DOMESTIC NEWS: Two Reuters reporters appear in court, remanded for another 14 days...29th anniversary of Daw Khin Kyi?s death commemorated...Domestic investment flows into six sectors in November unlike October...MNHRC Chairman clarifies situations on the ground in Maungtaw...Inspector Kyaw Thet Khaing sentenced to 5 years in prison for soliciting a bribe...Civil staff housing project to be implemented in Dagon Seikkan Township next year...46th Myanmar Health Research Conference to be held...Mini trucks and 1300cc cars selling well...MIC permitted US$234.9 million of FDI in November...CBM to sell Treasury bond and notes to cover budget deficit...Doubled price for shops puts vendors in chaos...MoC refutes allegations of contaminated peas, beans...Sitagu Buddhist missionary makes donations in Yathedaung, Maungtaw and Buthidaung...Sitagu Buddhist missionary donates ambulances, cash to Rakhine State...More vocational training courses to open in Maungtaw...Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine State by Agricultural Mechanisation Department.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of Ambassador of the Republic of Poland...President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore...Anti-Corruption Commission receives 4,516 complaint letters as of November 2017...Resource persons invited to ?Promote Integrity to Counter Corruption” symposium...Upgrading of signaling system almost complete...About 200 tourists daily flocking to Kawkathaung Cave...U Moe Kyaw Aung presents credentials to president of India...16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair continues in Shweli....."OPINION": "Four characteristics of the independent nation"......ARTICLE: "Safeguarding Independence is the Entire National Populace?s Duty" - Shwe Taing Lwin