DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe receives Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Military Affairs of Thailand; Billboard erected to hail MWVO conference; Caps presented to trainees of Nurse and Midwifery Training School in Myitkyina; Rice, oil, clothes donated for youth training school in Mawlamyine; Paingkyon TV retransmission station airs programmes; Forestry Minister attends ceremony to honour victorious athletes; Vietnamese Ambassador calls on Information Minister; Appointment of Iranian Ambassador agreed on; Deputy Minister for Information receives Thai guests; General Secretary of UMFCCI meets Chinese guests; Self-reliant libraries mushrooming in Gangaw District; MYANMAR GAZETTE; Deputy Rail Transportation Minister attends work coord meetings; MWVO Conference billboard erected in Sagaing Division; Contest to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking held; Workshop on production of learning aids commences; Ash of Naya Sayadaw put into Ayeyawady River; Course for basic health care with traditional medicine concludes; Commander attends Shan State inter-middle school soccer tourney; Construction tasks in Ayethaya Industrial Zone inspected; Harvesting ceremony of Shwe Yin Aye summer paddy model plot held in Shan State (East); Wellwishers present stipends for students to MWAF..."PERSPECTIVES":"To supply clean water to rural people"...FEATURE:"Asian-African cooperation based on Bandung spirit"