DMOESTIC NEWS: 1. Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to Senior General Than Shwe; 2. Education sector seeing unprecedented progress More and more students eager to study education, knowledge, science, technology; 3. Measures for development of Myanma gems industry coordinated; 4. Lt-Gen Kyaw Win views participation of students in essay and poem competitions; 5. CNG filling station opens in Mingaladon; 6. Secretary-1 receives PRC guests; 7. Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei felicitates Prime Minister Lt-Gen Soe Win; 8. Notes on Combating Transnational Crime and Maintaining Social Order in Border Areas signed; 9. Bangladeshi, Indian Ministers leave; 10. Leading Committee for All-round Renovation of Shwephonepwint Pagoda meets; 11. Dhamma Desanas to be delivered at Eindawya Pagoda Pujaniya; 12. Military Band Competition commences; 13. Progress of irrigation facilities inspected at Thittetkon Diversion Dam in Myittha; 14. ICT Week 2005 to conduct competitions; 15. Annual meeting of MOSA held; 16. Commander, mayor inspect modernization tasks in Yangon; 17. Bhamo Vocational Training School for Women opens; 18. NCCWC holds Co-ord meeting; 19. Knowledge Bank Paper-reading Session held..."PERSPECTIVES": "Health stuff and people go hand in hand for provision of public health care"(page 2)...FEATURE:"Ratification of State Constitution through Referendum"(page 7)