HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hears clarification on additional budgets...PYITHU HLUTTAW: Pyithu Hluttaw session begins...AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: Amyotha Hluttaw commences.....EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar State Counsellor?s Office Information Committee Press Release 1/2016 2nd Waning of Tazaungmon, 1378 ME (16 November 2016). The following is an unofficial translation of press release 1/2016 of the State Counsellor?s Office information committee. [Re a Human Rights Watch report on events in Rakhine State].....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: IED discovered on village road in Maungtaw...Rakhine State Advisory commission meets local people in Sittway...Info Committee formed for Rakhine issues..MNA plane veers off runway at Manaung Airport....Rakhine State Advisory commission meets local people in Sittway...Tatmadaw flies passengers from Yangon to Coco Island...Action taken against hundreds of squatters...Harmful food to be seized beginning in January...10,000 yaba tablets seized in Nawnghkio...Alphard hits road divider on Yangon-Mandalay highway...High tax rate resulted in low demand in condominium market...Stock trading cool at YSX...Myanmar Industrial zone operations expected to double in 2017...Workshop on federalism held in Nay Pyi Taw...Myanmar Cricket Federation Yangon Club Cricket 2016-2017 Season...Court to sentence seven policemen for detainee?s death...Harvesting demonstration on model field in Kayin State...FFVPE Association plans to submit loan proposal for growers..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Government refutes rights group report on Rakhine...State Counsellor receives US-ASEAN Business Council President...President U Htin Kyaw and wife attend launching of Mekong region eye care tour program in Myanmar...Government purchasing process to be more transparent...India, Myanmar and Thailand Friendship Motor Car Rally, 2016 Flagged-off...Automated system available in border trade camps by 2018...Rubber market sales stable despite high price...Security challenges on agenda as South-East Asia?s defence ministers meet in Laos...Comparison of figures released by Human Rights Watch and actual destruction...FFVPE Association plans to submit loan proposal for growers..... "OPINION": "Human rights vs protectionism" - Khin Maung Aye.....ARTICLE: "Those Which Are Worth Being In Compliance With Ethics" - Wai Yan Maung.....POEM: "?Counsel To Boys (3)” - Daw Aye Aye Pyone (Retired Teacher)