HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- Pyidaungsu Hluttaw: Finance Ministry proposes Union Tax Law Amendment: "THE Ministry of Finance put forward the Union Tax Bill for 2016 to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw yesterday. The Union Tax Bill for 2016, which is based on the Union Tax Law 2015 with new amendments and added content, includes eight chapters and 39 sections, according to Union Minister for Finance U Win Shein. The bill includes proposals such as adding a new tax system, abolishing a tax system, amending the commercial tax for specific goods and adding goods and services which would be free from tax. The ministry also added that tax for mobile phones top-up cards will be collected next fiscal year, netting a possible 80 million kyats revenue. The ministry expects to collect over 6.1 trillion kyats next fiscal year—a 269 million kyat increase from this year. The Bill Amending Criminal Law, the Bill Amending Insurance Permission Law and the Bill Amending Banking Law were approved. Amendments to laws relating to crime, insurance and banking were approved at the Tuesday session of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw."...Pyithu Hluttaw: Pyithu Hluttaw Round-Up: "IN Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) yesterday bills amending the Foreign Investment Law and the Myanmar Citizen Investment Law were approved with amendments made by the Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House). MPs of Pyithu Hluttaw did not agree to 26 amendments made by the Amyotha Hluttaw for the Legal Supportive Bill. The Legal Supportive Bill will be debated in Pyidaungsu Hluttaw."..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: AWARD US DIGNITY: Court ruling on Benjina trafficking case to be made in Feb 2016...UPDJC approves draft framework, sets ratio of stakeholder groups in political dialogue...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends 68th Anniversary of Myanmar Air Force...Rakhine?s ?Kyin? wrestling competitions attract hundreds...Free Medical Services for Eye Patients in Sittway Rakhine State...Transformer installed in Western Bago...Man charged for motorbike theft in Mandalay...Illegal logs seized in Sagaing...Four arrested for playing cards in Mandalay...Construction at Myaunmya Hospital to be finished by March 2016...One-stop shop launched in Namhsan..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: KBZ Stirling Coleman Securities ready to launch services...U Nyan Tun arrives back from Thailand...Agreement signed for the development of SMEs...Chairman of Pyithu Hluttaw International Relations Committee meets Indonesian delegation...Mitsubishi Corporation to establish distributor in Myanmar...Viber messaging app honours Myanmar users via We Love Myanmar campaign..... "OPINION": "Revolutionaries, politicians and statesmen" by Myint Win Thein..... ARTICLE: "Arguments against restarting bullfights in the state of Goa, western India" by Saikat Kumar Basu Lethbridge, AB Canada