DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Than Shwe receives US Senator and party...A&I Minister inspects Kanyin Dam Project...Construction Minister receives foreign guests...Myanmar, Thai rice millers meet...Writer-reader gathering 18 August...Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects regional development undertakings in Mandalay, Sagaing Divisions...Ministry of Energy honours outstanding students, staff...Honorarium for artistic works presented to family of artist U Ba Kyi...Myanmar Brewery Ltd donates Real Time RT- PCR machine...C-in-C (Navy)?s shield boxing tournament for 2009 opens...Foreign Affairs Minister sees off US Senator and party...US Senator meets national race groups...US Senator and wife meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...Journalism Course No. 2/2009 concludes...Flood Warning...Lt-Gen Khin Zaw performs regional development tasks in Thaton District...Work coordination meeting for development of Ayeyawady Division road network held...Foreign Affairs Minister hosts dinner to US Senator and party...Myanmar delegation back from Yunnan Province...Cash assistance donated to hospitals, health staff...Basic Course for Electrical Skill (1/2009) concludes...US Senator meets with officially registered political parties...One more found infected with A (H1N1) - Number of those infected with the virus reaches 21..... "PERSPECTIVES": "To actively participate in drug elimination plan as national concern"..... ARTICLE: "Politics is to do real possibility" Maung Nwe Sit ["...I would like to invite all political groups to respect public decision, enjoy the opportunities generated with good will by the government, choose the path to democracy paved in accordance with the cosnstitution by the people, and do not let themselves to be swayed by the political tricks of colonialists and axe-handles and take to the way of Myanmar democracy, that is real possibility..."]