1 gets multimedia teaching centre; 4. Secretary-2 attends fertilizing of Hsinshweli paddy with pollen in Shan State (North); 5. Secretary-2 underscores two main important tasks for perpetuation of Union; 6. Lt-Gen Ye Myint inspects construction of Taungyay Dam in Kyaukpadaung Township; 7. Lt-Gen Ye Myint inspects tasks being carried out to irrigate Meiktila plain; 8. Work Committee for Ensuring Emergence of Myanmar Copyright meets; 9. Coord meeting to give lectures to Myanmar entrepreneurs held; 10. Information Minister receives Israeli Ambassador; 11. Information Minister receives Malaysian guests; 12. Malaysians explain MEASAT-3:A satellite; 13. Minister receives Japanese Ambassador; 14. Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs leaves for Singapore; 15. Alternate chairmen of National Convention plenary session meet; 16. Mid-year Myanma Gems Emporium to be held; 17. State/Division participants to 12th Performing Arts Competitions arrive; 18. Opening ceremony of 12th Performing Arts Competitions to be telecast live; 19. UNODC confirms steady reduction in opium cultivation in Myanmar; 20. 2004 Myanmar Opium Survey-Results at a Glance ... "PERSPECTIVES": "Bring honour to the nation through sports". (page 2)