DOMESTIC NEWS: Cooperative societies will be formed with bottom up initiative, not with top down policy - Region/State work committees to organize residents to form cooperative societies with trustworthy and reliable people, rather than forming them perfunctorily...Attorney-General?s Office shows its love for the Mother Earth...Union IP Minister supervises his staff...Buildings of Ministry of Energy (Yangon Branch) to be converted into 500-bed general hospital...Union Commerce Minister meets merchants, farmers in Taze Township...Payment & Settlement Systems Course opened...Outstanding students of Ayeyawady Region honoured...Earthquake News...Special Refresher Course No.75 for basic education teachers opens...Central Committee for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation meets..... FOREIGN RELATIONS: Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo receives EU delegation...Myanmar, European Union to boost cooperation and relations...Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and party visit Thailand...U Khin Maung Tin presents his Credentials to Emperor of Japan..... "PERSPECTIVES": "For rural development and poverty alleviation"