DOMESTIC NEWS: JCMC to form sub-committees - Ye Khaung Nyunt...Public opinion to decide fate of Manaw Thuka housing project...Thandwe residents jumping with jay (sic)...More than 1,700 KBZ workers donate blood in June...Coord meeting for 69th Martyrs? Day ceremony held...Drug abuse on the rise...Faculty members and students carry out communal sanitation work...Man killed by former son-in-law...Novices killed in traffic accident...70,000 yaba pills seized in one day...MMF pushes for establishment of Township Football Federations...Sports Colleges to open in Monywa and Loikaw...Illegal hardwood seized in Bago...Mass cycling around Mandalay Nan Myoe moat...Vocational training course opened in Oaktha Myoe Thit..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar Gems emporium fetches 3.15m euros in sales...UN special rapporteur holds talks with officials in Yangon...U Myo Aye appointed as Myanmar Ambassador to Serbia...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs meets with BIMSTEC Secretary General...MWEA delegate attends ASEAN-China youth forum in Cambodia...Civil Servants strive for peaceful, prosperous nation; UCSB chairman...Thai Lion Air extends wings to Yangon...600,000 tn of watermelon, muskmelon to be exported to China: exporters...Complaints to file against foreign realtors without license...Nissan Sunny Almera to be manufactured in Myanmar...PUM Netherlands to assist SME development in Myanmar A woman makes conical bamboo hats in Mandalay. Photo: Aung Thant Khaing - Aung Thant Khaing...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing meets with Israeli SIBAT Director...Promoting Trade Growth in Myanmar: Key to Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity..... "OPINION": "Time to change perceptions of addiction" - Jaiden Coonan.....ARTICLE: "Prevention of Abuse to the Elders" - Khin Maung Myint.....POEM: "Nature Has a Hand for Art" - Zaw Tun