"Tapo ca, ascetic practices; this is the way to auspiciousness"... DOMESTIC NEWS: 1. Ecosystems increasingly being threatened in many parts of the world - Myanmar?s seas contain bountiful supply of fish and pearls and minerals, rich mangrove forests and pristine beaches - World Environment Day observed at MICT Park; 2. Yangon City upgraded and renovated to possess characteristics of an international city - Meeting No 2/2004 of City Housing Project Supervisory Committee held; 3. Prime Minister attends friendly golf tournament of Singapore Association of Myanmar and dinner; 4. Electronic industry becomes important in efforts to make progress in industrial sector - Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win inspects Electronic Products Exhibition; 5. Film entertainments to National Convention delegates at Nyaunghnapin Camp; 6. Multiparty Democracy General Election Commission Announcement No 1619; 7. F & R Minister attends opening of MEB (Shwedaung Branch); 8. World Population Day poster, essay competitions to be held; 9. Drug traffickers sentenced... "PERSPECTIVES": "Accelerate production of medicines and doing research" (Page 2)... FEATURES: "Emergence of a constitution is imperative" (Page 8); "New and fast developments throughout Myanmar - Border and rural area developments"... SLOGANS: "The National Convention is the concern of all our national races"; "With hands linked firm around the National Convention".