DOMESTIC NEWS: Vice-Senior General Maung Aye discusses disaster management and regional development in Rakhine State...President of the Republic of the Philippines sends felicitations to Senior General Than Shwe...Heads of Governments send felicitations to Prime Minister General Thein Sein...IBTC Open Golf Championships kicks off...Anti-venom vaccine produced from chicken eggs being researched on humans...Prize presentation ceremony of Inter-State/ Division Track and Field events held...Myanmar Senior Cricket team leaves for Thailand...Mobilemate Co Ltd to open Mobile Corner...Commander, ministers meet members of mobile rural development educative body...Pre-primary teachership course opened...Symposium on Disaster Preparedness and Management discussed...Vice-Senior General Maung Aye pays homage to Lawka Nanda Pagoda in Sittway...MMA donates cash and kind to storm victims in Kungyangon...YCESB opens short term course for office work 1/2009...Deputy FM arrives back from China...Special Refresher Course No. 14 for university and college teachers opens...Work proficiency course for new staff concluded...Notice to mariners issued...Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing looks into development tasks in Kengtung...Labour Minister inspects Skills Training School and Workers? Hospital...NPED Minister supervises regional development tasks in Twantay...Ceremony to mark 15th Anniversary of MFA to be held...Vice-Senior General Maung Aye looks into implementation of Thahtay Creek Hydropower Project in Rakhine State..... "PERSPECTIVES": "Actively take part in polio elimination drive".