DOMESTIC NEWS: Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to Senior General Than Shwe...Golf friendly to mark Independence Day held...MBA undergraduates, graduates to hold get-together...Foreign Heads of Government send messages of felicitations to Myanmar Prime Minister...YIEPHS holds annual meeting, prize presentation ceremony...EC of Myanmar Gold Entrepreneurs Association holds meeting...Geotechnical Engineering Course on 15 January...Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin visits Ngwechi-6 long staple cotton purchase centres...Commander attends opening ceremony of Yangon Expo' 2010...EP-1 Ministry, DUHD sign MoU on Hydropower projects...Special criminal appeal cases heard...Officials of MWEA leave for India...Significant night temperature (8-1-2010)..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Make earnest efforts to become military medical personnel with physical and mental strength"..... ARTICLES: "Socio-economic life of farmers in Danubyu Township improving" Byline & Photos: Tin Win Lay (Kyimyindine)..."Kyaik-hti-yoe, a pagoda on the hermit?s head" Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt..."Nay Pyi Taw Pobbathiri Township turns increasing attention to Ngwechi (6) long staple cotton" Byline: Nyi Nyi Tun (MNA); Photos: Htein Nan Naw (MNA)