ELECTION: "Participate in building a new nation" ["Perspectives"]..."Let?s welcome free and fair general elections on 7th November 2010" Tin Myint (Shwepyitha) [Article]..."Grandpa, what are the advantages and disadvantages if the people boycott the election and if it does not take place resulting in nonexistence of the Hluttaw?" - "The opportunity to discuss freely and frankly in the Hluttaw will be wasted, there will be no check and balance and the people will then lose democratic rights, granddaughter" - "I see!" Ye Htet [Cartoon]... "The fifth step" ["...At the fifth step Let?s show our strength Multiparty elections We are ready to partake For a new system To be firm and perfect Let?s go en masse And cast votes" Maung Thin Pyant (Kyaikhtaw)(Trns)][Poem]..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Prime Minister attends 8th ASEAN-India Summit, 5th East Asia Summit, 2nd ASEAN-Russia Summit, ASEAN-Australia Summit, ASEAN-New Zealand Commemorative Summit...Foreign Affairs Minister U Nyan Win attends 17th ASEAN Summit and related summits...Rehabilitation works carried out in storm-hit regions of Sittway District...Prime Minister U Thein Sein calls on Vietnamese President...Prime Minister U Thein Sein receives Chairman of Viet Tel Corporation...Prime Minister U Thein Sein receives UN Secretary-General...Prime Minister U Thein Sein meets President of Philippines...Prime Minister U Thein Sein arrives back in Nay Pyi Taw...Embassy staff pay respects to Prime Minister...NPED Minister discusses economic matters at 17th ASEAN Summit and related meetings...Healthcare provided to storm-hit Rakhine State...Industry-2 Minister supervises relief work in Kyaukpyu...Prime Minister U Thein Sein attends concluding of 17th ASEAN Summit..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Participate in building a new nation"..... ARTICLE: "Let?s welcome free and fair general elections on 7th November 2010" Tin Myint (Shwepyitha).....CARTOON: "Grandpa, what are the advantages and disadvantages if the people boycott the election and if it does not take place resulting in nonexistence of the Hluttaw?" - "The opportunity to discuss freely and frankly in the Hluttaw will be wasted, there will be no check and balance and the people will then lose democratic rights, granddaughter" - "I see!" Ye Htet.....POEM: "The fifth step" ["...At the fifth step Let?s show our strength Multiparty elections We are ready to partake For a new system To be firm and perfect Let?s go en masse And cast votes" Maung Thin Pyant (Kyaikhtaw)(Trns)]