DOMESTIC NEWS: Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends Vijata Mangala ceremony; Minister meets officials of MEB and departments in Chauk; Horizon League Open Basketball Tournament commences; Development tasks in YeU, Taze Townships supervised; Six resigns from Taikkyi and Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana Townships NLD; Myanmar top group-B deserving 1-0 win over Thailand in AFF Women's Championship; HPID & CGGC sign agreement; JDS invites scholarship; Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing visits Hsinshweli model research sugarcane plantations in Taungnyo and Tatkon stations; Township USDA Annual General Meetings held in Bago Divison... "PERSPECTIVES": "Towards wider use farm machinery"...ARTICLE: "No need to protest: No means other than to express wish" by Maung Deh Doe: "... The delegates who have discussed and adopted principles at the National Convention to march forward with discipline-flourishing democracy also adopted basic democracy principles that ensure rights for people of all walks of life from the one-kyat worth to the one-pyaworth. The basis of forming a gap between NLD assuming itself a great party and the National Convention is the latter's ability to adopt such principles..."