DOMESTIC NEWS: Race and Religion Protection Committee seeks guidance for further steps...Myanmar arts and crafts on high esteem...Parliament speaker meets local people in Kalaw...Regions, States to host Chief Ministers? Cups...Special fund alloted for dredging lake for water supply...Expired drugs and banned medicines destroyed in Nay Pyi Taw...Confiscated farmlands returned to owners in Nyaunglebin Tsp...Youths turned out as red cross members, scouts in Mingin...Plan to implement Green Village Project in Myingyan District...Mohnyin residents hope for better telephone connection...Thabeikkyin in upper Myanmar sees earthen road linking three villages...World Red Cross Day celebrated in Magway...Advanced tailoring course, basic domestic science course open in Yinmabin Tsp...Clinical legal education summer school opens...Landslide preventive measures taken in eight District IPRD places in Yangon Region...Capacity building training concludes in Mohnyin...Learning, thinking, planning and evaluating teachers...Making Agriculture a Profitable Business in Myanmar.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union ministers, diplomats on tour of Rakhine...Mercedes Benz showroom starts life...Myanmar to stay out of bilateral territorial disputes, role is to act within ASEAN context: Myanmar SOM leader...ADB, Japan to assist Myanmar?s water and sanitation works...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham meets UN Resident Representative, Singaporean Ambassador...AIPA delegations arrives in Nay Pyi Taw...NPED Union Minister attends OECD meeting in Paris...UNDP gives Supreme Court of Union IT devices...23rd World Economic Forum on East-Asia on 21-23 May...Plans to upgrade roads between Myanmar, India discussed...6th Myanmar mobile fair opens on 9-11 May...Yangon Region Chief Minister attends dinner hosted by Austrian guests....."PERSPECTIVES": "Not too late to conserve Myanmar forests" By Aung Khin...