DOMESTIC NEWS: Preparedness Counts - Power of youths to be used for disaster preparedness...People donate blood to celebrate State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?s 71st birthday...MR reduces freight service fees between Mandalay - Myitkyina...Human traffickers target IDP camps in Laiza...Man found dead in Sittwe...Two injured in car crash...Ownerless teak seized in Kyankhin...Blaze destroys home...Woman dies in crop plantation...List of vacant land within Yangon?s industrial zones to be submitted to regional government...NLD youth activists organise rally in support of new Panglong Peace Conference...MPE issues licenses on gratis to over sixty Mon State commercial gas stores...Three body builders crowned at Yangon contest...MoALI to reduce taxes on vessels operating on Ayeyawady, Chindwin rivers...K100 million fund established by BFM for disaster preparedness in Rakhine..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Human traffickers target IDP camps in Laiza...State Counsellor to pay official visit to Thailand...UN special rapporteur on human rights arrives in Yangon...French delegation tours Yangon...Special tariff causes splinters for timber merchants...India may soon grow pulses in Mozambique and Myanmar...Restoration proposal for Judson?s First Baptist Church to be submitted to American Embassy..... "OPINION": "Better off cheerleaders than onlookers" - Kyaw Thura.....ARTICLE: "The Festival of Religious Examination in Nayon" - Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt.....PEOPLE?S FORUM: "Concession for the long run" - Khun Htee Min Deputy Director Speaker?s Office Pyithu Hluttaw Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar