DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe sends message of felicitations to French President...Attention to be paid to durability and neatness of Namhsan People?s hospital to promote health care services of local people - Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects development undertakings of Namhsan...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded...Yadanabon FC bestowed with great honour...Foreign Minister sends message of felicitations to French counterpart...Mandalay Mayor inspects sinking of tube well, water works, growing of shady trees...Course on General Banking Services opened...231 drug-related cases exposed in June...Monsoon collective tree planting ceremony of the Ministry of Industry-2 held...A&I Minister calls for boosting crop production in Pyawbwe, Mandalay Division...Hindus to perform meritorious deeds on 2 Aug...Transport Minister inspects Dalla Dockyard...Aung Zeya Bridge inaugurated in Mandalay...Stake driven for MTPA office in Nay Pyi Taw...Management course No 5 for officers opened at CICS (Phanuggyi)...Magway Division Chairman inspects regional development tasks in Gangaw Tsp...C-in-C (Air)?s Championship Shield Chess Contest ends...Talk on Scientific Study and Postgraduate Attributes held...Prime Minister General Thein Sein felicitates French counterpart...Elderly doctors to undergo medical check-up...Respect paying ceremony of Yangon Institute of Education Practising School on 26 July... "PERSPECTIVES": "Export more marketable products through regular trade"..... ARTICLES: "Exercising and welcoming cooperation (1)" Maung Hmat [About the UNSG's visit]..."Largest tea processing factory in Shan State (North) creating jobs for local people" Article: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)