DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attend rice and alms donation ceremony for monasteries in PyinOoLwin Township...Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Mandalay celebrate New Year...Shwedagon Pagoda holds consecration ceremony...Parittas recited in Nay Pyi Taw to be free from various dangers in New Year...Sayadaws recite Parittas at environs of Nay Pyi Taw by helicopter...Shweli Hydropower plant to be open soon...Prime Minister General Thein Sein calls on Philippine President...Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends Informal Working Dinner of heads of State/Government of ASEAN countries...Prime Minister General Thein Sein arrives in Pattaya, Thailand...State-owned factories to place emphasis on manufacturing quality products - Senior General Than Shwe visits Kyaukse Industrial Region...Cyclone Bijli not heading towards Myanmar coastal region..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Join hands with the government and strive for IT development"..... ARTICLE: "New moves for peace" Kyaw Ye Min ["The people are very pleased to hear good news stories since the run-up to the Myanmar New Year. One of them is that Saw Nay Soe Mya with the rank of captain, son of late chairman Saw Bo Mya of KNU/KNLA and members returned to the legal fold, that really added to a prosperous future of the nation...The entire people deeply wish the KNU remnant members to return to the legal fold for ensuring peace, stability and progress of Kayin State..."]