DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attend ceremony to offer meals to State Ovadaçariya Sayadaws, SSMNC member Sayadaws, title recipient Sayadaws...17th Military Band Competition concludes successfully...MGEA executive committee meets...Those from US and British embassies visited NLD (Headquarters) 21 times in February...AGM of UMFCCI on 30 March...Fifty houses for storm victims in Bogale...Industry-1 Ministry holds market festivals...ITBMU to open foreign language courses, computer courses in April...Hlawga Park to open on 10 March...Cookery course on 19 March...Entertainments to mark rites of Uppatasanti Pagoda go on...Kaung Myat Myanmar Amateur Open Golf Championship continues...104 fires broke out in February...Uppatasanti Pagoda hosts a grand religious ceremony..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Strive with added momentum in the fight against narcotic drugs"..... ARTICLES: "Auspicious ceremony for hoisting of the sacred golden umbrella atop Uppatasanti Pagoda and the great grand Religious Title-Presentation ceremony of 2009 in Nay Pyi Taw" Ba Sein (Religious Affairs)..."Pyaingchaung Dam irrigating 5,000 acres of summer paddy and other crops for development and greening in Kyauktaw Township" Article: Kyaw Sein; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)