DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe congratulates Columbia President; Senior General Than Shwe receives Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines; Vice-President of MWAF receives Resident Representative of UNICEF; Blood donation of Myanmar Brewery Ltd held; Counselling course concludes; Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines, Madame and party arrive Yangon; Educative talks given in Tamway Township; Paddy husk-fired power station launched in Waingmaw; Desks donated to schools in townships of Mandalay Division; MAS-OISCA-run school celebrates 10th anniversary; 18th Meeting of the Task FOrce on Tourism Manpower Development commences; Nay Pyi Taw-Mawlamyine bus line launched; The Union of Myanmar - The State Peace and Development Council - The Law Amending theDevelopment of BOrder Areas and National Races Law - (The State Peacea and Development Council Law No 7/2006)...; Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than inspects progress of Ma Mya Dam Project, growing of physic nut plants in Ayeyawady Division..."PERSPECTIVES":"Try to exceed crop yield targets"...FEATURE:"To gain merits in perpetuity"