DOMESTIC NEWS: Consolidated people ["With the fine traditions and high cultural standards, the national races consolidated themselves as a people in the simple and single term 'Myanmar'."]...Secretary-1 attends ceremony to present Myanmar Motion Picture Outstanding Award (Academy Award) for 2007 -- Movie professionals should be supporters of national interest...Lt-Gen Tha Aye on inspection tour of Mon State...Kanebo's rainbow in the rain programme to be held...31st ISD Team Golf Championship ends...Leprosy Elimination Day observed...Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends MFF 10th annual meeting, Myanma Maritime Products Market Festival...Indian Vice-President and wife leave for Mandalay...First special sales promotion and fun fair (2009) on 12-14 Feb...Educative talk on 6th Leprosy Elimination Day held...Mo Asia Co. Ltd (Dumex) donates milk powder, nutritious powder...Mountaineering group successfully scale Saramayti...Special refresher course for faculties concludes...Haka, Tiddim Townships: on the path to development..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Safeguard national policies for perpetuation of the Union".....FEATURE: "DEVELOPMENT OF RAKHINE STATE IN THE TIME OF TATMADAW GOVERNMENT".....ARTICLE: "Rohinja is not Myanmar national race, nor is in Myanmar" Maung Po Hmat.....POEM: "Nation of rising dignity and bravery" ["...Dignity and bravery for race Always rising high."