HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- Pyithu Hluttaw: Budget procedures explained at Pyithu Hluttaw: "National Planning and Economic Development Ministry and government organizations are also required to follow the directives of the President Office in purchasing by inviting open tender in a transparent manner, according to the deputy minister. Budget proposals of the ministries are examined by the three committees responsible for construction, machines and equipment and other expenditures respectively and by the Ministry of Finance before the budget proposal are enacted as law, she said."...Amyotha Hluttaw: Electricity consumers to be offered deserved compensation for their losses and damage: "Amyotha Hluttaw representatives discussed the motion tabled by U Sai Kyaw Zaw Than of Shan State Constituency calling for the union government to take special measures to protect the public from electrical risks. .. To protect the public from the electric shocks from broken wires, earth rings, earth bar system, line guards and line link connections have been installed on power lines, according to the deputy minister.".....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Blue Plaque installed at Yangon?s Central Fire Station...Union Border Affairs Minister looks into development programmes in western Myanmar...Governments are responsible for improving socioeconomic status of rural peasant farmers: Vice President U Nyan Tun...EITI practice to contribute to tax reform system relating to natural resources...Transport Ministry to write new Merchant Shipping Act...Global Hand Washing Day held in Lewe Township...MIC designates Kokang Economic Zone...Facts about human rights shared to people...Police stations understaffed in Pathein...International White Cane Day 2014 marked in Mandalay...Mdy Sub-printing House to get fourbuilding staff quarter...COCA-COLA HAPPINESS JOURNEY RETURNS TO FIVE CITIES ACROSS MYANMAR...Ancient votive tablets found in Zabuthiri Tsp...20 villages of KhinU Township enjoy supply of electricity...DAC workers dredging drains, upgrading roads and bridges in PyinOoLwin Tsp...Mohnyin to get access to Indawgyi Lake...Railways workers repair rail tracks for prevention of train derailment.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein arrives in Milan...Myanmar to host Super Series Myanmar 2014-2015 for Sepak Takraw event....."PERSPECTIVES": "A strong economy makes the world go round" by Kyaw Thura.....ARTICLE: "THINK" by Kyi Mun