DOMESTIC NEWS: Northern Rakhine: Stable, but strenuous - Min Thit...9 types of passports to be issued for Myanmar citizens...Mass cycling event held in Mandalay...Transformers to be installed in Katha District next year...27,000 tonnes of illegal timber seized this year...Illegal jade stones seized in Moehyin...Heroin worth Ks77.76 billion and weapons seized in Shan State (North) and Mon State...Traffic deaths reach over 3,400...Fuel price high in domestic market...Technical training aims to produce quality mangoes for healthy export...Gamone Pwint contributes K100 million to education fund of Yangon Region Government...Three muslims found to be uninvolved in attacks released...Fruit processing vocational training concludes in Pyinbongyi, Bago..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: C-in-C of Defence Services arrives in Beijing...Workshop for Korea Volunteer program in Yangon...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker visits Gyeongbok Palace...Myanmar records trade deficit of over $2 billion in past seven months...IMF says Myanmar making economic progress...Technical training aims to produce quality mangoes for healthy export...Myanmar migrant worker raped in Thai rubber plantation...7th Asian Senior Chess Championship Tournament opens in Mandalay..... "OPINION": "Who will stop the inexorability of bribery and corruption?" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The Strategic Value of Myanmar" - Khin Maung Myint