DOMESTIC NEWS: Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than supervises agriculture and regional development tasks in Rakhine State; Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends cash and kind donation ceremonies of Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) for monastic education schools in Ahlon, Tamway and Mingala Taungnyunt Townships; Nay Pyi Taw-Chauk railway service launched on 2 September; NPED Minister and party arrive back; MWAF?s Finance Dept offers Waso robes, provisions to monks and nuns; Myanma Insurance offers alms to monks; Electric Power No 2 Minister meets Indian guests; One wounded in insurgent-planted mine blast; 34 members quit Sagaing Township NLD - They lose trust in NLD, interest in its activities; Provisions donated to nine monasteries, one nunnery in Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon Township; Villager loses right foot in mine blast; UMFCCI organizes educative talks; Yangon Division Supervisory Committee for Ensuring Secure and Smooth Transport meets; Commander attends meeting of Nay Pyi Taw Traffic Rules Enforcement Supervisory Committee; Seminar on BioSafety Laboratory; Electric Power No 2 Minister receives Danish guests; Better transport brings about economic progress, higher social standard of people - Kyeeni-Chauk railroad section inaugurated...NATIONAL CONVENTION: The capital of the State is Nay Pyi Taw [contains the text of the Detailed Basic Principles Chapter XI, "Provisions on State of Emergency"]; This Constitution shall come into force throughout the Union after its adoption in a referendum by the assenting votes of more than half of all the people who have the right to vote; NC delegates visit pagodas in Bago and Yangon, St Georges? Anglican Church... "PERSPECTIVES": "Grow more edible oil crops for self-sufficiency"...ARTICLE: "Min Ko Naing—a kite without a string or danger to the nation-II" by An ?88” incident activist.