ELECTION: Applications to set up political parties scrutinized, passed...Union Election Commission Meeting 24/2010 held..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Vessel Bawa Thit launched to perform educative works on storm and earthquake...Information Minister inspects self-reliant libraries...STI Education to open CBME and DBM courses...Information Minister facilitates TV re-transmission station in Sagaing...MWEA holds Annual General Meeting...Only 23 bomb blast victims under treatment...Mandalay, Magway Divisions witness development...Free eye operation performed in Nay Pyi Taw General Hospital...The significant day temperatures..... "PERSPECTIVES":"Invest in factories"..... ARTICLES: "Growing quality paddy strains for boosting per-acre yield" Article: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)..."Remain vigilant against fire" Article: Win Myint (Insein)