DOMESTIC NEWS: President, First Lady visit Kaunghmulon Pagoda in Machanbaw, Kachin State...Public Announcement for remonstration...Sitagu Asia Royal eye specialist team to visit Maungtaw District, Rakhine State...Vice President U Myint Swe attends 18thMyanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioners? Conference...Notification on unpredictable earthquakes that could cause deaths and damages...Current MNL Champion Shan United draws Zwekapin United...Ceremony to open Monywa Stadium as home of Sagaing FC.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Japan aid for peace, upgrading railways, reconciliation...Plans made for systematic repatriation of refugees...State Counsellor receives Professor Richard Boucher...Japan aid for peace, upgrading railways, reconciliation...ome 200 tonnes of turmeric roots exported to China last month...Myanmar entrepreneurs to attend National Dairy Festival 2018 in Thailand...Bangladesh increases import of ginger from Myanmar by sea...Individual trade at Myawady border exceeds Ks24 billion this FY...Sea trade, border gates see increase in rice exports in December...Japan will support the peace building efforts in Myanmar to the best of its abilities: Mr. Toro Kono...Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to President U Htin Kyaw...Foreign Heads of State send felicitations to State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister...Foreign Minister of Japan visits Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ)...The Second Sakura Festival, Myanmar to be celebrated soon....."OPINION": "A Socio-Economic Reform"..... ARTICLES: "SMEs and a Variety of Myanmar Economic Patterns" - By Maung Myo Chit [University of Economy] - "Towards a New Global Compact on Migration" - By António Guterres