DOMESTIC NEWS: Noteworthy Amounts of Rainfall...Yangon South District opens 17th Performing Arts Competitions...Mandalay Division PDC Chairman?s Shield Sepak Takraw tournament concludes...Dy FM arrives back from Malaysia...Six women trainees of SPEI (Yangon) move to Industry-1 football team...Myanmar team bag 14 gold, 19 silver and seven bronze in 5th ASEAN Para Sports Meet...Vocational training courses in border areas conclude...School Health Week launched in Bago Division...Foreign Minister receives members of the National Assembly of ROK...Mines Minister meets Chinese guests...Executive Committee of Myanmar Motion Picture Asiayon to be reorganized..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Actively participate in successful realization of seven-step Road Map"..... ARTICLES: "Technological University (Bhamo) turning out technocrats" Article: Myint Maung Soe, Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)..."Looking forward to positive response" Ngar Min Swe ["...The economic sanctions have strong negative effects both on the nation and on the people. Many of the foreign entrepreneurs have withdrawn their investments from Myanmar, thus destroying a large number of job opportunities and harming good opportunities for economic growth. In spite of economic sanctions, the country has risen from a least developed to a developing one thanks to the earnest efforts the government, the people and the Tatmadaw have been making in collaboration. If the anti-government groups had not put their wish in the fore or demanded economic sanctions for 20 years and if the government, the people and the Tatmadaw had worked since then, Myanmar would have developed many more times than at present..."]..."Yangon Port facilitates swift commodity flow and better transport" Article: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)