DOMESTIC NEWS: 1. Research and development highly essential for producing quality eye-catching machines Senior General Than Shwe inspects plants, workshops at Indagaw Industrial Zone; 2. General Thura Shwe Mann inspects drills of Tatmadaw columns; 3. 12,000 feet long runway at Dawei Airport under construction Lt-Gen Maung Bo on inspection tour of Dawei District; 4. 13th 47-member Plenary Meeting of 5th SSMNC concludes; 5. Title recipient Sayadaws, lay persons to be honoured; 6. Sayadaw Bhaddanta Tejinda of Gwa passes away; 7. Excerpts from Senior General?s address; 8. Capacity Enhancement Course on Public Relations (Officer) concludes; 9. Delegates continue reading proposals to be submitted to NC plenary session; 10. Coord meeting between NCCWC, Panel of Chairmen held; 11. Armed Forces Day commemorative booths inspected; 12. Blood donated in honour of 60th Anniversary Armed Forces Day; 13. Tarmacking of roads inspected; 14. Respect paying ceremony at Ba Htoo High School; 15. Makmann TV retransmission station starts programmes; 16. Myanmar reaches semi finals in Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy..."POEM: Noble Union Pleasant Jetty":"Union oarsmen all Mon, Kayah, Chin, Kachin, Kayin, Bamar, Rakhine, Shan Forming a peaceful family..."(page 10)...FEATURE:"Let us harmoniously strive to produce quality goods"(page 7)