DOMESTIC NEWS: Cash and kind donated to victims in Meiktila...People from Pyapon enjoy better transportation...Relief items donated to strong wind victims in Pyay...Transformer fires waste over K 23.5 million in Dagon Township...Tarmacking of Chaungphya- Kyondoe road commences in Kyondoe...Plan to implement second OPV immunization programme in Rakhine State...White Heart Group provides free health care services in Mawgyun...Yangon-Mawlamyine up and down trains resume regular schedules...Phyusin Parahita free clinic, reliable for needy persons in Magway...Notice to CDMA-800 MHz mobile subscribers...Private schools prepare to open in Mandalay...Myoma market in Pakokku hustling after Maha Thingyan Festival...Kyaukpadaung to get new market in August...Seventh white elephant gives birth to a new elephant...Insein gas container blast kills four...Amnesty granted for 93 prisoners... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends messages of sympathy to Chinese President, Premier...Myanmar, Indonesia vow to increase trade volume...President U Thein Sein wins ?Pursuit of Peace? award...European Union lifts sanctions against Myanmar...Kyodo opens branch in Yangon...Vice-Senior General Soe Win meets Thai Commander of First Army Area...Ambassador U Paw Lwin Sein presents his Credentials to European Council President...President U Thein Sein, wife Daw Khin Khin Win host dinner to Indonesian President, wife and party...Daw Khin Khin Win meets Indonesian first lady...Union FM sends message of sympathy to Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister...Indonesian President, wife arrive in Nay Pyi Taw...Ambassador U Paw Lwin Sein presents his Credentials to European Commission President...Indonesia supports Myanmar?s crisis management process...MoUs inked between Myanmar and Indonesia...EU lifts all sanctions against Myanmar, except for arms embargo...Lifting of all economic sanctions on Myanmar to encourage and engender far stronger Myanmar-EU relationship [MOFA press release]..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Ensure people-centred development"..... SPEECH: "There can be no democracy without peace and no peace without democracy" - President U Thein Sein?s ICG Chairman?s Award Acceptance Speech