HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw gives green light to euro 30 million soft loan from Italy.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Joint Bill Committee holds meeting...Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kingdom of Thailand arrives Nay Pyi Taw...All-Round Youth Development Festival draws crowds at Mandalay University...Views and opinions on All-Round Youth Development Festival (Mandalay)...UMFCCI to hold second B4B Insights Forum for entrepreneurs...Waterway buoys, markers to be installed in Mandalay-NyaungU waterway...Second Myanmar-German Renewable Energies Symposium to be held...All-Round Youth Development Festival draws crowds at Mandalay University...Youths actively participate in orphan reduction and protection programmes...Nyaunglebin Township Association (Yangon) donation for flood affected Madauk region people...37 dams, reservoirs overflow through spillways...Fire in Yangon General Hospital, no casualties...?Firework device? behind Mandalay blast on Sunday night...Shooting in Mandalay kills woman, leaves man in critical condition...Unusual rising of water level in Yangon River inundate low laying areas of Dala Township.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: ASEAN+3 working group meets for student mobility, quality assurance of higher education...Workshop on United Nations? participation in works to implement recommendations on Rakhine...Red Cross Society of China donates US$ 100,000 to Myanmar flood victims...Myanmar-Bangladesh conduct coordinated naval patrol...Local, foreign lethwei fighters to battle in 3rd MLWC event.....OPINION: "The power to shape mankind".....ARTICLE: "Myanmar?s elephants need help" - By Aye Mar Way (Researcher)