HLUTTAW MEETINGS:- Pyithu Hluttaw: License revocation for distilleries that breach rules on waste management...Amyotha Hluttaw: Industrial zones to be developed at site of paper factory (Sittaung).....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Myanmar to draft environmental policy: President U Htin Kyaw...Precise statistics are invaluable: Vice President U Henry Van Thio...Small Clinic Needs Big Help - Mark Angeles...Golden Paddy Fields, Mount May Yu and Northern Road of Maungtaw (Part 2) - Myint Maung Soe...One-stop service provided for licensing of Kalay industrially produced jeeps...Myayinanda fair-cost apartments to draw lots in January - Aung Thant Khaing...Sugarcane price increases by Ks15,000 per tonne compared to last year...Myanmar rubber price hits record high...Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services speaks words of encouragement to injured Tatmadawmen...107 restaurants and a hotel fined for not having stamp duty...Brighter Future Myanmar Foundation donates Ks20 million for Shan New Year...Mid-Year Gem Emporium concludes...KIA, TNLA armed group launch artillery attacks, fire shells in Muse...Four more M150 bottles found at Yangon Airport...Two local residents injured by KIA landmine...Two Policemen From Namphatka Outpost Missing...Four improvised landmines found on Union Highway..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Receives Ambassador of India...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives Israeli ambassador...The 2nd Myanmar-Australia Foreign Office Consultations Meeting held...U Aung Htoo accredited to Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste...U Htin Lynn accredited to Swiss Confederation...U Myint Lwin accredited to Republic of Turkey...World Food Programme to help villagers in Koetankauk & Cheinkhali...Group trying to emigrate to Bangladesh arrested...KIA, TNLA & MNDAA armed groups? attack drives people from Monekoe into China..... "OPINION": "Let us refrain from being gutter mouths!" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "New book on ?Myanmar Political History? released in New Delhi" - Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen