DOMESTIC NEWS: VP U Myint Swe inspects reforestation, bridge and road construction...Yangon to consider needs of disabled in buses, housing...Initiation Workshop for Rakhine Joint Assessment held...Literature competitions to be held...Residents in Mohnyin to receive free eye surgery...Authority to spend Ks15 million rebuilding power facilities in Yesagyo...Food & hotel exhibition to be held...Low-cost housing project to be implemented...Falling rubber prices affect labourers...Farmers concerned of declining sesame prices...14 injured in Pauktaw fire...Yangon Gov?t to relax low-cost housing down payment rules...Fuel laboratory to be opened in August at Thilawa port..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: unnan Province, China: a rosy chance for stability...Senior General Min Aung hlaing meets 14th ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces...HAPUA Council Meetings held in Yangon...Mandalay Royal Palace to become Historical Park...Over 6,000 tonnes of fisheries products exported to China in April...Ninety thousand motorcycles imported via Muse...Agricultural exports fetch nearly US$300million over a month...Mango market looks promising with finished products factories...Value of export through Muse border gate down by over US$85million...President receives outgoing Pakistan Ambassador...Thura U Shwe Mann arrives back Yangon after attending 17th Doha Forum...Amyotha hluttaw Speaker meets with Vietnamese President...UNAIDS lauds launch of new Myanmar HIV strategic plan, calls for more investments to end AIDS epidemic..... "OPINION": "Block Wastage And Save Shortage!"-Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "NCDs: Not communicable but can spread"-Dr. Phone Myint (PHP)