DOMESTIC NEWS: 1. Senior General Than Shwe inspects progress of Sittway; 2. Of the two turbines of Tikyit coal-fired power plant, one is generating electricity at full capacity as it was completed in 2004 The other one will start generating power beginning April last week; 3. Brigade-11 of SSNA unconditionally exchange arms for peace; 4. Support will be provided for industrial zones to be equipped with modern machinery Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects Ayethayar Industrial Zone; 5. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San enjoy water festival at Mandalay Mayor?s Maha Thingyan Festival; 6. Prime Minister, Secretary-1 participate in Maha Thingyan Festival; 7. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San take part in Maha Thingyan festival of MoD; 8. Agriculture and construction tasks supervised in Lashio; 9. With passing of time, SSNA Brigade 11 comes to realize that it will not win people?s support unless it discards arm struggle line; 10. With peace prevailing in region, national people will do more in interests of the State and the region, and local people will live their comfortable life and work in peace; 11. Fish available for New Year Day release; 12. Information tasks inspected in Lashio; 13. People practising meditation, merrily taking part in Thingyan festival on Akya Day; 14. Prize winners announced; 15. Though combats were no more people had to live in fear due to presence of those armed; 16. City packed with revellers on Thingyan Akyat Day..."PERSPECTIVES":"Strive in unity for emgerence of a modern and developed nation"(page 2)...FEATURE:" Put New Year vow into practice"(page 11)