DOMESTIC NEWS: NRPC Meeting 1/2017 commences...Gems and jades sales fetches five folds more than floor price... Patients of food poisoning receive aid...Vocational training school to be built...Eyes Survive to be conducted in eleven regions...Literature workshop for national ethnic people held...Children?s paintings exhibited...10 purified water companies apply for FDA licenses...Union Minister Dr Pe Myint inspects Kayin State IPRD...Action will be taken for illegal increased fares during Thingyan...Shwe Taung Development, AYA Bank to sell apartments under long-term loan...New resort to be launched in Yangon?s Hlegu Township...Central Bank of Myanmar extensively engaged in monetary stability - Min Min Zaw (MNA)...Deputy Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw visits famous pagoda in MraukU...No paid pandals at 2017 Thingyan - Ko Moe...Heroin, stimulant pills seized in Lashio and Momeik..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Gov?t rejects UN Rakhine investigation ...The following the full text of the Press Release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on UN Human Rights Council?s resolution calling for the dispatch of an international Fact Finding Mission...Vice President U Myint Swe meets Vice Premier of China...Vice President U Myint Swe visits Boao, China...First Japanese food court opens in Myanmar...Myanmar registers trade deficit of over $5b in FY 2016-17...Export of industrial finished products declines by $335 million...Ramanya, home of Mon endowed with features of high potential ecotourism - July Moe..... "OPINION": "Boomerang Effect" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Gaining Both Secular Success and Spiritual Merit" - Tommy Pauk