HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: Pyithu Hluttaw discusses two motions, two bills, land use...AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: Amyotha Hluttaw discusses agriculture, supports GAP implementation.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Durian price rising in Kya-in-Seikkyi...Increasing demand for mung beans and pigeon peas drives prices up...Construction sector could collapse due to high taxes and high interest rates...Maha Samaya Sutta Day celebrated at Shwedagon, Kaba Aye pagodas...CBM, Defence Ministry, Nay Pyi Taw Council hold press conference on second one-year performance...Rescue teams ready as severe weather enters Rakhine State...Strong winds devastate over 500 households in Shwepyitha Tsp...Dr. Win Myat Aye travels to Hla Pho Khaung transit centre...Opening ceremony of engineering refresher training course held in Nay Pyi Taw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Win Myint receives outgoing Qatari Ambassador...State Counsellor receives Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U T Khun Myat receives outgoing Qatari Ambassador...Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin receives Prince Mired Ra?ad Al-Hussein, Special Envoy of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Ottawa Convention)...Deputy Information Minister U Aung Hla Tun receives FINANCIAL TIMES correspondent, Mizzima TV separately...Myanmar Business Sentiment Survey reveals declining data...Exports outdo imports in bilateral trade with the Netherlands in last FY...Myanmar expects to export 4 million metric tonnes of rice, broken rice...Thura U Shwe Mann receives Denmark?s Ambassador to Myanmar, outgoing Ambassador of Qatar...UEC Chairman U Hla Thein receives Needs Assessment Mission delegation from UN...Saw Ba Oo to fight Arthur Saladiak for WLC world title.....OPINION: "Stop the trade in elephant body parts".....ARTICLE: "Legal overseas workers? earnings keep benefitting Myanmar" - By Te Kyi Maung