"Puja ca pujaneyyanam, to honour those worthy of honour; this is the way to auspiciousness"... DOMESTIC NEWS: 1. The 26th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry and the Fourth Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three opened; 2. Cooperatives Minister inspects Yangon Cooperative Degree College; 3. Workshop on Development of Strategies for Water, Environmental Sanitation & Hygience opened; 4. Use of CNG engines in place of diesel engines demonstrated; 5. Applications invited to MMU, MAEU; 6. Dagon BEHS No 1 donates books, periodicals to self-reliant libraries; 7. Coord meeting for Five Countries Trade Fair held; 8. Special storm report; 9. A&I Minister receives officials of FAO and IRRI; 10. 26th Meeting of ASEAN Ministers for Agriculture and Forestry commences; 11. Deputy Ministers arrive for 4th AMAF+3; 12. Ambassador U Soe Myint accredited to Turkey; 13. Commerce Deputy Minister back from Vietnam; 14. Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe meets MCWA members of model villages in Kyauktan Township; 15. Myanmar to vie with Vietnam (B) for trophy in ASEAN Women's Soccer Tourney; 16. Myanmar women's team third in Women's Invitational Sepak Takraw Tourney; 17. Myanmar and Thailand discuss cooperation in drug elimination... "PERSPECTIVES": "Boost production of finished wood products" (Page 2)... FEATURES: "The real image of colonialism and misuse of new technologies" (Page 7); "When will TB be eradicated?" (Page 11).