DOMESTIC NEWS: Tasks of Uppatasanti Pagoda to Pagoda Board of Trustees for systematically carrying out tasks for long term maintenance - Secretary-1 attends coordination meeting on Uppatasanti Pagoda of Nay Pyi Taw...Progress of Yatanarpon Myothit Project inspected...International Day of the Cooperatives observed...Mandalay Natural Disaster Management Committee meets...Well-wishers donate US$ 60000 for Labutta Youth Training School...Stationery, cash provided to basic education schools in Myaing Tsp...Sales of mobile phone directory on 15 July...New building of Myawady Bank Ltd (Pyawbwe) opened...Preventive and control measures against A(H1N1) being taken...Running of trains commences at new Nay Pyi Taw Railway Station..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Fullmoon Day of Waso, a day of extraordinary virtue"..... ARTICLES: "Waso begins Buddhist Lent" Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt..."Waso Memoirs" Ma Hmwe