DOMESTIC NEWS: Develop national awareness...Senior General Than Shwe felicitates Iranian President...Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, wife Daw Mya Mya San attend 9th Buddha Pujaniya Festival, rice offering ceremony of Maha Shwesigyi Pagoda in Kanbalu...Yangon-Mandalay market vessel leaves on 19 Feb...Foreign Minister felicitates Iranian counterpart...Bravia LCD TV available...Fujitsu introduces world?s first Air-Deodoriser...ICT Exhibition 2009 on 12 Feb...Those from US and British Embassies visited NLD (Headquarters) 28 times in January...Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, wife Daw Mya Mya San visit eye patients at Kanbalu Township People?s Hospital...Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects regional development tasks in Sagaing Division...Vice-Senior General Maung Aye sends message of felicitations to Iranian Vice-President..... "PERSPECTIVES": "National unity, essential for perpetuation of the Union".....FEATURE: "DEVELOPMENT OF KAYIN STATE IN THE TIME OF TATMADAW GOVERNMENT".....ARTICLES: "Union and amicable relations" Yan Gyi Aung ["...All national races remained united in repulsing the alien invasion of the motherland in the successive periods. They immersed themselves in the drive for unifying the nation into the First, Second and Third Myanmar empires that attracted respects and admiration from neighbouring countries..."]..."Kayah State gets Technological University (Loikaw)-- Education is essential for expanding the horizons of the people".....POEM: "Panglong the soul of Myanmar"