DOMESTIC NEWS: Rakhine State Gov?t holds press conference on 2 nd one-year term...Information Ministry makes rules of tender system for school textbooks clear...Agricultural loans...Union Minister for Information receives Myanmar Music Association...Nine poachers get three-year jail term for killing elephant in Taikkyi...Passenger slashes driver?s neck, drives away taxi in Kyauktan...Gas line leak repaired in time in Thaton...Negotiations underway for trading pulses under G2G agreement...Drugs seized in Taunggyi, Kutkai Townships...Myanmar Daily Weather Report.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U T Khun Myat receives US Baptist delegation...Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman receives Vietnamese delegation...Union Election Commission Chairman receives ROK Ambassador to Myanmar...MNHRC holds press conference...Myanmar, Bangladesh conduct coordinated patrol...Manufacturing sector attracts 60 foreign enterprises in past mini-budget period...Sino-Myanmar trade reaches $5 billion during first five months of interim period...Union Minister U Win Khaing to attend Belt & Road Energy Conference in China...Diplomats pay tribute to POWs died for Death Railway linking Myanmar, Thailand 75 years ago...UNSG Special Envoy, Kachin State Cabinet discuss peace process, IDP camps issues...International Tourism Expo Myanmar 2018 to be held in Yangon...Myanmar faces a loss to Bahrain in friendly match...Myanmar manages 1-1 draw with Shen Zhen in Jimo International Friendly Futsal Cup...Myanmar to try their best in Girls?AFF U-15 2019 Group A...AFC ?C? coaching certificate course opens.....OPINION: "No matter what challenges we may have to encounter, not lose sight of our Federal goal".....ARTICLE: "The power to choose how many children to have must rest with women and couples" - By Janet Jackson, UNFPA Representative for Myanmar