DOMESTIC NEWS: Auspicious and historic Day...Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing host Union Day commemorative reception and dinner...62nd Anniversary Union Day marked in Yangon...194 drug-related cases exposed in January...Splendida Furnishings Gallery opened...Roundtable Talks on Supply Chain & Value Chain on 15 Feb...Strong earthquake jolts outside of Myanmar...Lt-Gen Myint Swe visits ICT Exhibition-2009...Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects bridge construction in Mon State...Energy Minister meets Russian Ambassador...MNMA Plenary meeting slated on 18 Feb...Winners of MCTT 2009 awarded...Self-reliant libraries opened...Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends opening of Gems Museum (Nay Pyi Taw)...Nay Pyi Taw observes 62nd Anniversary Union Day..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Work hard together for perpetuity of the Union".....ARTICLE: "Work hard together to transform consolidated Union into modern, developed discipline-flourishing democratic nation" Ngar Min Swe.....POEM: "The strength of Union".....FEATURE: "DEVELOPMENT OF MON STATE IN THE TIME OF TATMADAW GOVERNMENT"