Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Friday:

- Meetings were held in different provinces to launch the regional regiments of Party members to be dispatched for the rehabilitation projects in the flood-hit areas.

- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK issued a decree on conferring the title of model law-observance unit on exemplary units.

- A ceremony for moving into new houses took place at Saha and Hyongje farms in Puryong County, North Hamgyong Province.

- A national sci-tech presentation in the field of medical appliances took place.

- There was a national sci-tech presentation and exhibition in the field of welding.

- A delegation of the International Alliance of Societies for the Study of the Juche Idea in East European and Central Asian Regions left here.

- An article says that the crime-woven history of capitalism will be soon judged.

- There took place the third meeting of the 31st Central Committee of the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan.

- Another article discloses the danger of the moves of the U.S. forces in Japan to cook up the combined forces command further escalating the regional situation. -0-