DOMESTIC NEWS: MIC prescribes investment business ineligible for exemption and relief from tax…Union govt provides Bago region govt with over K1bn for flood victims…President?s Assistance Organization discusses policies to help the poor… Mandalay?s fruit and flower producers to set up wholesale market… Bronze and iron casting, lathe industries marketable in Myeik… Bamboo shoot producers face market manipulation in Mohnyin… SMIDB plans disbursement of loans to SME entrepreneurs in Mandalay Region… Mandalay Region Chief Minister views thriving paddy plantations, development tasks in Yamethin Tsp… Farmers get cash assistance for flood-hit farmlands… Volunteers for anti-drug supervisory under training… Food, health care services for inmates inspected at Thaton Jail… Social Security Board gives mobile health care to workers in Mandalay…UNHCR Resident Representative calls on Union Home Affairs Minister…Prospects of Myanmar?s agricultural sector discussed…Establishment of single free trade area discussed…YGH provides medicines, free tests to patients…SMEs foundation for reform process in economic sector…Reminder for handover of air soft guns…..EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein receives East Asian economic ministers, ASEAN Secretary-General…Canada reaches record bilateral trade level with ASEAN in 2013…EAS Economic Ministers express concern about WTO?s Bali Package…Myanmar, Japanese NGOs sign MoU for educational, social and economic bridges between peoples… Assistance for parliamentarian research tasks discussed… Myanmar, Turkey consult bilateral air services… Myanmar, ROK to cooperate in enhancing quality management capacity for development of diverse value-added agricultural products… Mandalay University, Gifu University of Japan sign MoU… Netherlands to provide technical assistance for supply of drinking water…Union NPED Minister meets US delegations….."PERSPECTIVES": "Mobile teams will need effective and cooperative support"by Aung Khin.....ARTICLE: "ACTION" by Kyi Mun…