HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw votes against Euro 70 mln AFD Loan.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: President U Win Myint, First Lady Daw Cho Cho donate pure gold, solid gold, gold leaf robes to the Shwedagon Pagoda...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Joint Bill Committee discusses Tax Management Bill...Depression Condition 13 December 2018, 19:00 MST Today...First public meeting on Myanmar offshore block MD-7 held in Myeik.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor receives United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and regional director for UNDP...10th GMS Economic Corridors Forum held in Nay Pyi Taw...Thura U Shwe Mann receives Dr. Albrecht Schnabel from MYPOL...State Counsellor receives Foreign Minister of Commonwealth of Australia...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives Senior Vice President of US-ASEAN Business Counci...Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives high-level officials from Canada NDI...Union Minister U Thaung Tun receives Australian Foreign Minister...Vice President U Myint Swe, Indian President inaugurate 5th Enterprise India Show in Yangon...Myanmar-India Joint Statement issued on the occasion of the State Visit of His Excellency Shri Ram Nath Kovind, President of the Republic of India, to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (10-14 December 2018...U Kyaw Moe Tun Presents Credentials to President of Swiss Confederation...Appointment of Ambassador agreed on...Union Minister for Border Affairs receives UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Regional Director in Nay Pyi Taw...Dr. Win Myat Aye separately receives UN Assistant Secretary General, Australia FM...17th Myanmar-China Border Trade Fair 2018 opens...Forest Department to cooperate with NMNS Japan on bio diversity research...Myanmar women’s traditional boat race team wins gold in 19th ASEAN University Games.....OPINION: "Treating leprosy patients with dignity''.....ARTICLE: "Modernizing permitting to drive development of Myanmar’s mining sector" - By Sebastian Sahla