DOMESTIC NEWS: Developing in Unity: "Our national races have lived as a nuclear family, going through all the adversity and prosperity. With these fine traditions and high cultural standard, they consolidated themselves as a people in the simple and single term ?Myanmar”." - Senior General Than Shwe Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (From the message sent on the occasion of 58th Anniversary Union Day)...Secretary-1 and wife attend Myanma Motion Picture Outstanding Award (Academy) presentation ceremony for 2008 - All parties, politicians and general people will have to act by serving national interest although they may have different ideologies - Choose persons and organizations worthy of trust for peace, stability and progress of the future based on past lessons and present sizable peace, stability and development...Special refresher course No. 16 for faculty members concludes...Tamway BEHS No. 1 to pay MNA respects to old teachers...Dy Construction Minister supervises Pathein-Monywa Road...World Leprosy Day observed..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Extensively grow tea and perennial crops for regional development"..... ARTICLES: Hailing the 63rd Anniversary Union Day: "Peace and stability in the Union leads to all-round development of Zwegabin Land" Article: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA); Photos: Tha Nyan (MNA)..."New nation of national races with consolidated unity" Kyaw Min Khaung.....POEM: "Lest we foret Union Day": ["In the cold season mist Scenic was the Panglong * Agenda was Myanmar future A desire for Independence * Kith and kin Meeting in amity * Descendents of same family..."].....CARTOON: "Words of strangers and blood kin" ["...In emergency, only the blood kin are reliable..."]