HLUTTAW MEETINGS: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw: Transport ministry calls for signing of marine pollution prevention protocol...Pyithu Hluttaw Roundup...Amyotha Hluttaw Roundup...Regional Parliaments: Yangon Region Parliament continues special session.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Passing the Baton - President, C-in-C discuss peaceful, smooth power transfer with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...Capital gets new children?s hospital...Union Information Minister holds press conference on meeting between President and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...Meiktila family refuses to sell 150-year old bed...Mandalay daily celebrates 18th anniversary...Restoration needed for U Bo Hlaing?s tomb...Photo exhibit features stories of people in extractive industries...Periodicals donated to library in Pyay to mark Sarsodaw Day...Yangon General Hospital upgraded to 2000-bed facility...Set Top Boxes provided to local people of Myawady...District Court clerks strengthen computer skills...Pyinmana Hospital hosts lecture on polio vaccine...Fourth Zwae Htet Jewellery shop opens in Mandalay..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw: Transport ministry calls for signing of marine pollution prevention protocol...48 boat people repatriated to Bangladesh...Ministry of Industry discusses technical trainings with German delegation...Myanmar on track to meet foreign tourism target - Ye Myint...Myanmar and Hong Kong consult bilateral air services...ADB delegation discusses Mandalay development programmes...Myanmar to host 5th Southeast Asian Archery Championship..... OPINION: "Is a new political culture taking root in Myanmar?" - Myint Win Thein.....ARTICLE: "Asia Pacific: Response to Climate Change" - Dr. Shamshad Akhtar.....Letter to the Editor.....POEM: "Ensuring Peoples? Democratic Leadership" - Htun Tin Htun.