HLUTTAW SESSIONS: Third regular session of first Taninthayi Region Hluttaw continues...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw continues for 23rd Day Session - Principle and basic factors of 2012 Union Budget Bill discussed..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Planning and Implementation (Officer Level) Course opened...Officer refresher course conducted by INRD...UEC Chairman meets chairmen and members of sub-commissions...Union CPT Minister undertakes regional development tasks in Myaing Tsp...Ayeyawady Region Chief Minister meets locals in Maubin Tsp...Dy Construction Minister inspects roads and bridges works...Development of fish breeding educated in Taikkyi Township...Bago Region WAO chair reach out to local Chin damsels...Shwe-U Min Pagoda festival held...EP-1 Minister inspects Yenwe Hydropower plant...Mon State Chief Minister meets local people in Kyaikto, Bilin, Thaton...Old bomb kills three workers in Mandalay...Kumudra Library gives services to local readers in Pyapon...HEALTH KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATED: [photo]...Shwegyin plans to conduct cultural course...Stake driven for construction of rural library in Machanbaw Township...Monastic education school building put into service in Madauk...Feedbacks invited to improve postal delivery system...Myanmar Job Fairs 2012 kicks off...Inter-village bridge rebuilt in Mawlu region...Thakayta Township issues citizenship scrutiny cards to eligible citizens...Educative traffic rules talked in Taunggyi...MLF invites donation for cash, books...Rural people in Kalay Township get easy access to reading...Summer cultural course commences in Kyauktan...Age-wise vaccination of measles to cover children the whole nation...Monyo Township gets new building of village library...GSM SIM cards sold in seven townships of Rakhine State...Illegal two-digit lottery seller seized in Wundwin...Follow-up news on fire...Meiktila plans to provide measles vaccination to children...Kyaungtawyar-Inndaung- Pwintbyu gravel road opened..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein leaves for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to pay State visits...Plan on ASEAN Region Production and Raising Market Competitiveness discussed...Deputy H & T Minister receives Japanese guests...ESCAP transportation ministers meet in Bangkok...Conference on Media Development in Myanmar continues for second day...ASEAN integration workshop held in Nay Pyi Taw...Yangon Region Chief Minister receives Chinese, Japanese guests...Pyithu Hluttaw Bill Committee Chairman meets JICA judicial consultant..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Opportunity cost"..... ARTICLES: "Health infrastructures built in Chin and Shan States to provide health care services to national races in those regions" Archive: Maung Nyein Aye..."Billows of Smoke" Than Daing Kaung (Meiktila) [about tobacco]