HLUTTAW SESSIONS: Third regular session of first Pyithu Hluttaw continues for 16th day...Third regular session of first Amyotha Hluttaw continues for 16th day Two bills approved...Third day?s session of the third regular meeting of the first Thaninthayi Region Hluttaw held...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw continues for 22nd day - nvironmental Conservation Bill, Vacant, Fellow and Virgin Land Management Bill, 2011 Farmland Bill approved..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: President U Thein Sein attends ceremony to honour specialists who had made field trips to Nay Pyi Taw Council Area to provide free medical treatment...DY Construction Minister inspects Pyay-Paukkhaung- Toungoo road...Special Appellate Court hears...Sanitation carried out at mote in Mandalay Nanmyo...Expectant mothers, children vaccinated...Cash donated for pilgrimage of Insein Township WJA...Work-coordination meeting on reviewing of 49th Myanma Gems Emporium held...CASH DONATED [photo]...Myittabyuha to donate blood for 115th time...Natural Disaster Mitigation Training Course No. 3/2012 opened...In-charge DG visits matriculation exam centers in Dagon Myothit (North)..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister for Information and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan addresses Conference on Media Development in Myanmar...NGOs & INGOs Affairs Committee meets...XXVII SEA Games preparations explained to domestic media...23rd ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group Meeting held...Union Education Minister meets Japanese guests...MFF plans to observe fish and prawn breeding in Vietnam...Kite Beauty and Kite Fighting Contests 3-8 April...Summer youth cultural course opens...Invitational photo contest to mark International Year of Cooperatives 2012...Fire breaks out in Kalay...Road users need awareness of traffic accident..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Towards an equal society for all genders"..... ARTICLES: "Health infrastructures built in Shan State to provide health care services to local national races in the region" Archive: Maung Nyein Aye..."Yellow leaves" Tin Maung Than..."Saya Zawana?s words" Than Daing Kaung (Meiktila)